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CoinDesk's David LaValle on Crypto ETFs and What's Next for Financial Infrastructure

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

David LaValle, the former head of ETF at Grayscale, begins his new role as CoinDesk's President of Data and Indices. He joins Jennifer Sanasie to discuss how the successful launch of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs marked a major inflection point, and why the market is now ready for its next phase of maturity. - Midnight is introducing a novel approach to token distribution. The Midnight Glacier Drop is a multi-phase distribution of the NIGHT token, aimed at empowering a broad, diverse community to build the future of the Midnight network. Holders of ADA, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, BNB, AVAX and BAT are eligible to participate in the first phase. Help usher in the next generation of blockchain with rational privacy and cooperative tokenomics on the Midnight network. To learn more, visit https://www.midnight.gd/ and prepare for the Midnight Glacier Drop.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm an ETF guy to see sentiment shifting positively towards Ethereum.

0:05.0

And then seeing that manifest in share growth in the ETF marketplace continues to tell us

0:10.4

the story that there's a real opportunity for investors to express their interest in crypto

0:16.9

through shares of ETFs.

0:25.8

Hey, everyone, I'm Jen Sanasi.

0:30.1

I'm joined today by David LaValle, who begins his new role as Coin Desk President of Data and Indices.

0:31.3

He joins from Great Scale Investments, where, as the global head of ETFs, he led the

0:35.3

firm's historic conversion of its Bitcoin Trust

0:37.6

into a spot ETF. David, how's it going? That's going great, Jen. Great to be here. How are you? I'm doing fantastic this morning. You are starting in this new role at CoinDesk. We are very happy to have you. I just want to start here. I mean, what do you hope to achieve in this role? You have a bunch of accolades behind you.

0:54.7

I don't know.

0:55.1

You're going to beat what you've already done. I love a great build. You know, being able to come here, joining the bullish team, joining the coin desk team. This is a world-class team that has a strong institutional presence and an incredibly strong, you know, following the market.

1:12.6

And to be able to have strong media, strong events business, a strong data business,

1:17.6

and an indices business, I think we're going to be able to, you know, really take the crypto industry to the next level.

1:24.6

I mean, there was a massive inflection point with getting the Bitcoin and

1:27.6

Ethereum products off the ground and the ETFs launched in market. And, you know, the marketplace

1:33.4

is now ready for the kind of next phase of asset management in crypto, which is in and around,

1:39.2

you know, index-based products. Midnight is introducing a novel approach to token distribution. The Midnight

1:45.5

Glacier Drop is the first in a multi-phase distribution of the night token aimed at empowering

1:50.9

a broad, diverse community to secure the future of the Midnight Network. Holders of Ada,

1:56.2

BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, AVAX, and BAT are eligible to participate in the Glacier Drop phase.

2:03.9

Help usher in the next generation of blockchain with rational privacy and cooperative tochnomics on the Midnight Network.

2:11.0

To learn more about the Midnight Glacier Drop, visit midnight.gD and claim your night.

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