The latest in a series of Ethereum 2.0 testnets, called Spadina, launched on Tuesday with mixed success. Spadina was proposed as a short-lived “dress rehearsal” for the mainnet launch process, signaling that Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 is getting ever closer. The network launched on Sept. 29 at 12 P.M. UTC, and was intended to last
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After three weeks of a bearish market, a few digital assets had witnessed noticeable uptrends towards the end of the third quarter of 2020. Maker, claiming its place consistently in the green zone, witnessed a price surge of almost 20 % in the last one week. The digital asset was recently in the news, as
The crypto space’s decentralized finance niche has reached frenzied status within the crypto industry, signaled by exuberant price highs and rampant speculation. “DeFi is the new overhyped concept in Ethereum,” MyEtherWallet, or MEW, CEO and founder Kosala Hemachandra told Cointelegraph in an interview. “The noise is too much, so everyone is just like running around trying
The cryptocurrency market has never been averse to volatility. Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two major crypto assets’ relationships have spelled the future of most alts in the market, and currently, the Ethereum’s lead has been challenged by the largest crypto, Bitcoin. The spread between the six-month-at-the-money implied volatility for Ether and Bitcoin, a measure of
The global economy doesn’t seem to be in a good place right now, especially with countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Spain imposing fresh, new restrictions across their borders, thereby making the future financial prospects of many local business owners even bleaker. As far as the crypto economy goes, on Sept. 21, Bitcoin
Blockchain-backed, decentralized video platform, Theta Network will collaborate with Chainlink to build a new blockchain-based platform to solve the “multi-billion dollar Ad fraud problem” one that scams people through coin giveaways, the firm said in an announcement today. The project which is currently live on its testnet, uses Google’s Big Data solution, BigQuery, and would
According to news agency Yonhap, Bithumb will not have to repay a crypto investor who allegedly lost $401,000 as a result of a 2017 data breach suffered by the firm. A High Court judge determined that the man (identified as “Mr. A” for privacy purposes) had failed to successfully prove that his data was compromised
Ethereum’s long-term outlook seemed bearish, at the time of writing. In fact, the price might drop by 20-30% as this bearish pattern develops on the charts. Interestingly, this might coincide with Bitcoin’s movements as well. Here, it should be noted, however, that this is all happening on a weekly time frame, and hence, it could
Bitcoin (BTC) soared above $10,000 on July 27 and has sustained above this level since then. Data shows that this streak of 63 consecutive days of closes above the $10,000 level is a new record. This also shows that the level has now become a strong support after previously acting as a stiff resistance. Bulls
Legal authorities in South Korea have ruled in favor of the crypto exchange, Bithumb, ruling that it need not compensate a crypto investor who filed a lawsuit against the exchange who claimed to have lost 470 million won (approximately $ 402,000), during the 2017 Bithumb hack, according to local news source, Yonhap. The legal community,
Analysts say that the unknown hacker behind the KuCoin breach is selling the stolen ERC-20 tokens on Uniswap. Although selling tokens on the Ethereum-based decentralized exchange allows the hacker to obtain Ether (ETH), it doesn’t mean it’s laundered. All transactions made on the Ethereum blockchain network are traceable using blockchain explorers, meaning even if the
ETH inflows to exchanges have dropped by 53% in less than a week, a development that may sound alarming to DeFi traders. The inflows to exchanges dropped from $3.15M on 21 September 2020 to $1.48M, at the time of writing. While a drop in ETH held on exchanges may be perceived as a bearish signal,
Ethereum has been very popular this year, not usually for all the right reasons, however, since network congestion and high gas costs have often kept it in the limelight. While the reason for these issues accelerating was the boom in Decentralized Finance [DeFi] protocols on Ethereum, some projects have already started to work on a
High gas prices have become a problem for non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, especially as they look to mint at scale, the founder of a start-up said. Sean Papanikolas, founder of NFT marketplace Cargo, told Cointelegraph in an interview that the NFT sector is at an inflection point. But scalability weighs on new players in the
As DeFi projects flock to Ethereum, experts warn the network is not yet ready to support the frenzy. Martin Froehler, a mathematician, former hedge fund manager, and founder of Austrian crypto trading platform Morpher, told Cointelegraph that although Ethereum is the “best thing [the blockchain industry] has” for DeFi, the current capabilities of the network
Ethereum’s spot has remained unfazed by the expiry of nearly 460,000 ETH Options contracts on Friday. The contracts that made up for almost $450 million in Open Interest, on expiration, dropped to $342 million, as highlighted by the data provider Skew. Source: Skew Although the drop in Open Interest was normal after such a huge
