{"id":506604,"date":"2025-10-29T13:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/solana-vs-ethereum-etfs-facebooks-influence-on-bitwise-hunter-horsley\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:52:43","slug":"solana-vs-ethereum-etfs-facebooks-influence-on-bitwise-hunter-horsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/solana-vs-ethereum-etfs-facebooks-influence-on-bitwise-hunter-horsley\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana vs Ethereum ETFs, Facebook\u2019s influence on Bitwise: Hunter Horsley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bitwise\u2019s Hunter Horsley was stung by criticism from Ethereum Maxis about the firm\u2019s support of Solana, as ETH helped inspire Bitwise in 2016<\/p>\n\n

In the lead-up to this weeks surprise listing of its Solana Staking ETF on the New York Stock Exchange, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley caused a stir by telling Cointelegraph that Solanas shorter validator exit queue gave it the edge over Ethereum in the staking ETF race<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Houghan went much further on a podcast, praising Solanas speed, throughput and finality as extraordinarily attractive. He labelled it the new Wall Street.<\/p>\n

The glowing endorsements were controversial among Ethereum fans, some of who seemed to believe Bitwise was betraying ETHs cypherpunk values by championing other projects.<\/p>\n

Horsley was stung by the criticisms<\/a>, not least because Ethereum was part of the inspiration for creating Bitwise in the first place. <\/p>\n

He replied he felt terrible to see these posts. We care a lot about Ethereum. Feedback received re recent commentary seeming to be at odds with values in the ETH community. Its being taken to heart.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitwise\u2019s Hunter Horsley was stung by criticism from Ethereum Maxis about the firm\u2019s support of Solana, as ETH helped inspire Bitwise in 2016 In the lead-up to this weeks surprise listing of its Solana Staking ETF on the New York Stock Exchange, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley caused a stir by telling Cointelegraph that Solanas shorter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-506604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}