Category: Ethereum

The Dai stablecoin produced by decentralized lending protocol MakerDAO is getting some speed and fee enhancements with its forthcoming upgrade on layer-two. Ethereum scaling solutions provider Optimism will provide the technology as announced on the MakerDAO forum on March 9. Co-founder and CTO of gaming firm Bellwood Studios Sam MacPherson explained the “MakerDAO community will

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, believes the network is on the verge of scaling by a factor of 100, predicting the Optimism will release its layer-two solution in the coming weeks. Speaking on the Tim Ferriss podcast, Buterin noted Eth2’s developer are focused on working toward the chain merge with Ethereum, and are confident that layer-two

Prominent online art portfolio platform ArtStation has caved in to pressure from artists and environmentally-conscious users hours after announcing a series of non-fungible token, or NFT, drops from several notable artists. On Mar. 9, the platform announced the program was scheduled to begin today and featured works from artists including Halo Infinite art director Nicolas

The value of the Decentraland (MANA) token climbed 31% leading into March 9, following news that classic game manufacturer Atari would set up a gaming casino inside Decentraland’s virtual realm. Announced on March 8, a partnership between Atari and Decentral Games will see the launch of Atari Casino within Decentraland this coming May. The casino

Data from crypto intelligence platform Santiment reveals that big-money players are quietly accumulating Ethereum (ETH) as the second-largest cryptocurrency bounces from its 30-day low of $1,300. In a new tweet, Santiment tells its 50,500 followers that the percentage of Ethereum’s supply owned by whales that hold over 10,000 ETH has reached a level not seen

After months of planning, the Ethereum community has laid out a timeline for its upcoming Berlin upgrade, marking an important milestone in its development roadmap.  Berlin is scheduled to go live on the Ethereum mainnet at block 12,244,000, or Apr. 14, Tim Beiko wrote on Monday. Ropsten, the first testnet to upgrade, is scheduled for

Deutsche Borse’s electronic trading platform, Xetra, is preparing to launch its first Ether (ETH)-based exchange-traded products, or ETPs. According to data from Xetra, the platform is set to debut trading of two Ether ETPs — ETC Group’s Ether exchange-traded commodity, or ETC, product (ZETH) and 21Shares’ Ethereum ETP (AETH) — on Tuesday. A spokesperson for

According to DappRadar, the unique active wallet count on the Ethereum DeFi market has seen a significant drop. Between mid-February and the time of writing, unique active wallets on Ethereum DeFi have dipped almost 40%. While Ethereum (ETH) gas fees seem to have bottomed out, the high transaction costs that have characterized the network over

A 44-page report commissioned by CPA Australia delves into the status of Central Bank Digital Currency development worldwide, while exploring viable blockchain candidates for hosting CBDCs in the coming years. The report offers up evaluations of the three most transacted cryptocurrencies in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and XRP (XRP), and analyses their suitability (or lack

Bitcoin’s (BTC) fundamentals received a boost as the U.S. Senate passed the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill on March 7. If traders react to this bill in the same way as they had done to the first stimulus package in April 2020, then the crypto markets may witness a strong rally. The stimulus package also intensifies