Category: Ethereum

Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) tumbled to its worst levels in almost two months against the U.S. dollar on May 6 as the rout in financial markets rippled across the cryptocurrency sector. Nonetheless, ETH did fare better than Bitcoin (BTC) with the ETH/BTC pair hitting a three week high. ETH/BTC daily price chart. Source: TradingView

Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea suffered a server breach on its main Discord channel, with hackers posting fake “Youtube partnership” announcements. A screenshot shared Friday shows fake collaboration news, accompanied by a link to a phishing site. OpenSea Support’s official Twitter account tweeted that the marketplace’s Discord server was breached Friday morning and warned users not

Hop Protocol, a cross-chain bridge designed to facilitate the quick transfer of tokens between different Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solutions, has unveiled a new governance model alongside an airdrop that will see early users receive 8% of the total supply of soon-to-be-released HOP tokens. Similar to Optimism, which recently unveiled a new governance structure that will

Acclaimed fashion brand Gucci is venturing into the world of digital assets with the announcement that the company will soon begin accepting crypto payments in select stores across the US. According to a new report by Vogue Business, the famed luxury line will begin welcoming cryptocurrency payments starting at the end of May with plans

Despite bouncing from a 45-day low on April 30, Ether (ETH) price is still stuck in a descending channel and the subsequent 9% gain over the past four days was just enough to get the altcoin to test the pattern’s $2,870 resistance. Ether/USD price at FTX. Source: TradingView Federal Reserve monetary policy continues to be

In May 2021 OpenSea closed out nearly $140 million in total volume. Fast forward a year and the most dominant NFT marketplace closed over $880 million in less than a week partially because of the Yuga Labs’ The Otherside mint.  As a result of this mint, a fresh surge of liquidity was injected into the

Bitcoin (BTC) number go up technology is boosting crypto adoption in the United Kingdom. More and more Brits are buying cryptocurrency according to a Coinbase research piece carried out by Qualtrics. The key takeaways indicate that 33% of British people own crypto, up from 29% in October 2021. Plus, over half, or 61%, of those surveyed intend

US-based digital assets exchange Coinbase is analyzing what’s ahead for the crypto markets in the second half of 2022. Starting with Bitcoin (BTC), Coinbase says in a research report that the supply of the flagship crypto asset could shoot up as the actualization of the Mt. Gox compensation plan gets underway in the second half

The founder of Ethereum challenger Algorand (ALGO) says that crypto assets with one key feature will survive into the next decade as blockchains become mainstream tools used by traditional financial institutions. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Silvio Micali, a professor of computer science and cryptography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone says that one prominent Ethereum (ETH) challenger is on its way to prevailing over other ETH competitors. In a new Crypto Outlook report, McGlone says that smart contract platform Solana (SOL) is outpacing other so-called “Ethereum killers,” which should result in SOL securing its spot in the top five