Ethereum (ETH)

On Feb. 9, Gary Gensler and his SEC took aim at Kraken and its staking-as-a-service products. The regulator claims that the U.S. crypto exchange is offering unregistered securities through its staking services. Consequently, Kraken suspended staking-as-a-service, and crypto markets have slumped. On Feb. 10, popular analyst and trader Alex Krüger put a positive spin on the latest regulatory crackdown by Uncle Sam. He said that a ban on staking, which the SEC is angling for,...

[PRESS RELEASE – Geneva, Switzerland, 10th February 2023] Messari, a leading provider of blockchain research and data analysis, has released its quarterly reports on the State of TRON and the State of USDD for the fourth quarter of 2022. STATE of USDD Their first report, “State of USDD Q4 2022,” showcases the performance of USDD, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, managed by the TRON DAO Reserve, and circulating on multiple blockchains, including TRON, Ethereum, and...

The long-awaited second airdrop of Ethereum’s layer-two scaling solution – Optimism – is here. The protocol distributed a total of 11.7 million OP tokens to over 300,000 addresses. The price of OP dropped after the announcement. Many have been expecting the second airdrop of the popular Ethereum layer-two scaling solution, Optimism. The first one saw around 200 million OP tokens airdropped to 250,000 early adopters, and some of them received up to $20K worth of tokens on the...

Binance said earlier today it had introduced zk-SNARKs to its proof-of-reserve system in an attempt to make it easier for users and other entities to verify its solvency. Additionally, the exchange has added four new crypto assets to its PoR system. Ever since the loud collapse of FTX in late 2022, cryptocurrency exchanges have rushed to prove the assets held on their platforms. Binance was among the first to introduce such a feature, initially utilizing only Merkle Tree....

Warum ist Chainlink einer der interessantesten Token neben Bitcoin und Ethereum überhaupt? Ganz einfach deswegen, weil Chainlink unter anderem von New Yorker Studenten an der Universität entwickelt wird. Im Weiteren setzt die Finanzstarke Casino- und Wettbranche auf Chainlink. Kurzum, es ist Hirn und Budget vorhanden, beste Voraussetzungen also. Aber nur wer sich schon den Kurs von Chainlink anschaut, sieht, dass hier Substanz vorhanden ist. Es gibt keine Absacker wie bei vielen (wertlosen)...

Bitcoin fell back to $22,000 on Thursday shortly after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) laid charges against Kraken for the unregistered offering of its staking services.  Kraken agreed to halt the service and pay $30 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties, without admitting to or denying any wrongdoing.  According to the SEC’s press release, by letting users hand over their cryptocurrency in exchange for a promised return, Kraken’s...

Marc Andreessen – founding partner of the tech-focused VC giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) – is now more bullish on Ethereum and Web 3 than he is on Bitcoin, contrary to his outlook in 2014. During an interview with ReasonTV published on Wednesday, the venture capitalist discussed the future of crypto adoption and regulation, alongside the role of Bitcoin as money.  Crypto, Not Bitcoin According to Andreessen, crypto and Web3 represent “the other half of the internet,”...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and several other forms of crypto have been enjoying something of a rally over the past few weeks. These assets, along with many others, have enjoyed easing market conditions that have allowed them to jump to four-month highs and allegedly begin to put 2022 – arguably the worst year for crypto on record – behind them, but with news of “extraordinary measures” being taken by Janet Yellen and others in the U.S. financial district to prevent chaos from...

Bitcoin Ordinals: Neues Update sorgt für Aufregung. Die Bitcoin-Entwicklung war ja schon immer hochpolitisch. Sei es die Block-Grösse oder Updates wie SegWit. Nun erhizt ein weiteres Update die Gemüter der Bitcoin Coimmunit: Das Ordinals Update. Was kann das Ordinals Update? Das Protokoll bringt NFTs auf das Bitcoin-Mainnet. Oder einfach gesagt: Dank Ordinals kann jeder seine NFTs auf der Bitcoin Blockchain speichern. Eine Sidechain ist dafür nicht...

The goal of the BNB Greenfield is to unleash the power of decentralized blockchain and storage technology on data ownership and data economy. Das Entwicklerteam des BNB-Netzwerkes hat mit „Greenfield“ die neueste Ergänzung seines Ökosystems vorgestellt. Ein neues Protokoll soll es Entwicklern und Nutzern ermöglichen, ihre Daten über ein dezentrales Netzwerk von Speicheranbietern zu hosten. Die Binance Coin (BNB), die native Währung von Binance, soll...