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Monero community reaches consensus for July hard fork
18.4.2022
Monero hard forks are meant to improve the base protocol and will not result in the splitting and creation of a new coin
Decred price soars 45% in one day three weeks before a major hard fork
18.4.2022
The upcoming Decred hard fork also plans to increase DCR rewards for PoS validators from 30% to 80%
Monero v15 Upgrade Scheduled for July, Community Tries to Coordinate XMR ‘Bank Run’
18.4.2022
The Monero (XMR) community scheduled the v15 network upgrade for mid-July after reaching a consensus -- an upgrade that will not include the "Monero 2.0" hard forks. Meanwhile, some project supporters are trying to orchestrate "The Monerun."
"Monero is set to hard fork on July 16th 2022...
Cardano price risks 30% drop in Q2 despite a 'major' hard fork ahead
15.4.2022
Cardano network growth has done little to help ADA price shake its multi-month slump
Ethereum derivatives data shows pro traders are bearish, but for how long?
12.4.2022
The ETH futures premium turned bearish and the network's TVL dropped 22% from its peak, but how is this impacting pro traders’ sentiment?
Ethereum Devs Call Mainnet Shadow Fork a 'Huge Success', Propose Fixes for Bugs
12.4.2022
Ethereum (ETH) developers have described the first-ever shadow fork, designed to stress-test developers' assumptions on existing testnets and the mainnet, as successful. While several bugs and issues were found, the devs were quick to propose fixes.
"The mainnet shadow fork was a huge success,"...
ETH devs implement first-ever ‘shadow fork’ as PoS testing continues
11.4.2022
The shadow fork, which is intended to test the next phase of Ethereum’s configuration, has no impact on the existing mainnet
Ethereum's First Mainnet Shadow Fork Goes Live as Move to PoS Continues
11.4.2022
The shadow fork will stress test developers' assumptions on existing testnets and the mainnet
$5.8 Billion Burned: Second Largest Crypto Network Records 2 Million Ethereum Destroyed in 7 Months
21.3.2022
This week, the Ethereum network’s burn rate reached a milestone by surpassing 2 million ethereum burned worth $5.81 billion since August 5, 2021. Metrics show the crypto network has a 24-hour burn rate of 1.74 ether per minute, which equates to roughly $5K worth of ether destroyed every...
Crypto Exchanges Facing 'Fork in the Road' Over Russia Sanctions - London Stock Exchange Group CEO
17.3.2022
Amid the West’s intensifying efforts to punish Russia’s authorities for their invasion of Ukraine, crypto exchanges are facing long-term damage to their industry if they decide to remain active in the Russian market, according to David Schwimmer, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group....
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Wasabi Wallet to Begin Censoring Coinjoin Transactions
15.3.2022
Wasabi Wallet, a privacy-oriented bitcoin-only wallet, has announced it will start introducing censorship methods into its mixing procedures. The announcement was made on social media, where the official account of Wasabi explained that a blacklist will prevent some UTXOs (unspent transaction...
The Upgrade and Hard Fork for the Theta Network Will Be Supported by Binance
11.3.2022
Binance is a crypto exchange platform that has earned a reputation for being the biggest crypto exchange platform across the globe. At the time of writing, Binance is offering support to 90 million users who have registered on the platform. They are at their liberty to trade more than...
Ethereum After 1559: Network Nears 2 Million ETH Burned Worth Over $6.9 Billion
26.2.2022
Approximately 205 days ago, the Ethereum network upgraded via the London hard fork which implemented the packaged Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559. Since then, the EIP-1559 upgrade made it so a fraction of gas is destroyed during the transaction process and to date, 1,915,220 ether has been...
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Discusses Proposal to Alleviate Network’s Congestion, High Fees
6.2.2022
Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, and developer Tim Beiko have been discussing a proposed solution to the data transfer gas problem and current scaling issues. Buterin talked about adding a feature like “blob-carrying transactions” in a “near-future hard...
Bitcoin SegWit adoption lags among major exchanges: Glassnode
4.2.2022
A Glassnode report reveals that cryptocurrency exchanges some major exchanges are still holding despite being heavy consumers of Bitcoin block space
Ascending channel pattern sets Polygon (MATIC) up for a potential 30% rally
13.1.2022
A bullish technical analysis pattern and the potential approval of the EIP-1559 proposal could back MATIC’s attempt to rally to a new all-time high
1 Hard Fork, 2 DAOs, 24 Exchanges, 2022 Years and 20 Crypto Jokes
1.1.2022
The last week of crypto 2021 is now behind us. Let’s do a short recap....
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Polygon Justifies Its Quiet Hard-Fork Citing 'Critical Vulnerability'
29.12.2021
Earlier this month, the popular Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 solution Polygon (MATIC) carried out a hard-fork, though in silence and with no official explanation. Now, exactly 24 days later, it justified its actions in a postmortem, citing a critical vulnerability that could have drained the network...
Ethereum Has Burned 1.2 Million ETH in 4 Months, Close to $5 Billion in Ether Destroyed
28.12.2021
With three days left until the end of 2021, the Ethereum network and its native token ether have had a phenomenal year as ether has increased more than 450% in value in 12 months. 145 days ago, on August 5, the Ethereum network implemented the London hard fork and since that day, 1,283,226 ether...
Ethereum L2 Scene Heats Up With Boba Network Taking Second Spot in TVL
28.11.2021
Boba Network, a recently released L2 layer for Ethereum, has quickly jumped to second place in TVL (total value locked) among all expansion layers. Boba, which is a fork of Optimism, another L2 layer based on rollups, reached more than $1 billion in TVL, surpassing Optimism. This is likely due...