Tagged: ethereum

August 22, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European digital asset fund manager CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS) has released its digital asset fund flows Weekly report. As noted in a blog post by the firm’s management, disappointment from SEC ETF decisions has impacted sentiment. According to the update from CoinShares, digital asset investment… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca Crypto is pleased to share updates with their traders and partners. Starting from 9 am EST on Friday, August 18th, they will be rolling out support “for new cryptocurrencies, expanding their USDC pair support, and facilitating deposits and withdrawals for all supported Ethereum (ERC-20)… Read More

August 18, 2023 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lucas Kiely, chief investment officer of digital wealth platform Yield App, says that today’s tumble in crypto asset prices, driven by macro factors, will likely be short-lived. He adds that a wave of good news this week, “including the launch of Europe’s first spot bitcoin… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tanay Ved, Lucas Nuzzi & the Coin Metrics team have examined the various features and risks associated with DeFi lending in an extensive report. The researchers at Coin Metrics noted that “over the years, the digital asset ecosystem has spawned diverse use-cases.” Among them, decentralized… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 30th, 2015, the Genesis block of Ethereum was created. Eight years later, today Ethereum is the dominant blockchain network “with growing developer interest, lower transaction fees, and faster settlement times.” Yet, fewer than 0.5% of the 100 million developers worldwide “are actively building… Read More

August 9, 2023 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink Price Feeds are live on Base—a fast and “highly scalable” layer-2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase and secured by Ethereum. With this integration, developers building on Base can “have access to industry-standard Chainlink Data Feeds and other web3 services.” The native integration of Chainlink Price… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

This announcement marks a significant milestone in the digital landscape as NexeraID in collaboration with PolygonID unveil their Web3 Compliance initiative. This project sets a standard for privacy protection while “ensuring strict adherence to regulatory requirements in the ever-evolving realm of Web3 compliance.” With the… Read More

August 6, 2023 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 30, 2023, several liquidity pools on Curve Finance were exploited, resulting in approximately $70 million in losses and triggering panic within the DeFi ecosystem, the team at Chainalysis noted. In a blog post, Chainalysis also mentioned that these hacks occurred due to “a… Read More

August 2, 2023 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares says it has built on the performance seen at the start of the year, “delivering Q2 results that represent the Group’s strongest quarter since the start of 2022.” CoinShares has shared some results: Revenue for Q2 2023: £10.7 million (Q2 2022: £13.9 million) Gains… Read More

July 25, 2023 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Neon EVM, an Ethereum Virtual Machine operating as a smart contract on Solana, announced its integration with Covalent, marking a significant step forward for both platforms. Neon EVM’s recently launched platform “allows developers to use EVM developer tools and Ethereum’s compute layer to transact on… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On July 13, 2023, the crypto and blockchain industry got “good news” when Judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Ripple did “not violate securities law in selling its token (XRP) via public exchanges,” the… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Foundation, the non-profit that supports and funds ecosystem development on NEAR Protocol, an open-source and climate-neutral blockchain, has announced it signed up to the Ethereum Climate Platform. The move demonstrates the foundation’s commitment “to sustainability in Web3 – and to working collaboratively with globally… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 1:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has entered the Mainnet Early Access phase on the Avalanche, Ethereum, Optimism, and Polygon blockchains. DeFi protocols in derivatives and lending are “adopting CCIP, including Synthetix, which is live on CCIP mainnet, as well as Aave, with BGD Labs… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coin Metrics has taken a data-driven look at digital asset markets after a milestone ruling in the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. Ripple Kyle Waters and Matias Andrade Cabieses from Coin Metrics noted in a detailed report that we’ve witnessed a significant development… Read More

July 16, 2023 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hex Trust Group, an institutional-grade digital asset custodian licensed across global financial hubs, has announced Ether (ETH) staking services have now been relaunched following the Shapella upgrades on the Ethereum blockchain. Hex Trust has an Ethereum Validator Node and “plays a vital role in… Read More

July 6, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Starknet is deploying a “bottleneck-busting” upgrade, which is expected to bring unprecedented TPS of “several hundred” to the Ethereum ecosystem. The Ethereum network is congested, and scaling solutions including Starknet aim “to operate at high throughput in order to alleviate the traffic jam.” Eli Ben-Sasson,… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralization theatre: We’ve heard it time and time again in recent months as several projects have struggled to commit to the underlying ideological tenets of blockchain amid growing skepticism of the space. Others have fared relatively well, though — from the community-initiated vote for the… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amidst all the bank failures, web3 hacks, and custodian collapses of the last year, “one thing is clear: self-custody is the only security model you can truly count on,” the team at Casa noted in a recent update. The best defense for your ether against… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Graph, the indexing and query protocol for organizing blockchain data, begins the final phase of its integration onto Arbitrum, the Layer 2 (L2) scaling solution built on Ethereum. Through its transition to Arbitrum One, The Graph reportedly “lowers gas fees, accelerates transaction speeds, and… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Blockchain Intelligence Group , a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and cryptocurrency and digital asset training, is announcing the latest release of its renowned Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI) training program; CCI ETH. This new certificate course… Read More