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For fans of crypto, ETFs, or both, the potential spot ether ETF launch has carried on the excitement that began earlier this year with the spot bitcoin ETF launch.

A research firm Coinbase contracted is suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a federal banking agency, accusing them on Thursday of failing to produce documents under open-records laws that would shed light on the regulators’ views on cryptocurrencies.

The deal will be all-stock based and has been approved by both companies’ board members.

The European Banking Authority told CoinDesk it intends to publish a final report on how it will monitor stablecoin issuers by the end of the month.

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of June 27-July 3.

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has received a $500,000 bitcoin {{BTC}} donation to cover the cost of a private jet that flew him out of the UK after he reached a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Asset manager VanEck has filed an S-1 registration form for a Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF), prompting SOL to jump by more than 5%.

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If most of the liquidations by Mt. Gox creditors occur next month, crypto markets are expected to sell off in July then rebound in August, the report said.

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 27, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

The exchange says it has already more than $25 billion in trading volume since inception, with more than $1 million in revenue.

The decade-old blockchain’s development plan, which goes out through 2026, calls for splitting off transaction execution into a separate “canonical rollup” that would support multiple programming languages.

Ether is more price sensitive to ETF inflows than bitcoin due to the large amount of ETH total supply that is locked up, the report said.

Galaxy Digital inked a similar deal with DWS last year for the European market.

Rarimo has launched RariMe, a competitor to Worldcoin, and an app that allows users to generate passport zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) verifying the uniqueness of individuals without revealing their identity, it announced on Thursday.

If crypto-friendly Republican candidate Trump goes off the rails, Republicans may wince, but the GOP ticket will likely not change.

Nearly all UMA voters said that the son of Donald Trump was not involved in the creation of the DJT token

This U.S. presidential election has been the first where cryptocurrencies have come up as a major policy issue, and the industry is lobbying (and bracing for) the possibility that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump may bring it up when they face off in a Thursday debate.

The miner has mined 93 million worth of KAS tokens since Sept. 2023.

Crypto investment platform Abra and its founder and CEO William “Bill” Barhydt have settled with 25 state financial regulators for operating its mobile application without the proper licenses, according to a Wednesday announcement from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS).

In this week’s issue of CoinDesk’s weekly blockchain tech newsletter, we’re covering $100 million of fundraisings, project updates from Solana and other teams, complaints over LayerZero’s “pay-to-claim” airdrop and nervousness surrounding the Mt. Gox bitcoin distribution.

The bitcoin was seized from Silk Road vendor.

Particula’s Senior Vice President of Business Development, Axel Jester, says the growing complexity of tokenized assets demands robust risk management and continuous lifecycle monitoring.

In politics, money talks, but the donors and organizers behind crypto’s massive U.S. campaign fund don’t. The digital assets industry has amassed a juggernaut of campaign finance, a $169 million fund that’s capable of steering many contests this year and could decide the makeup of next year’s Congress. It’s already scored more than 20 victories, … Read more

Forget million-dollar profile pictures, the real innovation of NFTs is ownership rights. This technology still has potential to transform industries, says Layne Nadeau, Founder and CEO of Nval, a pricing and analytics platform for NFTs and other assets.

The Fortune 500 firm initially demanded an end to the crypto named for its nicotine pouch, but backed down after realizing there was no entity to sue.

OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova went missing in Athens in 2017.

The project, founded in 2022, says it aims to incorporate AI into decentralized applications with its “on-chain AI oracle.”

Blast is the second largest layer 2 network with $1.6 billion in TVL.

The prominent Web3 investor has held talks with investment banks, but is yet to finalize an advisor.