Ethereum Watch

Ethereum validators have earned 1.1 million ETH ($2.007 billion) in staking rewards since January 2021, according to Delphi Digital data. Advertisements Ethereum validators started staking in 2021, soon after the launch of the Beacon Chain. Since then, their reward has steadily grown as more validators joined the network. Ethereum Validators Earning (Source: Delphi Digital) Over 67k […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum Layer 2 protocol Arbitrum will airdrop native tokens under the ticker ARB to community members on Mar. 28. ARB will serve as the governance token for the protocol’s new self-executing DAO and its network – Arbitrum One and Nova. The protocol also announced a layer 3 stack for developers dubbed Orbit to […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum developers agreed to test the Shanghai or Shapella update on Goerli on March 14. Goerli marks the largest and final public testnet to mimic withdrawals for staked Ether before the upgrade goes live on ETH’s mainnet. Developers hinted that the upgrade’s mainnet launch could happen slightly later than expected, in the second […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade meant to enable the withdrawal of staked ETH was successfully tested on Sepolia, a public testnet. The test simulated two crucial upgrades – Shanghai on the execution layer and Capella on the consensus layer. Developers will now test Shanghai-Capella or Shapella on a third public testnet before the mainnet update- […]

Ethereum core developers want to build a new testnet called Holesky which will solve the issue of testnet token distribution for developers currently using the Goerli testnet. Advertisements In a Feb. 23 tweet, Ethereum’s core developer, Tim Beiko, said the developers were planning a new testnet Holli for later this year. The testnet could be […]

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum developers plan to trial the Shanghai-Capella upgrade on the Sepolia testnet. Developers scheduled the update to test staked ETH withdrawals by upgrading the execution layer with Shanghai and the consensus layer with Capella. Shapella as it’s called was already tested on the Zhejiang testnet and developers discovered minor bugs to thrash out. […]

Advertisements Summary: JP Morgan analysts expect the ratio of staked Ether to move towards the 60% average on other Proof-of-Stake blockchains. The bank added that yield returns could dip while the number of validators on Ethereum should increase to over 2 million. JP Morgan also sees liquid staking protocols like Lido Finance claiming more ETH […]

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 […]