The ETH ETFs Era
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🐻 Selling the news. Ethereum’s spot ETFs took a major step toward trading yesterday after listing exchanges received “delegated approval” for their 19b-4 applications. Why is the ETH price now sliding?
| Prices as of 3pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.55t | ↗ 0.4% | ↗ 5.4% |
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BTC $68,989.12 | ↗ 2.5% | ↗ 3.3% |
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ETH $3,736.19 | ↘ -0.8% | ↗ 21.3% |
Just last week, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone bullish on the probability of spot ETH ETF approvals.
Then, yesterday what many thought was impossible finally arrived: news wires reported that the SEC OK'd all proposed spot ETH ETFs before it.
Let's explore the impact of this historic news on ETH and the broader crypto regulatory landscape! 👇
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