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‘Ethereum 2 is coming’ has been the tagline of the Ethereum community for the past several years. However, the new phase, Serenity, is set to come to fruition soon, with the team outlining 2020 as the year it would start rolling out. Serenity would be launching in three phases – phase zero, phase 1, and […]

Ethereum Foundation, the main non-profit organization that heads the development of Ethereum, recently made an announcement with regard to Vyper Compiler. Vyper is a “contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the EVM” and it includes vyper and vyper-json command-line scripts for compiling contracts, along with an online and Remix IDE compiler. Advertisements In a blog […]

Ethereum, the leading smart contract platform, will be taking the first step towards its most awaited upgrades this year. The platform will initiate its shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake with the launch of phase zero of Serenity. The main aspect of this stage is the rollout of Beacon Chain, while the other phases will see […]

Ethereum Foundation Researcher, Virgil Griffith, who was last in the news after he was arrested by the FBI for traveling to North Korea and attending a conference in Pyongyang, has now been formally indicted for “conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.” Advertisements The latest development was first revealed by Inner City Press […]

The prices of most major cryptocurrencies have responded positively to the new year. With the price of Bitcoin [BTC] rising, other altcoins are following its lead and noting a spike in price too. Ethereum [ETH], the second-largest crypto in the world, completed its crucial Muir Glacier update recently, having noted an almost 12% growth since. […]

The research team at Malta-based crypto-exchange Binance recently published its third report on decentralized finance applications. The report analyzed network data provided by DAppReview, as well as recent developments in the DeFi space, focusing mostly on Ethereum. Advertisements The report claimed that Ethereum’s spectrum of applications is more extensive than other blockchains, adding that its […]

Over the past 3 days, Bitcoin has witnessed a surge of 12.3 percent, a development that took its price valuation above the $8000 mark. However, the first week of January was found to be more bullish for altcoins, than the king coin. Advertisements According to Coinmetrics, major altcoins like Ethereum, XRP, and Litecoin registered negligible […]

Etheruem’s Muir Glacier hard fork activated at block 9,200,000 and introduced a code change, EIP 2384, in order to delay the ‘difficulty bomb’ for another 4,000,000 blocks. This was the third instance in two years where Ethereum developers called to push back the ‘difficulty bomb’ which was a part of the original Ethereum code to […]

Cryptocurrency data platform, Satiment, recently reported that Ethereum retail holders (with 0.001 to 10 ETH in their addresses) increased their cumulative balance by 195,490 ETH (6.63%), since 1 January 2019. In a post on Twitter, Santiment explained that this rise in cumulative holdings went hand-in-hand with the rise of DeFi DApps on the platform. Advertisements […]

Bitwala, the Berlin-based Bitcoin wallet, has announced its latest step forward in the world of cryptos by adding support for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum [ETH]. Being the only banking service for cryptocurrencies in Europe, Bitwala will allow users to trade Ethereum in 31 European countries with individual private keys, the wallet revealed in an […]