Circle, a peer-to-peer technology that enables payments in cryptocurrency and San Fransisco based exchange Coinbase announced that they have upgraded the USDC stablecoin protocol and its smart contract. Both Circle and Coinbase are members of the Centre Consortium that manages USDC. Together, the firms aimed to make the payment process easy for people who use...Read More
Polkadot is growing in popularity, and this has been thoroughly reflected in its price. In a matter of days, the project managed to occupy the 6th spot of the top 10 largest cryptocurrencies, boasting a total market cap upwards of $1.05 billion. Now, a team of developers has announced that it’s building a trustless general-purpose...Read More
Synthetix is the only bullish crypto among the likes of Ethereum and Maker, with the latter two pointing to a bearish retracement on the charts soon. Ethereum’s development has been slow. However, altcoins like Synthetix and Maker are playing a crucial role in DeFi – a budding ecosystem. Ethereum [ETH] Source: ETHUSD on TradingView Stuck...Read More
Police in Seoul has forayed the offices of one of the biggest crypto exchanges in South Korea, Coinbit. Allegedly the firm has faked more than 99% of its trading volume. Coinbit Banks Over $85M According to a recent news report, authorities stormed the offices of the company early today. The suspicion is that Coinbit has...Read More
Altcoin prices were making a comeback this week, while Bitcoin and Ethereum price trends were mixed. Among the top 25 altcoins by market capitalization, only 7 showed positive 24h change in their price. Altcoins with large market capitalization may slow down the ongoing rally. On Deribit (an exchange that commands over 70% of open interest),...Read More
DeFi tokens continue to flood the markets as developers are minting new coins and listing them on Uniswap every day. While this might present an earning opportunity for some, the number of the so-called ‘rug pulls’ is also on the rise. Investors need to be extremely careful and selective when it comes to the tokens...Read More
Disclaimer: The following price prediction should materialize in the next couple of weeks. Ethereum recently broke back above $400 but doubts continued to surface as the price fell below the resistance again. The bearish pressure has been prevalent but over the long-term, once the pressure subsides, ETH is still at the right place in terms...Read More
The American multinational giant bank JPMorgan Chase & Co has entered into a strategic partnership with the blockchain-based company ConsenSys. As part of the deal, ConsenSys will acquire the bank’s enterprise blockchain platform – Quorum. ConsenSys Acquires JPM’s Quorum As reported earlier by Reuters, the New York-based blockchain startup has acquired Quorum and plans to...Read More
After peaking at $447 on 17 August, the price of Ethereum has been moving lower. As ETH was currently being traded for $396, its miners were witnessing a sharp decline in their revenue as the Ethereum fees dropped by almost 80% from its all-time high on 22 August. The DeFi hype had maintained higher gas...Read More
Ethereum’s recent decline seems to be in recovery considering the coin’s 5.3% surge in the last 24 hours. This surge comes as the price breaks out of a bullish pattern. This has larger implications of a potential surge ranging between 9% and 11%. Ethereum four-hour chart ETHUSD TradingView The chart showed ethereum’s descending parallel channel...Read More
Consider this – Exactly three months ago, the TVL locked in DeFi was well under $1 billion. At the time of writing, the same figure was closing in on $7 billion, with DeFi’s market cap north of $14.5 billion. The differential over the three months is just one of the metrics that tell us how...Read More
Ethereum was sorting some issues with network congestion, while DeFi boom was seen driving demand for Ether. Ethereum might begin another rally as on-chain metrics become more sustainable. An Ethereum bullrun heralds good fortune for the altcoin market as well. At press time, Zcash struggled against selling pressure while Steem appeared to be on the...Read More
Times have been very confusing for Ethereum and its community members. As the second-largest cryptocurrency was recognized for its persistent growth despite a brief crypto winter. The growth was majorly contributed by DeFi tokens and stablecoins. Gas fees has been a major cause of concern for people transacting on the blockchain. Even though there have...Read More
Ethereum has not only been the market’s second-largest cryptocurrency, but it has also been the torchbearer for many of its fellow altcoins. Even as Bitcoin succumbed to a month-long consolidation phase, ETH was until recently noting new highs, with its growth contributed to by sectors such as decentralized finance [DeFi] and stablecoins. However, this growth...Read More
Synthetix started as a stablecoin but soon pivoted to satisfy the needs of DeFi users. Nowadays, it serves as one of the leading DeFi projects offering the trading of currencies, commodities, stocks, and other assets. Trading stocks is still dominated by traditional financial centers, being heavily regulated, and hard to automate. The same applies to...Read More
The Ethereum community rejoiced after the first block of the Medalla test net was finalized. But the transition to ETH 2.0 isn’t turning out to be all that smooth. Despite the important updates, network participation on the test net remains wobbly. This is happening amid Medalla’s gnawing debacle last week. Medalla Testnet’s First Block As...Read More
At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s dominance stood at 59.5%, with the same having fallen significantly over the past few months despite the fact that the world’s largest cryptocurrency climbed to new heights in 2020. This has been the case because many of the market’s altcoins have surged on the charts too. However, when Bitcoin...Read More
DeFi has been a widely talked-about sector over the past few months. This is not at all surprising in light of the fact that DeFi’s market cap has risen exponentially over the summer. A look at DeFi Pulse’s charts clearly underlined the rate of growth since the TVL in DeFi had risen to $6.69 billion,...Read More
By Don Yu Coinbase was not targeted by any of the attack transactions and lost no funds At 10:57 PM PST 7/31/2020, Ethereum Classic (ETC) was 51% attacked resulting in ~800,000 ETC (~$5.8 million) of double spend transactions. At 8:15PM PST 8/5/2020, Ethereum Classic was 51% attacked again resulting in ~460,000 ETC (~$3.2 million) of...Read More
Digital assets are not taken lightly any longer. Many businesses are forming around it and the use of blockchain and crypto is developing every year. Now Bitcoin and Ethereum are the flag bearers but a majority of the public still fails to distinguish between Ethereum and Ether with clarity. Yes, the general crypto public is...Read More
Disclaimer: The following article attempts to analyze the emerging patterns in the Ethereum short-term market and its impact on the price. After a great boost in price, major cryptos have been observing a slow movement in the market this week. Bitcoin and Ethereum were trending lower on the price scale. Ethereum’s value despite the minimal...Read More
Ethereum‘s price fell below $415 recently, and in doing so, it took the crypto-asset lesser time than it took when it was looking to climb that elusive range. While the crypto-asset was back above $400 at the time of writing, the latest price collapse in ETH’s value was far from surprising. Only a week ago,...Read More
Ethereum’s network is on the brink of its highest congestion rate, while the transaction fees are still particularly high. Amid all of this, Tether has moved over 1 billion USDT from Tron’s network to Ethereum. Tether Moving 1 Billion USDT to Ethereum Earlier today, Tether, the company issuing the most popular stablecoin, USDT, announced that...Read More
Paris Hilton, a businesswoman, model, singer, and heiress to the Hilton Hotel chain has successfully sold in an auction a picture of her cat as a non-fungible token on an Ethereum-based platform for 40 ETH. While employing the same platform to auction off a picture of his own, Ashton Kutcher burned the paper copy to...Read More
The past few days have seen the price of Bitcoin undergo yet another correction on the charts, one resulting in the world’s largest cryptocurrency’s value dropping by over 7 percent. While Bitcoin continues to stay afloat over its $11k resistance, the altcoin market has not been immune to the former’s price movement. During the past...Read More
Ethereum has been on a wild ride over the past couple of weeks and has been outperforming the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. After an extended period of consolidation, ETH has witnessed a stellar rally of around 88% rising from $236.97 to $445.4 within a month. These gains have been often linked with its correlation with Bitcoin,...Read More
There was a time when a pump in the Bitcoin market would translate into growth for other cryptocurrencies. However, recently, there have been signs of an inverse correlation between Bitcoin and many other altcoins, especially small-cap assets. The previous week’s market movement put major crypto-asset, Ethereum [ETH] in a top spot for incurred gains as...Read More
Market Volatility is at a new high for all digital assets. For the altcoins, the market has been rather turbulent as a correlation with Bitcoin maintains minimal levels. Over the past 24-hours, while assets such as Algorand suffered significantly, Ethereum maintained its consolidation above the price of $425 while Dash indicated a minor rise. Ethereum...Read More
How to pass the most trusted cryptocurrency platform’s security guidelines for ERC-20 tokens By Nadir Akhtar TL;DR: The ERC-20 standard has become a popular way to create digital assets and assign protocol voting rights on the Ethereum blockchain. When evaluating an ERC-20 token for listing, Coinbase performs a security assessment looking primarily for these four...Read More
Every time Bitcoin moves up or notes a consolidation, there’s the question of a sell-off. Since the cryptocurrency markets are so volatile, you can’t blame traders or even investors for cashing in their investments at a significant profit. The current market is no different. According to data from Chainalysis Markets, inklings of a sell-off are...Read More
