Santander has made this move while most big banks limit their exposure to decentralized blockchains and the cryptocurrencies running on them. Santander Private Banking International has announced plans to allow its high-net-worth Swiss clients a chance to trade crypto assets. The bank will offer these clients a chance to buy, sell, and hold two major cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). It also plans to add further cryptocurrencies that meet its criteria. According to the...
Read More »Arthur Hayes Predicts Bitcoin to Reach $1 Million and Ethereum to Hit $100,000
Last month, Hayes made a similar forecast, noting that Bitcoin could reach from $750,000 to $1 million towards the end of the current decade. After his visit to Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, Arthur Hayes, the co-founder and former CEO of leading crypto derivatives platform BitMEX, has once again predicted that Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $1 million, with Ethereum (ETH) soaring to $100,000. In an unexpected turn, Hayes humorously hinted that the island’s ancestors might have...
Read More »BlackRock Anticipates SEC Green Light for Spot Bitcoin ETF by January
With strong confidence that its Bitcoin spot ETF will be approved by January 2024, BlackRock has filed an application for a spot ETH ETF. Leading global asset management company BlackRock Inc (NYSE: BLK) says the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will approve its Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETFs in January 2024, Fox News reported Thursday. According to the report, citing people familiar with the matter, the $9 trillion asset manager is confident that the approval of the ETF is imminent and...
Read More »dYdX Chain Launches Mainnet as Independent Cosmos Layer 1
This shift denotes a substantial evolution for the project, moving it to a standalone Cosmos-based blockchain after previously relying on Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution StarkEx. dYdX Chain has marked a major milestone by officially launching its mainnet as an independent Cosmos Layer 1 blockchain. This launch, which occurred with the creation of the genesis block by validators on October 26 at 1 p.m. EST, represents a monumental step forward for the leading decentralized derivatives...
Read More »Polygon Plans to Replace MATIC by Unveiling POL Token Contract on Ethereum
Polygon Labs called the launch of the Polygon token a major milestone on the Polygon 2.0 journey toward building the Value Layer of the Internet. In an announcement on Wednesday, October 25, Polygon Labs announced the launch of its new Polygon Token, POL, on the Ethereum blockchain network. The POL token’s purpose is to succeed the MATIC token as the next-generation, highly efficient ecosystem for Polygon. This ecosystem encompasses the primary Polygon blockchain, the Polygon zkEVM...
Read More »ETF Expert Predicts All Spot Bitcoin ETFs Will Get Approval at Same Time
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust gets listed on the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), however, analyst predict all approvals to happen at once. As the crypto community gears up for the arrival of the first spot Bitcoin ETF in the coming months, analysts have been sharing interesting predictions ahead. Expert in crypto ETFs Stuart Barton, the Chief Investment Officer of Volatility Shares, anticipates that all spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications submitted...
Read More »US SEC Approves Grayscale’s Ethereum ETF Filing
Initially submitted on October 2, 2023, the proposal aims to convert the Grayscale Ethereum Trust, the largest Ethereum investment vehicle globally, into an ETF. In a recent turn of events, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved Grayscale Investments’ application for a spot Ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF). Sharing the news on Tuesday, Nate Geraci, President of The ETF Store, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that the SEC has officially acknowledged the...
Read More »Mysterious $1.6 Million CrypToadz NFT Purchase Leaves NFT Community Puzzled
The reason for the surprise was that the average sale price for CrypToadz is typically under $1,000, making the sudden hundredfold increase in value in a short period of time seem questionable to experts. On October 9th, an anonymous crypto user bought a CrypToadz NFT on the popular NFT marketplace OpenSea for a shocking price of 1,055 Wrapped Ethereum (wETH), equivalent to around $1.6 million. This expensive purchase of a single non-fungible token representing one of over 6,000...
Read More »JPMorgan Analysts: Ethereum (ETH) Becomes Centralized with Staking Surge
The analysts stressed that centralization, whether caused by specific entities or inherent features of the protocol, presents significant risks to the Ethereum network. This In recent months, the Ethereum (ETH) staking ecosystem has witnessed significant growth following the implementation of the Merge and Shanghai upgrades, transitioning the network from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake blockchain. However, this surge in staking activities has posed challenges, as revealed in a recent...
Read More »Ethereum Futures ETFs Underwhelm on First Day of Trading
By mid-day, the ETFs had seen less than $2 million in trading volume. According to the analyst, this was “about normal” for a new ETF but low when compared to BITO, the first Bitcoin futures ETF, which did $200 million in the first 15 minutes of trading. The highly anticipated launch of nine new Ethereum futures exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has come to a seemingly underwhelming end. The new products went to market on October 2 and are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value...
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