Ethereum Watch

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 […]

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 […]

Ethereum’s latest hard fork, Muir glacier, has successfully decreased the block time by nearly 25%. The hard fork was mainly scheduled to decrease the mining difficulty or the “difficulty bomb,” enabling the production of more blocks in lesser time, while also helping resolve the scaling problem of Ethereum. As per data provided by Etherscan, the […]

On 6 January, Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin led a discussion on the Ethereum Research forum, a discussion where he outlined a model for scalable data chains without committees through fraud-proof-free data availability proofs. According to Buterin, fraud-proof-free data availability checking schemes preserve more of the properties of a traditional non-sharded blockchain. Advertisements “If a block […]

Ethereum Foundation, the non-profit organization that promotes and supports the development of Ethereum, has constantly been criticized for its transparency policy by both members of the ecosystem and outsiders. One of the most prominent figures who has been quite vocal about the policy, or lack thereof, is Bob Summerwill, the Executive Director of ETC Cooperative. […]

“Ether absolutely can be money if the community wants it to be,” remarked Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, at the Ethereal Summit that took place in October 2019. The statement was made after Buterin was asked whether he believed if Ether could be a “global permissionless store of value asset that would be most functional.” […]

2019 has been crucial to the emergence of the crypto-derivatives market. Many industry experts believe that this sector would soon replicate “positive figures exhibited by the traditional market” as crypto-derivatives become more and more popular with institutional traders and investors continue to jump into the bandwagon. Advertisements For a long time, the derivatives space was […]