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
Ethereum and Cardano have always been at loggerheads. The two blockchain network’s development activity has been pitted against each other even before the former’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). Needless to say, Ethereum and Cardano went on to become the blockchains with the most active developers in 2022, with 223 and 151 average daily devs throughout...Read More
While non-fungible tokens (NFTs) took a nosedive in popularity last year due to dwindling investor sentiments, the asset class has been gaining renewed user interest since the start of the year. The NFT market has seen strong activity over the past few weeks as the broader crypto market gradually recovers from the 2022 crypto winter....Read More
Last year, Ethereum made its historic shift to the proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism, which is the ‘Merge’ event in the network, and now the eyes of the crypto community are on the upcoming ‘Shanghai’ upgrade, which may take place in March. ETH traders eagerly await the Shanghai hard fork, which will allow users to access their...Read More
Ethereum now has over 500,000 validators keeping the network secure ahead of its highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade, scheduled for March. The upgrade will allow such validators to withdraw their ETH from Ethereum’s staking contract – some of which has been locked up for years. Ethereum’s Surge in Validators According to data from BeaconScan, Ethereum’s validator...Read More
The world’s second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum has performed exceptionally well since December 2022. Also the bulls are holding up well with the lead altcoin from the time when Ethereum has surpassed the 50 and 100-day moving average. Ethereum had even stepped into short-term consolidation moving towards $1.6K level before making a pull back. At the...Read More
The Lazarus Group has been moving its spoils from the Harmony Bridge hack this weekend. On Jan. 16, blockchain sleuth ‘ZachXBT’ posted details of the movements of large amounts of Ethereum. The crypto assets originated from the anonymizing service Tornado Cash and went through Railgun. Railgun is a smart contract privacy platform that uses zero-knowledge...Read More
Two weeks into the year, and crypto markets are rebounding. The Bitcoin and Ether price are each up some 20% on the seven-day chart. But a recent study of altcoins aims to give crypto investors pause before they go trading the rally. When the market makes a move like this, crypto traders often shuffle. They...Read More
The internet has become quickly fascinated by ChatGPT – the language model chatbot that seems to effortlessly provide long-form answers to any question. Crypto Twitter seems especially fascinated with the AI bot – from Casa founder Jameson Lopp to Twitter’s new chief and Dogecoin enthusiast, Elon Musk. We decided to ask ChatGPT a number of...Read More
The cryptocurrency payments company – Wyre – said it received financial backing that enabled it to continue its “normal course of operations.” It previously imposed withdrawal limits on customers, hinting about a potential liquidity crisis. Back to Normal Wyre announced it obtained vital support from a “strategic partner,” which allowed the company to lift the...Read More
Bitcoin and its brethren appear to be healing from the damage done by the FTX collapse and the contagions that followed. The asset hit an intraday and two-month high of $18,287 during the Thursday morning Asian trading session. BTC has now gained 10% over the past fortnight and is up 4.2% over the last 24...Read More
