ChainCatcher news, according to Matthew Sigel, Director of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, one of the world's top ten oil companies, Petrobras, has announced the launch of a new R&D project that includes Bitcoin mining and tokenization.

ChainCatcher news, VanEck's Head of Digital Asset Research Matthew Sigel posted on the X platform that VanEck has recently applied for the first Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF). Sigel emphasized that Solana, as a competitor to Ethereum, is an open-source blockchain software that offers high throughput, low fees, and strong security.Solana's decentralized nature, high practicality, and economic viability align with the characteristics of other mature digital commodities, making it an attractive choice for an ETF. VanEck believes that SOL, as a digital commodity, can provide diverse application scenarios and investment opportunities for investors, developers, and entrepreneurs.