BlackRock’s Fink Says an Ether ETF Is Possible Even if ETH Is a Security
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink isn’t worried about the U.S. Securities and Exchange classifying Ethereum’s ether as a security.
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The Protocol: Meme Coins (and Pepe’s Best Friend) Swarm Coinbase Layer 2 Chain
The meme coin frenzy that drove up activity – and failed transactions – on Solana appears to have quickly migrated to Base, Coinbase’s six-month-old layer-2 blockchain. Who is the blue-faced creature behind the $BRETT token?
Crypto Stocks Like MicroStrategy, Coinbase Could Shoot Up if Short Sellers Exit
MicroStrategy and Coinbase’s stock prices could shoot up if short sellers bail out, according to a report by data analytics firm S3 Partners.
Dutch Prosecutors Seek 64-Month Jail Sentence for Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev
The judge will deliver the verdict on May 14, the court said.
Ondo Finance to Move $95M to BlackRock’s Tokenized Fund for Instant Settlements for Its T-Bill Token
The allocation marks to first example of a crypto protocol leveraging BlackRock’s tokenized fund for its own offering.
Layer-2 Blockchain Mantle’s Token Hits All-Time High as Reward System Goes Live
The rally in the MNT token pushed the market cap of the blockchain to over $4 billion.
MyShell, Blockchain Platform For Building ‘AI Girlfriends’ and Productivity Apps, Raises $11M
MyShell uses blockchains to let creators earn a profit for building AI apps and Her-like companions.
Ether.Fi’s ETHFI Jumps 50% to Record, May Boost Valuations for Liquid Restaking Token Airdrops: Analyst
The performance of EtherFi’s token could lift valuations of other restaking platforms ahead of their airdrops, one analyst noted.
U.S Has its Eleventh Spot Bitcoin ETF After Hashdex Fund Conversion
Trading under the ticker DEFI, asset manager Hashdex’s Bitcoin Futures ETF – which had been trading as a futures-based fund on the New York Stock Exchange since 2022 – was renamed and converted into the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF and now operates as a spot bitcoin fund.
UK Ad Rules Apply to Influencers, Crypto Memes, Regulator Confirms in New Guidance
“The use of memes in promotions is particularly prevalent in the crypto-asset sector,” the FCA’s guidance said.