State Street, Galaxy launch 3 new crypto ETFs

In this week’s newsletter, read about the creator of a Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) knock-off pleading guilty to fraud charges, check out how OpenSea’s non-fungible token (NFT) users received a massive phishing email campaign, and how Bitcoin transaction fees flipped Ethereum network fees as the hype for Ordinals resurfaced. In other news, game distributor

Mina applies zk-SNARKs to Cardano's Ouroboros consensus to achieve scalability and decentralization. Mina aspires to be the world’s tiniest blockchain, with claims that its protocol maintains a constant size of around 22 KBs. This is ostensibly achieved by using recursive zk-SNARKs — the same technology that is used by the privacy-centric cryptocurrency, Zcash (ZEC). However, whereas the latter…

BlackRock’s application for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) has encouraged other financial firms to follow suit. First, it was the New York-based asset management fund WisdomTree, which made a new filing on June 21 for a Bitcoin (BTC) ETF. This was then followed by investment manager Invesco, which reactivated its application for a spot ETF.These announcements…

Top Yearn Finance developer Andre Cronje has disappeared from social media due to 'death threats' — and now the community is posting 'Love Letters' to entice him back. 1545 Total views 22 Total shares Yearn Finance (YFI) developer Andre Cronje has dropped out of public view after reportedly receiving 'death threats' from the decentralized finance…

Investors pointed to Musk’s portrayal of "a fictitious financial expert" during a Saturday Night Live appearance, referring to Dogecoin as “a hustle,” as a reference point in the lawsuit. Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTElon Musk and his lawyers reportedly requested a United States judge to dismiss the $258 billion…

Bitcoin (BTC) is not seeing capitulation among miners despite its price dipping over 15% in the past week, new data suggests.According to estimates of Bitcoin’s hash rate from monitoring resource Coin Dance, participation remains as strong now as before the price drop. Hash rate refers to the amount of computing power dedicated to maintaining the…

The word “Metaverse” is one of three in the running to be crowned the Oxford "Word of the Year” (WOTY) in a competition run by the Oxford University Press (OUP), the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary.OUP officially announced the launch of the competition and its three finalist words for 2022 on Nov. 22 with…

The fortitude of Bitcoin (BTC) holders continues to be tested on Nov. 17 as a number of attempts to push the price to $59,000 and below grow. This level has been well defended by bulls but analysts are still watching for the $63,000 level to be reclaimed as support before saying the "dip" has ended.While…