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New Ethereum 2.0 Calculator: Stake ETH 1 and Earn 279% in 10 Years
28.4.2020
Source: Adobe/AA+W
The newly launched ETH 2 Calculator claims that you can earn 279% in ten years by staking one ether (ETH) on the Ethereum 2.0 network. And then, a number of "ifs" appears in this equation.
ETH price tracking platform EthereumPrice.org has launched a new calculator...
Multi-Client Testnet for Ethereum 2.0 is Live, Bringing Phase 0 Closer
28.4.2020
Coders from Prysm and Lighthouse have released a multi-client testnet for Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0), as a vital step in the process towards Phase 0 (the beacon chain).
The news was announced by Afri Schoeden, release manager at blockchain infrastructure company Parity Technologies and ex-Ethereum...
BitMEX Offers ‘Quanto’ Ethereum Product in a Bid to Regain Market Share
24.4.2020
Arthur Hayes, Co-founder and CEO of BitMEX. Following a downturn in trading volumes after the coronavirus-triggered market panic in March liquidated a massive amount of trades on crypto derivatives platform BitMEX, the exchange is again looking to capture market share by offering a new product...
What Crypto Prediction Markets Can Tell Us About Coronavirus
22.4.2020
Project building new market mechanisms atop Ethereum, Gnosis, funds a decentralized prediction markets platform that wants to uncover useful and factual information about the coronavirus, amidst the abundance of false and conflicting news.
Coronavirus is a global challenge that caused major...
Stablecoins Challenge Ethereum's Claim To Become Money
22.4.2020
Though Etherem (ETH) has a "credible claim as money" within the Cryptosphere, stablecoins rise as its challengers, according to crypto market analysis firm Coin Metrics. That said, the growth of stablecoin is a good thing for Ethereum, at least for now.
As reported, the stablecoin market...
Ethereum, Tezos Start New Week as Top Weekly Performers
20.4.2020
The two major smart contract platforms Ethereum (ETH) and Tezos (XTZ) are both seeing a strong performance of their native tokens, each rising by almost 20% over the past 7 days before correcting some of their gains on Monday.
In what has been a stellar week for ETH, the second most valuable...
DeFi Experiment: A Loan Issued With Ethereum Domain Name as Collateral
17.4.2020
NFT-backed loan provider Rocket LP DAO has signed off the first loan in history that for a collateral has only an Ethereum domain name.
In a Medium post, director of operations at Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Brantly Millegan, says that he received the world’s first ENS-backed Non-fungible token...
Cryptoverse Speculates On Alleged Reddit Plans With Ethereum
10.4.2020
Speculations that an Ethereum (ETH) blockchain-based asset may be coming to major discussion website Reddit and that it is working on adding a points system based on this blockchain have recently become a new talk of the Cryptoverse.
The story starts on Wednesday morning with redditor MagoCrypto...
Ethereum Beat Tron and EOS in Dapp Category in Q1
9.4.2020
In the first quarter of 2020, out of tree major protocols, only Ethereum dapps (decentralized apps) saw an increase in users and transaction volume since last year, according to a new report by analytics service DappReview.
The 2020 Q1 Dapp Market Report states that, compared to the first quarter...
Chicago DeFi Alliance Launches to Save Decentralized Finance
8.4.2020
Major U.S. brokerage TD Ameritrade backs the Chicago DeFi Alliance, a new initiative aiming to support DeFi development in compliance with trading regulations
Ethereum Leaves Bitcoin in the Dust This Week as Whales Accumulate
7.4.2020
Ethereum (ETH), the second most valuable digital asset by market capitalization, has seen a wave of buying over the past 24 hours and past seven days, leaving bitcoin (BTC) in the dust behind it.
As of press time on Tuesday (11:55 UTC), ethereum was up by more than 13% over the past 24 hours...
Scammers Raise USD 4.9m in Ethereum in 2 Months + More News
1.4.2020
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A South Korean scam operator has reportedly gathered around USD 4.9 million in ethereum (ETH) as part of a multi-level...
ETH 2.0 Phase 0 Reviewed by Auditers, with Attack Vector Warnings
26.3.2020
Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) (aka Serenity) has left its auditors satisfied, though critical issues have been pointed out.
Working with the Ethereum 2.0 team, security consultant Least Authority reviewed Ethereum's network update to Proof of Stake (PoS) from Proof of Work (PoW), specifically its upcoming...
Money is a 'Kind of a Fair Game,' says Vitalik Buterin
19.3.2020
Vitalik Buterin. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Business Insider
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, finds money to be a type of game, but out of that game, there may be a solution for people to act towards the common good.
In a recent episode of Artificial Intelligence Podcast with...
18 Ethereum Conference Attendees Got Coronavirus, Buterin Not On the List
17.3.2020
An important spreadsheet has been making its way through the Cryptoverse - that of an Ethereum conference attendees who have tested positive for coronavirus - potentially as a warning to others.
Popular Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) took place from March 3 until March 5 this year in Paris...
Opera Lets US Users Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum with Apple Pay, Debit Cards
17.3.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/opera
American users of the Opera mobile and desktop web browsers will be able to make faster and easier crypto purchases – with United States-based Android users now able to buy using their debit cards, and iOS users able to buy both bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH)...
Friday 13 Strikes: Crypto Exchange Employee Makes USD 82,000 Fee Gaffe
13.3.2020
Friday 13 proved to be an unlucky day for a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, and for one staff member in particular – with an employee error at Coinone leading to the platform apparently frittering away some USD 82,000 worth of ethereum (ETH) in fees on a transaction worth a fraction of...
Crypto Startup CEO, Attendee of Ethereum Conferences Diagnosed With Coronavirus
11.3.2020
Zhen Ju Yong (Zen), CEO and Co-Founder of Singapore-based distributed private key management solution, Torus Labs, said he has been diagnosed with Covid-19 virus and is currently staying at an isolated ward in a hospital.
"I fell ill yesterday and have just been diagnosed with" Covid-19...
Ethereum Locked in DeFi Rises, While Flash Loan Holes Are Being Plugged
10.3.2020
Due to a recent crypto market crash, Ethereum (ETH) locked in DeFi (decentralized finance) is on the rise, while industry players are fixing the flash loan manipulation problem and MakerDAO raises the governance delay.
In early February, total value locked (TVL) in DeFi surpassed USD 1 billion....
Non-Custodial Smart Wallet Seeks to Widen Access to Crypto and DeFi
9.3.2020
London-based smart wallet startup Argent has raised $12 million in a Series A led by Sequoia Capital-backed fund, Paradigm