As expected, this week, the stock market opened in a bear market, with the Dow losing 876 points, S&P falling into bear territory, and the Nasdaq selloff continuing. Bitcoin and Ethereum saw significant bearish momentum on Monday, which continued through Tuesday, with the Bitcoin price losing nearly 25% this week and the Ethereum price down...Read More
The company behind the Cardano ecosystem – Input Output – announced the launch of its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain alpha on the testnet. However, the layer-one blockchain did not specify if such EVM compatibility would be directly deployed to its mainnet one day. Interoperability Is The Future IOHK tweeted that the initiative will enable...Read More
Banking giant Goldman Sachs began trading a derivative asset tied to Ether on Monday. The asset is intended to provide investors with indirect exposure to Ether – the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. As reported by Bloomberg, the counterparty of the trade was Marex Financial – a London-based financial services firm. The move comes on...Read More
Bitcoin and Ethereum prices show significant losses this Monday, with BTC trading at $23.7k and ETH dropping nearly 16% to $1.2k. Current cryptocurrency prices are bringing the market back to January 2021, with the global market cap finally dropping below the $1 trillion level, currently at $965 billion. Panic at the Market There’s evident panic...Read More
Crypto firm Blockchain.com will let its users claim free “.blockchain” domain names supported by Unstoppable Domains, the company announced on Friday. The new option came as a potential challenge to Ethereum Name Service. Readable Crypto Addresses According to the crypto exchange’s official blog post, the newly unveiled feature will allow 82 million registered users to...Read More
The overall market structure has shifted to the downside, with no clear signs of a likely trend reversal. In the early hours of today’s trading, Ethereum fell to $1,462, its lowest level since January 2021, indicating yet another evidence of a bear market. Amid the bearish market sentiments, hundreds of thousands of crypto traders are...Read More
Lido Staked Ethereum (stETH), a DeFi Ethereum derivative, has significantly diverged in the last 48 hours. The coin, which is intended to be pegged to ETH 1:1, is currently trading at $1,473 and has dropped by 7% in the last 24 hours. ETH, on the other hand, is currently trading at $1,536. Since late Thursday,...Read More
This weekend is rough for the global crypto market as it’s nearing a year low. Bitcoin struggles to hold support, dipping below $19k, and Ethereum is facing significant bearish pressure as the ETH price is down 10%, currently trading at $1,500. As Terra 2.0 (LUNA) is considered an altcoin, it’s no surprise that LUNA is...Read More
The world’s leading provider of news, broadcasts, and videos – Bloomberg Media Distribution – expanded its coverage of cryptocurrency data on the Bloomberg Terminal. The company will track the performance and latest updates of the top 50 digital assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB), Solana (SOL), and more. From 10 to 50...Read More
Buterin has received another batch of one million OP tokens, including a message that the attacker believes in Ethereum’s co-founder. Moreover, the person who swiped the 20 million coins promised to return the remaining to Wintermute and Optimism. CryptoPotato reported yesterday the drama that unfolded recently between Optimism and Wintermute – a liquidity provider partner....Read More
Ethereum (ETH) has dropped mercilessly in the last two weeks, trading below the $1800 mark. However, due to a successful Merge on the Ropsten testnet, favourable on-chain statistics, increased whale holdings, and other positive variables, prices may be able to stabilize at current levels. On June 8, the Ethereum team successfully completed the Merge on...Read More
One of the greatest actors of all time – Sir Anthony Hopkins – said he wants to jump on the non-fungible token bandwagon. As such, he asked for the help of Snoop Dogg, Jimmy Fallon, and Reese Witherspoon, who have some experience in the field. The Latest Celebrity to Join the NFT Craze It seems...Read More
Blockchain data shows that the recent, unintended recipient of 20 million OP tokens from Optimism has sent 1 million of those tokens to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. According to Blockchain security firm PeckShield, the exploiter’s network address sent 1,000,000 OP to an address previously established as belonging to Vitalik. The funds are worth about $874,000...Read More
Around the Block from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey. Data by Mike Cohen. TLDR: Central Banks and governments responded to the March 2020 COVID market shock with unprecedented interest rate cuts, money printing, and stimulus These easy money policies kicked off a multi-year bull run for equities...Read More
The conflict of interest surrounding which blockchain will host the Apes have imploded after a tumultuous token launch back in March. As many buyers expressed dismay over the much-anticipated virtual land sale by Yuga Labs, a solution of a potential departure from Ethereum was suggested. But more than half of the ApeCoin participants have chosen...Read More
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – co-author of the landmark crypto regulation bill revealed yesterday – claims that both the SEC and CFTC chairmen agree on Bitcoin and Ether’s status as commodities. However, both she and Senator Cynthia Lummis also agree that most other cryptocurrencies are securities. Ethereum in the Clear Senators Gillibrand and Lummis discussed their...Read More
The Ropsten testnet – Ethereum’s longest-running testnet – implemented the long-awaited “Merge” with the Beacon chain on Wednesday. The upgrade brings Ethereum one step closer to its long-awaited change to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. Ropsten allows for development and testing before changes are implemented on the Ethereum mainnet. “The Merge” will be the...Read More
ADDX, a private market trading platform backed by Singaporean exchanges, will recognize bitcoin, ether, and USDC holdings of investors for granting “accredited investor” status to them. Onboarding of BTC, ETH, USDC However, it will apply a hefty 50% discount on bitcoin and ether and 10% on USDC to calculate their values for the net personal...Read More
PayPal users with Bitcoin and Ethereum held on the platform can now withdraw their holdings to external wallets. This means that PayPal buyers can finally self-custody their coins – a paramount feature for cryptocurrencies. “Starting today, PayPal supports the native transfer of cryptocurrencies between PayPal and other wallets and exchanges,” said the online payment provider...Read More
Crypto network fees and revenue are good indicators of the state of markets. In bull markets, demand is high, and fees and revenue increase, however, the opposite occurs when the bears have control of things. Around half a year into the current bear market cycle, many crypto network revenues have fallen lower than the asset...Read More
Ethereum, the second largest Altcoin is stuck in Rut for a long time. ETH price has crashed more than 60% from its ATH at $4864 dropping to $1703. All though the altcoin surged near $2K multiple times, ETH Price failed to rise above. The second largest Crypto hit $1,724, the lowest level in this cycle....Read More
In the midst of this week’s market turbulence, a crypto trader who is pseudonymously known as Altcoin Sherpa is expressing his view on Ethereum price and other altcoins. Avalanche (AVAX) The analyst informs his 176,300 Followers on twitter that the native currency for smart contract platform Avalanche (AXAX) may see a nice short-term trading option...Read More
Dawn Fitzpatrick – CEO and CIO at Soros Fund Management – doubled down on her pro-crypto stance, predicting the asset class is “here to stay.” She believes that climate impact will play a vital role in the industry, and as such, Ethereum “is likely to gain some more traction than Bitcoin.” Ethereum to Outperform Bitcoin?...Read More
As The Merge is set to occur in August, leading Ethereum developer, Tim Beiko announced on Tuesday that the Ropsten Beacon Chain had been launched as a testnet for Ethereum users. Ropsten will be the first longstanding testnet to run through The Merge, which marks the end of the PoW architecture of Ethereum. A Step...Read More
Ethereum’s failed transaction count soared by another 1.2 million in May alone. That’s up 200,000 from last month’s figure and over 2% of all failed transactions in its history. According to the blockchain data explorer Blockchair, exactly 1,228,131 Ethereum transactions failed between May 1st and May 31st, at the time of writing. Transaction failures may...Read More
The native token for Optimism (OP) – an Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution – is prepared for its airdrop scheduled for today. Multiple exchanges including KuCoin, OKX, MEXC, AAX, and LBank have already announced plans to list the token. Earlier today, OKX announced that OP deposits would start being accepted at 16:30 UST on Tuesday....Read More
The broader crypto market has rebounded, with Bitcoin climbing back to $31,000 and beyond. Ethereum is attempting to break through the $2k barrier. After nine consecutive weeks of losses for Bitcoin, the crypto market recovered remarkably. Due to Sentiments, the Market Is Dull Cryptocurrencies have traded like tech stocks rather than as a separate asset...Read More
The IntoTheBlock’s head of research, Lucas Outumuro says that more than 50% of all the Ethereum in circulation now belongs to address the ETH holdings for more than a year. A leading crypto analytics firm says that long-term holders are buying Ethereum (ETH) despite the second-ranked crypto asset’s price struggles. Quoting that: “Addresses that have...Read More
Bitcoin’s price fell far below $30,000 on Friday, and other cryptocurrencies were also trading in the red. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has dropped more than 5%. The worldwide cryptocurrency market was down 4.46 percent over the previous day on Friday, May 27, and was at $1.19 trillion at the time of...Read More
Crypto exchange Bybit collaborated with blockchain analytics platform Nansen to publish another monthly report on the state of the crypto industry. It focused on the broader market condition, DeFi activities, and NFT markets. The paper regarded Terra’s notorious collapse as fundamentally destructive to the nascent crypto community but beneficial to other Layer-one competitors since they...Read More
