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A MetaMask user, attempting to swap Ethereum for a DeFi token, paid over $9,000 transaction fees while transferring only $120 worth of ETH. The user has reached out to the mining pool that processed the transaction for assistance but has yet to receive a response. A Costly ETH-DeFi Swap The user, going by the nickname ProudBitcoiner, explained his rather dire situation on Reddit. He was using the popular online wallet MetaMask to swap 0.2955 wrapped Ether (WETH) for 531 Chi...

Blockchain adoption has just achieved a major milestone. The Associated Press has chosen the Ethereum blockchain to publish calls for the latest US Presidential election. The nearly 200-year-old New York-based non-profit news agency has been counting votes since its inception in 1848 and will do the same this year too by collecting, verifying votes, and declaring winners in 7000 contests. This comes as the ETH 2.0 deposit contract was just launched. The Associated Press Takes...

Ethereum’s creator officially announced the release of the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract a couple of hours ago. ETHUSD markets responded with a large green candle that has pushed the network’s native cryptocurrency past the $400 mark. The question is, will this latest update help ETH outperform bitcoin once again? Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Officially Released Ethereum’s creator Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter to announce the launch of the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract....

ETH/USD – Ethereum Rebounds At Trend Line Support Key Support Levels: $390, $377, $364.Key Resistance Levels: $410, $416, $421. Ethereum struggled to break the resistance at $416 (bearish .618 Fib) earlier in October which saw the coin heading lower over the past week. ETH found support at the $380 level as it bounced off of a rising support trend line yesterday. Today, after a dip to $377 (.5 Fib Retracement), the buyers regrouped and pushed higher toward the $400 level....

The leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has helped recover almost all $345,000 funds stolen due to an exit scam conducted by an automated market maker (AMM) dubbed Wine Swap. Binance Security Team Recovers 99.9% of Stolen Funds In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the popular exchange shared that Wine Swap launched on Binance Smart Chain as an AMM platform on October 13th, 2020. However, just an hour after the product release, the team behind it “pulled the rug,”...

Bitcoin continues to struggle ever since it peaked above $14,100 during the weekend. The situation with alternative coins is even worse, and the total market capitalization has dipped to about $390 billion. Bitcoin’s Struggles Since Its 1,000-Day Peak CryptoPotato reported over the weekend that the primary cryptocurrency spiked to a new 2020 high of about $14,100. The difference between this record and the previous ones registered in October was that it surpassed the 2019’s...

ETH/USD – Ethereum Resting At Trend Line Support Key Support Levels: $377, $364, $360.Key Resistance Levels: $390, $400, $410. Ethereum struggled to break the resistance at $416 (bearish .618 Fib) earlier in October which saw the coin heading lower this the past week. During the weekend, Ethereum managed to rebound from $380 and push as high as $390. Today, the bulls spiked above $400 but the coin has since dropped to the current level at $380. It is resting at the support...

Bitcoin has failed to sustain its level above $14,000 after breaking it a few days ago. In fact, the cryptocurrency saw a sharp decline in just a few minutes as it lost about $300. Bitcoin’s dominance has also decreased over the past 24 hours by almost 0.5% which means that altcoins are trying to claim new grounds. Bitcoin Stalls Beneath $14K The primary cryptocurrency made the headlines on Saturday as it finally broke the 2019 high. In fact, Bitcoin jumped above $14,000 for...

The latest blog post from ConsenSys developer Ben Edgington suggests that things are getting very close to the highly anticipated launch of Phase 0 of Ethereum 2.0. The first part of this milestone event is the deployment of the deposit contract which has already been slightly delayed as developers wanted to wait for an audit on a performance and security focused signature library called blst. Edgington stated that the results of this are expected this week although there are...

CryptoPotato recently had the opportunity to interview Brian Kerr – the CEO of the DeFi project Kava. Built on Cosmos as a proof-of-stake blockchain, Kava allows users to stake tokens and participate as validators in the network. The project saw the light of day as an IEO on Binance Launchpad. Kerr’s project description said it’s a “stand-alone blockchain that has interoperable bridges, Chainlink oracles, unique validators, and other infrastructure that allows it to provide a...