The biggest crypto market after that of Bitcoin’s has to be Ethereum. It has been the second-largest altcoin in the market noting an 85% surge since the beginning of the year. With its price surpassing $1k earlier in January, ETH’s value remained at $1,350 at the time of writing and registered a 24-hour trading volume...Read More
Ethereum’s price, at press time, was hovering around the $1,300-level, with the altcoin under a lot of selling pressure since hitting the $1,472-level. At the time, the altcoin was 11.6% below its ATH, with the market capitalization dropping to under $150 billion. Curiously, according to some, the drop in Ethereum’s price might be blamed on...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
Ethereum, the market’s second-largest cryptocurrency and the king of the altcoins, exhibited bullish bias at the time of writing. For the same, there seemed to be more than two reasons behind it. With the cryptocurrency’s price trading at $600 per coin, more price appreciation may be incoming and here’s why, On-chain metrics Ethereum investors Source:...Read More
Ethereum continues to dominate the altcoin market, after having cemented its position as Bitcoin’s most notable rival. The last few weeks have been particularly exciting for the community since it saw the much-awaited launch of ETH 2.0, with the beacon chain going live on 01 December. However, on the question of Ethereum’s scalability, how many...Read More
Ethereum, unlike Bitcoin, had a relatively active weekend in terms of price action, with ETH hovering around the $550-mark, at press time. In fact, Ethereum shorts equivalent to over 2500 ETH were liquidated across derivatives exchanges like OKEx and Binance. While more and more retail traders expected ETH’s price to slow down over the weekend,...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
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
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
ETH Futures trade volume was up by 38% in 2 days, at the time of writing, according to Skew’s charts. Not just the trade volume, but even the Open Interest was up by 8% based on Skew’s charts. On spot exchanges, the trade volume dropped by nearly 25%, but on derivatives exchanges, it climbed up....Read More
Acknowledging that he called the launch of the ETH 2.0 deposit contract ‘a touch early,’ ConsenSys’s Ben Edgington has now shared the latest developments regarding Phase 0, the Medalla testnet, and other important client updates. As Danny Ryan recently explained, deployment of the deposit contract had been pushed back slightly to allow the audit of...Read More
Ben Edington, a developer associated with ETH 2.0 at Consensys, recently updated the community about a few “breaking changes,” with respect to the series running on the Medalla testnet. Reportedly, a few configuration parameters have been changed. A previously noted pain point was the genesis delay. This has now been changed to one week, meaning...Read More
With all eyes on the phased upgrade of Ethereum, the network has further decided to perfect its upcoming Eth 2.0 network. In that regard, Project lead of Ethereum 2.0, Danny Ryan announced a bug bounty program to incentivize Eth community and other bug hunters to find and report vulnerabilities. p.s. there are a few bounties...Read More
In a surprise AMA, Charles Hoskinson answered viewers’ questions on a Livestream, talking mostly about the developments of Cardano and its progress over the past few months. One answer in particular, however, generated a lot of excitement from viewers. In a response to a question about how easy it is to convince projects to move...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
DeFi’s explosion has fueled Ethereum’s transaction fee hike and the subsequent price rally. When DeFi exploded on 2 September 2020 and later, on 5 September 2020, the figures for Total Value Locked hit $9.6 B on the charts. In fact, Ethereum’s price hit a new high of $484.15, corresponding to DeFi’s rally. Source: Coinmarketcap Not...Read More
Over the past decade, the crypto-market has diversified significantly and today, the average crypto-user has a wide variety of options in terms of coins and derivatives products to choose from. However, this growth hasn’t translated well when it comes to addressing issues pertaining to regulatory and tax compliance. Tax laws and the IRS’s guidelines for...Read More
Medalla, Ethereum 2.0’s final public testnet, went live on 4 August with over 20,000 validators. This testnet was the final leg before ETH 2.0 goes live tentatively by the end of 2020. According to Beaconchain block explorer, with 21,605 current active validators, approximately 691,360 ETH have been staked. Medalla’s launch may have also contributed to...Read More
In brief: Bitcoin has led a resurgence in the crypto market and looks set to erase all losses experienced in mid-March. With BTC currently experiencing sideways movement, Ethereum could experience a second wave up. The Eth 2.0 upgrade of Serenity, is scheduled for July 2020. There is a general sense of optimism in the cryptocurrency...Read More
Another Ethereum hard fork is imminent but not all clients are ready for it. New Year lethargy has left many still unprepared for Muir Glacier which may affect Ethereum’s performance. Ethereum Forks Again At the time of writing the Muir Glacier upgrade is less than two hours away according to the countdown to block 9200000....Read More
Ethereum (ETH) has chosen the year’s most inactive day to perform a hard fork. On January 1, the Muir Glacier hard fork, as it is known, is supposed to once again delay the difficulty time bomb. Difficulty Diffusion Simply Forgotten During Istanbul Hard Fork The reason for choosing that date is ignominious, as the developer...Read More
It is no secret that early Ethereum (ETH) ICO buyers later became whales and potential multi-millionaires. But the project also seemed extremely generous to its developers. Ethereum Devs Got Paid for Short-Term Involvement Ethereum, which went through multiple phases of pre-mining, actual mining, and as much as eight hard forks, has always been accompanied by...Read More
Ethereum has had a pretty miserable 2019. Things could get worse before the year is out though as the asset gets dumped on exchanges and community angst grows. Ethereum Has Had a Rough Year The world’s second largest crypto asset by market cap is currently trading lower than it was this time last year. According...Read More
The world’s second largest crypto asset is about to have a miserable end to 2019. Ethereum prices keep collapsing and now the community is growing increasingly riled over the timing of the next network upgrade.Ethereum FUD EscalatingHolders of ETH will be doing anything but celebrating this festive season as prices continue to crumble. For another...Read More
Many have speculated that Ethereum prices are on the floor because of the threat of major delays to ETH 2.0. In reality all altcoins have suffered this year, but ETH losses are constantly getting battered. Can a fast track to Serenity save them?Ethereum Prices Back DownAs Bitcoin continues to consolidate, Ethereum continues to fall. ETH...Read More
Fundamentally Ethereum has had a solid year. Granted, development has been a little delayed with certain aspects but it is the largest dApp and smart contract platform in the world so this is to be expected. Another hard fork is due in less than two weeks, but will ETH prices finally react?Ethereum Dumps AgainCrypto markets...Read More
Ethereum has just slumped to a nine month low, wiping out virtually all gains it has made this year. The move has been part of a market wide decline catalyzed by Bitcoin’s drop below $7k. Many are not convinced that ETH prices will recover at any time soon, and here is why.Ethereum Bears Gaining StrengthThere...Read More
The future of finance is evolving and Ethereum based DeFi is at the forefront of it. This year has seen explosive growth in decentralized finance despite bearish crypto asset performance. 2020 is set to be even bigger with bold predictions of where DeFi will go next.2020 Could Be Huge for DeFiDecentralized finance has literally exploded...Read More
The long-awaited Ethereum Istanbul hard fork will take place at 12 AM GMT on December 8. Once again, most ETH nodes are waiting until the last moment to upgrade. Ethereum Nodes Wait to Upgrade Until Last Moment Based on Ethernodes, the percentage of nodes that had not upgraded with the Istanbul version was pegged at...Read More
