Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Summary: Russia’s largest bank said the Ethereum-based platform will launch for open testing in March ahead of the main launch in May. The system will begin facilitating commercial operations at the end of April and MetaMask users will be able to connect to the DeFI platform. Friday’s news comes after Sberbank launched Russia’s first […]

Advertisements Summary: The average number of 56 industry experts expect ETH to hit finish 2023 above $2,000 and hit $6,000 by 2025. Finder’s panelists also opined that Ethereum could flippen Bitcoin as the largest crypto by market cap by 2024. 56% of Finder’s experts said now is the time to buy Ether and 60% believe […]

Advertisements Summary: Developers finalized the ‘Withdrawal-Mainnet-Shadow-Fork-1’ on Thursday. The move marks the first major test phase for Ethereum’s hyped Shanghai updated in March 2023. ETH Developer Marius Van Der Wijden noted configuration difficulties on Geth but said progress is underway. Ethereum developers announced a ‘shadow fork’ of the Shanghai update built to test the withdrawal […]

Advertisements Summary: The Raydium exploiter drained a total of $4.4 million in digital assets from the Solana DEX in December 2022 before moving the funds to Ethereum’s blockchain. A wallet controlled by the hack transferred $2.7 million of the stolen loot to sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash on Thursday. The incident was one of several […]

Advertisements Summary: The Ethereum Name Service governance proposal aims to create an extra runway for the project should the crypto market suffer another downturn. 10,000 ETH would be sold for Circle’s USDC via a Gnosis auction, Wednesday’s proposal suggested. ENS DAO held around $2.4 million in stablecoin and some 40,000 Ether in its treasury at […]

Advertisements Summary: Validators on the network increased from 428,000 around September 15 when Ethereum upgrade from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. The news comes ahead of staked Ether withdrawals expected to roll out with the Shanghai update in March 2023. Validators have staked over 16 million ETH worth roughly $25 billion with Ether trading around $1500 on […]

Advertisements Summary: Coinbase Director Conor Grogan spotted Ether transfers to the “FTX Accounts Drainer” with private notes on how to move the assets undetected. The hacker was advised to leverage less popular and more privacy-based crypto mixer protocols. The U.S. Justice Department launched an investigation into the matter after nearly $400 million was stolen from […]

Advertisements Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a financial system built on top of blockchain technology that allows for financial services without traditional intermediaries DeFi is open, transparent, and secure, and offers greater financial inclusion and potentially more efficient and cost-effective services Potential drawbacks include complexity, lack of regulation, risk of losses, risk of hacking, and limited […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum developers had their weekly call to discuss what features should roll out in the next hard fork. Marius Van Der Wijden said coders were already working toward staked Ether withdrawals prior to the call. Developers will proceed with around eight Ethereum Improvement Proposals for Shanghai, the next technological upgrade. The timeline for […]

Advertisements FTX hacker reportedly swapped around $50M of $Dai to $Ethereum in a state of “panic” according to intelligence firm Arkham. It is rumored that this hack is an inside job, with Kraken CEO Nick Percoco confirming that they know the identity of the attacker. According to security firm Hacken, the hacker has had to […]