Ethereum (ETH)

According to reports, the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta offers lower gas fees and could see wider adoption of Ethereum scaling technology.  The Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta went live on Monday, March 27th, facilitating the deployment of smart contracts with increased finality and reduced costs. The release of the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine beta to the public comes days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM. One of the main attractions of the Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta is...

A lot can happen in a year and a half. The cryptocurrency market has been through a literal rollercoaster in terms of price, regulations, and overall development. Exchanges imploded, multi-billion dollar ecosystems collapsed, regulators are stepping in now more than ever, banks are shutting down, and whatnot. And it almost seems as if time is flying. In 2021, CryptoPotato attended Solana’s Breakpoint in Lisbon and had the chance to talk to Brandon Millman – the CEO of the...

The Kokomo Finance protocol has been found to be an elaborate exit scam after developers used wrapped Bitcoin to steal user funds worth $4M. According to reports, developers behind crypto lender Kokomo used Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) to perpetuate a $4 million exit scam. A CoinDesk report alleges developers pulled off the scam over the weekend after manipulating tokens to steal millions in user funds. The report further stated that these developers attacked the smart contract of wrapped...

Coinbase asked developers to work on an inflation-tracking stablecoin that can serve as a hedge to the poor monetary policy decisions of the central bank. Crypto exchange Coinbase has been working on some key projects and one of them includes inflation-pegged flatcoins to be built over its recently launched Layer-2 network Base. Coinbase sees flatcoins as one of the four critical innovations in the future of crypto. The other three projects include on-chain limit order book (LOB) exchange,...

The hacker behind the largest DeFi exploit of 2023 continues to demonstrate controversial behavior, as this time, they returned the majority of the funds stolen from Euler Finance. In two separate transactions, the perpetrator sent back over $100 million worth of ETH to the protocol. CryptoPotato reported the flash loan attack, which took place earlier in March, that saw $198 million worth of USDC, staked ether, wrapped BTC, and DAI siphoned off the DeFi lending protocol....

With the much-anticipated Shapella upgrade just around the corner, the Ethereum Foundation has increased the bug bounty. According to the latest developers’ call, the reward was updated as part of the last-minute testing efforts. Bug Bounty In the 105th All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call, Security Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation – Fredrik Svantes – revealed that the maximum bug bounty for identifying a vulnerability in the Shanghai/Capella upgrade has been...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many other leading digital currencies are coming to form after the horrors of 2022. They are experiencing solid bull runs, and Cameron Winklevoss – one half of the Winklevoss Twins – is claiming that a big bull run is heading our way, and that the U.S. needs to begin embracing crypto as a whole or risk being left behind forever. Cameron Winklevoss Thinks Big Things Will Happen for Crypto 2022 was easily the worst year on record for bitcoin and its...

Ethereum’s price has been consolidating over the past week as the price is struggling to break above a key resistance area. Did ETH mark a local top? Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: On the daily time frame, ETH’s price has broken above the symmetrical triangle pattern lately and above the 50-day moving average line (around the $1600 mark). However, ETH is trading inside a very tight range above the broken triangle and has yet to break with confidence above the...

Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Arbitrum has initiated its long-awaited token airdrop, bringing protocol governance rights to the entire community.  The governance token, ARB, trades for $1.38 at writing time – falling significantly from when the airdrop began.  ARB spiked to $8.67 apiece following its airdrop at 9:05 am ET, before quickly plummeting to nearly $1.00 within an hour, according to data from CoinGecko. Heavy traffic at the time of the airdrop caused the claim...

The much-anticipated Arbitrum ARB governance token airdrop marks the beginning of its transition into a self-executing DAO governance, and the activity on the network has soared to levels never seen before. The Ethereum-layer 2 scaling system that uses Optimistic rollups technology to facilitate faster and cheaper transactions has already been on a roll lately. The daily transaction on Arbitrum has now hit an all-time high of 1,312,052. The last peak was registered a month...