Tagged: ethereum

May 2, 2022 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Optimism, one of the four “major” Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions, will soon be “launching a new governance and incentive token, OP, much to the community’s excitement.” This launch, which includes airdrops to early adopters and active users and contributors, has “the potential to stir… Read More

April 27, 2022 @ 1:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Permission.io, which claims to be the “leading” provider of permission-based Web3 advertising, announced that it’s migrating away from its own proprietary blockchain to Polygon, the “preeminent” Ethereum scaling solution with over 100 million “unique users.” The migration is the company’s first in “a series of… Read More

April 25, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll, an EVM-compatible zk-Rollup project to scale Ethereum and “create a platform that is friendly for users onboarding crypto,” recently secured $30 million from researchers and developers, members of the Ethereum community, and investment firms “including Polychain Capital, Bain Crypto, Geometry DAO, and Mapleleaf Capital.”… Read More

April 21, 2022 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

21Shares AG, a Swiss-based issuer of crypto Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), and the leading ETF provider, ETF Securities have “launched two funds that offer simple, cost-effective and direct access to cryptocurrency investments.” ETFS 21Shares Bitcoin ETF is “the first Australian ETF to invest directly in… Read More

April 16, 2022 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini, a digital currency platform to buy, sell, earn, and store crypto, recently announced that the Gemini Credit CardTM is now available “in all 50 U.S. states.” Cardholders can “earn up to 3% crypto back on dining+, 2% crypto back on groceries, and 1% crypto… Read More

April 12, 2022 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Ethereum’s (ETH) very first mainnet shadow fork has gone live (as of April 11, 2022). This, as the developers of the second-largest digital currency by market capitalization continue the gradual transition to a proof-of-stake or PoS (blockchain) consensus model. The shadow fork is a… Read More

April 3, 2022 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  vEmpire DDAO, which claims to be the largest decentralized Metaverse, GameFi and NFT investment organization, has announced the launch of a staking pool for ApeCoin. ApeCoin is an ERC-20 governance and utility token used “within the wider Ape ecosystem, which has itself experienced [steady]… Read More

April 3, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange and ecosystem, has announced a partnership with Ethereum’s Layer 2 scaling solution for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Immutable X. As mentioned in an update shared with CI, the partnership should “accelerate OKX’s strategy to make MetaX the DeFi portal of choice… Read More

March 31, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Polygon Network, a decentralized app (dApp) layer for Ethereum, has announced that “Polygon ID”, one of the first identity platforms powered by zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography — privacy, and blockchain scaling technology, will be “ready before the year ends.” The blockchain-enabled ID for decentralized and… Read More

March 30, 2022 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report from Huobi Research Institute, a blockchain research organization, has identified multi-chain networks as “key to the blockchain ecosystem’s long-term development due to the security, decentralization and scalability they offer.” Titled “Game of Thrones in Blockchain: Multi-chain Networks Battle for Supremacy”, the report by… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the leading derivatives marketplace, has introduced options on Micro Bitcoin and Micro Ether futures, further expanding its suite of virtual currency derivatives offerings. Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity and FX Products, stated: “The launch of these micro-sized options builds on… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on March 28, 2022 that sentiment “recovers” with record digital asset… Read More

March 28, 2022 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venly, a blockchain tech provider, is pleased to confirm its partnership with Immutable X, which is an Ethereum (ETH) Layer-2 scaling solution for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), in order to “popularize and enable unbeatable blockchain solutions to its growing audiences.” Venly is a blockchain tech provider… Read More

March 27, 2022 @ 5:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The price of Ethereum Classic (ETC) surged 103% – compared to Bitcoin’s (BTC) increase of 13% – between March 13 and March 24, 2022, starting from $26 and “peaking at $48.50,” according to a report from Grayscale. The team at Grayscale noted in the report… Read More

March 27, 2022 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon is pleased to confirm that they have added support for Ethereum’s (ETH) open-source client software “in preparation for the ’the merge’.” As part of their ongoing commitment, they’re offering $900,000 worth of IBM Cloud credits to fund Ethereum client stability testing. This will directly… Read More

March 25, 2022 @ 6:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Coinweb, a layer-2 blockchain interoperability protocol, this week announced the addition of the Ethereum underlying chain to its expandable blockchain infrastructure. This integration lays the groundwork for protocol-level unification of the Bitcoin-derived chains and the Ethereum family of chains. By integrating and unifying the chains… Read More

March 24, 2022 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The digital asset and cryptocurrency trading platform MEXC Global has announced an ecosystem fund of $150 million, along with Bybit, in order to support the ecosystem growth of Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based AI lab building an open-access “decentralized” machine learning network for smart infrastructure. Known as… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iZUMi Finance, a DeFi protocol bringing programmable liquidity mining to Uniswap V3, is teaming up with the HOURAI NFT project to “imbue its upcoming NFTs with value from iZUMi’s DeFi derivatives.” Each holder of HOURAI NFTs, if whitelisted (mint price at 0.1 ETH), will be… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Just when you thought their open-sourced ShapeShift V2 platform was sounding like a “one-stop-shop” solution for your cryptocurrency requirements, the team at ShapeShift claims that they have made further enhancements with the integration of the Gem on- and off-ramp embedded user interface. This will allow… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes that for the week ending March 18, 2022, there were outflows that continued “with $47 million,… Read More