Ethereum Watch

Advertisements Summary: Ethereum core developers are in agreement that ETH’s difficulty bomb should be delayed by two to four months. The Ethereum developers also floated the idea of combining the difficulty bomb delay with the client releases for the Bellatrix hard fork on the Beacon Chain. An EIP needs to be proposed to the community […]

Advertisements Quick take: Over 34 million addresses that hold ETH are in loss positions. The second-largest crypto is down over 10% in the last week. Other altcoins across the market are also down as the markets hit a lull. Ethereum’s transition to PoS could still happen in August despite the reorg attack on the Beacon […]

The crypto market has had quite a rough ride of late. The king altcoin Ethereum in the last 24 hours tanked by 3.54%. It followed BTC’s movement closely as ETH’s correlation to the king coin stood at 0.91. Advertisements The last 24 hours have been crucial for Ethereum as the bears gained momentum. On 20 […]

Advertisements The Prysmatic Labs team said the Merge might occur as early as August Preston Van Loon shared the news at this week’s Permissionless blockchain conference Vitalik Buterin made similar comments at the ETH Shanghai Summit Merging on the Ropsten testnet is also set for June 8 The Merge transitions Ethereum from a proof-of-work blockchain […]

Advertisements Quick summary: Tron’s Justin Sun has offered to set aside $10 million in USDD to assist the average UST investor affected by the depegging of the stablecoin Mr. Sun was responding to a similar idea by Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, calling for ‘coordinated sympathy and relief for the average UST smallholder’ Mr. Butern also cited […]

On Saturday, April 30th, Bored Ape’s creators Yuga Labs broke Ethereum. Their new metaverse-inspired project, Otherside sold plots of virtual land to a roaring crowd of people yelling “Shut up and take my money!” In this case, the currency in question was the recently created ApeCoin. However, since Ethereum hosts ApeCoin and the land NFTs, […]

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 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 […]

Advertisements Quick take: Tom Brady has stated via Twitter that he is a big fan of Vitalik Buterin Mr. Brady’s tweet was made on the backdrop of Vitalik being trolled for appearing on the cover of Time Magazine’s recent NFT issue Social media trolls had compared Vitalik to Tom Brady, but not in a positive […]

Advertisements Quick take: Time magazine has released its first-ever full magazine issue as an NFT Ethereum’s Vitalik Butern featured on the cover of the NFT issue of Time magazine Vitalik discussed the future of crypto including the dangers of overeager investors and the potential for Ethereum to change the world Time magazine has released its […]