Ethereum News

The Ethereum network has suffered what looks like a hard fork on Wednesday as reports emerged of outages and irregularities on infrastructure providers Infura and Blockchair. While initially it was believed to be an internal issue in Infura, a hosting service used by some exchanges and service providers to interact with the Ethereum network, independent

All eyes have been on Bitcoin price in recent weeks as the world’s biggest cryptocurrency rallied by more than 60% in a matter of weeks. However, the focus may soon shift to Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) as it approaches the final resistance zone before a big potential breakout. This is not only the case with the

This week definitely feels calmer, more positive than the last. And there’s good reason to be optimistic for DeFi bulls too, as the market posted a decent recovery since my last newsletter. People are calling it a “blue chip” rally, which means that it’s household names that are leading the charts (at least that’s the

As the launch date of Ethereum 2.0 approaches, an important issue in the staking mechanism is starting to be discussed in the community — the one-way nature of stake deposits. Prospective stakers in Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 will not be able to withdraw or transfer their stake until after the rollout of Phase 1, which

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller became the latest famous name to disclose a Bitcoin position. Although Druckenmiller did not specify the quantity he had purchased, he did say that Bitcoin will outperform gold a lot more “because it’s thinner, more illiquid, and has a lot more beta to it.” Paul Tudor Jones, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Bill

The MoonBeam project is planning on setting up a custom parachain that would emulate the Ethereum Virtual Machine environment, effectively recreating Ethereum (ETH) on Polkadot (DOT). Developers on Polkadot and some other interoperability projects usually need to set up an entire blockchain to host their DApps. While Polkadot’s Substrate framework is intended to make this

FTX exchange co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried believes Ethereum (ETH) is incapable of handling decentralized finance’s (DeFi) growth. Talking to Camila Russo from the Defiant Podcast, Bankman-Fried says that the Ethereum blockchain is limiting DeFi’s development and the only way around it is to build on other networks. “At some point, it’s just clear that

The deposit contract for Ethereum 2.0 now holds 50,849 Ether (ETH), worth approximately $22 million as of press time. This is slightly less than 10% of the minimum required stake of 524,288 ETH, or $230 million. Ethereum 2.0 is set to launch on Dec. 1 — but only if the minimum stake threshold is reached

Decentralized finance is a fairly new, nuanced concept for mainstream audiences. At its core, DeFi promises a revamped global financial system equipped with savings, loans and inventive yield-earning opportunities that enable innovative financial products without centralized gatekeepers. Since Jan. 1, this promise has been met with a demand that has exceeded $11 billion in total

Bitcoin’s long-waited bull run and the recent wave of corporate and institutional investors allocating significant portions of their reserves to Bitcoin (BTC) are all signs that the pace of crypto’s mainstreaming is rapidly accelerating: But has the path to mass adoption come at the cost of privacy and decentralization?  Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering

Professional traders are often perceived to be the smartest as they weigh the risks before investing in an asset class. Opposite to that, most retail traders only keep an eye on the possible profits and disregard the risk before investing. Therefore, the increase in the number of Bitcoin (BTC) addresses holding more than 100 Bitcoin

One of the most discussed topics within the crypto community recently has been PayPal’s announcement that its customers will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The service is expected to be fully rolled out early next year. The company’s goal “to increase consumer understanding and adoption of cryptocurrency,” as stated in its press release,

This week Bitcoin (BTC) price nearly hit a new multi-year high at $16,000 and legendary investor Bill Miller told CNBC that the law of supply and demand favors BTC. While the supply is increasing by about 2.5% a year, “the demand is growing faster than that.” Miller expects every major bank, high net worth firms,

In a panel last week for the London Bullion Market Association, Paxos founder and CEO Charles Cascarilla discussed the growth of Paxos’ gold-backed ERC-20 token, PAXG, and the future of asset tokenization more generally — a future that could well involve his company’s recently-announced integration with financial giant PayPal.  Speaking alongside Fidelity Labs director of

While a rally in the latter half of the week saw major names across the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem climb upwards of 100%, Axie Infinity — the Pokemon-inspired NFT game — carried the banner for the NFT space, capping off a wild week of progress with a record-breaking 300 ether (roughly $130,000) sale.  The eye-poppingly

The DeFi bubble seems to be slowing down in the last months of 202, with fees and confirmation times retreating back to less formidable levels. “ETH fees are way down suggesting the DeFi madness has abated for now,” Josh Olszewicz, also known as CarpeNoctom on Twitter, told Cointelegraph.  “DeFi cooling off, BTC HR [hash rate] way