Ethereum (ETH)

The cryptocurrency market has taken a u-turn in the past hour, with the majority of coins dropping considerably. Bitcoin’s price now trades below $70K, while the market sees close to $200 million worth of liquidated positions. BTC took a sudden hit as its price plummeted below $70K following what many considered a renewal of the bull run. Source: Binance via TradingView As seen in the chart above, the move was relatively sudden, completing a decline of around 2.5% in the past...

Following the recent rally of the broader crypto market, a large percentage of the circulating supply of most cryptocurrencies is currently in profit. Market intelligence platform Santiment has revealed that bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) are the top dogs in terms of long-term investment profitability, surpassing assets like Chainlink (LINK), Dogecoin (DOGE), Ripple (XRP), and Cardano (ADA). Crypto Assets in Profit The percentage of a cryptocurrency’s supply in profit is...

SEC Chair Gensler has voiced concern over unethical conduct within crypto exchanges, noting that the introduction of spot Ethereum ETFs will require additional time. Gensler’s comments were made during a June 5 interview on CNBC, where he also responded to Jim Cramer’s inquiries about potential exchange-traded products for cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. Gensler Criticizes Crypto Exchanges Gensler stated that while the SEC had approved the associated 19-4b...

Chainlink (LINK), the native token of the decentralized blockchain oracle network built on Ethereum, has emerged once more as the top real-world asset with the most development activity in the last 30 days. According to a tweet by Santiment, LINK is followed by Synthetix (SNX), Centrifuge (CFG), and Oraichain (ORAI). Top RWAs With the Most Development Real-world assets are cryptocurrencies that represent physical assets like properties and objects. Like other crypto assets,...

Gary Gensler – chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – sat down with CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer on Wednesday to discuss the regulator’s Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF approvals, alongside what may be coming next. That included questions about whether obscure meme coins could soon receive their own ETFs, such as SushiSwap (SUSHI) and Bonk (BONK). Cramer named a host of coins to Gensler that had all traded “millions of dollars” on Wednesday morning –...

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum network, has expressed his unhappiness about the celebrity meme coin experiments in this bull cycle. According to a tweet by the Canadian-Russian computer programmer, he would deem the meme coin projects more honorable and respectable if they had a public goal and were geared toward pushing specific causes in a better direction. Celebrity Meme Coin Craze Over the past few weeks, several celebrities, including Olympian and media...

With meme coins creating buzz all year, whales have doubled down on accumulating these tokens. One such whale has been massively accumulating Shiba Inu (SHIB) tokens, spending 4,849 ETH, worth around $18.44 million, to purchase a whopping 715.9 billion SHIB over the span of just six hours. This is an extraordinary buying spree, even for this particular investor, who has been incredibly successful with SHIB in the past. SHIB Accumulation Spree According to Lookonchain’s...

Avail, a project bringing a data availability layer network to the growing modular blockchain ecosystem, has secured $43 million through Series A funding from Cyber Fund. The project will compete with other big names in the DA niche like Celestia. Founded by Polygon co-founder Anurag Arjun, Avail looks to address the scalability issues associated with present-day blockchain builds. The project will ensure newly developed layer 2 networks move away from monolithic builds and utilize its data...

Polygon Labs has acquired Toposware, a Zero-Knowledge (ZK) startup, which has been working on its type 1 prover technology for some time now. The acquisition comes as Polygon Labs’ third one – it has acquired Mir Protocol and Hermez Network. It paid over $650 million in total for both those projects. With the Toposware acquisition, Polygon Labs’ investments in the ZK ecosystem go beyond the billion-dollar mark. The company has focused on delivering scalable technologies to improve the user...

Matter Labs, the developer behind the ZkSync Ethereum Layer 2 network, has decided to abandon its efforts to trademark the term “ZK.” In an update on June 3rd, Matter Labs said its decision to abandon its efforts to trademark the term “ZK” stems from the reasoning that it is “impossible to agree on a group of people perceived as credibly neutral by nearly everyone.” Matter Labs Drops “ZK” Trademark Effort Matter Labs had previously filed to trademark the term zero-knowledge...