Ethereum

Summary: Ethereum miners made $87.664 million in a single hour during the Otherside Metaverse NFT mint, a possible all-time high During the same time period, Ethereum users paid a median fee of $4,830 per transaction Almost 64k Ethereum ($176.66 million) in transaction fees was used during the Otherside Metaverse mint of 55k Otherdeed NFTs Ethereum

In mid-February 2020, the total value locked within decentralized finance (DeFi) applications first exceeded $1 billion. Fueled by the DeFi summer of 2020, it wouldn’t even take a year before it multiplied 20-fold to reach $20 billion and only another ten months to reach $200 billion. Given the pace of growth so far, it doesn’t

The upcoming Ethereum merge is one of the most widely discussed topics in the crypto sector and analysts have a wide range of perspectives on how the transition to proof of stake could impact Ether’s price.  ETH/USDT 1-day chart. Source: TradingView Whales accumulate ahead of the merge A deeper dive into the ongoing accumulation of Ether

Summary: The hacker responsible for the 2017 Parity Multisig Exploit has laundering ETH through the popular mixer of Tornado Cash The attacker has laundered over 9,000 Ethereum, worth $25.5 million, through Tornado Cash The funds were moved in batches of 100 Ethereum with the original ETH address now left with 96.88 ETH 153,037 Ethereum was

NFTs have taken pop culture by storm over the past year. On a nearly daily basis, a new celebrity announces their interest in the emerging technology — usually by dropping an NFT collection. From Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction NFTs to Snoop Dogg’s NFT music label, a wide range of notable names are beginning to realize

Since Ethereum Name Service, or ENS, released 10,000 four-digit .eth domains ranging from 0000 to 9999, the nonfungible token collection has caused a stir among NFT investors, speculators and enthusiasts alike. After all 10,000 ENS names sold out in one day, the number of people registering for ENS names and purchasing these digit number names

The deposit contract for staking Ethereum (ETH) on the Beacon chain reached a balance of 12 million ETH on Friday. The total locked value of Ether in the Eth2 contract is worth about $34.5 billion. The deposit contract was launched in November 2020 and currently holds around 10% of the total circulating supply of ETH.

What you need to know: Over 12 million Ethereum is locked in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract This amount translates to roughly 10% of Ethereum’s circulating supply of 120.576 million ETH This amount in ETH will continue being unavailable to depositors until the merge happens Ethereum continues to be affected by a crypto-wide pullback at

The nonfungible token (NFT) and Metaverse sectors have been the bright spots in an otherwise sideways crypto market in 2022 and proof of this comes as the APE token hit a new all-time high at $22.60 on April 28. The steady bullish momentum for APE is, in large part, due to the upcoming The Otherside

Although NFTs have been a part of the cryptocurrency market since 2014, interest and adoption ha risen rapidly over the last two years. At their height in August 2021, the total trading volume of NFTs rose to over $5 billion, kickstarting what briefly came be to known as “NFT Summer”. According to a report by Coingecko,

Summary: The Ronin Network team has published a postmortem report on the exploit that happened on March 23rd The report explains that a Sky Mavis employees are under constant advanced spear-phishing attacks on various social networks One employee was compromised, leading to access to 4 of Sky Mavis’ validator nodes Moving forward, Sky Mavis plans

Samson Mow, former chief strategy officer at Blokstream and founder of JAN3, is convinced that most decentralized finance protocols can’t compete with Bitcoin when it comes to providing an effective monetary network because of their lack of decentralization.  As Mow pointed out, DeFi projects are governed by entities that can modify the protocol at will.

MetaMask is a well-known wallet for Ethereum-enabled distributed applications (dApps). But can MetaMask hold Bitcoin (BTC), which remains the largest cryptocurrency? For many crypto investors, Bitcoin is an important part of their portfolio. Besides being an investment asset, Bitcoin can also be used as a payment method. Thanks to wallets such as MetaMask, paying via

Layer-two (L2) solutions for the Ethereum (ETH) network have grown in prominence over the last year because of the need for scalable networks that offer low-fee transactions and led to numerous projects that built cross-chain bridges with competing blockchain networks.  One project that has benefitted from the growth of the L2 scaling solutions is Synthetix

The Optimism Foundation has unveiled a new governance structure and token as part of its ongoing efforts to bring scalability and cost efficiency to Ethereum, the world’s largest smart contract platform.  The “Optimism Collective” was introduced Tuesday afternoon in a lengthy post that outlined its mission and governance mandate. Described as a “large-scale experiment in

A United States district court has charged two European citizens in connection to a blockchain and cryptocurrency conference in North Korea which violated U.S. sanctions back in 2019.  According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the court documents allege that Alejandro Cao De Benos, a citizen of Spain, and Christopher Emms, a citizen of the