Ethereum Watch

Derivatives exchange operator CME Group is launching an ether reference rate and a real-time ether-dollar index in partnership with UK-based digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities. Advertisements The operator noted Monday that it would provide “a daily benchmark price in U.S. dollars” every 24 hours, as well as the real-time price “based on transactions and […]

Digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities is launching ethereum futures contracts. Advertisements Announced Friday, the U.K. startup claims the news marks the first time futures for ether – the cryptocurrency that powers the ethereum blockchain – will be traded on a regulated platform. Investors will be able to take long or short positions, which will let them […]

“The least evil.” Advertisements That’s how one ethereum user described the latest effort to recover $264 million in cryptocurrency lost due to a code fault in a popular ethereum wallet. But while the recovery efforts that have proliferated since the November incident have been so far shunned, a new effort, now documented in code, aims for […]

It turns out, Vitalik wasn’t exactly joking. Advertisements Sure, that might be what most people thought when ethereum’s creator published a controversial proposal on April Fool’s Day, but the post has prompted a very real, very serious conversation about whether the underlying economics of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency should be altered. In fact, in the weeks […]

Vitalik Buterin has penned a new proposal that could lay the foundation for resolving one of the ethereum network’s biggest outstanding questions – whether a limit on the amount of ether that could be created would ever be set. Advertisements In a new ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) authored April 1, the cryptocurrency’s creator issued his […]

Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the ethereum network, has fallen to one-month lows below $800 and looks set to extend losses further. Advertisements As of writing, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is trading at $787 – down just over 5 percent in the last 24 hours. Prices fell to $779 earlier today, which […]

Ethereum is once again at a familiar crossroads. Advertisements As the price of its cryptocurrency ether has soared (and then corrected) in 2018, one thing has remained constant – users continue to lose money due to hacks, faulty code and human error. It’s an issue that in the past has split the platform into rivaling […]

The price of ether, the native token of the ethereum platform, is bucking the bearish trend seen in top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Advertisements As per data source OnChainFX, ether (ETH) has appreciated by 7.44 percent in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, bitcoin, litecoin, stellar lumens and dash are down at least 3 percent […]

Advertisements Days after hitting $900, ethereum’s native ether token, ether, has topped $1,000 for the first time in its history. After spending two days mostly below its previous high of $900, ether went on a rally Wednesday, and hit its latest milestone of $1,000 early Thursday morning, according to data from CoinDesk’s Ethereum Price Chart […]

The price of ether, the native token of the ethereum platform, has hit a new all-time high over $970 and is eyeing the $1,000 mark. Advertisements As of writing, ether (ETH) is trading at a record $978. The world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization has appreciated by 11 percent in the last 24 hours, according to […]