Liquid staking protocol Lido Finance recorded its highest daily stake inflow on Saturday, with more than 150,000 ether (ETH) staked on the platform. According to Web3 data analytics platform Lookonchain, Tron blockchain founder Justin Sun staked 150,100 ETH worth $240 million on Lido. On-chain data shows Sun deposited the assets in four separate transactions. Lido Activates...Read More
Crypto mining saw severe losses last year as prices went south. Several notable players in the space slid into bankruptcy, while others had to take cost-cut measures and shut down branches. This was also reflected in the Canadian cryptocurrency miner Hive Blockchain’s revenue, which halved to $14.3 million in Q3 as compared $29.6 million total...Read More
Coinbase launched its own Layer-2 blockchain yesterday, built in collaboration with Optimism in its OP stack. The new Layer-2 blockchain, named Base, will host many of Coinbase’s on-chain products and offer EVMs at low costs to developers. Piggybacking on Recent News Unfortunately, opportunistic bad actors are once again trying to make a quick buck off...Read More
The reality TV star – Kim Kardashian, the boxing legend – Floyd Mayweather, and other celebrities filed a motion to a California federal judge, asking their renewed EMAX lawsuit to be removed. The magistrates dropped a similar indictment against the defendants in December last year. Urging for a Dismissal Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, Paul Pierce,...Read More
The Merge, executed by Ethereum last year, was widely recognized as one of the pinnacle accomplishments of the cryptocurrency sector. Ethereum had a proof-of-stake blockchain conversion as part of The Merge, changing from a proof-of-work blockchain. But there is one small problem: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently took aggressive action against Kraken. The...Read More
In a recent post, ETH core dev Tim Beiko revealed that after months of testing and an ephemeral devnet launch, the Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Sepolia network at epoch 56832, scheduled for February 28th. Shapella essentially refers to two Ethereum upgrades – “Shanghai” and “Capella.” The upgrade will enable Ethereum withdrawals on...Read More
Arbitrum has already been leading the pack in the layer 2 roll-up. However, the daily transactions on the protocol hit 1.14 million on February 21st, surpassing Ethereum mainnet, which recorded 1.05 million. According to the on-chain data on Dune Analytics, this is a new record high for the scaling solution. Since the beginning of the...Read More
Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, launched cryptocurrency trading in Hong Kong on Monday. Professional investors enlisted on the Interactive Brokers platform can trade bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), it said in a press release. As per Hong Kong capital market guidelines, individuals with a minimum of HKD 8 million and institutions with a...Read More
The hacker who exploited Solana’s cross-chain bridge Wormhole a year ago has moved another $61 million in ether (ETH) of the stolen funds. Blockchain security firm PeckShield disclosed Sunday that the exploiter moved some of the assets to the Ethereum-based decentralized protocol MakerDAO. Wormhole Attacker Moves Stolen Funds Again Recall that Wormhole Bridge was exploited...Read More
Though the start of the new year took off on a bullish note for the crypto market, the landscape has gradually changed now as several macro conditions have brought bearish sentiment among large-cap investors. Moreover, the last 24 hours have brought solid pain to traders as several cryptocurrencies, including Cardano, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, have almost...Read More
The Ethereum price moved from trading around $1,190 on January 01 to as high as $1,704 last week. While the pump has been attributed to several factors, whale traders are said to be behind the recent crypto rally. Nonetheless, the highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade that will enable withdrawals of staked ethers is also a huge...Read More
Ethereum price underwent a significant upswing during the first fortnight of 2023, gathering nearly 14 bullish candles including a couple of bearish candles too. Despite the pullback, the price respected the lower support at $1507 and rebounded fairly after each contact. However, the price is predicted to rise finely in the future ahead, but the...Read More
After making astounding remarks about Ethereum bulls two days ago, former Ark Invest analyst Chris Burniske thinks a capitulation could occur before rebounding to ATH. By referring to a bullish thesis to Valhalla, Burniske has now noted that Ethereum must ‘first die to make it’ to the promised land. Notably, Ethereum (ETH) price has dropped...Read More
On Feb. 9, Gary Gensler and his SEC took aim at Kraken and its staking-as-a-service products. The regulator claims that the U.S. crypto exchange is offering unregistered securities through its staking services. Consequently, Kraken suspended staking-as-a-service, and crypto markets have slumped. On Feb. 10, popular analyst and trader Alex Krüger put a positive spin on...Read More
On February 9th, DappRadar published a report showing that the Ethereum NFT market cap value fell by 59.60% from $9.3 billion in 2022 to around $3.7 billion in early 2023. DappRadar’s study is based on the marketcap analysis of 81 of the largest NFT collections running on the Ethereum network. 2/ The market cap for...Read More
Marc Andreessen – founding partner of the tech-focused VC giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) – is now more bullish on Ethereum and Web 3 than he is on Bitcoin, contrary to his outlook in 2014. During an interview with ReasonTV published on Wednesday, the venture capitalist discussed the future of crypto adoption and regulation, alongside the...Read More
Most crypto projects that are based on Ethereum (ETH) utilize the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism for securing their blockchains and incentivizing network participants. However, each blockchain has its own set of rules for its staking program, which includes the percentage yield for participants. As blockchains strive to secure their networks through staking, some rules, such...Read More
Shared liquidity protocol dPRIME Asset Modules Finance (DAM Finance) has launched its mainnet, enabling users to “teleport” their liquidity across several blockchain networks. According to a press release, the decentralized, multichain liquidity infrastructure layer is currently live on Ethereum and Moonbeam. DAM Finance Unveils Multichain Liquidity Layer DAM’s global shared infrastructure offering would allow users...Read More
Scaling Ethereum has undoubtedly been one of the hottest topics in the past months. The network’s transition to a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm in September 2022 was a huge milestone in this regard, as it opened the door for many different scaling solutions to be implemented. While Ethereum developers are working on ways to scale the...Read More
StarkWare – an Israeli company focused on Ethereum scaling – joined forces with the Web3 services platform – Chainlink – to expand development on StarkNet. The collaboration will also build an economic network between the two entities. ‘Enabling a Next-Generation Web3 Applications’ According to a document seen by CryptoPotato, StarkWare will officially join the Chainlink...Read More
As the crypto market brings a worrying situation by trading on the verge of a flip price range, investors are keeping a close eye on leading assets: Bitcoin and Ethereum. With the weekend approaching at a fast pace, several analysts are wondering if BTC and ETH prices will be able to make a bullish comeback...Read More
Ethereum (ETH) is noticeably on the rise along with the overall increase in performance of most crypto assets. Though general crypto market sentiment continues to be the key driver of Ethereum price growth, network activity has boosted confidence among all Ethereum investors. In January 2023, Ethereum emerged from a downturn that had been in place...Read More
Ethereum price has been maintaining a significant strength and consolidating heavily along the interim resistance. The trend currently appears to remain capped below $1650 but also flashes bullish signals that may uplift the rally in the coming days. The price slipped below $1600 after the fresh trend reversal and is failing to reclaim the position...Read More
The Zhejiang public testnet is going live on Feb. 1 at 15.00 UTC, according to an Ethereum developer who posted the update on Jan. 31. The testnet will give users a first taste of the withdrawal process and network functionality after the Shanghai upgrade, which is slated for March. However, users won’t actually be able...Read More
As the last year made heart-stopping dips and now the stunning recoveries in the price chart, many investors are left questioning the future trend of the market. However, the bullish reversal in the market’s sentiment has once again sparked rays of hope of a potential comeback from its bottom price range. These Coins May Bring...Read More
The crypto industry appears to be slowly recovering from the catastrophic collapse of the FTX crypto exchange, marking one of the worst years in the sector’s history. However, several blockchain networks are making strides in the terms of development activity. According to the latest data from the crypto-analytic firm Santiment, Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM)...Read More
The year started on a bullish note which aided the world’s largest altcoin to sprint towards its pre-FTX market cap levels. Days after struggling to overcome $1,600, Ethereum finally climbed past the resistance level on Tuesday amidst a broader market rally. Even as certain group of investors looking to pocket quick gains began offloading the...Read More
The hacker of Wormhole, one of the largest cross-chain bridges between Solana and other blockchains, has moved stolen funds of $155 million worth of ETH for the first time in months to a decentralized exchange. Blockchain data by analytic platform CertiK revealed that 95,630 ETH was sent to the OpenOcean DEX before being converted into...Read More
Privacy tools have always been heralded as a key to financial freedom in the crypto industry. In the Ethereum ecosystem, discussions surrounding the subject matter have revolved mostly around privacy-preserving transfers of ETH and mainstream ERC20 tokens. In a bid to improve the state of privacy on the network, its co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed...Read More
Vitalik Buterin’s first tryst with the Bitcoin community dates back to 2011. He began participating in ‘Bitcointalk,’ a forum created by Satoshi Nakamoto. It was then that he co-founded and started writing articles for Bitcoin magazine. He began traveling to speak with BTC developers around the world in a bid to construct a new, potentially...Read More
