Ethereum Watch

The term decentralized currency was meant to signify a virtual currency that would be based on the logic of mathematics and economics, mined from the blockchain and stored in one’s digital wallet, assigned by a private key. However, that is not the case. Advertisements In a recent piece on the Bankless blog, Coinmetrics co-founder Nic […]

Advertisements Plasma scalability for the Ethereum network is now a matter of implementation, according to the non-profit Plasma Group. The non-profit research organization Plasma Group announced in a Jan. 9 blog post that it would cease studying Ethereum scalability. Identifying funding of public goods as the next key challenge, it pledged to donate its remaining […]

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the rest of the crypto market have been on quite the tear of the past week, with BTC rallying from $6,800 to $8,450 in a matter of a few days. But over the past 48 hours, the crypto market has stalled, with nearly all digital assets posting 8% losses from the local […]

A research experiment by Messari highlights how certain sub-niches of DeFi outperformed the rest by linking price appreciation to utility and usage.  Advertisements Dollar Returns From Top Tokens The rise of DeFi was unmistakably a central theme in the cryptocurrency landscape of 2019. Assets locked in open finance protocols surged from $200 million to nearly […]

In the latest DeFi launch, money market protocol Aave will gather off-chain pricing data via the decentralized oracle services of Chainlink. LINK token holders will also be able to earn interest with Aave. Advertisements Introducing “Flash Loans” On Jan. 8, 2020, Aave protocol launched it’s mainnet and announced “the first attempt in DeFi at uncollateralized […]

Advertisements Decentralized finance (DeFi) is positioned to unite fragmented ecosystems and unlock billions of dollars in idle potential, ushering in another era of crypto innovation. The Promises of the Revolution Blockchain and cryptocurrencies brought promises of a new, decentralized, utopian world free from central banks, government, and censorship. Enthusiasts envisioned a world in which power […]

\n Advertisements Interest is growing in several distributed financial platforms based on Ethereum and other blockchain networks. The growth of the entire sector was around 130% over the last 12 months, with Ethereum-based apps continuing to dominate. According to the website DeFi Pulse, a service tracking the growth of the sector, this time last year, […]

The world of cryptocurrencies is often talked about in the context of future developments, which is why Bitcoin mining has been largely spoken of in the background of the upcoming halving. However, altcoin mining has been fairly unnoticed. Unlike Bitcoin mining, altcoin mining is considered more complex. Thus, it is still at a relatively nascent […]

‘Ethereum 2 is coming’ has been the tagline of the Ethereum community for the past several years. However, the new phase, Serenity, is set to come to fruition soon, with the team outlining 2020 as the year it would start rolling out. Serenity would be launching in three phases – phase zero, phase 1, and […]

Ethereum Foundation, the main non-profit organization that heads the development of Ethereum, recently made an announcement with regard to Vyper Compiler. Vyper is a “contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the EVM” and it includes vyper and vyper-json command-line scripts for compiling contracts, along with an online and Remix IDE compiler. Advertisements In a blog […]