Local Ethereum #1

Local Ethereum #1 is a newsletter that covers Ethereum's geographic spread through local communities, meetups, universities, startups and policy news. Its regional items include Sony's Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Soneium going live in Japan, which leverages the OP Stack and Superchain architecture, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's 'supervisory incubator' for helping banks manage risks from blockchain or DLT experiments. In North America, the SEC approved Bitwise's filing for a Bitcoin-Ethereum ETF. The newsletter also estimates that about 19% of Argentina's population, or 8.6 million people, uses some cryptocurrency.