Fidelity Investments doubled down on its cryptocurrency efforts after its brokerage arm – Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC – offered an Ethereum Index Fund to clients. The product has raised around $5 million since sales started at the end of September, while outside investors can participate in the initiative with a minimum investment of $50,000. Fidelity’s Next Crypto Step One of the largest entities in its field (with over $4.5 trillion in assets under management) received...
Read More »Vitalik Buterin Proposes Ways to Mitigate ETH Censorship
Long before the Ethereum network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), censorship concerns have been a bone of contention. To mitigate these risks, Vitalik Buterin has proposed “partial block auctions.” In the latest blog post, the Ethereum co-founder suggested that builders should have a more limited amount of power to prevent ETH censorship post Merge. Instead of letting them have full rein to construct the entire block if they win an auction, builders would have a more...
Read More »ETH Closes Third Red Week in a Row, is $1,000 Coming? (Ethereum Price Analysis)
Yesterday, Ethereum closed its third consecutive weekly red candle. A candlestick with a long upper wick indicates that increased selling pressure continues. In the last two weeks, the price has been trapped between two significant levels, and breaking out of this zone would likely determine the direction forward. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart The descending line on the daily chart highlights the creation of lower lows (in yellow). This structure is bearish....
Read More »How a Bot Gained and Lost Over $1 Million of ETH in One Night
On Tuesday night, an Ethereum MEV bot gained 800 ETH through the use of clever arbitrage, only to lose all of it and more to a hacker an hour later. Here’s how the situation played out on-chain: The event began with a third-party trader mistakenly losing nearly $2 million to spreads on Uniswap v2 trade. While he initially traded in 1.8 million cUSDC, he only received 518 USDC in return. According to Flashbots Product Lead Robert Miller, this only created a “massive arbitrage...
Read More »ETH Trading Inside a Tight Range, Breakout Imminent? (Ethereum Price Analysis)
The cryptocurrency markets are experiencing a period of stagnation. Meanwhile, ETH has been trading inside a tight range for the last seven days. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart On the daily chart, we can see two descending lines since ETH had reached its all-time high, and right now, ETH is retesting the lower line (green), along with the 200-week moving average (in yellow). From the bearish side, if the green support line doesn’t hold and the selling pressure...
Read More »ETH Nearing Key Support: $1K to Be Retested if it Breaks (Ethereum Price Analysis)
Despite a 7% spike for Ethereum in the last 48 hours, followed by a steep decline, the possibility of a bullish rally remains low. The price has yet to recover from the major drops that took place in September. The first step towards bullish sentiment would be to reclaim the critical level of $1,550. Technical Analysis By Grizzly The Daily Chart As seen below, an ascending triangle pattern (in yellow) has developed on the ETH/USDT trading pair chart. This pattern is textbook...
Read More »Hackers Breach Jason Falovitch’s Wallet and Steal NFTs, ETH Worth $150K
Controversial crypto entrepreneur Jason Falovitch on Sunday reported that hackers breached his crypto wallet on OpenSea and stole four NFTs and six ETH. The value of the stolen assets is estimated to be in the range of $150,000, media reports said. In a similar incident, earlier this month, famous American actor and comedian Bill Muray became a victim of hackers and lost 119.2 ETH worth $185,000 that he had just finished raising through his NFT action for a charity. Asking...
Read More »Vitalik Buterin Names the Two Cryptocurrencies He Wants to See Move to PoS
The co-founder of Ethereum suggested that two other PoW blockchain protocols could transition to PoS in the near future. He also spoke about the Merge during the 2022 Mainnet blockchain event and gave a brief update about the next step in Ethereum’s development – the Surge. Ethereum made history on September 15, when it became the first large-scale blockchain protocol that successfully transitioned from proof of work to proof of stake. The ramifications of this significant...
Read More »ETH Maintained Key Support, But the Danger’s Still Not Over: Ethereum Price Analysis
Following the last red days, ETH has hit the support area between the white descending line and the price range at $1,220-$1,280 (in green). So far, the bulls have successfully maintained the high selling pressure; however, the situation is still fragile. Looking at the bullish case, ETH must close above the key resistance at $1,420 (in red). The first target of such a movement can be considered at $1650. However, the danger is still here, and if the support range at $1220...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis September-23: Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Binance Coin
This week, we take a closer look at Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Solana, and Binance Coin. Ethereum (ETH) Despite the bullish fundamentals of Ethereum’s merge, the price of the second largest cryptocurrency has continued its downtrend and registered a 10% loss in the past seven days. At the time of this post, ETH managed to find some support at $1,250, but this level remains fragile. The resistance is not far away at $1,400, and bears will likely come in strong if the price...
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