BlackRock’s spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF) has emerged as one of the fastest-growing ETFs ever, joining the ranks alongside two other cryptocurrency funds. BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum ETF (ETHA) has become the third-fastest ETF to hit $10 billion in total assets under management (AUM), Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported on Thursday. “Amazingly, it [ETHA] went from $5 billion to…

CoinShares, a major European cryptocurrency investment firm, has secured a license under the local regulatory framework, Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). CoinShares received the MiCA license through its French subsidiary, CoinShares Asset Management, the company announced on Wednesday. With the license, CoinShares became the “first continental European regulated asset management company” to be qualified under MiCA, the…

A growing number of traditional companies are beginning to experiment with digital assets as part of their corporate treasury strategies, signaling a shift in how businesses view crypto’s role in financial management. This week alone, companies from sectors as diverse as agriculture, consumer manufacturing and even a nearly 80-year-old Japanese textile company announced allocations to…

Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and BNY are preparing to offer institutional investors access to tokenized money market funds, which could unlock real-time settlement, 24/7 market access and more efficiencies across capital markets. Clients of BNY, the world’s largest custodian bank, will soon be able to invest in money market funds whose ownership is recorded…

Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization is rapidly emerging as one of Wall Street’s most promising innovations, and with the recent passage of pro-industry legislation, particularly the US GENIUS Act, growth in the sector is poised to accelerate, according to Aptos Labs’ newly appointed chief business officer, Solomon Tesfaye. In a conversation with Cointelegraph ahead of the…

JPMorgan Chase is reportedly looking into crypto-backed loans, signaling a potential shift in how US banks regard crypto assets. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources, that JPMorgan may start lending directly against crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ether. The FT reported this may happen by 2026, though the plans are subject to change….

Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, is launching a new type of stock offering to raise additional funds for further investment in the cryptocurrency. Michael Saylor’s Strategy announced plans to conduct an initial public offering of 5 million shares of Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC). Strategy will use the…

Blockchain-based investment products and compliance tools are poised to become more than 10 times faster and cheaper than traditional finance (TradFi) offerings, spurring increased digital asset adoption by financial institutions. Traditional financial compliance products are often fragmented and expensive due to complex manual processes, resulting in billions of dollars in costs. “Compliance is an inefficient…

A team of crypto-native researchers and public market experts is preparing to launch what it calls the largest yield-bearing Ether fund targeting institutional investors. The company, called Ether Machine, plans to create a publicly traded vehicle offering institutional-grade exposure to Ethereum infrastructure and Ether yield, it announced on Monday. It is co-founded by Andrew Keys, a…

A hacker-turned-defender warns that most of the industry is asleep on crypto’s existential threat: quantum computing. David Carvalho, CEO of post-quantum infrastructure firm Naoris Protocol, began hacking at the age of 13, experimenting with spam emails to attract job offers and gain attention from employers. Eventually, that curiosity shifted into formal cybersecurity work, where he…