Onchain: Australia primește un ETF, hack-uri din Coreea de Nord, întârzieri de fuzionare

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ASX greenlights the first Australian Bitcoin ETF

While all the focus is understandably on the prospects of a US Bitcoin ETF, Australia has gone and put itself in the history books by announcing that our first spot Bitcoin ETF will start trading saptamana viitoare.

While the approval process has been drawn out due to the onerous margin conditions imposed by the ASX’s clearing house (requiring any participants to stake 42% of every trade made), the suspected demand for a Bitcoin ETF has meant that four players have stumped up the cash to get things moving.

Hopes are high that the launch will blast past the previous single day ETF volume record – a modest $30m for the Crypto Innovators Fund last November – and quickly reach around $1 billion under management. But it will be interesting to see if our humble addition to the ETF pile can overcome the current lack of market enthusiasm vis-a-vis crypto as a whole. (See also: Overheard on Twitter below).

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North Korea gets its hands dirty

Remember that US$625 million hack that we talked about in the last Onchain? Well, the Americans have done some digging and it very much looks like the culprits are a North Korean outfit called the Lazarus Group. You may remember them from such hacks as the 2014 Sony exploit and the WannaCry ransomware attacks in 2017.

While the idea that cryptocurrency is or will be used to evade sanctions is overblown –  who would have thought a public blockchain would make it easy to track malign actors? – when a country gives as few fs as North Korea does, well, anything goes.

And while we’re in the mood for inventive exploits of new protocols, algorithmic stablecoin Beanstalk was hacked for a cooooool US$182 million after someone took out a flash loan on AAVE, used the funds to buy a heap of the project’s governance token and then used their newfound voting power to create and pass a motion allowing them to drain the project’s funds to a private wallet – while also donating US$250k to Ukraine. Bada bing, bada boom.

A reminder once again that you should never trust your money to any protocol named after a foodstuff.

Auzit

Noul sondaj Nasdaq al consilierilor financiari (care controlează active de 26 de miliarde de dolari) arată că 72% dintre aceștia ar avea mai multe șanse să investească în cripto, dacă ar fi disponibil un ETF spot. De asemenea, dintre consilierii care investesc în cripto, 86% plănuiesc să crească investițiile, iar alocarea lor ideală este de 6% din port.

@EricBalchunas

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Ethereum’s Merge delayed until September

For those of us who’ve been waiting for Ethereum’s transition to Proof-of-Stake since early 2019, the news that there’s been încă o întârziere in the rollout is pretty triggering.

In many ways, Ethereum has been the victim of its own success. Worth around US$370 billion and having settled an estimated 6 trilioane de dolari în 2021, the stakes are understandably pretty high for such a far-reaching change to the network's consensus mechanism.

So, it’s reassuring that they’re being so fastidious about things – if something went wrong, literally hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake (so to speak).

But there’s no denying that the hunger for change is real. More than 11 milioane ETH (around 9.5% of the total supply) is already locked and loaded in the Ethereum 2.0 contract. The demand is so high that they’re expecting staking rewards to be roughly half the amount originally anticipated.

And then, of course, there’s the Reducere 99.95% in the network’s energy usage.

Anyway, fingers crossed that the end is in sight. A thriving, carbon-conscious Ethereum could be just what we need to fire up this market once more.

Luke de la CoinJar

​​CoinJar UK Limited este înregistrată de Financial Conduct Authority ca furnizor de schimb de criptoase și furnizor de portofel custode în Regatul Unit în conformitate cu Regulamentele privind spălarea banilor, finanțarea terorismului și transferul de fonduri (informații despre plătitor) din 2017, astfel cum a fost modificată (Firm Reference). nr. 928767). Ca toate investițiile, criptoactivele prezintă riscuri. Datorită volatilității potențiale a piețelor criptoactive, valoarea investițiilor dumneavoastră poate scădea semnificativ și poate duce la pierderi totale. Criptoactivele sunt complexe și nu sunt în prezent produse financiare reglementate de ASIC sau FCA și nu puteți accesa Autoritatea australiană de soluționare a plângerilor financiare (AFCA) sau Schema de compensare a serviciilor financiare din Regatul Unit sau Serviciul Ombudsman financiar din Regatul Unit în legătură cu orice dispută cu CoinJar legat de tranzacționarea cu criptoactive. Folosim furnizori terți de servicii bancare, de păstrare și de plată, iar eșecul oricăruia dintre acești furnizori ar putea duce, de asemenea, la pierderea activelor dumneavoastră. Vă recomandăm să obțineți consiliere financiară înainte de a lua decizia de a vă folosi cardul de credit pentru a cumpăra criptoactive sau pentru a investi în criptoactive. Profiturile pot fi supuse impozitului pe câștiguri de capital.

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