Ethereum’s Ether has now breached the $600 range across some major crypto-exchanges today. Whilst Ether dipped by 1.0% in the last hour, ETH prices hiked by over 11.6%, in a 24 hour period at the time of writing. Overall, Ethereum was up by 31.7% in the weekly timeframe. Source: ETH/USD, TradingView In recent days, ETH...Read More
One of the most hotly debated topics in crypto of late has been the question of whether the Ethereum 2.0 Genesis event will take place successfully on 1 December. The target for Ethereum 2.0’s on-time launch is set at 524,288 ETH. As of last week, only 20% of the target had been achieved. However, at...Read More
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin recently commented on the maximum supply of ETH, stating that the current issuance schedule is approximately 4.7 million per year for the next 1-2 years, or however long it takes until the merge. After the same, it would be 0-2 million per year minus the burned fees which could be greater than...Read More
It has been a good few days for crypto-proponents. Not only Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, surged to height unseen since the heydey of the bull run, but the market’s altcoins have rallied too. Ethereum, the world’s largest altcoin, was among the cryptocurrencies to surge on the charts, with ETH climbing over $500 yesterday. However,...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article attempt to analyze the emerging patterns in Ethereum’s short-term market and its impact on the price The altcoin market has entered a consolidation phase after marching side by side with Bitcoin. Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency has also been following a similar path as the price of the digital...Read More
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] has been coming down hard on crypto exchanges when it comes to compliance. BitMEX is still trying to deal with a double lawsuit by the US prosecutors. However, SEC has now approved Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust [ETHE] as the first public quoted ETH investment product in the United...Read More
The price of Ethereum has surged past its resistance close to $500 and was currently valued at $505.37. This not only marked an annual high for ETH but also was a price level unseen since July 2018. Source: ETH/USD on TradingView This run-up in the market could be contributed by the news of the United...Read More
Deposits to the ETH 2.0’s deposit contract have grown considerably over the past few days, which witnessed the most growth since the contract launch recently. Source: Dune Analytics Over 102k ETH has now been sent to the ETH 2.0 deposit contract, however, despite this, considering the current pace of staking, many remain uncertain that the...Read More
Polkadot has competitors that claim the same thing as DOT – throughput that achieves scalability, lower fees, security, and the ability to build a defi ecosystem on its chain. However, only a few actually deliver these things and are yet to gain adoption. The adoption isn’t here yet due to the fact that Ethereum is...Read More
Everyone looks at Bitcoin and Etherum differently. To the ardent followers of one, the other is either too little or too much. To unfamiliar traders, they are just different ways of referring to cryptocurrencies. To crypto-folk, one is a currency, the other a utility. Whichever way you look at them, one thing is certain –...Read More
French international banking group BNP Paribas is in the news after the conglomerate, along with the French bank CA CIB and the French investing company Caisse des Dépôts, announced the launch of a project exploring a digital interbank currency (DIBC). The venture in question will also include tokenizing solutions firm Tokeny and The Blockchain XDEV...Read More
With the total value of assets locked in DeFi now worth over $13 billion, many expect this part of the crypto-space to grow at a rapid pace. In fact, in Q3 of 2020 alone, the DeFi ecosystem saw its transaction volume surpass $123 billion, with 96% of the total belonging to Ethereum. However, DeFi’s growth...Read More
Ethereum bulls are busy pumping the network’s native cryptocurrency ETH as if there’s no tomorrow. So much so that the asset almost tested the $500 resistance today. But what’s even more interesting is the gradual progress on the staking front for Ethereum 2.0’s launch. Depositors have already staked more than 100,000 ETH in the ETH2...Read More
Bitcoin had nothing but thin air above it to reach ATH, while Ethereum was trading above $480 once more, with $500 a level it has not been above since mid-2018. Tezos saw strong interest from buyers in the past week, while Compound appeared to be recovering from the last two months’ heavy losses. Ethereum [ETH]...Read More
Ethereum is currently consolidating above $460 over the past couple of days. On 15th November, the asset did re-test a low below $450 but now it looks lively again for a rally upwards. However, amidst such a bullish scenario, it continues to be difficult to ignore the bearish signs that were evident in the analysis....Read More
After clocking in a new local top at $476, Ethereum’s price has been tepid over the past week. Clocking in a weekly change of 0.96% drop, Ethereum might be indicative of a correction period with Bitcoin but larger market sentiment remained poles apart with respect to the price. Source: Skew According to recent Skew data,...Read More
The world just witnessed the deeply debated (only from the ones who lost) results of the 2020 US Presidential election. More than a week ago. Republican party members, including their leader and the 45th President Donald Trump, crying foul calling the polls rigged. Nonetheless, Joseph Biden will take up the coveted position as the leader...Read More
As Bitcoin hits newer levels and breaks past resistances, it is trading at $16300. Meanwhile, Bitcoin reserves have dropped consistently since October 2020. Down 5.6% since October 2020 and 17.19% since the beginning of 2020, reserves have been a top factor driving the consistent price rally in 2020. BTC Reserves on exchanges || Source: CryptoQuant...Read More
2020’s crypto-market is very different from the one back in 2017. However, while it has changed a lot over the ensuing years, there remain two constants – Bitcoin and Ethereum. In fact, the two cryptocurrencies continue to retain the market’s top two positions. The constant reshuffling of the pack fuels the question – How will...Read More
While Ethereum was trading above $450 at press time, the ETH-BTC correlation remained tight at around 0.76, based on data from CoinMetrics. In fact, Ethereum’s price has gained by 3.69% over the past week and considering the progress of ETH 2.0’s validator nodes, it may seem obvious that many traders are long on ETH. High...Read More
Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice The transition of Ethereum to Ethereum 2.0 is what the ecosystem is concerned about, especially since ETH did react as expected during the DeFi summer. At the time of writing, Ethereum’s price charts were...Read More
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin aims to enter the non-fungible token market as its liquidity trading platform Pool-X will open deposits of NFT assets starting November 16th. Pool-X will launch an exchange platform designated for NFT tokens in the upcoming months. KuCoin To Launch An NFT Exchage According to the announcement from earlier today, the...Read More
Running an ETH 2.0 validator node is a lucrative prospect, at least for ETH Maximalists. It takes 32 ETH to run one on your own. Naturally, since 32 ETH is a substantial amount, many have instead turned to pools. In fact, so far, 83,872 ETH have been staked. However, what’s interesting here is that a...Read More
DeFi’s total market capitalization stood at $15.8 billion against Ethereum’s market capitalization of $51.8 billion, at press time. This means that as of mid-November 2020, DeFi’s market capitalization is already over 30% that of Ethereum’s and it won’t be long before it explodes to surpass ETH’s own market capitalization. Since its launch in 2015, Ethereum’s...Read More
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was noting a figure of 86, at the time of writing, with the same over 80 for over a week now. Ethereum was on a strong uptrend and pulled back to a level of support while Cosmos looked set to register a small drop in price. Enjin, on the...Read More
The Ethereum community was elated by the announcement of the deposit contract on 4 November, although it had been deployed three weeks prior to the same. Along with the announcement of deposit contracts, the team also released v1.0.0 of the spec with some minor updates. According to Ben Edgington’s latest update, the funds for the...Read More
When the Crypto Twitter community reacts, it does so in a big way. And when the guys from the Bitcoin neighborhood unite, there’s nothing to stop them, especially when it comes to criticizing traditional financial institutions —whether they’re crypto-friendly or not. If this seems hard to believe, ask PayPal, who had to deal with significant...Read More
The team behind the mimblewimble-based privacy coin Beam will launch a DeFi platform enabling developers to create confidential, decentralized, and user-friendly financial applications. Dubbed BeamX, the platform will arrive on November 19th, with the first iteration being an experimental network, while the mainnet should be released in Q1 2021. Beam Announces DeFi Platform Called BeamX...Read More
In a development that has been dubbed an ‘unannounced hard fork,’ Ethereum developers introduced changes to the underlying code earlier in the day, changes that led to the Ethereum blockchain splitting. A new version valid for upgraded nodes was created and was seen as invalid by older ones that did not upgrade. The development gave...Read More
The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has temporarily suspended withdrawals for ERC20 tokens. Upbit and Huobi follow suit. The issue comes after Infura – an Ethereum infrastructure provider is also experiencing problems. The team announced earlier today that they are experiencing a service outage for their Ethereum Mainnet API. In a later update, they’ve revealed...Read More
