Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Ethereum network use and transaction fees are rising to record highs, will this interfere with DeFi’s current expansion? The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high.  As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past […]

Key Takeaways Manic yield farming events and sky high token valuations make identifying top DeFi projects difficult. Crypto Briefing has created a framework that draws on governance and token distribution to measure which protocols are the most decentralized. The critical obstacles facing most projects is that of token concentration and attracting token holders to participate […]

Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Advertisements It’s been another volatile week for the Bitcoin market. In the past seven days, the leading cryptocurrency has traded at both $11,100 and $12,000, whipsawing between the levels as the price enters a consolidation. Ethereum, on the other hand, has been surging higher; ETH now trades for $440 […]

Ethereum has a transaction fee problem, similar to the one it and Bitcoin faced in 2017 and early 2018. Advertisements On August 12th, the cost of Ethereum “gas,” how transaction fees are calculated, hit 277 Gwei. By this writer’s estimates, that means that sending ETH was $2.25, sending ERC-20 was around $5, and trading on […]