Category: Ethereum

A formal Ethereum Improvement Proposal has been created for the network’s forthcoming chain merge, bringing Ethereum one step closer to realizing its highly anticipated Proof-of-Stake (PoS) transition. On July 22, ConsenSys researcher Mikhail Kalinin created a pull-request for EIP-3675 on Github, formalizing the chain merge as an improvement proposal for the first time. The EIP

This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.   Olympic battle After months of writing about the relentless actions of the Chinese government, this week we lead with a story from the

The South Korean government announced today that crypto exchanges will face punishment if they have not voluntarily registered with the country’s authorities by September 24. This new set of regulations will reportedly affect both exchanges based in South Korea and foreign exchanges that operate in Korean markets. According to the release, that includes any exchange

Ethereum’s native crypto Ether (ETH) rebounded sharply on Thursday after Elon Musk disclosed for the first time that his private rocket firm SpaceX holds Bitcoin (BTC), and Tesla would probably resuming the bitcoin payment option for its electric cars. The BTC/USD exchange rate was below $30,000 but bounced by more than 5% after the big

Macro analyst and Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal says the clearest bet in the crypto space right now is on Ethereum (ETH). The former Goldman Sachs fund manager tells Camila Russo in a new interview on The Defiant that ETH currently offers the best risk-to-reward ratio.   “If you can only own one asset over

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pulling back the curtain on his crypto portfolio. In a new discussion at the virtual B Word Conference, Musk says that he personally owns Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum and Dogecoin (DOGE).   The CEO also confirms that Tesla and his other tech company SpaceX both hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets.

Actor and venture capitalist, Ashton Kutcher, has published a video to Twitter featuring himself, his wife Mila Kunis, and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, to explain the project to newcomers For the first minute, the video shows Kutcher quizzing Kunis on basic terms relating to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in a living area of their home.

During his keynote at the EthCC conference in Paris, Ethereum co-founder and lead developer Vitalik Buterin implored the Ethereum community to innovate beyond the confines of decentralized finance. Describing non-financial utilities as “the most interesting part of the vision of general-purpose blockchains,” Buterin lamented that financial applications currently “dominate the Ethereum space.” “Being defined by

The strong recovery in Bitcoin and altcoins shows there is aggressive buying at lower levels but bears are unlikely to give up without a fight.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, may soon issue new rules for the regulation and registration of security-based swaps, including cryptocurrency. In a speech to the American Bar Association Derivative and Futures Law Committee SEC Chairman Gary Gensler laid out the changes coming to security-based swaps over the next year. The changes are designed