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Ethlabs Launches, ETH Drops 6% & ETF Outflows Accelerate | Jun 21
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Five ex-Ethereum Foundation researchers launch Ethlabs backed by $11B in corporate ETH, as ETH slides 6% to $1,653 with institutional ETF redemptions accelerating. THORChain returns after a 39-day shutdown and the Glamsterdam upgrade slips to late 2026.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Five former Ethereum Foundation researchers just launched an independent lab backed by over eleven billion dollars in corporate ETH holdings, and it's the most structurally significant development in Ethereum's protocol development in years. The lab is called Ethlabs.
Set against that longer-term development is a much more immediate problem. ETH fell over six percent in twenty-four hours to one thousand six hundred fifty-three dollars.
The macro layer makes it harder. Spot ETF redemptions are accelerating.
One story worth watching for a different reason is THORChain. The cross-chain DEX came back online after a thirty-nine-day shutdown following a ten point seven million dollar exploit in May.
The clearest near-term signals to track are ETF flow data and whether the fifteen hundred to sixteen hundred dollar support level holds. If outflows continue to accelerate, that support becomes the real test.
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