Tagged: eth

March 11, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James continued her efforts to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency platforms by filing a lawsuit against KuCoin for allegedly failing to register “as a securities and commodities broker-dealer and falsely representing itself as an exchange.” The Office of the Attorney… Read More

March 7, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nym, a network layer privacy provider, has announced a Nym integration with Ethereum validators and even clients “to provide network-level privacy to the entire ecosystem.” A libp2p module “enables over half a million Ethereum validators worldwide to shield transactions via the Nym mixnet.” The module… Read More

February 25, 2023 @ 10:35 am By Camyar Matini  |  

The Shanghai hard fork is projected to unfold this spring around March or April, with the anticipated upgrade affording the capability to withdraw Ethereum from staking for the first time. Ethereum staking rewards participating in network consensus, and in order to participate, one needs to… Read More

February 20, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monad Labs is announcing their $19M seed round, “led by Dragonfly Capital and with participation from Lemniscap, Placeholder, Shima Capital, Finality Capital, and Credibly Neutral, as well as over 70 angels, including Cobie, Hasu, 0xMaki, and a number of other leaders in the space.” This… Read More

February 17, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS reported an 80% year-on-year growth in the number of Bitcoin (BTC) traded on the DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx) in 2022, and “a doubling in the number of BTC custodised with the bank’s digital asset custody solution.” The firm claims these business metrics “underscore the… Read More

February 12, 2023 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently connected with Mike Taormina, Alluvial’s Co-Founder Chief Operating Officer. As COO of Alluvial, he works with industry professionals to build Liquid Collective, an enterprise-grade liquid staking standard. Alluvial is the software development company supporting the implementation of the Liquid Collective protocol. Alluvial… Read More

February 4, 2023 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Threshold Network, a provider of cryptography services to unlock greater utility of digital assets, announced the launch of tBTC, the industry’s “only” decentralized, permissionless, and scalable Bitcoin-to-Ethereum bridge. The launch will “allow users to wrap their BTC in exchange for tBTC tokens that can be… Read More

January 22, 2023 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PARSIQ has launched its “blazing” fast Tsunami API on Arbitrum One. The Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution has already “attracted a strong community of users and developers — with Tsunami API, builders can access instant real-time and historical data providing advanced querying functionality and vital monitoring… Read More

January 22, 2023 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, has fallen from a high of nearly $70,000, which it reached in late 2022, to just over $20,000 at the time of writing. Meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest crypto-asset by market cap and the largest smart contract platform, has… Read More

January 6, 2023 @ 1:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To say that 2022 was a “monumental” year for Injective is an “understatement,” the developers claim. This past year, Injective not only “focused on continuing to expand its ecosystem while strengthening the layer one chain, but it also accelerated its reach within the broader Web3… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In yet another step towards democratizing access to the world of cryptocurrencies in Latin America, Nubank (NYSE: NU) announced two more digital currencies as part of the Nubank Cripto experience, currently “available to more than 67 million of customers in Brazil.” Launched in May “with… Read More

December 18, 2022 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

THORChain, a non-custodial decentralized native asset protocol that enables wallets, decentralized exchanges (DEXs), and users to seamlessly transfer their digital assets across blockchains, has completed its integration with Trust Wallet, a self-custodial and multi-chain wallet provider. This integration “unlocks decentralized multichain swaps for the more… Read More

December 18, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys, a Web3 company, announced that U.S. MetaMask users will be able to purchase crypto (ETH) from “within the app” using PayPal. MetaMask will reportedly “be the first Web3 wallet to leverage PayPal to drive more successful on-ramp transactions.” Initially available to select PayPal users… Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sommelier, the automated DeFi portfolio management platform, announces that it has launched Ethereum DeFi strategy tokens “for the first time on Injective, a layer 1 Cosmos blockchain optimized for finance.” Sommelier is a blockchain/DLT-based platform “built with the Cosmos SDK that executes advanced crypto portfolio… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance.US, the U.S. partner to one of the world’s largest crypto exchange and America’s home to buy, sell, trade, convert and stake digital assets, announced that it “has expanded its zero fee pricing model to now include Ethereum (ETH), effective immediately.” All new and existing… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bigo Live, which claims to be one of the world’s fastest-growing social live streaming platforms, has enabled their users to top up accounts by paying “with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC).” Powered by licensed crypto payment gateway TripleA,… Read More

November 18, 2022 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, at COP27, one of the world’s largest gatherings on climate action, a group of Web3 companies convened by ConsenSys and Allinfra, joined civil society leaders and the UNFCCC Climate Innovation Hub, “to announce the creation of the Ethereum Climate Platform (ECP).” Its mission is… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is now making the claim that all ETH transactions fall under U.S. jurisdiction due to the network’s high concentration of nodes within the country. If this claim is found to be accurate, we will very soon see a… Read More

October 16, 2022 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Launchnodes recently announced the rollout of Geth Nodes for Ethereum staking on AWS, following Ethereum’s successful ‘Merge’ in late September 2022. Using Geth nodes (execution layer clients) on AWS is “a cheap and easy way to enable staking through any consensus layer client when staking… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Now that Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, has completed the Merge, it’s time to get ready for the next set of Ethereum upgrades – “the Surge, Verge, Purge, and Splurge.” As noted in an update released via an OKX – Okcoin research… Read More