The Ethereum gas fee insanity has not abated despite a 22% correction in ETH prices. With a new all-time high in gas fees today, the 24-hour ‘revenue’ figure for the network is very close to $50 million. According to Cryptofees.info the number in daily fees generated by Ethereum is a monumental $49.55 million at the...Read More
Bitcoin recently became a trillion-dollar asset as its price also surged past $57,000. A few hours later, ETH made headlines as it crossed the coveted $2K mark. Several other cryptocurrencies have also performed well. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, is of the opinion that the prices of both digital currencies are high. Pro-gold and anti-bitcoin economist...Read More
This is one of the most monumental weeks in Bitcoin’s history. Today, February 19th, 2021, for the first time ever, the cryptocurrency’s market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion. That’s right! Bitcoin became a trillion-dollar asset! This became possible after a dynamic week of trading where BTC’s price surpassed $50K for the first time in history. Just today,...Read More
Residents located in the canton of Zug, one of the 26 cantons in the European country, will be able to use Bitcoin and Ethereum to pay their cantonal taxes as of this week. This comes just months after the canton partnered with Bitcoin Suisse to enable the innovative initiative. CryptoPotato reported the partnership between the...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex On Tuesday, February 16th, Ethereum keeps consolidating — the market is clearly gathering powers to go on actively. The altcoin is now trading at 1,793 USD. On D1, ETH/USD renewed the highs again. The MACD histogram remains above zero but is declining gradually, signalling the beginning of a correction....Read More
Ethereum Price Rally to Hit 5-Figures This Year! The Ethereum price in recent times has sustained multiple rejections at $1800. Moreover, it had maintained strongly above the levels for a quite long time, also hit the highest levels at $1871 a couple of days before. However, the price experienced a slight pullback, yet poised to...Read More
Ethereum found support at $1700 and rose higher with $2000 as its target. Aave threatened to drop toward $480 in the coming days, and Monero shot past the $200 mark with $220 the next level of resistance for the bulls to test. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD on TradingView Ether broke out of an ascending triangle...Read More
The past week saw Bitcoin’s price surge by over 18 percent, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading close to $45,000, at press time. It should be noted, however, that following reports of Tesla investing over $1.5 billion in Bitcoin, BTC climbed to register a new ATH above $48,000, before corrections set in. The question thus...Read More
Hackers took control of a Belgian Minister’s Twitter account on the night of 10 February; however, the fact that the account’s name was changed to ‘Ethereum Foundation’ seemed to have made news in the crypto space. The account belongs to Tinne Van der Straeten who is Belgium’s Federal Minister for Energy. The incident occurred just...Read More
After recording yet another ATH on the charts, one well beyond $1,800, Ethereum currently has its eyes set on the $2,000-mark. While quite a few of its on-chain metrics are flashing positive signs, other noticeable concerns are creeping up as well. The culprit here, according to many, is a familiar foe (fee*). Source: Coinstats Ethereum...Read More
The effects of Elon Musk’s tweets and Twitter bio update have been felt throughout the Bitcoin community, with the crypto’s price responding to the same in the last 72 hours. In fact, in a 24-hour period alone, Bitcoin’s price hiked by over 18 percent, a hike fueled by Musk’s tweets and institutional demand. In response...Read More
Ethereum has been hitting milestone after milestone this year, and the latest is the amount of it staked on the Beacon Chain deposit contract. There is now just over 3 million ETH staked on the ETH 2.0 blockchain, worth a staggering $5.4 billion at current prices. According to the beaconcha.in analytics platform, there are currently...Read More
The narrative has been very similar for the market’s top-two digital assets over the past couple of months. Relishing the scale of bullish momentum in the market, Bitcoin investors turned up the buying pressure over the last 24-hours after Tesla announced its 7.7% capital reserve investment. In fact, just a few hours later, Bitcoin climbed...Read More
The popular Layer-2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain, Matic Network, has rebranded its project to Polygon. Upon the name change, Polygon also announced plans to enhance its support for the Ethereum network to scale faster and reduce the growing transaction costs. Matic Network Becomes Polygon Known as Matic Network until today, the project serves...Read More
The regulated stablecoin fully backed by the US dollar, Stably USD (USDS), will launch on the popular public blockchain – Tezos as a part of an ongoing collaboration between the two parties. The stablecoin issuer aims to target lower fees with the Tezos network, which recently went through an upgrade that decreased the costs by...Read More
With its massive $1.5 billion purchase of bitcoin, the electric vehicle giant Tesla has inadvertently helped the cryptocurrency to surpassed it in terms of market capitalization. With BTC’s price skyrocketing to new highs and its market cap following, bitcoin is now ranked as the 7th largest asset. Bitcoin Surpasses Tesla For The 7th Spot Elon...Read More
In what is more good news for the crypto-ecosystem, Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, surged past yet another milestone on the price charts, with ETH breaching the $1,800-mark to post a new ATH. Corresponding to the price hike, ETH’s market cap also exceeded $200 billion for the first time recently. It should be noted, however,...Read More
After purchasing 16,244 BTC ($607 million at the time) on 18 January, Grayscale remains as one of the biggest institutional buyers in the Bitcoin market. On 15 January another update from the firm stated that Grayscale’s total assets under management were $27.1 billion in crypto. Charles Edwards, founder of Capriole investments put forward that Grayscale...Read More
As of last week, Ethereum’s native crypto surprised the market as it reached another all-time high above $1,700, on 5 February. Following this, many in the crypto space began to think that the asset could become more established. Especially with the expected launch of ether futures contracts from CME. Even though the second-biggest cryptocurrency by...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following analysis are the sole opinions of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Ethereum formed an ascending triangle pattern on the charts but faced some resistance at the $1760 mark. While high gas fees are a blow to decentralized exchanges, they could also persuade users to turn...Read More
The CME Group has opened its doors to its much-anticipated Ethereum futures after the ETH futures contract went live at 6 p.m ET on February 8th for its first trade. According to the website, the futures opened at $1604, and the real-time index was currently around $1648. Source: CoinStats The CME futures are cash-settled and...Read More
The fear among many is that there will be a repeat of the colossal market crash that occurred after similar futures products were first launched by the massive exchange for Bitcoin in December 2017. Futures effectively allow institutional traders to short the asset, and considering Ethereum is hovering around its all-time high, this is quite...Read More
This week was undoubtedly an altcoin party. Even though Bitcoin is up quite a bit in the past seven days, it was altcoins that stole the show, charting major increases almost every single day. Let’s start with BTC, though. It began the week at around $34,000 and was rather indecisive in the first few days,...Read More
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Scammers are targeting Discord users on crypto-focused servers, through private messages that appear to come from fake exchanges that are giving away Bitcoin and Ether. A new report from Kaspersky stated that the perpetrators even went to great lengths to make the fake site appear as convincing as possible. The message contains a link that...Read More
Japanese giant SBI Group will include a new addition to its crypto lending service via its subsidiary VC Trade. Apart from the other options, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), the organization’s customers will be able to deposit XRP to earn interest as well. Adding XRP to the List of Bitcoin and Ethereum Lending Japanese giant...Read More
Ethereum surged past the $1450 level of resistance that held it back over the past few weeks and looked strongly bullish on the charts. Elrond regained some steam to push onward and climb higher while Dash sought to defend an important level of support from short-term selling pressure. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETH/USD on TradingView Ethereum...Read More
The price of Ether is still climbing. On 4 February, the world’s second-largest crypto asset by market cap breached another all-time high. Ether was trading well above $1,600 range, priced at $1,614.16 at press time, across all major crypto exchanges. In the past 24 hours, Ethereum hiked by 5%. Source: Trading View The phased upgrade...Read More
Months before the commencement of the bull run in December 2020, DeFi was receiving all the attention in the summer. Decentralized applications were building a new financial system on Ethereum, and the demand for block space on ETH was rapidly increasing. Soon, yield farming became a common term and the popularity of DeFi triggered further...Read More
Ethereum’s price tested its resistance level for a few weeks, before hitting a new all-time high of $1,540 on the charts, based on data from Santiment. In fact, at the time of writing, on-chain and technical analysis pointed to a short-term top ahead of the CME Futures listing. Another positive sign observed on the charts...Read More
