VanEck files for Solana ETF, Ether supply inflates, and more: Hodler’s Digest, June 23-29

The recent DeFi frenzy has seen $900 million worth of Bitcoin tokenized using Wrapped Bitcoin over the past two months. 651 Total views 14 Total shares The recent DeFi bull-cycle has pushed the total value locked (TVL) of popular Bitcoin (BTC) tokenization protocol Wrapped BTC (WBTC) up by 900% to surpass $1 billion.The milestone comes…

“We will make a snapshot of the remaining BTC and ETH balances on pool on September 6th to work out the balances," said Poolin. 1994 Total views 6 Total shares Poolin, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools by hash rate, has announced it has temporarily suspended Bitcoin and Ether withdrawals from its wallet service…

If you’ve had anything to do with digital arts, digital assets, or both, in the last few months, it has been virtually impossible to escape the barrage of news about how nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are changing the game for creative industries. From Kings of Leon dropping their new album as an NFT to digital…

The fund's units began trading roughly three weeks after the investment manager filed a final prospectus with Canadian regulators. 2936 Total views 23 Total shares Canada-based investment fund manager 3iQ’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund created in partnership with Coinshares is now available for trading.In an announcement from 3iQ today, trading for the 3iQ Coinshares Bitcoin exchange-traded…

The legal action followed reports staff at the commission had completed an investigation concluding Stephen Ehrlich violated U.S. derivatives regulations. The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against Stephen Ehrlich, the former CEO of crypto lending firm Voyager Digital.In an Oct. 12 announcement, the CFTC said it had filed a

The coronavirus pandemic is causing the worst global economic recession among all business sectors since 1929. Advertising and marketing budgets alone could see a $3 billion loss in 2020.Both traditional brands and crypto companies are replacing their high profile ads with low budget posts in an effort to combat the rising pandemic.Crypto industry is taking…

Barry Silbert, CEO and founder of Digital Currency Group and Grayscale Investments, said that the majority of digital tokens will not have value in the long run, CNBC reports on Feb. 13.In a purported phone interview with CNBC, Silbert said “I’m not a believer in the vast majority of digital tokens and I believe most…

2021 was a sort of "coming-of-age" for many layer-one (L1) blockchain protocols because the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFTs) forced users to look for solutions outside of the Ethereum (ETH) network where high fees and network congestion continued to be barriers for many.Protocols like Fantom (FTM), Avalanche (AVAX) and Cosmos (ATOM)…

The Ethereum block difficulty began to grow back in November 2016. Since then, developers have been constantly forced to carry out hard forks to keep the network up until the transition to a proof-of-stake algorithm takes place.In the lead-up to the Istanbul upgrade, implemented on Dec. 8, the Ethereum team decided again to postpone the…