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Ether Has 'Much More in Common' With Bitcoin in the ETF Space: Volatility Shares CIO

Stuart Barton, Volatility Shares co-founder and CIO weighs in on the flurry of applications with the SEC for an ether futures ETF. “Our approach has been to use rules that were adopted around ETFs,” Barton said.

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Coinbase Moves to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit, Claiming Crypto Is Out of Regulator's Oversight

Coinbase (COIN) has filed for judgement in its ongoing case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging the regulator is stepping outside its jurisdiction with the lawsuit. CoinDesk's global policy and regulation managing editor Nikhilesh De breaks down Coinbase's arguments in its latest filing and how this compares to the SEC's other recent lawsuit against Ripple.

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Volatility Shares CIO on Ether Futures ETF Race Kicking Off

Volatility Shares has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) for an ether (ETH) futures-based exchange-traded fund (ETF), with other entities following suit. This comes after the bitcoin spot ETF hype started after BlackRock jumped into the race. Volatility Shares co-founder and CIO Stuart Barton discusses the filing and the state of the broader U.S. crypto regulatory landscape.

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Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer: We 'Expect to Win' Fight Against SEC

Coinbase beat analyst estimates for the second quarter, reporting revenue of $708 million and a narrower-than-expected loss of $0.42 a share. Oppenheimer Senior Analyst Owen Lau takes a closer look at Coinbase's latest earnings report and the crypto exchange's ongoing legal battle with the SEC.

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Coinbase Moves to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit, Alleging Crypto Falls Out of Regulator's Oversight

The agency claims that the exchange operated as an unregistered broker, exchange and clearing agency.

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ProShares, Bitwise File for Bitcoin and Ether ETFs

If approved, the fund will measure "the performance of holding long positions in the nearest maturing monthly bitcoin and ether futures contracts."

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Bitcoin ETF Approval Odds Just Got Better: Bloomberg Analysts

They now see a 65% chance a U.S. spot bitcoin ETF will launch this year, up from 50% previously.

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Race for Ether Futures ETFs Kicks Off With 6 Firms Filing SEC Applications

Volatility Shares, Bitwise, VanEck, Roundhill, ProShares and Grayscale have filed applications with the SEC for Ether ETFs.

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SEC Says Hex Founder Misappropriated 'Millions of Dollars of Investor Funds,' Bought Rare Black Diamond

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued internet marketer Richard Schueler, known online as Richard Heart, and his projects Hex, PulseChain and PulseX, alleging he raised over $1 billion across three different unregistered securities offerings beginning in 2019. "The Hash" panel breaks down the regulator's allegations, including claims of luxury shopping sprees.

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Bitcoin Starts August in the Red, Slipping Below $29K

CoinDesk Indices head of research Todd Groth, CFA, joins "First Mover" to discuss how the crypto market performed in July, with a focus on the impact of Ripple’s partial court victory against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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