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Following the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) in the US, t<span style="background-color: var(--bs-body-bg); color: var(--bs-body-color); font-family: var(--bs-body-font-family); font-size: var(--bs-body-font-size); font-weight: var(--bs-body-font-weight); text-align: var(--bs-body-text-align);">he possibility that Ethereum ETFs could be next has triggered a wave of investment into the ETH market.</span> ETH, the second biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, has surged 13.5% in the past 24 hours to trade at $2,596 at 12:21 p.m. EST. Interest in Ethereum-based projects and Layer 2 (L2) projects also surged. This is best seen in how L2 tokens like Arbitrum, (ARB), Optimism (OP), Polygon (MATIC), Immutable X (IMX), SKALE (SKL), and Mantle (MNT) have performed. [caption id="attachment_471544" align="aligncenter" width="1276"]<a href="https://insidebitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SKLUSDT_2024-01-11_03-46-10-638405311839127413.png"><img class="wp-image-471544 size-full" src="https://insidebitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/SKLUSDT_2024-01-11_03-46-10-638405311839127413.png" alt="ETH" width="1276" height="548"></a> ARB/USDT 1-day chart, OP/USDT 1-day chart, MATIC/USDT 1-day chart, IMX/USDT 1-day chart, MNT/USDT 1-day chart, SKL/USDT 1-day chart[/caption] “The largest smart money inflows” were channeled to the Ethereum ecosystem in the past 24 hours, said&nbsp;Martin Lee, a Nansen analyst on Telegram. So, will ETH ETFs be next? Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Balchunas says there's a 70% chance for the approval of a spot Ethereum ETF and Valkyrie Funds Chief Investment Officer Steven McClurg told Bloomberg TV that he wouldn't be surprised if an ETH ETF comes to market “The approval of the Bitcoin ETFs by the SEC has opened the door for other cryptocurrencies,” said Lucy Ho, a senior analyst at Metalpha.. https://twitter.com/EleanorTerrett/status/1744797194958365133 
<h2 id="ether-etf-race-has-begun">Ether ETF Race Has Begun</h2> The campaign for Ether ETFs has kicked off in earnest, with BlackRock, Fidelity, VanEck, Ark 21Shares, Hashdex, Grayscale, and Invesco Galaxy already having filed applications. https://twitter.com/crypto_rand/status/1745398796157095968 Still, the Securities and Exchange Commission may prove a formidable obstacle to such approvals. Chair Gary Gensler said yesterday that the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs should ''in no way signal the Commission's willingness to approve listing standards for crypto asset securities.'' And Gensler has said previously that he considers all cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin to be securities. There may be hope though because in a 2018 <a href="https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418">speech</a> the regulator's former director of corporate finance William Hinman said that, given its decentralized nature, Ether may not be a financial security. The next deadline for an SEC decision on spot Ether ETFs is May 23. 
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