Ethereum

Ethereum has now completed its second-to-last major Merge trial on the public test network Sepolia, paving the way for its transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. While it’s been judged mostly a success, it was not incident free. The final trial of the Merge is set to occur on the Goerli network over the

DappRader’s Dapp industry report for Q2 2022 raised, among many points, the idea that an upcoming non-fungible platform war could be on the horizon. The report, which was provided to Cointelegraph, spoke of how UniSwap recently acquired Genie and OpenSea purchased Gem in an effort to expand their respective services to include NFT aggregation tools,

Despite some touting crypto as a hedge against traditional markets, digital assets today share a similar risk profile to commodities such as oil and gas, and tech and pharmaceutical stocks, according to analysis from Coinbase’s chief economist.  The observation comes from a blog post from Coinbase chief economist Cesare Fracassi on July 6, noting that

Summary: KuCoin CEO, Johnny Lyu, has debunked rumors that the exchange will soon pause withdrawals. According to Mr. Lyu, KuCoin does not have direct exposure to collapsed LUNA, Three Arrows Capital, or Babel Finance. He further reassures that ‘everything on KuCoin is operating well.’ The CEO of KuCoin, Johnny Lyu, has refuted claims that the

Summary: Celsius Network has reportedly laid off 150 staff members who constitute 25% of its workforce. The team behind the lending platform had last month hired restructuring advisors. Celsius Network has also put forward three proposals for rebuilding through Bnk to The Future Capital: a restructuring to launch Celsius, a pool of most influential whales

The Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem’s biggest roadblock to mainstream dominance is often attributed to the extremely high transaction fees or gas fees it requires to complete a transaction. However, with Ethereum’s average gas fees coming down to 0.0015 ETH, the narrative is set to change.  The average transaction fee on the Ethereum blockchain fell down to

We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week, our 6 Questions go to Alyssa Tsai, founder and CEO of Panony — an incubator, investor and adviser for blockchain and Web3 business.  

Summary: Circle’s CEO has published a Twitter thread quelling fears and rumors that USDC is on the brink of collapse. He added that it is understandable why the crypto community would worry about USDC, given the recent collapse of several crypto projects. He reaffirms Circle is committed to being transparent with its reserves fully backed,

The Open Network (TON) Foundation is the latest cryptocurrency company to upgrade its ecosystem with Ethereum Name Service (ENS)-like domain names. The TON Foundation on Thursday announced the launch of TON DNS, a new service to allow users to assign human-readable names to crypto wallets, smart contracts and websites. Similar to other popular crypto-related domain

Garry Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster and chair of the Human Rights Foundation, doesn’t appear at all bothered by the current crypto bear market. Kasparov, who is also a long-time Bitcoin supporter, told Cointelegraph during Consensus 2022 “so what” in regards to his thoughts on the bear market. Kasparov added that he thinks 99% of

Nonfungible tokens (NFT) took center stage in the year 2021 as artists, influencers, A-list celebrities and the sports industry finally came across a fan engagement tool that empowered the general public to cash in on their success. However, the hype around NFT did not manage to stand its ground as sales plummeted to one-year lows

Summary: Three Arrows Capital Co-founder, Su Zhu, is reportedly looking to sell his $35 million Singapore mansion. Su Zhu allegedly bought the mansion in December 2021 at S$48.8 million. The house is held under a trust belonging to one of his children. According to sources, liquidators in Singapore are looking to seize properties owned by

According to Mike Darlington, the CEO of Monstercat, an electronic music platform, and Jake Udell, the founder of social NFT platform Metalink, bear markets are a time to ideate and build new products. During this week’s episode of NFT Steez, a bi-weekly Twitter Space hosted by Cointelegraph analysts, both Darlington and Udell agreed that the

Bitcoin dropped 56.2% in the second quarter of 2022, according to crypto analytics platform Coinglass. That makes it Bitcoin’s worst quarter since the third quarter of 2011 when BTC price fell by 67%. A large part of the damage was done in the month of June when Bitcoin plunged 37%, the worst monthly drawdown since

Given Ethereum’s dominance coupled with the current crypto bear market, it remains questionable if L1s will flourish. This was recently highlighted in a Chainalsys blog post entitled “New layer 1 blockchains are expanding the DeFi ecosystem, but no ETH killers yet.” Ethan McMahon, an economist at Chainalysis, told Cointelegraph that Chainalysis published this report to

The difficulty bomb-delaying Gray Glacier hard fork went live on Ethereum on Thursday without a hitch according to the network’s core devs including Ethereum Foundation’s Tim Beiko. The Sepolia testnet is also set to run through its Merge trial over the next few days and is the second last testnet to go through the trial