Ethereum (ETH)

Polygon announced that Polygon Bridge is now available for Polygon zkEVM. The development comes a month after the launch of the zero-knowledge rollup on Mainnet Beta. The symbolic first transaction on Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta was performed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta is designed to be an all-purpose Ethereum scaling protocol that allows developers means to build on it with the usage being similar to Ethereum, without modifying...

Meme coins may be fun, but it’s obviously not just that. Tokens such as Dogecoin and Shiba Inu are clear proof that this kind of asset can have real gain potential Crypto investing has long been all about Bitcoin and Ethereum, but have you ever considered diversifying your portfolio? There are so many alternatives to these big-name cryptocurrencies that it’s hard to choose something, but let’s take it easy. We’ll focus on a specific type of digital coin that has managed to catch investors’...

With the SBI investment, Zodia Custody will increase its Japan presence amid increased demand for digital assets from institutional investors in the country. Zodia Custody, an institutional-grade crypto asset custodial platform backed by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust, has announced that it raised approximately $36 million led by Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings. The London-headquartered crypto startup announced that the funding round also saw...

Blockchain scaling startup – Dymension – announced the launch of the world’s first IBC-enabled EVM rollup on testnet in collaboration with Evmos Core Teams and Celestia. The latest offering is part of Dymension’s roadmap to establish and bootstrap a new ecosystem of IBC-enabled rollups. The collaboration, on the other hand, will bring “superior” EVM blockchain access to the Cosmos ecosystem. IBC-Enabled EVM Rollup According to the press release shared with CryptoPotato, the...

Litecoin started a fresh decline below the $92 zone against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading below $92 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break below a key rising channel with support near $96 on the 4-hour chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to move down if it stays below the $92 resistance zone. Litecoin price is struggling below $92 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. LTC price could continue...

It appears that the bulls may have celebrated too early, as the cryptocurrency market took a turn for the worse. After having surged to $30K earlier today, the price took a sudden u-turn and plummeted to $27K in less than an hour. This left close to $200 million in liquidated leveraged positions in the past hour alone. Upwards of 90% of the liquidations in the past hour were longs, accounting for more than $157 million. Binance and OKX account for the majority of the volume....

Ethereum-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Merlin, which uses zero-knowledge sync (zkSync), has lost more than $1.8 million in a liquidity pool exploit hours after smart contract security firm CertiK audited its code.The hack occurred on Wednesday morning during the public sale of Merlin’s native token, MAGE, with the attacker siphoning several assets, including USD Coin (USDC), Ether (ETH), and other illiquid tokens. Merlin’s LP Drained After Code Audit A few hours after...

Fidelity Investments and Black Rock – two of the biggest investing companies in the world – are slowly expanding their reaches into the crypto and blockchain spaces. Fidelity and Black Rock Are the New Crypto Leaders Fidelity has long been a crypto player, going so far as to last year, when the space was enduring its biggest bear run in history, allow retirees and those with 401K funds to their names to use their hard-earned money to invest in digital assets like BTC and...

Arbitrum – a leading Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum – started distributing its governance token (ARB) on April 25th. The airdrop is part of the platform’s roadmap, which designated 1.13% of the overall 10 billion token supply for qualified DAO projects. According to the latest data, Arbitrum has distributed over 90 million ARB worth $120 million to 125 DAO wallets. Treasure DAO was the top receiver with 8 million ARB, while 60 other DAOs pocketed at least 75k ARB...

Ethereum price is struggling to recover above the $1,900 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price is now trading below $1,900 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $1,850 on the 4-hour chart (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could recover, but it is likely to face sellers near the $1,950 resistance zone. Ethereum price is declining below $1,900 against the US Dollar. ETH/USD remains at a risk of...