🔔 Crypto News Digest for July 15 - 21

- The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will allow Ethereum ETF issuers to bring their products to trading as early as July 23.

- A survey of Mt.Gox users found that 260 out of 467 participants (55%) do not plan to immediately sell off their bitcoins they receive as compensation.

- Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey reported that the billionaire still plans to give a speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink admitted that his views were previously wrong. He stated that "bitcoin is a legitimate financial instrument." His organization's assets under management (AUM) reached $10.6 trillion in Q2 2024.

- Grayscale management has officially launched Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund LLC. This Fund aims to develop AI technology in the cryptocurrency sector.

- Co-founder of venture capital firm a16z Marc Andreessen said: having been a Democrat for most of his life, he will still support Donald Trump in the US presidential election. He believes Joe Biden's administration has "stifled tech startups through over-regulation and potentially unnecessary taxation".