Ethereum (ETH)

Scaling Ethereum has undoubtedly been one of the hottest topics in the past months. The network’s transition to a proof-of-stake consensus algorithm in September 2022 was a huge milestone in this regard, as it opened the door for many different scaling solutions to be implemented. While Ethereum developers are working on ways to scale the network natively, the power of layer-two solutions is only beginning to manifest. Concepts such as zero-knowledge proofs are now becoming a...

Over the past few weeks, traders and analysts everywhere have been talking about how great bitcoin and Ethereum are doing. We’ve also published a few articles talking about the January price booms witnessed by BTC investors. Bitcoin Is in a Good Spot, but What About the Rest? Ending the 2022 year in the mid-$16K range, it appears bitcoin has made its way back up the financial ladder and is now trading for more than $19,000, something we haven’t seen since mid-November of...

Leading decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap v3 will be deploying on Ethereum’s layer 2 protocol Boba Network following a successful governance vote from the Uniswap community. The proposal was earlier submitted by the Boba Foundation and FranklinDAO with backers including GFX Labs, Blockchain at Michigan, Gauntlet, and ConsenSys. 51.01M Voted Yes on the Proposal In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the community overwhelmingly voted in favor of the proposal, with...

StarkWare – a company focused on Ethereum scaling – will open-source its Zero-Knowledge (ZK) software. StarkWare announced today that it plans to open-source its STARK Prover – the engine that’s designed to generate cryptographic proofs that compress hundreds of thousands of transactions for submission to Ethereum in fewer kilobytes than a smartphone photograph. This is also the technology that powers Starknet and StarkEx – solutions that have reportedly scaled more...

As Ethereum exits its recent consolidation range and aims for the next significant resistance level, the price action leans positive. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart On the daily chart, the price has been consolidating in a tight range over several weeks. However, it finally seems that a bullish continuation is the most probable scenario. In this case, the $1800 resistance level and the higher boundary of the large symmetrical triangle could finally be tested in...

2022 was not a great year for decentralized finance (DeFi). The industry saw implosion in itself thanks to the unsustainable high yields that eventually caused the model to collapse. But DeFi is far from dead. A similar sentiment was echoed by prominent Web3 developer Andre Cronje, who said he does not believe that high yields are “long gone” and that DeFi is seeing almost “zero growth.” DeFi Will Still Simply be DeFi At present, the real yields for ETH, USDT, DAI, and USDC...

Blockchain security firm PeckShield has disclosed a series of transfers from three addresses, including one from crypto exchange Bitfinex to Alameda Research’s consolidation wallet. According to Etherscan, the address labeled “Alameda Consolidation” received $13 million worth of crypto assets from three different wallets. The first belongs to the leading crypto exchange Bitfinex. It transferred approximately 6 million USDT and 1,545 ether (ETH), amounting to roughly $8.5...

Orion Protocol – a liquidity aggregator for both CeFi and DeFi exchanges – saw its core contract hacked on Thursday across both its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chains (BSC) deployments.  The hacker netted over 1700 ETH, cumulatively worth over $3 million at writing time.  Another Reentrancy Hack As explained by the blockchain security company PeckShield on Twitter, Thursday’s hack was made possible “due to incomplete reentrancy protection.” A reentrancy bug refers to when an...

This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Polygon, and Fantom. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, continued to consolidate this week. The price only registered a 2.9% increase. This is because ETH is stuck in a channel between $1,670 and $1,550.  All attempts to break these levels were rejected in the past two weeks. While some altcoins were booking double digits gains (see Fantom below), Ethereum appears to be on a pause. This...

OP – the governance token of Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution Optimism – surged by more than 30% over the past 24 hours from $2.23 to $2.92, hitting a fresh all-time high. The price action comes after Optimism Foundation released a proposal regarding upgrading the Optimism mainnet to Bedrock. The proposal stated that the upgrade seeks to provide a “new level of modularity, simplicity, and Ethereum equivalence for Layer 2 solutions, providing unprecedented performance and...