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Old but gold!

Read this #Crypto market update piece of ours, republished by @Mondaq 👇

"Ethereum Shapella Upgrade Crypto-asset Market April Impact

 29 October 2025

All You Need to Know

Second only to $547.44B Bitcoin market cap, Ethereum network market cap stands at $226.23B, and live trading price $1,889.13 with more than 50% gains year-to-date (at the time of this writing). Ethereum is a strategic, high-value, Turing-complete smart contract application implementation network with 36% decentralised application (d'app) largest market share. Therefore, its Shapella Upgrade completion event is certifiably primed for huge impact across crypto-asset market length, breadth and width April, and beyond.

Shapella Upgrade

The Ethereum mainnet hard fork event happens 22:27:35 UTC, April, 12, 2023. This biggest crypto-asset market April event completes Ethereum Proof of Stake (PoS) transition from Proof of Work (PoW). "Shapella" is a portmanteau from combining Shanghai—Devcon 2 event China city name, and Capella—Auriga northern constellation brightest star name first and last two syllables respectively. Ethereum consensus layer upgrade is named for Capella, while execution layer upgrade is named for Shanghai, plus the Engine API, and USD500,000 bug bounty, all entail Shapella Upgrade,

The upgrade, among others, will implement EIP-1559 for ETH network fee reduction, improve network efficiency through more scalability, security, performance, and thus boost Ethereum crypto-asset market price value by a projected 4%. After a successful upgrade, ETH hodlers—unlike validators who were able to exit last year—can withdraw staked ETH from across exchanges like Coinbase, liquid-staking solutions like Lido Finance, and stake more ETH, while not having to deal with another indefinite ETH lockup period anymore.

Shapella Upgrade Crypto-asset Market Price Value April Impact

Impressive crypto-asset price market performance prospect in April, as crypto-asset community market sentiments, trends and conversations among users, investors, traders and cryptonoobies alike resolve around Shapella Upgrade, with implications to trigger crypto-asset market demand interest surge resulting in increased demand for not only ETH, but as well as availing "moon potential" to smart contract-enabled tokens, liquid staking derivatives, other network apps, and cryptoasset market en bloc.

Though appears somewhat challenging to accurately quantify Shapella Upgrade crypto-asset market price movement impact April, because of factors such as volatility, itself informed by factors like developments in geopolitics and regulations, market trends, sentiments, and whatnot, it is a given that Shapella Upgrade crypto-asset market impact April overall cannot be discounted with modicum of success any.

Will Shapella Upgrade Affect Bitcoin Price?

Chief crypto-asset bitcoin market price value data history and charts are a big reveal that the asset every March weaves around bear territory. But with the still-unfolding, global fractional reserve banking system breakdown events, related general disturbances, slight contagion yet experienced in the crypto-asset sector, bullish April crypto-asset market prices offer great prospects with the Ethereum mainnet ...

Read the rest on @Mondaq
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[CryptoLaw @CryptoLawUS]

"According to SEC Chair Paul Atkins, the agency is now free to focus on developing clear crypto regulations now that the Ripple case has been put to rest. That sentiment was echoed by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on social media earlier this week, where she wrote that  “minds once occupied with litigation now can concentrate on creating a clear regulatory framework for crypto.”

Great insight from @dikenson's blog, full text below:

https://t.co/pIqAtN8ubC

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"The SEC said Coinbase allowed users to trade at least 13 crypto assets that should have been registered as securities, including tokens such as #Solana, #Cardano and #Polygon.".
https://t.co/5u36FzUyep.

[Crypto Law Review @CryptoLawRev]

maybe if you didn’t reduce all blockchain stuff to digital assets, overzealous regulators wouldn’t find it so easy to reduce everything to securities

to change the status quo, de-assetize at least 50% of your blockchain ontology

it’s not hard, and it’s very important

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"#Singapore, 21 June 2023… The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today published a #whitepaper proposing a common protocol to specify conditions for the use of #digitalmoney..."

#CBDCs #stablecoins #cryptoregulation #cryptoassets #Bitcoin
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[Stuart Alderoty @s_alderoty]

The law requires SEC employees, like all federal employees, to act (and appear to act) impartially. The law asks: Would a reasonable person, knowing the facts, question the employee’s impartiality.

You now know the facts.

5 CFR 2635.101(b)(14)

[Nelson M. Rosario d/acc 🇵🇷⚖️🤖 @NelsonMRosario]

"You may not care about IP rights, but IP rights care about you."

[Stuart Alderoty @s_alderoty]

The SEC issues stop orders blocking registration statements when they’re untrue. One that says “I am not registering as a broker-dealer, a securities exchange or an ATS because I am not trading securities” should have been blocked if the SEC believed that statement was untrue.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

The European Parliament voted for MiCA to be implemented.

This means one of the world’s largest markets is introducing tailored regulations for crypto to protect users and support innovation.

The fine details will matter, but overall we think this is a pragmatic solution to the challenges we collectively face. There are now clear rules of the game for crypto exchanges to operate in the EU. We’re ready to make adjustments to our business over the next 12-18 months to be in a position of full compliance.

https://t.co/d7TObsqzCI

[CryptoLaw @CryptoLawUS]

What has the @SECGov been hiding in the Hinman Docs?

WHAT IS IN THOSE EMAILS?
We’re about to find out on June 13.

[John E Deaton @JohnEDeaton1]

NOTICE:

As everyone is aware, @GaryGensler and the @SECGov sued @coinbase and @binance @BinanceUS. Just like the @Ripple case, the SEC claims that it filed the lawsuits on behalf of digital asset investors, users and holders. The SEC claims it is protecting us.

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#cryptoregulation #compliance #cryptolaw #legal #crypto #Binance @cz_binance #cryptosecurities #blockchain
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[Paul Grewal @iampaulgrewal]

By any objective measure, the accomplishments of new lawyers entering practice are way more impressive than 25 years ago. The quality of classes taken, the ability to impress in interviews, and the extracurricular are all markedly better. But is the quality of actual lawyering any better than a generation ago? I’m not so sure.

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All You Need to Know! Read our new post up about upcoming Ethereum upgrade and market April:

"Ethereum Shapella Upgrade Crypto-asset Market April Impact". Link:
https://t.co/GerNFVIDQi
#Ethereum #Upgrade #Shanghai #Chapella #Shapella #Hardfork #Cryptoasset #Markets

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[Crypto Law Review @CryptoLawRev]

this here is the actual “natsec” & “collective security” reason why blockchain & crypto are supported by regulators (despite all the rhetoric to the contrary) — regulators know crypto folks are more incentivized than anyone to get cryptography progressively more secure. Or bust.