Why is Ethereum (ETH) price up today?

Ether (ETH) price rallied nearly 8% over the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $2,064 on March 19. The altcoin’s daily trading volume increased to $17.4 billion as ETH regained a position above the $2,000 level. Ethereum 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView ETH exhibits an ascending triangle breakout Ether price is up today after the…

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‘Successful’ ETH ETF less perfect without staking — BlackRock

BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robbie Mitchnick, described the firm’s Ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) as a “tremendous success” but acknowledged a key limitation. Speaking on March 20 at the Digital Asset Summit, he noted that the ETF is “less perfect” without staking, highlighting a crucial feature absent from the current offering. “A staking yield…

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Pump.fun launches own DEX, drops Raydium

Pump.fun has launched its own decentralized exchange (DEX) called PumpSwap, potentially displacing Raydium as the primary trading venue for Solana (SOL) memecoins.  Starting on March 20, memecoins that successfully bootstrap liquidity, or “bond,” on Pump.fun will migrate directly to PumpSwap, Pump.fun said in an X post.  Previously, bonded Pump.fun tokens migrated to Raydium, which emerged…

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Clearinghouse backs Ethereum token standard for US securities

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) — the US’s primary clearinghouse for securities transactions — has committed to promoting Ethereum’s ERC-3643 standard for permissioned securities tokens, according to a March 20 announcement.  DTCC is joining the ERC3643 Association, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the standard’s adoption with the goal of “promoting and advancing the…

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