Prominent derivatives marketplace Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group has announced adding daily expirations for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) futures options contracts. Pending regulatory review, the two new additions will have expirations Mondays through Fridays. Bitcoin and Ether Daily Expiries According to the official press release, CME Group will offer new expiries for options on...Read More
According to the Token Unlocks dashboard, just over a million ETH has been withdrawn from the Beacon Chain following the Shapella upgrade on April 12. However, the staking balance has not decreased by one million because 370,000 were deposited in the same period. Therefore, the current staking balance has declined by 640,000 ETH, according to...Read More
Arthur Hayes – co-founder of BitMEX – believes the altcoin season (a time frame during which the alternative coins outperform Bitcoin and reduce its dominance in the crypto market) is already here. Assets like Ether (ETH), Arbitrum (ARB), and Dogecoin (DOGE) have marked substantial gains in the past 24 hours, whereas BTC has been relatively...Read More
In the run-up to Ethereum’s highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap is struggling to maintain its momentum, hovering around the $1.9K mark. Investors and traders seem to demonstrate a classic “sell the news” behavior as the upgrade draws near, with traders taking profits before the event unfolds. Ethereum Shows Strong On-Chain...Read More
With Ethereum’s long-awaited Shapella upgrade just around the corner, it seems very few network users plan to put the protocol change to immediate use. Data from IntoTheBlock shows that just 0.6% of Ethereum validators are planning to withdraw their stake after the hard fork. As tweeted by the market intelligence provider on Tuesday, just 3,614...Read More
With the much-awaited Shapella (Shanghai) upgrade just hours away, the value of staked Ethereum with unrealized losses has decreased significantly. But it is the largest stakers who have suffered the greatest losses. Unrealized Losses on Ethereum Beacon Chain According to Glassnode, the net unrealized loss on the Ethereum Beacon Chain now stands at $4.7 billion,...Read More
Hackers drained almost $13 million worth of digital assets from the South Korean cryptocurrency platform GDAC. This is the latest in a string of setbacks the industry went through. The Latest Victim The exchange’s team notified its users on April 9 that hackers exploited the Gdac Hot Wallet and transferred a significant amount of cryptocurrencies...Read More
ETH continued to trade below the significant $2,000 despite a bullish week’s finale. Fed Fear and regulatory headwinds continue to be obstacles. On April 12, 2023, Ethereum will undergo a hard fork known as Shanghai, which would upgrade the protocol to Shapella. With this upgrade, the Ethereum network will see a number of enhancements, including...Read More
The crypto market is excited as Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, gears up for its highly anticipated Shanghai upgrade. However, as the date for the upgrade approaches, some investors are concerned that the Ethereum price may experience a “sell the news” event. As the hype around the upgrade builds, many investors are buying...Read More
The blockchain security company – PeckShield – outlined that wrongdoers siphoned $211.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies last month via 26 attacks. The Euler Finance exploit accounted for the bigger part of the amount after hackers stole $197 million in staked ETH, USDC, wrapped BTC, and DAI. March Was Not All Sunshine and Roses The revival...Read More
Vitalik Buterin encouraged the deployment of Zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zk-EVMs) on the Ethereum mainnet. In a blog post, Buterin stated that the zk-EVMs would speed up Ethereum’s verification process without affecting the network’s decentralization and security. zk-EVMs to Interact With Ethereum’s Multi-Client Philosophy According to the Russian-Canadian programmer, Ethereum maintains its security and decentralization...Read More
43% of the 1,500 Singaporean respondents in a recent Independent Reserve survey said they own some amount of cryptocurrencies. In comparison, last year’s research estimated the figure to be around 40%, while the adoption levels were 43% in 2021 (during the bull run). 77% of the HODLers said they have two or more digital assets,...Read More
Cryptocurrencies performed significantly better than other asset classes in the first quarter. As selling exhausted since the collapse of FTX, digital assets managed to rake in gains not seen in two years. According to IntotheBlock’s latest newsletter shared with CryptoPotato, Bitcoin and Ethereum – the two largest cryptocurrencies – have realized their largest quarterly price...Read More
On March 28th, the Ethereum protocol support team posted an update on the mainnet Shapella launch date. They confirmed that the hard fork will occur on April 12, two weeks from today. Shapella is the new name for the Shanghai upgrade as it combines changes to the execution layer (Shanghai), the consensus layer (Capella), and...Read More
The crypto analytics provider – Santiment – revealed that almost 90% of Ethereum’s supply is currently stored in self-custody addresses. The last time the figure was so high was in 2015, shortly after the protocol’s native token saw the light of day. The new data comes at a time when investors seem to have lost...Read More
After six consecutive weeks of outflows, digital asset investment products finally broke the bearish streak in a reversal that fetched inflows totaling $160 million, according to CoinShares. This is the largest inflow figure since July 2022. The latest edition of Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report revealed that these investment products have been recording outflows...Read More
The worst banking mess since the 2008 financial crisis has increased investors’ fear of a global recession. As a result, the investors’ perspective on Bitcoin and Ethereum, among other digital assets, has significantly shifted to less risky instruments. With the rising global inflation, holding on to fiat currencies continuously depreciates investors’ cash value. On the...Read More
The crypto market is buzzing with excitement as Bitcoin and Ethereum, two of the most popular cryptocurrencies, appear to be poised for significant price momentum in the coming week. As we approach the end of the month, traders are eagerly anticipating a continuation of the recent upward trend in the cryptocurrency market. Over the last...Read More
With the much-anticipated Shapella upgrade just around the corner, the Ethereum Foundation has increased the bug bounty. According to the latest developers’ call, the reward was updated as part of the last-minute testing efforts. Bug Bounty In the 105th All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call, Security Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation – Fredrik Svantes –...Read More
Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Arbitrum has initiated its long-awaited token airdrop, bringing protocol governance rights to the entire community. The governance token, ARB, trades for $1.38 at writing time – falling significantly from when the airdrop began. ARB spiked to $8.67 apiece following its airdrop at 9:05 am ET, before quickly plummeting to nearly...Read More
The cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX outlined some possible scenarios that could unfold in the coming months for the cryptocurrency industry. It believes the Federal Reserve will most probably cease its interest rate hikes by the end of the year, triggering a flow of funds into global capital markets and risk-off assets. Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and...Read More
The Switzerland-based crypto ETP issuer – 21Shares – will reportedly terminate five of its funds and delist another one due to low interest from investors. Arielle Pennington – Head of Global Communications – claimed the firm will keep offering its other products that enjoy a solid level of demand. Scraping Some ETPs As revealed by Bloomberg,...Read More
After a months-long wait since the Merge, Ethereum developers have set a target date for the network’s highly anticipated Shanghai hard fork. The upgrade will enable the network’s stakers to withdraw their locked Ether (ETH) for the first time since December 2020. Withdrawing Staked ETH During a recorded call among core developers on Thursday, devs...Read More
America’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is expecting a flood of staking withdrawal requests after Ethereum developers enable the functionality next month. While providing details about how the upgrade will impact the business on Wednesday, Coinbase said it could take “weeks to months” for unstaking requests to be fully processed. Shapella is Coming In a blog post...Read More
Ethereum’s Co-Founder – Vitalik Buterin – recently sent 200 ETH (approximately $350,000 at current valuations) to an address belonging to the crypto exchange Kraken and 500 ETH (over $875,000) to the DeFi protocol Reflexer. He deposited the 500 ETH to mint 150,000 RAI tokens, exchanging most for USDC. The stablecoin passed through some turbulence lately,...Read More
According to Dua Crypto’s research, The Netherlands rank as the most interested European nation in cryptocurrencies. Russia (where the local central bank is predominantly negative on the asset class) is at the bottom of the list. Bitcoin (BTC) is the most popular digital currency in most countries, while Dogecoin (DOGE) is second. The Dutch Reached...Read More
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin for selling both commodities and securities on its platform without necessary registration. One of the “securities” it alleges KuCoin to have illegally sold is Ether – the second largest cryptocurrency next to Bitcoin. Ethereum is a Security, Says NYAG Per the lawsuit filed with...Read More
A scalability solution unique to Ethereum is now compatible with Bitcoin. Rollkit allows for the storage of rollup information developed for Ethereum but on the Bitcoin network. According to an official statement, Rollkit — a modular framework for rollups — was successfully launched on march 5, 2023. The solution could, at least in theory, help...Read More
Alameda Research – sister trading firm to the now bankrupt FTX exchange – is suing the world’s largest Bitcoin fund on behalf of FTX’s debtors and affiliates. The company demands that Grayscale permit redemptions on its Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts, which could cumulatively unlock over $9 billion for the trust’s shareholders. Grayscale’s Bitcoin Stash Per...Read More
What does Ethereum need to be better? According to its founder, it’s all about the user experience. And on February 28th, Vitalik Buterin talked about the many issues in the Ethereum network that need to be fixed before truly solving that particular one. Vitalik explained in his blog that he faced many inconveniences while using...Read More
