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Fidelity Digital Assets – the cryptocurrency subsidiary of the finance giant Fidelity Investments – will allow its institutional clients to trade Ether (ETH). The service will be available on the company’s crypto platform from October 28, 2022. Fidelity Expands its Crypto Scope Earlier this month, the company doubled down on its cryptocurrency efforts by introducing an Ethereum Index Fund. In a recent Twitter announcement, Fidelity Digital Assets revealed the launch of...

The Merge was this year’s biggest event. It marked the long-awaited transition of Ethereum from a Proof-of-Work governance consensus to a Proof-of-Stake one. Besides other benefits, one of the most notable differences was the supply change. Since miners no longer mine ETH, the issuance has dropped by over 99%. At the time of this writing, the supply change of ETH since the Merge has surpassed 9,000 and sits at 9,700. This is to say that only 9,700 ETH has been added to the...

Ethereum pulled off a stunning technical upgrade that saw the popular blockchain transition to the proof-of-stake consensus model for processing transactions after six years of work. However, post-merge activity on layer-2 has dropped. According to the latest stats by Dapp Radar, the already descending unique active wallets and transactions have further dropped by 35% from August to September. A similar trend was seen in terms of Ethereum’s TVL, which fell by 5.6% to $31.41...

The Ethereum ecosystem is among the fastest-growing in the cryptocurrency industry, especially in the past few years. With the foray of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications in 2020, it became obvious that crypto users needed tools to interact with various DApps in a way that’s accessible to those who don’t necessarily have coding knowledge. Even though popular before that, this was when self-custody wallets, like MyEtherWallet, became mainstream. During EthCC 5 in Paris...

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Mike McGlone – Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg – argued that the crypto winter might last longer than previous market declines and the reason for it is the “Fed’s sledgehammer.” In the next few years, though, he expects the industry to emerge stronger than ever, with Bitcoin tapping $100,000 and Ethereum trading at $6,000 by 2025. He also touched upon “The Merge,” claiming that the event got “too hyped,” which is now causing short-term pain to investors. He also...

Despite being touted by some as the natural continuation of Ethereum, which stayed on proof-of-work, EthereumPoW has had a rocky start. The first few days after the hard fork, it saw multiple technical bugs, while the native cryptocurrency plummeted by 90% in days. As the Ethereum Merge was coming close, Chandler Guo – a popular Chinese miner – proposed a hard fork that will see the creation of EthereumPoW – a duplicate version of the blockchain to continue to be based on...

The past seven days saw the successful transition of Ethereum’s network from a Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm to one governed by Proof-of-Stake. The event was described by many as one of the most significant technical achievements in the industry and is put on par by importance with Bitcoin’s halving. However, the total market declined by some $20 billion over the same period as many cryptocurrencies are charting decreases. Bitcoin is among the outliers in terms of price...

While Ethereum’s long-anticipated Merge seems to have hardly dented its price at the time of the upgrade, one of its speculative offshoots experienced a storm of volatility.  Ethereum PoW (ETHW) – an Ethereum hard fork backed by a group of Ethereum miners – soared in value during the upgrade. However, it tanked to all-time lows just hours later.  The ETHW Rollercoaster According to live price data from CoinGecko, ETHW rallied from roughly $30 at 21:30 UST on Wednesday to...

The most-anticipated event in the cryptocurrency industry this year took place earlier today, confirming Ethereum’s transition from PoW to PoS. While the effects for the second-largest blockchain will be unveiled gradually in time, Ethereum Classic seems to be benefiting the most for now. CryptoPotato reported earlier today when the Ethereum mainnet finally merged with the PoS Beacon Chain, solidifying the network’s transition to proof-of-stake. Although this was a...