The fate of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S. remains in limbo as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continued to delay decisions on several high-profile applications on September 28. The regulator postponed judgments on filings from financial giants BlackRock and Invesco, along with crypto asset managers Bitwise and Valkyrie. This marks…
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The asset management firm VanEck announced on Thursday that it plans to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on Ethereum futures contracts in the near future. The VanEck Ethereum Strategy ETF (EFUT) will invest in cash-settled futures contracts for ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network. Amidst these current cryptocurrency ETF developments, what…
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The DeFi Education Fund says a patent owned by True Return Systems is being used to try to profit from lawsuits against decentralized protocols. A decentralized finance (DeFi) advocacy body has petitioned the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to review a patent owned by a company it has accused of being a a…
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Compound (COMP), a leading player in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, has encountered a significant setback, witnessing a 20% decline in its price over the past week. The downward trend continued with a 3.06% decrease in the last 24 hours and an additional 0.79% shrinkage in the most recent hour, placing the current price at…
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After the collapse of Terra, the digital assets sector needed a way to identify critical nodes in the global DeFi community. Kanis Saengchote, a researcher at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, recently developed a framework for identifying and measuring systemic risk in decentralized finance (DeFi) institutions. The new protocol is called the Global Systematically Important Protocol…
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Bitcoin’s price plunged under the psychologically significant support level of $30,000 over the past week, reaching a close of $28,874 today. The Federal Reserve’s decision to increase the rate by 25 bps on July 26 seems to have been largely shrugged off by Bitcoin, however. As Bitcoin continues to consolidate, what are the best cryptos…
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Data reveals that since the start of the year, the count of circulating wrapped bitcoins (WBTC) has diminished, plunging by more than 22,000 WBTC. Notably, a year-long assessment reflects an even more significant contraction, with over 86,000 WBTC evaporating from circulation since last July. A 12-Month Decline of 86,000 WBTC in Circulation The Wrapped Bitcoin…
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In a move to combat ongoing inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve announced a 0.25% hike in its key interest rate today, pushing it to a high of 5.5%—a level unseen in 22 years. Despite witnessing a decline in consumer prices for a consecutive 12-month period, June marked a rise with a…
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