Today, the cryptocurrency market faced a lot of selling, causing the price of Bitcoin to fall sharply below important support levels and head toward a low of $59,000. This drop was triggered by an announcement from Mt. Gox about starting repayments, which led to fears of more selling. At the same time, the price of...Read More
Digital asset investment products experienced a second consecutive week of outflows shedding $1.2 billion which amounted to $584 million. According to CoinShares, this could potentially be a result of the pessimism amongst investors regarding potential Fed interest rate cuts this year. Altcoins See Inflows Amid Market Weakness Bitcoin bore the brunt and remained the primary...Read More
The world’s number one and two leading cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, daily transaction volume, and crypto exchange volume have almost perfectly tied for ROI from Jan. 1 through the middle of June. For comparison, the S&P 500 Index notched up nearly 15% over that same period. But that’s more than the broad stock market benchmark...Read More
British multinational bank Standard Chartered is all set to roll out a trading desk for Bitcoin and Ether. The latest development makes it one of the first global banks to engage in spot cryptocurrency trading. Standard Chartered has been engaging with players in the digital asset space for quite some time and has also partnered...Read More
With spot Ethereum ETFs on the horizon in the United States, should existing Bitcoin ETF holders split their crypto holdings into ETH? In a Twitter thread on Thursday, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan offered three reasons for why this might be a good idea. Why Bitcoin Holders Should Buy Ethereum The first, Hougan wrote, is for...Read More
A cryptocurrency investor based in London has lost almost all his digital asset investments to armed robbers following a physical attack in his home. An X post by the victim, pseudonymously named Ram, revealed that the three thieves were armed with machetes and forced him to transfer all his crypto to certain accounts. Investor Loses...Read More
Ethereum generated the most fees among the top twenty protocols over the past 30 days with around $180 million, according to new data from Token Terminal. On June 17, the crypto analytics platform reported that Ethereum was way ahead of other blockchains, which were dominated by layer-1 chains and DeFi protocols, with only one layer-2...Read More
The price front remains quiet, but Ethereum scaling solutions appear to be thriving. The latest data suggests a surge driven by not just Layer 2 networks but lesser-known Layer 3 entities as well. According to L2beat, these scaling networks built on top of Ethereum have collectively reached over 246 TPS on June 16, representing a...Read More
KuCoin exchange’s research arm released a report on cryptocurrency performance in May, noting $1 billion in new investments – a slight decrease from April. The report highlighted that institutional investors predominantly favored Ethereum and EVM-focused platforms during this period. $1 Billion in Investment Earlier this week, KuCoin Research published a report indicating that in May...Read More
Coinbase saw the largest Ethereum outflow of the year, totaling over 336,000 ETH, worth more than $1 billion on June 12th. This marks the fifth instance in 2024 where over 150,000 ETH has been pulled from the crypto exchange in a single day. It is still unknown as to who is behind such a massive transfer...Read More
Matter Labs, the creators of ZKsync, announced on Tuesday that a community airdrop for their new ZK tokens will start next week. The Ethereum Layer 2 service provider will distribute 3.675 billion tokens, representing 17.5% of the total token supply through airdrops, to about 695,232 eligible wallets. ZK Airdrop Coming Next Week In the release,...Read More
The $4,000 level for ETH price now seems like a distant dream. Ether has remained below its key resistance channels for the last few days, even with the upcoming launch of its spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States. Some believe the absence of bullish momentum for ETH comes from uncertainty about the regulator’s...Read More
On Sunday, Loopring, an Ethereum zero-knowledge roll-up protocol, announced a significant security vulnerability attack on its smart wallets, linked to the Loopring Official Guardian. The project is collaborating with security and law enforcement agencies to investigate how the two-factor authentication system was compromised and to track down the cybercriminals. Loopring Official Guardian Exposed In a...Read More
Ethereum (ETH) will reach a price of $22,000 within six years thanks to ETF approvals, scaling improvements, and healthy on-chain progress, according to VanEck. In a Wednesday report, the $89.5 billion asset manager said the network’s TradFi market share growth and dominance among smart contract platforms creates “a credible path to $66B in free cash...Read More
More than 800,000 ether (ETH) worth approximately $3 billion has left crypto exchanges since the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the launch of spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETF). According to a Quicktake by CryptoQuant analyst Burakkesmeci, the identities of the crypto investors behind the ETH moves remain unknown; however, there are speculations...Read More
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated 30 ETH, valued at around $113,000, to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash developers Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm through the decentralized fundraising platform Juicebox. According to the on-chain data, the transaction from an address linked to Buterin, named vitalik.eth, was made at 1:58 am EST on May 30...Read More
Ethereum’s price is gaining strength as it previously struggled to attract buyers near key resistance levels. The ETH ETF sector is experiencing a positive net flow, driving a strong push toward the $4,000 psychological mark. Analysts predict a significant upward trend if ETF inflows continue to rise. Moreover, various on-chain metrics have recently improved, strengthening...Read More
On May 28, ENS Labs proposed that the Ethereum Name Service expand to layer-2 scaling protocols in an effort called “ENSv2.” “We’re not just migrating core parts of the ENS protocol,” the team said in a blog post before adding that it is taking knowledge from the last seven years at the frontier of Web3,...Read More
For the third consecutive week, digital asset investment products attracted impressive inflows, as this time, they totaled $1.05 billion. The latest figures contributed to a record-breaking year-to-date cumulative flow of $14.9 billion. According to the latest edition of CoinShares’ Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report, the recent surge in prices has driven total digital asset...Read More
Ethereum has been hovering near the $4,000 mark, driven by a major turnaround in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to approve spot ETH ETFs. This development has fueled trader optimism about the leading altcoin’s price trajectory. However, increased inflows of ETH into cryptocurrency exchanges could spell trouble. ETH Inflows Signal Selling Trend...Read More
Over a year since the Dencun upgrade went live on Ethereum, attention has shifted to Pectra, which is scheduled for release by early 2025. After evaluating various timeline options, Ethereum developers said they have decided against rushing a release before Devcon in November 2024. Instead, they’re choosing a more careful approach to incorporate additional user...Read More
Markets got a big spike in Ethereum price this week on crypto exchanges. What’s behind it and what factors can investors take into consideration to determine whether Ether or its friend Cardano is the better buy? Ethereum has a birthday coming up on July 30. It was launched in 2015 to create a “world computer”...Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially greenlighted Ether spot ETFs to trade on national securities exchanges. Multiple 19b-4 applications to list the product were approved on Thursday, just days after the SEC began rapidly engaging with issuers on the matter in an unexpected positive turn for the crypto industry. Ether ETFs Are...Read More
Alex Thorn, the Head of Research at Galaxy Research, speculated that the SEC could differentiate between Ethereum (ETH) and staked Ether, possibly classifying the latter as a security. He noted that this distinction could provide a regulatory loophole for approving spot Ethereum ETFs. Spot Ethereum ETF Approval Loophole In a May 21 post on X,...Read More
Ethereum’s (ETH) dramatic rally to the $3,700 price zone has put a substantial portion of the cryptocurrency’s holders in profit, boosting their investment returns significantly. According to a tweet by IntoTheBlock, 90% of market participants holding ETH are currently in profit, while the remaining 10% are at the money. No ETH holder is at a...Read More
Ether (ETH) surged 10% on Monday in the span of a few minutes following credible rumors that the asset could receive its own spot ETF in the United States within days. ETH traded for $3150 on Monday at 17:44 UTC, before surging to $3450 within 25 minutes. This followed a tweet from Bloomberg ETF analyst...Read More
Two siblings who attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are now facing allegations of exploiting a vulnerability in the Ethereum blockchain. The duo reportedly swindled $25 million within 12 seconds, which the prosecutors labeled as a first-of-its-kind caper. If convicted, both of them could potentially serve sentences exceeding 20 years in prison. Anton Peraire-Bueno,...Read More
By examining the processing speed of the largest blockchain networks in terms of total value locked on DeFiLlama, CoinGecko outlined the fastest based on the actual and realized transactions-per-speed (TPS) metric. The report concluded that Solana leads the way, followed by Sui and the Binance Smart Chain. Interestingly, Ethereum and Bitcoin are not even in...Read More
Since the beginning of April, more than a million new tokens have been created, with over 370,000 appearing on Ethereum, owing to activity on Coinbase’s Layer 2 network, Base. Solana leads with the creation of over 640,000 new tokens, primarily meme coins. Base Sees Increased User Activity According to the data shared by Coinbase director...Read More
Digital assets investments said the first inflow in five weeks with $130 million of net gains over the past week. Interestingly, the lack of action from US regulators regarding spot Ethereum ETF applications has sparked speculation that approval won’t happen soon, and this has resulted in significant outflows for Ethereum in the same timeframe. Investors...Read More
