Ethereum (ETH)

The past seven days turned into a bloodbath across the entire cryptocurrency market, which dropped below $1 trillion in terms of total capitalization. This happens for the first time since January 14th. The decline comes on the back of a lot of negative macroeconomic developments, so let’s unpack. First things first, Bitcoin’s price is trading around $20,000, albeit slightly below it at the time of this writing. The intraday low sits at $19,549 on Binance and BTC is down...

This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Dogecoin, and Polygon. Ethereum (ETH) The overall market has turned red, and ETH’s price has lost 15% in the past week. With support broken to the downside, Ethereum is struggling to find its footing and could go to $1,300, where the next key support is found. The news that Ethereum could be considered a security is another blow that may intensify the current bearish momentum. As the pressure is building up,...

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s non-fungible token arm – Binance NFT – has announced adding support for the Polygon network on March 8th. The integration of the Polygon network will enable users to explore and trade a wider variety of NFTs across multiple blockchains. This includes – BNB Smart Chain (BSC), Ethereum (ETH) network, as well as Polygon from their Binance accounts. Despite the announcement, Binance has taken a cautious approach in terms of NFT listings. As such,...

Shiba Inu developers revealed that the Shibarium public beta platform will be launched sometime this week. The plan for the layer-2 platform was first unveiled in January this year. It was viewed as a major step for the Shiba Inu ecosystem from being a mere memecoin to offering a way for the SHIB community to access faster and cheaper transactions, with increased scalability and enhanced security. The team backing the token revealed building Shibarium on top of the Ethereum...

Brian Armstrong – the man in charge of Coinbase, arguably the biggest and most popular digital currency exchange in the United States – has warned that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is likely to crack down on a process called staking, which could wind up hurting tokens such as ETH. Coinbase Says No Staking Could Be Devastating In a recent statement, Armstrong said that should the SEC decide against the practice of staking for retail investors, this could...

The hacker who stole $1.59 million worth of crypto assets from Arbitrum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Tender.fi has returned nearly all the funds, keeping roughly $97,000 as a bounty reward. Tender.fi was exploited on the morning of March 7, with the project’s official Twitter handle confirming the incident in a tweet a few minutes later. Tender.fi Exploited for $1.59 Million According to the tweet, Tender.fi disclosed that it had noticed and was looking...

A scalability solution unique to Ethereum is now compatible with Bitcoin. Rollkit allows for the storage of rollup information developed for Ethereum but on the Bitcoin network. According to an official statement, Rollkit — a modular framework for rollups — was successfully launched on march 5, 2023. The solution could, at least in theory, help optimize the use of free space on the Bitcoin blocks, expanding the capabilities of the network: Sovereign rollups on Bitcoin not...

The hacker of the DeFi project – Uranium Finance – started moving 2,250 ETH, worth approximately $3.35 million, in stolen funds into the popular coin mixer, TornadoCash. The movement of funds from the wallet was detected by the blockchain security firm, PeckShield, on March 7th. Data from Etherscan reveals that the hacker transferred the funds over a time frame of seven hours in transactions ranging from 1 ETH to 100 ETH. In addition to this, another Ethereum wallet tied to...

Ethereum price is struggling to recover above the $1,600 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price is now trading below $1,600 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $1,620 the 4-hours chart (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could recover, but it is likely to face sellers near the $1,600 resistance zone. Ethereum price is declining below $1,600 against the US Dollar. ETH/USD remains at a risk of...

Alameda Research – sister trading firm to the now bankrupt FTX exchange – is suing the world’s largest Bitcoin fund on behalf of FTX’s debtors and affiliates. The company demands that Grayscale permit redemptions on its Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts, which could cumulatively unlock over $9 billion for the trust’s shareholders.  Grayscale’s Bitcoin Stash Per a press release from the FTX Debtors on Monday, claims have also been filed directly against Grayscale CEO Michael...