VanEck Kills Staked Ethereum ETF After a Year: Why Now?
The $40 Billion Question: Why Did VanEck Just Walk Away From Ethereum Staking? Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan As the chief editor of ethdan.me, I've learned to read the silence in crypto finance. Headlines tell you what companies do. The quiet stuff — the filings they pull at 4 p.m. on a Wednesday with no press release and no explanation — tells you what they actually think. So let me tell you about the loudest silence in Ethereum this week: VanEck just asked the SEC to kill its Lido Staked Ethereum ETF — a fund it spent nearly a year bringing to life. No press release. No explanation. Just a withdrawal form and gone. Here's the twist that makes this story genuinely fascinating: this happened just two days after Interactive Brokers — a $903 billion brokerage — launched Ethereum staking for its 5 million-plus clients. Wall Street is simultaneously racing toward Ethereum staking and running away from it. What's the big deal? Let me break it all do...
