Ethereum Watch

Advertisements The crypto dominance race is being commanded by the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape, as its relative protocols and tokens have outperformed Bitcoin and its brethren so far this year. Ethereum is the foundation of this new financial landscape, and it has been pulling more and more BTC into the mix. DeFi markets have instantly […]

Advertisements The Ethereum blockchain has seen a two-year single-day high for daily active addresses at nearly 500,000. Generally, network statistics seem to indicate that the decentralized finance (DeFi) market, which has also grown popular in the same time frame, has contributed greatly to network growth. The Ethereum blockchain is seeing activity levels comparable to months […]

Advertisements All the hype around decentralized finance’s latest liquidity farming craze is attracting new players eager to get their tokens out to investors and enjoy the subsequent moon shots. The latest to join the digital bandwagon is lending platform bZx. DeFi markets are starting to cool off after what has been a pretty wild week […]

Advertisements Decentralized finance is the hottest thing in the crypto industry at the moment. It is largely powered by Ethereum, which has remained relatively flat in comparison. Analysts are now beginning to ask when ETH prices will start to benefit from this DeFi momentum. Decentralized finance markets are hovering around their all-time high in terms […]

Advertisements The massive success of Compound’s DeFi platform token distribution launch last week has generated a bit of hype and criticism from the crypto community. Many are now calling it a bubble, and some ardent Bitcoiners are even willing it to burst. Less than a week after token distribution began, COMP has surged from virtually […]

Advertisements The blockchain software engineering firm ConsenSys, announced this week that it is launching an institutional-grade Ethereum staking-as-a-service platform. The demand for staking applications ahead of the long-awaited ETH 2.0 launch is heating up, and more are likely to follow. ConsenSys, which has recently launched compliance services for the DeFi industry, provides enterprise-level blockchain tracing […]

Advertisements Decentralized finance markets have largely weathered the economic storm this year and continue to mature despite the crypto market remaining relatively flat. This new financial landscape could have a much greater impact on Ethereum than the ICO boom. Ethereum provides the foundation for DeFi since it is currently the global standard for smart contracts […]

Advertisements Decentralized financial markets (DeFi) have made a remarkable recovery since the mid-March COVID-19 crash. So much so, that the total locked value has again surpassed $1 billion. The DeFi ecosystem took a big hit three months ago when the Ethereum price crashed by 50%, wiping out a considerable amount of locked-up crypto collateral. The […]

Advertisements Around $9,765,000,000 is currently locked up in staking contracts across various cryptocurrency networks. The combined value of all such contracts has been steadily growing since the crash in cryptocurrency prices that bottomed in mid-March of this year. The current all-time high for staking contracts occurred on Feb 14. At the top, investors hoping to […]

Advertisements Ethereum’s evolution into a completely decentralized financial ecosystem is progressing steadily. Stablecoin issuance on the network has surged, and almost 50% of its total value is now in ERC-20 tokens. Messari crypto researcher, Ryan Watkins (@RyanWatkins_), has observed that ERC-20 tokens are approaching 50% of the total value stored on Ethereum. Over the past […]