Franklin Templeton eyes Solana ETF after Ethereum success

Grayscale's GDLC Fund now includes Solana and Uniswap at 3.24% and 1.06% respectively after reducing LTC and BCH holdings. 597 Total views 6 Total shares Grayscale Investments, a New-York based crypto asset manager, includes Solana (SOL) and Uniswap (UNI) after rebalancing its basket of Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) portfolio. The quarterly rebalancing of GDLC…

Is regulation plausible in a completely decentralized environment? 1328 Total views 8 Total shares Blockchain analytics company Coinfirm recently unveiled a new anti-money laundering tool for the decentralized finance, or DeFi, niche of the crypto space — a sector facing regulatory crackdown on the horizon, according to Jakub Fijolek, Coinfirm's chief technology officer. "DeFi might soon…

Executive Vice President-Designate of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, has questioned the motives behind Facebook’s forthcoming Libra stablecoin.In an interview with the Financial Services Union of Denmark, a fragment of which was published on Oct. 1, Vestager addressed the possible impact from Libra’s launch — such as competition due to Facebook’s multimillion user base and…

ZachXBT fears legal fees to defend himself in the defamation lawsuit could "easily exceed" $1 million. 327 Total views 4 Total shares Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has received over $1 million in donations in slightly more 24 hours from the crypto community to pay for his legal fees in a defamation lawsuit.ZachXBT, known for his investigative…

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Joseph Lubin said that he expects the global economy will be 10 times larger in 10 to 20 years, when blockchain is fully ramified, and blockchain will be involved in most of it. Lubin made the statement at the SXSW conference in Austin on March 14.During the same keynote, Lubin also pointed…

In our latest video report, Cointelegraph addresses the systemic risk posed by stablecoins. 989 Total views 11 Total shares In Cointelegraph's latest video report, we discussed the systemic risks posed by stablecoins to the stability of both crypto and traditional markets. Stablecoins have become the backbone of the crypto ecosystem, as they play a crucial role…

Analysts are anticipating Bitcoin’s second-largest negative difficulty adjustment of the year following the end of Sichuan’s rainy season. 1650 Total views 14 Total shares Mining data aggregators attribute a slump in Bitcoin’s hash rate to the end of the wet season in Sichuan, resulting in many miners migrating to other jurisdictions.On Oct. 26, Thomas Heller…

United Kingdom-based asset management company Elwood Asset Management is looking to increase its cryptocurrency offerings after co-launching a blockchain exchange-traded fund (ETF), Bloomberg reported on March 12.Elwood, which is owned by billionaire Brevan Howard creator Alan Howard, partnered with Invesco to bring a blockchain ETF to market this week.Now, the company told reporters that it…