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The world’s largest investment firm, BlackRock, continues to flex its muscle in the cryptocurrency space through the steady accumulation of assets via spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs). To this end, data indicates that the company poured $314.9 million into its Ethereum spot ETF (ETHA) on August 25, marking one of the biggest single-day inflows since trading began. The move was part of a broader buying spree across multiple issuers. For instance, Fidelity attracted $87.4 million, Bitwise added $9.7 million, while Grayscale’s ETH fund recorded $53.3 million in net inflows despite a $29.2 million outflow from its ETHE product.  Invesco and 21Shares also posted smaller gains of $2.2 million and $5.6 million, respectively. In total, Ethereum spot ETFs drew $443.9 million in fresh capital on Monday.  The August 25 surge wasn’t an isolated event. Just days earlier, on August 22, BlackRock recorded another $109.4 million inflow, while Fidelity pulled in $117.9 mi...

Cantor Fitzgerald, the Tether-linked broker, agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $6.75 million penalty yesterday after it was charged with causing two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that it controlled to make misleading statements to investors ahead of their initial public offerings (IPOs) that raised $750 million. The SEC’s Division of Enforcement Acting Director, Sanjay Wadhwa, said that Cantor Fitzgerald “repeatedly” claimed it hadn’t approached merger targets in public filings despite having “substantive discussions with several private companies regarding a potential merger, including with the companies with which its SPACs eventually merged.” The SEC press release notes that Cantor Fitzgerald neither admitted to nor denied the charges levied against it in the order and paid the civil penalty. Tether custodian Cantor Fitzgerald loves Tether, chief says Read more: Why are Tether and Cantor Fitzgerald lending near iden...