Category: Ethereum

As cripplingly high gas fees put scalability in the spotlight and multiple platforms rush to become the preferred home of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, layer-two sidechain Polygon may be emerging as a frontrunner after scoring two big wins today.  Both lending protocol Aave and portfolio management and batched transaction platform Zapper have announced that

What the planned EIP-1559 could mean for Ethereum, DeFi and miners.

News that payments giant PayPal is now granting all US users access to its highly anticipated cryptocurrency service has triggered bullish rallies in all four large-cap digital assets it supports. In a new tweet, PayPal says it is rolling out the service dubbed “Checkout with Crypto,” which enables US-based customers to pay for select online

Ether (ETH) has been making higher lows throughout 2021, and the current trend indicates that $1,800 might be the bottom for April. Even traders and investors who do not rely on technicals have become optimists after Visa initiated a pilot to settle transactions in USD Coin (USDC) through the Ethereum network. Ether price in USD

With a possible billion-dollar NFT drop and a high-powered, multi-project collaboration in the works, the Ethereum ecosystem may finally be ready to compete with nonfungible token (NFT)-centric blockchain Flow.  Ethereum software developers Consensys announced in a press release today Palm, an environmentally-friendly NFT scaling solution. Palm will be a sidechain designed to be “fully connected”

Online payments giant PayPal will start to accept cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange at its millions of global merchants, the firm’s president and CEO revealed on Tuesday ahead of a formal announcement. News broke regarding PayPal’s rumored decision to accept cryptocurrencies early on March 30. Later in the day, the firm’s CEO, Dan Schulman,

Prominent crypto trader and analyst Michaël Van de Poppe is looking at two large-cap altcoins that he believes have the potential to outperform Bitcoin in the next leg of the bull cycle. In a new video, the crypto strategist says he’s keeping a close watch on Ethereum against Bitcoin (ETH/BTC) as he thinks the pair

The world’s top decentralized exchange, Uniswap, is currently beating out Bitcoin’s daily fee generation by more than 50%. According to the data tracking website, CryptoFees, the leading Ethereum-powered decentralized exchange Uniswap has generated more than $4.8 million worth of fees over the past 24 hours. This has propelled the automated market maker into second place

Decentralized finance has taken a back seat to nonfungible tokens over the past month but this hasn’t stopped the top DeFi projects from developing and strategizing how to grow their ecosystems and market share.  One project that has outperformed the field as of late is PancakeSwap (CAKE), the Binance Smart Chain-based automated market maker (AMM)