Singapore’s Largest Bank DBS Is an Ether Whale With Nearly $650M in ETH: Nansen The address has already made $200 million from its ether holdings.

BlackRock Amends Ethereum ETF Application; Bloomberg’s Balchunas Sees ETF Going Live By June A ‘Seed Capital Investor’ has purchased 400,000 shares of the proposed filing, BlackRock revealed in its document.

Chiliz’s CHZ Token Pre-UEFA Euro Price Surge Revives FIFA Memories CHZ has surged over 20% in seven days, the third-biggest gain among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market value.

U.S. Lawmaker at Center of Crypto Negotiation Predicts Digital Assets Law by Next Year Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) vowed the crypto industry won’t have long to wait to get U.S. regulations, now that the U.S. House of Representatives has shown the way.

Crypto Is a Core American Issue, Consensys’ Joe Lubin Says The Ethereum co-founder discusses why his firm decided to sue the SEC on stage at Consensus 2024.

U.S. Treasury Isn’t Trying to Ban Crypto Mixers, Top Official Says FinCEN’s 2023 proposal to require crypto companies to report transactions that involved mixing is about transparency, not banning mixers, said Brian Nelson, U.S. Treasury undersecretary.

Is Crypto on the Cusp of a Bull or Bear Market? Using Consensus 2024 as a Barometer Conference attendees give their say on market sentiment.

Web3 Digital Identity Network Galxe Crafts Own Layer-1 Blockchain Gravity Gravity’s first iteration will go live this June, with plans for the final version with staking and restaking to launch in the second quarter of 2025.

NYSE Would Consider Crypto Trading If Regulatory Picture Were Clearer, President Says at Consensus 2024 NYSE President Lynn Martin and Bullish CEO Tom Farley discussed crypto regulations, changing U.S. politics and the limitations and opportunities of blockchain tech to improve traditional markets.

U.S. Treasury Describes NFTs as ‘Highly Susceptible to Use in Fraud and Scams’ “The report determines that illicit actors can use NFTs to launder proceeds from predicate crimes,” the Treasury said.

The Protocol: Behind the Scenes as Big-Tent Consensus Goes Up We took a spin through some of the side events and preparations taking place Tuesday ahead of CoinDesk’s annual conference, which starts Wednesday in Austin.

TradFi Rushes In: Goldman Sachs Digital Assets Lead Matthew McDermott on the Institutional Embrace of Tokenization The financial industry veteran discusses ETFs, tokenization and future banking blockchain opportunities at Consensus 2024.

Cathie Wood Says Ether ETF Filings Were Approved Because Crypto Is an Election Issue Wood says the filings in support of ether ETFs were not approved in a regular way.

U.S. House’s Emmer Says Best Hope For Crypto Legislation Is Year-End Session Despite the crypto industry’s high-profile recent wins in Congress, major legislation faces a massive practical roadblock in the Senate, U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) acknowledged Wednesday, saying that chamber will want its own say in a big crypto bill, leaving little time in the waning congressional session.

Bitfarms Says Riot Bid ‘Significantly Undervalues’ Crypto Miner, Is Exploring Options

Trader Buys 2M Dogecoin Call Options as Meme Coin Market Heats Up A trader bought $2 million worth of dogecoin {{DOGE}} call options at a strike price of $0.22 on Wednesday, according to PowerTrade’s head of institutional sales, Bernd Sischka.

The U.S. Response to Binance Exec Tigran Gambaryan’s Detention Is Shameful

How Gunnar Lovelace Is Trying to ‘Unf*ck’ the World The serial entrepreneur and ethical capitalist’s latest effort at civil disobedience is being previewed at Consensus 2024.

ZKasino Gives Users 72 Hours to Retrieve Their Ether Aggrieved users have been given a 72 hour window to bridge their ether {{ETH}} back to the Ethereum blockchain after having deposits locked up for more than a month.

NYSE Plans Bitcoin Options, Bringing Another TradFi Giant Into Crypto CoinDesk Indices’ XBX is currently the benchmark for $20 billion in ETF assets under management.