All ETH ETF Applicants File With SEC, While Trump Pledges Crypto Support!

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In today’s Alpha Bytes👇

Trump's official Republican platform pledges to halt crypto 'crackdown'. The Republican National Committee pledges to ‘defend the right to mine Bitcoin’. VanEck, 21Shares Solana ETF plan confirmed in Cboe filing and sent amended Ether ETF filings to SEC. Bitfarms appoints a new CEO amid a rift with rival Riot.

BTC $57,299 (+2.86%), ETH $3,072 (+5.32%), SOL $143.05 (+7.98%)

Crypto News 📰

• German gov’t transfers another $900M in Bitcoin, adding to BTC’s selling pressure

• U.S. House vote to overturn Biden’s SAB 121 veto set for Wednesday

• The Australian Securities Exchange gives green light to DigitalX's Bitcoin ETF

• Paxful co-founder confesses to anti-money laundering oversight issues

• Digital asset investment products gain $441M amid Mt. Gox, German sell-offs

• Venezuelans remitted $461M worth of crypto in 2023.

• Messari CEO challenges SEC oversight in a strongly worded draft letter

• EthCC 7 kicks off in Brussels, bringing together the Ethereum community

• Lionel Messi promotes Solana memecoin on Instagram

• Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky to offload shares in a $500M sale

• Fantom Foundation awarded $2.2M for losses suffered in the Multichain bridge exploit by court in Singapore

• Sophisticated scam targeting Coinbase users results in $1.7M theft.

• @Metaplanet_JP buys more Bitcoin

• Japanese public firm Metaplanet buys another $2.5M of Bitcoin

Project Updates 🔥 

• @Rage_trade launching $RAGE on Hyperliquid

• Binance to delist BarnBridge $BOND, Dock $DOCK, Mdex $MDX, & Polkastarter $POLS on July 22nd

• Bybit pre-market unveils Hamster Kombat

• VanEck files updated spot Ethereum ETF bid

• Cardano releases 'Node 9.0,' paving way for upcoming Chang hard fork

• BlackRock's BUIDL fund becomes first $500M tokenized fund

• Wormhole launches native USDT transfers across multiple blockchains.

• Riot Platforms launches a website to advocate for Bitfarms Board Overhaul.

• ZKM announces first Bitcoin L2 to share network ownership

• EOS Network announces $127M staking rewards program

Threads 🧵 

• Burning for profit

• Token listing strategy playbook

• $MKR all set to do a 1:24,000 split

• The end state of SVM scaling

Launches 🚀 

• Ethereum to launch first $2M protocol-wide ‘Attackathon’

• Metis co-founder's ZKM plans to launch Bitcoin Layer 2 GOAT Network

• Dubai Customs launches new blockchain technology to boost trade transparency

• Coins.ph launches the first Philippine Peso stablecoin PHPC on the Ronin blockchain.

• 1inch launches a Web3 RPC API tool to simplify blockchain access for developers.

• Wormhole launches native USDT transfers across multiple blockchains.

• Immunefi and Ethereum Foundation launch “Attackathon” to enhance security for Ethereum

Fundraise 💰

• Questflow's $1.5M angel round

• Coinbase Ventures invests in Ampleforth's flatcoin technology, SPOT launches on Base

• Auros unveils $50M venture capital arm for digital asset investment

Airdrops 🪂

• @DebankDefi launches XP airdrop

• Parcl Limited has announced a second community allocation

That's a wrap for today!

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