Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin spoke out against President Nayib Bukele’s compulsory bitcoin usage for merchants and businesses, saying it was against cryptocurrency’s “ideals of freedom.” Buterin commented in response to a Reddit article titled “Unpopular opinion: El Salvador President Mr. Nayab (Nayib) Bukele should not be praised by Crypto community.” The Ethereum co-founder did not...Read More
The success of DeFi (decentralized finance) blockchain apps has not escaped the notice of Square Payments (NYSE: SQ) CEO Jack Dorsey. The engineer, businessman, and BTC advocate recently announced that his blockchain project, TBD, will enter the space by creating a Bitcoin DEX. Vitalik Buterin “Skeptical” About Bitcoin DEX In a recent interview, Ethereum co-founder...Read More
The Dogecoin Foundation that was inactive for years, has relaunched, with a new advisory board that includes notable names such as Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk represented by his associate, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. New Dogecoin Foundation The Foundation was originally established as a non-profit in 2014. In 2013, Jackson Palmer and Billy...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
It’s been two months since Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin shocked the entire crypto community with his $1 billion Shibu Inu (SHIB) donation to the COVID-Crypto Fund in India. However, cashing this in revealed to be troublesome, according to the fund’s creator. Only $20M Have Been Disbursed But to date, only an infinitesimal portion of the...Read More
Ethereum (ETH) Co-founder Vitalik Buterin had some words for Elon Musk after posting on Twitter that Dogecoin could increase its block size by 900%. Vitalik had several counterarguments for Musk’s claims in a paper published on his personal blog. He emphasised that scalability and higher throughput can be achieved by simply increasing the network’s parameters....Read More
Buterin, who has had a sizeable chunk of his personal wealth wiped out over the past week, told CNN that he is not concerned about the market crash stating that we have had several of them before. He likened the current situation to a bubble stating that knowing when they will pop is “notoriously hard...Read More
Vitalik Buterin, who was gifted half of Shiba Inu’s total supply, has burned 90% of his holdings worth nearly $7 billion. The Ethereum co-founder further said he would allocate the remaining 10% to charitable organizations while also praising the “dog token community” for its generosity. Buterin Burns $6.7B in Shiba Inu The Dogecoin rise to...Read More
Ethereum 2.0 has been touted as a transition to a better consensus mechanism, and this particular ‘transition’ has been under research for the better half of the past year. The development process was initiated in 2018 and it took a while to reach Phase 0. Over the past 18-20 months, the Ethereum Foundation dealt with...Read More
Ethereum is the most dominant cryptocurrency among the Top 4, based on activity, updates and the highest Github submission rate. The development team of Ethereum makes daily routine submissions that make it the busiest cryptocurrency that ranks #2 based on market capitalization. Despite its dominance, there are a few challenges facing ETH 2.0’s further growth. As...Read More
With over 1 million ETH amounting to nearly $690 million being staked in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract, more and more exchanges and custodians are making staking services available to thousands of its users. In fact, Binance, Huobi, Kraken, OKEx, and Coinbase have already offered ETH 2.0 staking options to their users, with rewards ranging...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 is in the news today after he called out Blockstream COO Samson Mow for his statements on how VCs and advisors need to legitimize “sh*tcoinery” so they can be intermediaries. Retweeting a comment made by Chris Burniske, Mow added, “If it’s as simple as buying BTC, which it is, intermediaries are obsolete.”...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
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
There is no element of certainty in the crypto-market, whether it is a price trend or a position. The same was recently proven by Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin after he appeared to change his opinion on Tezos. During a recent Twitter exchange, Buterin commented, “I hope Tezos does well. It has genuinely interesting and well-thought-out tech...Read More
In what is big news for the community, Curve and Matter Labs have announced that they have taken the next big step towards scaling Ethereum – a zkSync L2 smart contracts testnet with Curve Finance as the first resident DApp. Ethereum’s L2 is on 🔥! @the_matter_labs and @CurveFinance teams are excited to unveil the first...Read More
Ethereum 2.0, or the lack thereof thus far, has been making the news of late. For people actively following its progress, the ETH Online Kickoff Summit, which saw the likes of Vitalik Buterin and Danny Ryan discussing the development shed some light on the path to scaling ETH 2.0. Source: ETH Online Kickoff Summit A...Read More
Ethereum fees are recovering from the devastation caused by the DeFi. After reaching record highs during September 2020, the network seems to have achieved a calm moment during October’s first days. Currently, the average transaction fee is slightly above $2, according to Bitinfocharts. This milestone represents a drop of more than 80% from the peak...Read More
On the question of asset allocation, fund managers are spending more time looking for avenues to park funds, rather than assets for investing in. DeFi has proven to be a rather attractive avenue for parking funds. Investors look for capital efficiency as that is the driving force behind management fee cuts in traditional finance and...Read More
September was the first month in Ethereum’s history when transaction fees surpassed the subsidy. In fact, miners made more from fees than from block rewards. Source: The Block Further, the transaction fee as a percentage of total revenue has risen exponentially too. This is an interesting development, but the question is whether this is an...Read More
Ethereum has been a hotbed for emerging crypto projects like DeFi and yield farming. However, Vitalik Buterin seems to think that forking Maker is the best idea going forward. Maker was one of its kind when launched during the mania of 2017 and turned the game sideways. Maker’s governance protocols allowed people to vote to...Read More
Yield farming has been quite the rage lately, with some going as far as calling it the “rocket fuel” that DeFi needs. The hyperbole is well and good, but the question remains – Is Yield Farming the real deal? Or is it yet another one of those brief fancies that often catches the eye of...Read More
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin admitted in a tweet that the higher transaction fee on the second-largest blockchain network is opening the door to security risks. However, he said that the fee market reform EIP 1559 will solve this. Higher Transactions Fees Vs. Block Reward Encourage Malicious Mining In a recent tweet, Buterin said that the...Read More
A year after the famous Hollywood actor William Shatner tweeted that Elon Musk and Vitalik Buterin were deciding what to build on Ethereum, the Tesla CEO refuted the rumor but said that he had nothing against the network. Musk: Not Building On Ethereum The Canadian actor, arguably most well-known for his role as Captain Kirk...Read More
Median transaction fees on Ethereum just hit their highest point in almost two years, as the network struggles under heavy congestion. Meanwhile, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin confirmed on June 30 that the network would have to make do with current off-chain scaling solutions for the next two years. That’s until the planned scaling capabilities of...Read More
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has recently stated that interest rates on decentralized finance protocols that are significantly higher compared to those in traditional finance come with unstated risks attached. Vitalik Buterin on High DeFi Interest Rates The co-founder of Ethereum and one of the most prominent members of the cryptocurrency community, Vitalik Buterin,...Read More
Zilliqa (ZIL) gained almost 35% in the past 24 hours, marking a delayed reaction for a coin, which was subject to some increased attention over the previous weekend. First, cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced it would be listing a ZIL/BUSD trading pair on Friday, May 22. Then, Zilliqa received a begrudged mention from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik...Read More
Despite Ethereum’s price nosediving by over 85% from the all-time high levels reached in January 2018, the interest in the second-seeded cryptocurrency by market cap is gradually increasing. New data indicates that the number of non-zero ETH addresses has skyrocketed by over 350% since the time ETH reached its all-time high levels. Ethereum Addresses On...Read More
The rollout of Ethereum 2.0 is set to arrive in installments, with the first milestone expected some time around Q3 of 2020. From that moment on, things promise to get interesting. At one point, we will see two Ethereum blockchains existing at the same time. Initially, the ETH 2.0 token will be practically useless for...Read More
