Ethereum (ETH)

[PRESS RELEASE – Please Read Disclaimer] Paris gathers Ethereum’s thought leaders following the recent successful execution of the Shanghai Upgrade and the upcoming danksharding upgrade in the fall that will boost Ethereum’s scalability. PARIS, France – July 2023 – EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference), the largest annual European Ethereum conference created for the community, by the community, will return for EthCC[6] from 17-20 July 2023 in Paris, France, and bring together...

Following the Fed interest rate pause announcement, the price of BTC broke major price support, raising concerns about a continued decline. The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday that it would maintain its interest rate at 5.25%, marking the first time since January 2022 that the rate would remain unchanged. According to the Fed, the inflation rate appears to be decreasing, and it wants to see whether previous rate increases were sufficient to slow price increases. However, it was...

An AWS outage shut down several apps and disrupted services, but did not disturb Ethereum despite hosting more than 64% of nodes. Although Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a minor outage on Tuesday, where it was temporarily unavailable, Ethereum remained unaffected. The temporary downtime did not affect Ethereum’s network nodes, which are mostly hosted on AWS. AWS first revealed at 12:08 PDT that it started an investigation into increased error rates and latencies it had noticed. The company...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Popular digital currency exchange Coinbase is launching its Bermuda-based trading platform. After just a few weeks of teasing that it had gotten the proper licensing documents due to regulatory scrutiny in the U.S., the firm appears to be opening its international enterprise without delay. Coinbase Has Opened...

Tether announced it will coordinate with a third-party exchange to conduct a chain swap as it wants to convert 750 million USDT from Tron to Ethereum ERC20. The total supply of USDT will not change during this process, as per the firm. A chain swap process entails moving cryptocurrencies from one blockchain to another, which enables traders to obtain access to the various blockchains that support the cryptocurrency they are holding. In general, it allows the use of their...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is convinced that all crypto assets aside from Bitcoin are securities. Its latest war on crypto exchanges has included staking services, which the regulator seeks to shut down. This could push more staked ETH out of exchanges and onto the market-leading liquid staking provider Lido. This may sound good, but it poses significant risks to the Ethereum ecosystem. Lido Staking Risks Exposed Lido provides liquid staking services for...

On Tuesday, June 13, the markets reacted positively to the publication of inflation data. The inflation rate in the United States increased by 0.1% in May. This inflation figure represents a 4% increase over the past 12 months, which meets the economic expectations of the Fed. But will it be enough for the Federal Reserve to slow down its aggressive monetary policy? According to the Consumer Price Index Summary report for May, published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, inflation...

The crypto market has turned bearish since the SEC charged Binance and Coinbase with listing unregistered securities last week. The cryptocurrency market is in a crucial growth phase that could significantly determine the winners of blockchain mainstream adoption. The fact that different countries are coming up with respective crypto policies is a true testament that there is a need for an update on the decades-old financial systems. Notably, Europe, Hong Kong, Middle East countries, El...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its long-awaited internal documents related to former commissioner William Hinman’s speech on digital assets in 2018.  The reveal incited fury from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who has now accused the SEC of willingly throwing “an entire industry into chaos” by releasing the speech.  Hinman Ignored All Warnings According to now publicly available emails from the SEC, the agency warned Hinman multiple times that...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many other assets have experienced certain degrees of healing in the year 2023, a big turnaround from the previous 12 months, though the fact remains that the Fed is still looking into hiking rates, and another rate jump could be right around the corner. The Fed Could Hike Rates Again It...