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🪙 Invesco Galaxy sets spot Ethereum ETF fee at 0.25% in latest round of filings Issuers for the Invesco Galaxy Ethereum exchange-traded fund set its fee at 0.25% in the latest round of filings as firms seek to launch spot Ethereum ETFs. The fund disclosed its fee in an amended S-1 registration statement filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. Invesco Galaxy's fee is a bit higher than other firms that have disclosed. VanEck set its fee at 0.20% after Franklin Templeton set its at 0.19% last month. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 Cboe BZX files forms for Solana ETFs by 21 Shares and VanEck as process to obtain regulatory approval trudges on Exchange Cboe BZX filed forms for proposed Solana exchange-traded funds from VanEck and 21Shares as both firms look to launch first-of-its-kind products. Cboe BZX filed Form 19b-4s on Monday for the 21Shares Core Solana ETF and for the VanEck Solana Trust. The form is an application filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to let the agency know of a proposed rule change. The form is a part of the process for getting the agency's approval for a crypto ETF. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 Bitcoin OTC desk balances hit over 300,000 BTC Bitcoin’s total OTC desk balance demonstrates notable trends correlated with price fluctuations. The chart from CryptoQuant highlights the relationship between Bitcoin price movements and OTC desk balances, which have shown significant activity throughout 2024. The recent surge in OTC desk balances reaching over 300,000 BTC aligns with Bitcoin’s price hitting around $55,000. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 Bitcoin Network Sees Second Largest Difficulty Reduction of 2024 Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped by 5% this week at block height 850,752 on July 4. This reduction, the second-largest this year, follows a 5.62% drop that occurred on May 9 at block height 842,688. Both significant decreases came after the fourth halving event at block height 840,000. Despite hashprice levels hitting unprecedented lows, the hashrate remains at 582.33 exahash per second (EH/s). Source 🔍 More Crypto News

🪙 Tron develops gas-free stablecoin for Ethereum and Tron chains Tron founder Justin Sun has revealed that his team is building a gasless stablecoin solution to make peer-to-peer transfers free for all. Sun hopes to integrate the stablecoin solution on the Tron blockchain in the fourth quarter, followed by Ethereum and other Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible public chains soon after. “Transfers can be made without paying any gas tokens, with the fees being entirely covered by the stablecoins themselves,” Sun explained in a July 6 X post. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

🆘 Fake X accounts lead to record-setting crypto phishing attacks of $341 million Crypto phishing exploits in the first half of this year reached $341 million, surpassing the $295 million scammers siphoned from victims in 2023, according to blockchain security firm Scam Sniffer. Security expert and SlowMist founder Yu Xian said the phishing incidents of the first half of the year showed that the profit margin of these malicious attacks was profitable. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 Mt Gox Trustee Transfers $2.7B in Bitcoin, Creating 19th Largest BTC Wallet On Thursday, the trustee overseeing the Mt. Gox bitcoins transferred about 47,228.73 BTC to an undisclosed address. The transfer, valued at approximately $2.7 billion, leaves Mt. Gox with around 141,687 BTC worth nearly $8.1 billion. This significant transaction came after several test transfers were conducted earlier on July 4. The trustee had previously announced that distributions would commence in July, though the specific date remains unspecified. The new wallet now ranks as the 19th largest BTC wallet globally in terms of total holdings. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 Bitcoin transfer volume from short-term holders bottoms out post-2024 halving Bitcoin’s transfer volume from short-term holders in loss to exchanges exhibits notable fluctuations. Glassnode data shows a significant decline in these transfers from January to July. In early 2024, volumes peaked around 90,000 BTC, aligning with market volatility, before stabilizing below 30,000 BTC post-halving in April. Historical data indicates heightened transfer activity during major price downturns. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 Mt Gox wallets make small bitcoin moves, including to recipient exchange Bitbank, shows Arkham A number of Mt Gox wallets were involved in two transactions over the last few hours ahead of the pending repayments of $9 billion of bitcoin. When the Mt Gox funds were last moved with significant size, the funds were predominantly consolidated in three wallets. When this happened, there was $24 left in a wallet that was used as an intermediary at one point. In the last few hours, this small amount of bitcoin was forwarded on to a wallet that then sent funds to Bitbank's hot wallet, according to Arkham labeling. Source 🔍 More Crypto News

💰 CryptoQuant says 'extremely underpaid' bitcoin miners' capitulation is a possible bottom signal Since Bitcoin's latest halving event on April 19, which cut the reward for mining a new bitcoin block in half, the world's largest cryptocurrency has begun showing signs of miner capitulation as miners likely turn off underperforming machines and begin to sell bitcoin to hedge their exposure. There are various signs of miner capitulation, which historically has indicated a bottom in prices, according to CryptoQuant, which notes that for most of the period since April, miners have been "extremely underpaid" according to the data provider's metrics. Source 🔍 More Crypto News