CBOE Confirms ETH ETF Listings

• CBOE confirms trading ETH ETFs.

• EF is hiring for a Protocol Support role.

• Avail announced its mainnet launch date.

• Applications open for the Superhack.

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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) confirmed that Spot ETH ETFs from Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Invesco, VanEck, and 21Shares will begin trading on its exchange starting Tuesday, July 23rd. A Spot ETH ETF allows investors to gain exposure to Ethereum in the form of stock, rather than owning the asset directly. Except for Invesco, all four asset issuers will provide a fee waiver on the initial trading of their ETFs. Bitwise and Grayscale will trade on the NYSE, which has not yet announced the trading timeline. The Nasdaq, which will host BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum ETF, is also yet to confirm the trading start date, although it is anticipated that all will go live on Tuesday. The date marks two months since the SEC approved the Spot ETH ETF applications.

Avail, a data availability blockchain, announced its mainnet launch date, set for Tuesday, July 23rd. The deployment also introduces AVAIL, the platform's native token, which will be used to pay for services, staking, and governance. Users who claimed AVAIL in April will automatically receive the tokens in their wallets at the mainnet launch. Currently, AVAIL is trading at $0.25 on the Aevo pre-market. Avail aims to provide a scalable and secure solution for data storage by utilizing both validity proofs and data availability sampling (DAS). It also serves as a unifying coordination rollup with a proof aggregation layer and a mechanism for sequencer selection.

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is hiring for a Protocol Support role to help manage Ethereum's stewardship, which includes network upgrades, attracting and retaining protocol contributors, and expanding the team’s capacity to start new initiatives. It involves working on AllCoreDevs, the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship, and the Summer of Protocols programs. Protocol Support works closely with EF members like Trent Van Epps, Tim Beiko, Josh Stark, and others both within and outside the EF. Tim Beiko says it is the first time the role has been opened in a few years. The position is fully remote but requires being online for a few hours daily at 14:00 UTC, referred to as “ETH O’Clock.”

Applications are now open for Superhack, a virtual ETHGlobal hackathon focused on the Superchain, which includes tracks for OP Mainnet, Base, World Chain, Celo, and Mode Network. The hackathon offers $125k in prizes across various categories and will run from July 26th to August 9th. Builders have until Wednesday, July 24th to apply.

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