Spot Ether ETF inflows have surpassed Bitcoin ETFs during the third quarter of 2025, signaling dormant appetite for regulated altcoin investments.
Zoltan Vardai
Zoltan Vardai is a breaking news reporter at Cointelegraph, covering Bitcoin, institutional cryptocurrency adoption trends, and Web3 regulatory developments. He co-hosts Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction daily X spaces show. He joined Cointelegraph in 2024. Zoltan holds a master’s degree from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has previously worked as a crypto journalist for Forkast News. His work was also published by Yahoo Finance and the International News Media Association (INMA). Zoltan holds BTC, ETH, AVAX, and SOL above Cointelegraph’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.
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