Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Ethereum’s implied volatility dropped below Bitcoin’s for the first time ever, but is this a bullish or bearish development? Ether (ETH) options implied volatility, a measure of the expected price swings as per the options markets premium, has dropped below Bitcoin’s (BTC) for the first time ever.  This could signal that investors have given […]

The smarts contracts giant continues consolidating within a descending parallel channel that began developing at the beginning of the month. Since then, each time Ethereum rises to the upper boundary of the channel, it pulls down to hit the lower boundary, and from this point, it bounces back up again. Advertisements The recent bearish impulse […]

Ethereum’s budding decentralized finance ecosystem has gone parabolic over recent weeks. Advertisements The value of cryptocurrencies locked in DeFi applications has skyrocketed to $1.65 billion, 65% higher than this metric was just 12 days ago. Simultaneously, the number of users leveraging applications like Compound, Maker, and Synthetix has skyrocketed. Unfortunately, a purported hack just took […]

Bitcoin as a financial asset has drastically grown in popularity in the past few years. As adoption continues to grow and fiat on-ramps and off-ramps become easily accessible, Bitcoin’s user base has grown and diversified significantly. The past few years saw greater institutional interest. While the Hodl culture within the community continues to be dominant, […]

Key Takeaways Yield farming is the process of earning a return on capital by putting it to productive use Money markets offer the simplest way to earn reliable yields on your crypto Liquidity pools have better yields than money markets, but there is additional market risk Incentive schemes can sweeten the deal, giving yield farmers […]

Advertisements Quick take: Support for Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559 is gathering traction. The ETH community is crowdfunding efforts to have it developed and implemented on the Ethereum blockchain.  43 ETH and $16,800 in DAI have been raised thus far.  The EIP aims at solving the issue of high transaction fees such as the ones witnessed […]

Ethereum and the ecosystem it hosts have been on a ride this last week, particularly the DeFi ecosystem. This was mainly due to the recent hype around yield/liquidity farming. Interestingly, all of this is happening at a time when ETH is transitioning into PoS. Advertisements Regardless, ETH is still the second-largest cryptocurrency in the market, […]

Ethereum facing the heat? Advertisements It would seem that the group behind the PlusToken, one of the industry’s biggest scams, is becoming more active by the day. Just a few days after PlusToken moved over $65M in EOS between wallets, an ETH transfer worth $186M was initiated. While the said transaction was, briefly, stuck in […]

The cryptocurrency market saw a lot of its momentum evaporating after many of its coins underwent corrections on the charts after a brief upside. At the time of writing, the collective market cap had fallen to $262.45 billion, while Bitcoin’s dominance stood at 64.5%. As Bitcoin’s price slid to $9,189 at the time of writing, […]

Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Advertisements At one point this week, analysts thought Bitcoin was about to be thrust into a full-blown bull market. The cryptocurrency saw a strong rally at the start of the week that took ti as high as $9,800 on major exchanges. But in normal BTC fashion, the rally was […]