Ethereum

After just over two years of development, on Sunday a new form of gambling will be released to the Ethereum world on mainnet: hamster-powered marble races.  [embedded content] Powered by Mia, a female djungarian or “ winter white dwarf” hamster and her trusty hamster wheel, the project, dubbed “Mia & the Marbles,” is an automated

As exploits and hacks run rampant across the DeFi ecosystem, at least one project appears to have fended off the worst of an attack — the once-maligned “vampire” AMM (automated market maker) exchange Sushiswap.  Observers noticed last night that Sushiswap — which got its start leeching liquidity from rival AMM Uniswap — was experiencing an

This morning, Yearn founder Andre Cronje announced the latest in a spate of high-profile mergers and collaborations for the multi-faceted decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol: Yearn Finance will be “joining forces” with market coverage provide Cover.  In a blog post, Cronje notes that the merger will be a natural one, as Yearn and Cover developers have

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Buy the Dip Bitcoin price tumbles, falling below $17,000 in

Bitcoin may hit $150,000 by November 2021 according to Raoul Pal, founder and CEO at Global Macro Investor and Real Vision — And that would be the most conservative scenario. Pal believes that Bitcoin could even reach $250,000 due to the large amount of institutional money currently flowing into the Bitcoin market. That is what,

On June 19, 2020, Ethereum increased its gas limit by 25% from 10 million to 12.5 million. In no less than two days, this newfound capacity was used up, bringing the block use right back to 100%. This cat-and-mouse game between a higher gas limit and a surge in use has occurred the last three

The crypto market suffered a powerful crash on Thursday morning UTC, which sent prices of major currencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) tumbling in excess of 10%. When traders rush for the exits, the price of stablecoins generally increase as the demand for stability rises. In today’s crash, however, the effect became particularly pronounced

Two days after Yearn Finance (YFI) and Pickle Finance joined forces in DeFi’s first effective merger, Yearn founder Andre Cronje published details of another upcoming integration with Cream, a lending protocol similar to Compound and Aave. The blog post, published on Thursday, outlines how the two protocols will cooperate for the launch of Cream V2.

Despite Bitcoin’s surge to re-test its 2017 highs, a combination of low on-chain transactions and diminished retail speculation has seen transaction fees remain low. The current fees of around $3.50 per transaction starkly contrast with three years ago, when the fees incurred to send any amount of BTC briefly spiked above $50. But average transaction

The crypto market has been in a strong bull run over the past few days and that has pushed Bitcoin (BTC) to its second-best day ever. Almost every trader now seems to be fixated on the magical figure of $20,000 per BTC. After such a sharp up-move, some traders are calling for a top while others are

The highly anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0, or Eth2, is scheduled to take place next week. Specifically speaking, Eth2’s proof-of-stake blockchain known as “the beacon chain” has been confirmed to run alongside the Ethereum network starting Dec. 1.  Although some members of the blockchain community remained skeptical about a Dec. 1 launch date for the

On Tuesday the bulls showed that they are in full control of the crypto market as Bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $19,418.97 and several top-10 altcoins went on a double-digit rampage to new 2020 highs. Notable performers of the day were Stellar Lumens (XLM) and XRP with a 53% and 38% gain respectively.  Daily cryptocurrency market

In the last few days, Bitcoin (BTC) price has underperformed Ether (ETH) by almost 20%. Even though BTC seems to be struggling to break the $18,800 barrier, both cryptocurrencies display the same bullishness according to derivatives markets data. BTC/USD and ETH/USD at Bitstamp. Source: Digital Assets Data Ether is entering a parabolic rally as its

ETH 2.0’s Phase 0 launch looks all but certain for Dec. 1, with the number of Ether transferred to the ETH 2.0 deposit contract snowballing as today’s deadline approaches. As of this writing, nearly 499,000 of the 524,288 Ether required to secure the Dec. 1 beacon chain genesis has been deposited into ETH 2.0’s deposit

ETH 2.0’s beacon chain genesis has been confirmed for Dec. 1, following the transfer of 524,288 Ether from 16,384 validators into the ETH 2.0 deposit contract since it went live on Nov. 4. Despite early concerns stemming from low staking participation, transfers to the deposit contract rapidly increased over the past day — with more

Bitcoin (BTC) has been leading the current crypto rally for the past few weeks and this has boosted its dominance from 56% on Sep. 3 to 67% on Nov. 18. However, as Bitcoin nears its all-time high, it seems to be losing momentum as the action shifts to the altcoins. This has pulled Bitcoin’s dominance