The applications for spot ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) face a potential rejection in May when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reaches its deadline for decisions, according to Vaneck’s CEO. His firm is one of the applicants seeking approval for a spot ether ETF. “Right now, pins are dropping as far as Ethereum is […]
Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at Vaneck, revealed that there is speculation around the cause of the latest Solana outage, which stopped its blockchain by five hours. Sigel explained that the bug that created this service interruption was related to the Berkley Packet Filter (BPF) and that it might have been manually triggered. […]
Asset management firm Vaneck has pledged to donate 5% of its spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) profits to support Bitcoin Core developers for at least 10 years. The company is currently awaiting approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch its spot bitcoin ETF. The securities regulator is expected to approve multiple […]
Vaneck’s director of digital assets strategy has explained why people tend to underestimate the long-term impact of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). He believes that upon the approval of a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), “bitcoin’s price trajectory could follow gold’s blueprint from 2004 and the years after, just […]
A director of digital assets strategy at asset management firm Vaneck says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s cash-only requirement for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) is “nonsense.” He predicted that it would not hold out for long since publicly listed companies already hold billions of dollars in bitcoin on their balance sheets. ‘The […]