Bitcoin started attracting buyers after it began to float around the $18,000 price level. BTC quickly climbed the chart two weeks later. However, the coin’s technical outlook suggested that the bears hadn’t given up just yet. BTC may surpass the $20,000 price level if the bulls are able to maintain their momentum during the coming...Read More
The minable version of Ethereum has garnered a lot of attention since it spawned as a hard fork this time last month. In a move remnant to the 2017 genesis of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from its big brother, EthereumPoW may have started another fork war between proponents of each respected network. The fork was spawned...Read More
Ethereum smart contract scaling solution developer Offchain Labs announced that it is acquiring Prysmatic Labs, one of the core engineering teams that architected the Merge and built Prysm. According to the announcement, Prysmatic Labs chose to join Offchain Lab because of the two companies’ alignment on core beliefs and shared commitment to scaling Ethereum. The...Read More
Legendary billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones revealed that he still holds a small portion of bitcoin while stating that the U.S. economy might be going into recession or already is in one. Tudor Jones also said the value of assets such as ETH and BTC could increase amid inflation and excessive fiscal spending....Read More
Nearly half of Ethereum’s block space has been consumed by a new project called XEN Crypto which is causing the network issuance to fall and gas prices to rise. “Users have paid almost $1.8 million in gas fees to interact with the token contract, which has a market cap of $500k,” reported DeFi analyst ‘@0xfoobar’....Read More
Crypto staking service provider, Lido, launched on Ethereum layer 2 networks Arbitrum Bridge and Optimism. Lido first revealed its plans to expand stETH across the growing layer 2 decentralized finance ecosystem in July this year. The move is expected to further improve Ethereum staking accessibility. According to the official tweet, the expansion of wstETH, which...Read More
Fidelity Investments doubled down on its cryptocurrency efforts after its brokerage arm – Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC – offered an Ethereum Index Fund to clients. The product has raised around $5 million since sales started at the end of September, while outside investors can participate in the initiative with a minimum investment of $50,000. Fidelity’s...Read More
On Oct. 4, the 1inch network announced a partnership with nonfungible token (NFT) domain name provider and digital identity platform Unstoppable Domains. The new collaboration signals a move into the decentralized domain space, which is currently dominated by the Ethereum Name Service (ENS). According to the announcement, the partnership will allow 1inch Wallet users to...Read More
Long before the Ethereum network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), censorship concerns have been a bone of contention. To mitigate these risks, Vitalik Buterin has proposed “partial block auctions.” In the latest blog post, the Ethereum co-founder suggested that builders should have a more limited amount of power to prevent ETH censorship post Merge. Instead of...Read More
Ethereum pulled off a stunning technical upgrade that saw the popular blockchain transition to the proof-of-stake consensus model for processing transactions after six years of work. However, post-merge activity on layer-2 has dropped. According to the latest stats by Dapp Radar, the already descending unique active wallets and transactions have further dropped by 35% from...Read More
Even if Bitcoin ended September with a loss, previous good rallies in October may encourage bulls. Only twice since 2013 has BTC ended the month of October in the negative, according to data from coinglass: in 2014 and 2018. This makes a recovery in October more likely. Since last week, the price of BTC has...Read More
On Tuesday night, an Ethereum MEV bot gained 800 ETH through the use of clever arbitrage, only to lose all of it and more to a hacker an hour later. Here’s how the situation played out on-chain: The event began with a third-party trader mistakenly losing nearly $2 million to spreads on Uniswap v2 trade....Read More
The IRS is going after crypto owners who fail to report gains on their taxes. The US tax authority got a court order Thursday enjoining an NYC bank to turn over records on potential crypto tax dodgers. While crypto markets appear in the throes of “winter” against buys made last November to date, half of...Read More
The co-founder of Ethereum suggested that two other PoW blockchain protocols could transition to PoS in the near future. He also spoke about the Merge during the 2022 Mainnet blockchain event and gave a brief update about the next step in Ethereum’s development – the Surge. Ethereum made history on September 15, when it became...Read More
Apart from the general market decline, which held ETH at the cycle lows, there were both positive and negative responses to the buildup to The Merge. About 4.19 million ETH worth $5.32 billion had already been sold by holders prior to the event on September 15. However, investors started purchasing ETH again immediately after The...Read More
Ethereum’s Merge has done a lot to shift the issuance dynamics of ETH, fulfilling most of what was estimated by analysts and the Ethereum Foundation prior to the transition. However, there are still some nuances that need clarification as to if and when ETH can become deflationary, and its supply would cease to expand. Let’s...Read More
On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a regulatory action against Ian Ballina. The computer engineer and data scientist has appeared prominently on investment programs such as CNBC, Forbes, Business Insider, and Entrepreneur Magazine. SEC Hammers Sparkster Coin for Improper Disclosures The SEC filed the civil complaint in Austin, Texas, over the initial coin...Read More
The Merge, one of the biggest upgrades in the cryptocurrency industry, turned into a sell-the-news event. While the long-anticipated transition did not light a fire under the Ether’s price, many experts believe it would offer some strong tailwinds in the future. Nevertheless, investors are treading with caution. The figures come amid a relatively low activity...Read More
A hacker managed to steal $3.3 million worth of cryptocurrencies from several Ethereum addresses generated with the “Profanity” tool. The funds were drained even after the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch warned users about discovering a severe vulnerability putting millions of dollars at risk. It had previously advised users owning wallet addresses generated with the Profanity...Read More
On the nervous global backdrop, the much anticipated “Merge” eventually transpired as a sell-the-news type of event. Cryptocurrencies suffered fresh declines in the wee hours of Monday morning. The global market cap fell to $909 billion, with a trading volume of $79.54 billion over the past 24 hours. Major assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum...Read More
Grayscale – one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency asset managers – may be readying a cash-airdrop for holders of its Ethereum Trust and Digital Large Cap Fund. The cash grant represents the value of ETHPoW (ETHW) tokens that Grayscale investors are entitled to following the network fork, according to a company filing with the SEC...Read More
Following the recent long-awaited update to the Ethereum network – which saw the network move from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake – SEC Chairman Gary Gensler spoke out about the change, hinting that it might be enough to push Ethereum out of its current legislative bracket and into that of securities. Post-Update ETH May Pass the Howey...Read More
Ethereum finally transitioned its underlying consensus model to proof-of-stake (PoS) on September 15th at block 15537393. The historical event, however, failed to shed off the appeal of the new proof-of-work (PoW) version of Ethereum. ETHPoW (ETHW), a hard fork of Ethereum supported by a group of PoW proponents, has unveiled a list of all the...Read More
The excitement around the Ethereum Merge is tremendous for the PoS proponents and the community of the second-largest cryptocurrency. It also presents a very lucrative opportunity for fraudsters, who tried to take advantage even before the event. Ethereum foundation had earlier warned the community to be on high alert for scams trying to take advantage...Read More
While Ethereum’s long-anticipated Merge seems to have hardly dented its price at the time of the upgrade, one of its speculative offshoots experienced a storm of volatility. Ethereum PoW (ETHW) – an Ethereum hard fork backed by a group of Ethereum miners – soared in value during the upgrade. However, it tanked to all-time lows...Read More
What was arguably the most highly-anticipated event in the cryptocurrency space over the past few years is now complete. Ethereum’s proof-of-work mainnet officially merged with the proof-of-stake Beacon Chain, marking the official transition of the entire protocol to PoS. The Merge is Official The Paris upgrade, which is more commonly referred to as “the Merge,”...Read More
Paulo Ardoino – Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Bitfinex and Tether – recently commented on Ether’s usefulness as money, post-merge. The CTO believes the cryptocurrency cannot compete with Bitcoin as a form of money, due to design choices that have prioritized other objectives. Bitcoin is Money; Ether is Not As the CTO told Crowfund Insider...Read More
With the long-awaited Ethereum Merge expected to go live in less than 24 hours, Joseph Lubin, CEO of the blockchain software technology company ConsenSys, has shared his thoughts on it, noting that the transition is the third-most significant event in the crypto industry. According to Lubin in a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, the first...Read More
On September 13, the U.S. Treasury Department published a guide with a series of steps for U.S. citizens to follow in order to withdraw their funds from Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash was a mixing service shut down on August 8 by the U.S. Treasury Department. This happened after investigations showed that the platform was used...Read More
The talks and plans for an Ethereum Proof-of-Work fork after the Merge have been mounting for quite a while, and it seems that it will be taking place shortly after the migration to Proof-of-Stake. According to EthereumPoW’s latest Twitter thread, the Proof-of-Work fork will take place 24 hours following the Merge. The thread failed to...Read More
