The United States securities regulator’s decision to approve the spot Ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds may not have been a last-minute decision driven by political pressure, according to analysts at research and brokerage firm Bernstein. One of the leading theories behind the Securities and Exchange Commission’s sudden change in tone toward spot Ether ETFs in May was increased political…

Half of Germans in a recent survey said they could see themselves using the digital euro despite many not having heard of it or knowing exactly what it is. Deutsche Bundesbank’s survey of 2,012 people published on June 4 saw 50% say they could either “definitely” or “probably” imagine using the digital euro — the European Central Bank’s pilot…

Galaxy Digital has released a report showing that Ethereum’s decentralized governance is steered by off-chain voting rather than on-chain Ether (ETH) holder voting. Christine Kim, vice president of Galaxy Digital’s research team, released the report on June 3. It reveals multiple stakeholders who hold the keys to Ethereum’s governance. Speaking with Cointelegraph on the risks of not…

Google search interest for the term “onchain” surged to an all-time high in May, according to Google Trends data. Over the past five years, worldwide search interest in the term hovered mostly under 25 out of 100, with a brief spike to around 30 in March. However, between May 26 and June 1, search interest in “onchain”…

Notcoin’s (NOT) price rose over 300% over the past week to reach a new all-time high. Can the NOT token continue its parabolic rise due to social hype? Notcoin rises 320% in one week, hits new all-time high Notcoin’s price rallied over 323% during the past week, reaching a new all-time high of $0.02896 on…

Over $3 billion worth of Ether has been removed from centralized crypto exchanges since the May 23 approval of spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States — signaling a potential upcoming supply squeeze. The amount of Ether on exchanges fell by around 797,000 between May 23 and June 2 — equivalent to $3.02 billion, according to…

Matter Labs, the team behind Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution zkSync, has dropped all attempts to obtain intellectual property rights to trademark the term “ZK” — short for “zero knowledge” proofs. Its decision came three days after several leading ZK researchers condemned the firm’s behavior “in the strongest possible terms,” iterating that ZK technologies should instead remain a…

Term Structure has gone live with its mainnet, aiming to revolutionize risk and liquidity management in DeFi. The history of the banking system can be traced back to 1472 in Italy, where the first bank emerged to facilitate commerce, secure deposits and provide loans. These early banking activities laid the groundwork for more complex fixed-income…

Financial innovators are playing the long game with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and it’s only fair, according to Franklin Templeton head of digital assets Roger Bayston. “The SEC, like a lot of regulatory bodies, likes to rely on legal precedents. […] Those precedents are being set in courts of law oftentimes,…

Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has reported to a low-security federal prison in Lompoc, California, to begin serving his sentence. According to a CNBC report, the information was verified with his legal team at Latham and Watkins. Crypto community applauds Members of the crypto community have expressed their admiration for the…