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.Source
Wood says the filings in support of ether ETFs were not approved in a regular way.Source
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.Source
Inflows to IBIT have picked up recently after a dismal few weeks at the end of April. BlackRock now holds the ETF in two of its major funds.Source
Volatility Shares’ 2x Ether Strategy ETF (ETHU) will become the first leveraged crypto ETF available in the United States after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) let it go effective, the company posted on their website, adding that trading will begin on June 4.Source
Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s compliance head, who remains jailed in Nigeria, is suspected of having Malaria, a family spokesperson told CoinDesk.Source
Salame’s lawyers initially asked for 18 months.Source
Bitfarms’ shares were up nearly 6% at $2.13 as of 14:00 UTC following Riot’s announcement.Source
The company announced its Bitcoin treasury strategy Tuesday morning.Source
Over 77% of Solana governance participants voted in favor of giving validators the full priority fee amount per transaction.Source