Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum miners made $87.664 million in a single hour during the Otherside Metaverse NFT mint, a possible all-time high During the same time period, Ethereum users paid a median fee of $4,830 per transaction Almost 64k Ethereum ($176.66 million) in transaction fees was used during the Otherside Metaverse mint of 55k Otherdeed NFTs […]

Advertisements Summary: The hacker responsible for the 2017 Parity Multisig Exploit has laundering ETH through the popular mixer of Tornado Cash The attacker has laundered over 9,000 Ethereum, worth $25.5 million, through Tornado Cash The funds were moved in batches of 100 Ethereum with the original ETH address now left with 96.88 ETH 153,037 Ethereum […]

Advertisements Quick take: DeFi hackers have made off with over $10 million in Ethereum (3,540 ETH) from Saddle Finance The loss could have been higher, but white hat hackers from Block Sec Team rescued $3.8 million worth of Ethereum (1,360 ETH) The team at Saddle Finance has confirmed the hack Block Sec is in the […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum’s developers have decided not to delay the pending difficulty bomb, as the Merge of its mainnet to the Beacon chain could still happen this summer If all goes according to plan, Ethereum developers could be ready to fork testnets in 2 weeks, removing the need for a hardfork to delay the difficulty […]

Advertisements What you need to know: Over 12 million Ethereum is locked in the ETH 2.0 deposit contract This amount translates to roughly 10% of Ethereum’s circulating supply of 120.576 million ETH This amount in ETH will continue being unavailable to depositors until the merge happens Ethereum continues to be affected by a crypto-wide pullback […]

Advertisements Summary: The Ronin Network, Axie Infinity hackers, have transferred 33,568.152 ETH to a new address 61,253.416 ETH now remains in the Ethereum address that stored the initial funds from the hack The US Treasury has intensified sanctions aimed at blocking Ethereum addresses associated with the hack Decentralized mixing platforms such as Tornado Cash have […]

Advertisements Quick take: The Ethereum Foundation has released its 2022 annual report As of March 31st, 2022, the Ethereum Foundation holds approximately $1.6 billion in its treasury $1.3 Billion is in crypto and $300 million in non-crypto investments and assets 99.1% of its crypto holdings are in ETH, representing 0.297% of the total supply and […]

Advertisements Quick take: Moonbirds NFTs currently top the list in 24-hour trade volume at $157 million The Moonbirds NFTs went on sale yesterday, April 16th, and are dominating the daily and weekly trade volumes Their trade volume has exceeded that of Meebits and Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs There are currently 6,920 holders of Moonbirds, […]

Advertisements Summary: The NBA has launched a new Discord server to promote Web3 and NFTs ahead of the playoffs The National Basketball Association has also launched a Twitter feed solely dedicated to NFTs The NBA playoffs kick off today, and the Discord server will allow its first 10k members to add an Ethereum address by […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin has chimed in on the Elon Musk and Twitter saga Vitalik does not oppose Elon Musk running the social media platform However, he disagrees with wealthy people and organizations orchestrating hostile take-overs of social media firms He believes such hostile takeovers could go wrong if the buying entity is ‘ethically […]