The Ropsten testnet – Ethereum’s longest-running testnet – implemented the long-awaited “Merge” with the Beacon chain on Wednesday. The upgrade brings Ethereum one step closer to its long-awaited change to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. Ropsten allows for development and testing before changes are implemented on the Ethereum mainnet. “The Merge” will be the...Read More
Earlier this week, a pull request was submitted by an Ethereum DevOps engineer for the Ropsten testnet Merge configuration code that can be seen in the GitHub repository. For the uninitiated, the Ropsten testnet was created by Ethereum Foundation nearly five years ago and is considered one of the best replicas for the Ethereum blockchain....Read More
Staking on Beacon Chain has been booming due to the much-awaited Ethereum Merge despite delays. A major chunk of new stakers on the consensus layer have done so using Lido Finance. In the latest blog post, the project revealed that 75% of new stakers on the Beacon chain who joined in the last 30 days...Read More
As Ethereum approaches its long-awaited transition to proof of stake, developers have launched the mainnet’s first “shadow fork”. Its purpose is to stress-test existing assumptions about testnests and the mainnet. Preparing for the Merge According to Ethereum Foundation Developer Parithosh Jayanthi, the fork adds merge related fields to the configs of existing testnets. “In doing...Read More
Ethereum has officially burned more than two million ETH via the EIP-1559 upgrade implemented last year. The biggest on-chain gas burner on the Ethereum network is the leading NFT marketplace OpenSea, followed by ETH transfers. Other gas guzzlers include Uniswap, StrongBlock, Tether, etc. Ethereum Burning According to the latest stats in Watch the Burn, the...Read More
The deposit contract for staking on Beacon chain – the blockchain providing the spine of the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem – has now collected over 10 million ETH. That’s $26 billion of staked value at current prices. Ethereum 2.0 is a long-awaited Ethereum upgrade that will convert Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from proof of work to proof...Read More
Open source and decentralized protocol ssv.network has received $10 million in funding from its DAO partners to ramp up the decentralized staking infrastructure for Ethereum 2.0 ahead of the upcoming Merge. ssv.network Receives $10M ssv.network said in a press release that it received the funds through its DAO Partner Program, an initiative the project launched...Read More
Titled “Endgame,” the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has put forward a hypothetical idea of a “big blockchain” that is trustless and censorship-resistant but indefinitely accompanies some of the common trade-offs such as scalability and centralization when it comes to block production. Aesthetically Ugly To achieve a system in which the block production is still...Read More
The debate over the feasibility of using Ethereum as the Swiss Army of the crypto-verse is heating up again now that DeFi, gaming, and NFT are enjoying a recent surge in popularity. But the outlook is not very positive considering the current state of affairs. The impact of xcessive fees, long confirmation times, and slow...Read More
Pivotal upgrades for Ethereum 2.0 have been slow but steady. While technical issues continue to bother the network, something that has dragged on for over two years, researchers have now detailed three scenarios of how Ethereum 2.0’s proof-of-stake (PoS) design could still be attacked. Don’t worry; they can be fixed too. Serious Attacks on Ethereum’s...Read More
On Oct. 27, Ethereum core developer Raul Jordan posted that the Altair upgrade on the Beacon Chain had been successfully deployed. Ethereum stakers needed not to take any action as the improvements were all made in the background, but validators did have to pay attention. The Altair upgrade is another step closer to the full...Read More
Over 95,000 ETH – over 287 million – have been staked in the ETH 2.0 contract in a day, as per data from on-chain and market data platform CryptoQuant. It seems the number of new depositors is fewer compared to the number of deposits, which, according to Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, is a firm...Read More
Just a day after the highly-anticipated upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, Buterin commented that the event had paved the way for the migration to proof of stake (ETH 2.0). He also outlined EIP-1559 as the “most important part of London.” As reported yesterday, the Ethereum network went through one of its most-awaited and crucial hard...Read More
Switzerland’s Sygnum Bank announced that its customers could use its institutional-grade banking platform to stake ETH for Ethereum 2.0 from their existing wallets. Sygnum’s Pioneering Move Sygnum revealed that it intends to become the first banking institution to provide Ethereum 2.0 staking. In doing so, its clients may be able to earn returns of up...Read More
The number of ether coins held on exchanges continues to decrease and has reached its lowest position in more than two years. This comes as the tokens sent to the ETH 2.0 contract reached a new all-time high of over six million. ETH on Exchanges Down to a 2.5Y Low According to data from CryptoQuant,...Read More
Going against the stance of the bank’s crypto disparaging CEO, Jamie Dimon, the analysts argued in a report this week that blockchains running more energy-efficient networks than Bitcoin will increase in popularity. Staking currently generates an estimated $9 billion worth of revenue annually for the crypto industry, according to the report. The researchers predict that...Read More
Ethereum’s London hard fork launched on the Ropsten testnet on June 24 in preparation for the mainnet rollout in July. The upgrade will usher in the implementation of the highly anticipated EIP-1559 modification that will adjust the Ethereum transaction fee calculation mechanism. Ropsten in #London!Welcome #EIP1559https://t.co/oKhEMR83fz — Nethermind (@nethermindeth) June 24, 2021 The next phase...Read More
The total amount of ETH staked ahead of the upcoming Ethereum 2.0 upgrade has grown significantly and will likely continue to increase as the launch date draws closer. 100 ETH Staked in a Day Data from CryptoQuant revealed yesterday that more than 100k ETH worth over $200 million as per current prices was sent to...Read More
According to recent data, the amount of ETH locked in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract has reached over five million, marking a major event for the Etherum community. Data from Dune Analytics shows 5,223,042 ETH —$14 billion at press time— has been sent to the ETH 2.0 contract. The lock-up amount is nearly 1,000% of...Read More
In an announcement on Feb. 17, Coinbase stated that it was opening a waiting list for customers that wish to participate in ETH 2.0 staking. “By joining the waitlist today, customers will be first in line to earn ETH2 staking rewards. Getting rewarded with different cryptocurrencies is one of our top requests.” ETH2 staking rewards...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
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
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
Binance established Binance Smart Chain [BSC], a new blockchain a while ago and it has become popular among users. The platform that already homes over 100 projects has added a new service to BSC to keep up with the demands of its users. According to Binance Smart Chain news, Binance added delivery of ETH 2.0...Read More
Ethereum is trading at the $1300 level and the price is up nearly 5.7% in the past week. After hitting $1426 on Jan 29, 2021, the price dropped without hitting $1500, which is to a certain extent comparable to what happened to Bitcoin. Though Ethereum’s chart shows volatility at the current price level, it has...Read More
The off-chain decentralized computation platform Cartesi has launched a layer-2 solution to work on top of the Ethereum blockchain. The so-called Optimistic Rollups aims to decrease the high transaction fees by orders of magnitude and support scaling by taking computational demands off-chain. Cartesi’s Optimistic Rollups For The ETH Network The Ethereum network, arguably the most...Read More
Hot on the heels of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, registering its own ATH a few weeks ago, it would seem that the world’s largest altcoin is intent on replicating BTC’s performance as well. Ether has now breached its previous ATH and registered a new high at $1476 in the early hours of 25 Jan....Read More
Is Ethereum recovering from the correction post the new ATH or approaching a sell-off? This is a burning question for many retail traders as the bloodbath across the altcoin market continues. Ethereum was ranking #1 in terms of transaction volume, though the asset beat Bitcoin to it, the top driving factor was the social volume...Read More
In a lengthy blog post titled ‘The State of Eth2’ lead developer Danny Ryan has published an update on progress made on Beacon Chain and what is in store for 2021. Ryan added that the separate designations of Ethereum imply a ‘false sequentiality’ in that one is being left behind for the other. Instead, the...Read More
