A bill clarifying the United States securities and commodities regulator’s roles in policing crypto is headed to an unknown future as it makes its way to the Senate before hitting U.S. President Joe Biden’s desk. The Republican-led Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT21), or H.R. 4763, passed the House on May 22 with…

On May 17, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a unique solution to combat Ethereum’s miner extracted value (MEV) problem. Miner extracted value refers to a practice where block producers seek to maximize profits by using intricate market strategies to arrange transactions within a block. Buterin provided one such example: “Consider decentralized exchanges like Uniswap. Suppose that at…

Five potential spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) issuers have submitted amended 19b-4 filings after receiving last-minute feedback from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Several filings show changes from asset managers Fidelity, VanEck, and Franklin Templeton along with joint applications from Galaxy and Invesco, and ARK Invest and 21Shares. The amendments saw Fidelity, Franklin Templeton and ARK…

Farcaster community-created token Degen (DEGEN) jumped 17% after the blockchain-based social platform confirmed it raised $150 million in its latest funding round. The Series A round was led by venture firm Paradigm with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Haun, USV, Variant and Standard Crypto. Farcaster founder Dan Romero said in a May 21 X post the funds will “support our…

A decade-old research paper seen as a “blueprint” for the first practical use of zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) has received an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization. According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the “genesis paper” — “Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin” — helped pave the way for…

On May 20, the price of Ether surged over 18% after Eric Balchunas, a senior analyst at Bloomberg, raised the approval odds for the Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF) from 25% to 75%. Balchunas noted that the United States Securities and Exchange Commission likely faced political pressure, as their previous position showed little engagement with ETF applicants. Balchunas further…