Ethereum (ETH)

Is Bitcoin or Ethereum a better protocol for developers? A closer look reveals the answer may not be so obvious. Tony Cai – CEO of Bitcoin-based DeFi platform Atomic Finance and former Ethereum builder – published a Twitter thread on Wednesday explaining the different experiences of building apps on both networks, including the strengths and weaknesses of each. Bitcoin’s Advantage: Security and Focus According to Cai, Bitcoin’s first advantage is the security of its...

Bitcoin’s price plummeted on Thursday to $25,300, touching lows the asset has not seen in the past two months. The event triggered nearly $1 billion in liquidations across the entire crypto market. Bitcoin slightly rebounded after the crash, trading for $26,386 at writing time. The last time Bitcoin traded this low was in mid-June, shortly after Binance and Coinbase were sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and shortly before BlackRock announced its bid for a...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]CoinspeakerCME Group and CF Benchmarks Floats BTC and ETH Reference Rates in APAC This strategic collaboration aims to provide market participants with accurate and timely pricing information, fostering greater transparency and confidence in the evolving digital asset space. CME Group and CF Benchmarks Floats BTC and ETH Reference Rates in APAC

Litecoin is showing bearish signs and trading below $80 against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading below $78 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $79.00 on the 4-hour chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a decent increase if it clears the $80 resistance zone. Litecoin price is struggling below $80 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. LTC price...

Updated filings show that former President Donald Trump owns $2.8 million worth of cryptocurrency in his Ethereum wallet – a far higher amount than disclosures from earlier this month appeared to suggest. The disclosures paint a different picture of Trump’s views on crypto than his public pronouncements about the asset class would seem to suggest. Trumps Crypto and NFT Earnings As submitted to the Office of Government Ethics, entry 24 under Trump’s “Employment Assets and...

The second-largest decentralized exchange on the newly released Base blockchain – RocketSwap – announced eliminating any existing high risks and vulnerabilities a day after sustaining a “brute force hack of the server” where the platform stored its private keys. The RocketSwap team confirmed relinquishing minting rights, which is part of its recovery plan. In a new update, the protocol said it has retained only low-risk rights to allocate new pools. The locked initial...

Welche Coins könnten Anlegern ähnlich exorbitante Renditen wie einst Bitcoin oder Ethereum bieten? Altcoins und potenzielle Kandidaten dafür gibt es reichlich – und in die Zukunft blicken kann bekanntlich niemand. Trotzdem kann man einigen vielversprechenden Projekten ihr Potenzial nicht absprechen. Dabei gilt, wie so oft: Coins mit geringerer Marktkapitalisierung haben meist auch grössere Renditechancen – aber eben auch ein grösseres Risiko....

Web3 decentralized domains service provider – Ethereum Name Service (ENS) – raked in $235,000 in fees on August 13. The figure is the highest since September 11, 2022. Over the past couple of years, ENS has stood as a mainstay within the Web3 realm, enabling individuals to generate easily understandable domain names and wallet addresses for cryptocurrencies. According to data from Arkham Intelligence’s dashboard, ENS DAO (0xFe…44b7) holds more than $132.4 million in assets,...

Investment products for XRP, the native crypto asset of the Ripple network, have recorded the 16th consecutive week of institutional inflows since the start of 2023. According to data analyzed by CoinShares in its latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report, XRP saw $0.5 million in inflows during the past week. XRP Sees Inflows for the 16th Week CoinShares found that digital asset investment products saw inflows of $29 million following three weeks of outflows. Bitcoin...

Israeli crypto startup Stark Ware has unveiled the new layer-2 Ethereum solution it’s been working on for some time. Known as Starknet v12.0, the upgrade – which also operates under the name “Quantum Leap” – is slated to boost the digital currency network’s throughput tenfold and help Ethereum achieve a level of greatness many analysts never even fathomed. Ethereum May Be on the Verge of Greatness Ethereum is the world’s second largest digital currency by market...