Ethereum

Traditional venture capital funds drive valuations through multiple funding rounds. Startups aim for initial public offerings or other exits. Then the sharemarket decides upon a more realistic valuation.  But in cryptoland, tokens introduce market capitalization while a company is being built. This means there are a lot of competing interests and agendas. Token sales for

Content aggregation, ranking, and discussion website Reddit announced a new blockchain-backed avatar system on Thursday. Though no official date was revealed, the company suggested that the avatars will be available to the general public in the next few weeks. For now, Reddit is providing first-look early access to a limited number of people who join

When you are looking for information about certain transactions or tokens on the Solana blockchain, SolScan is the tool to use for this purpose. This tool is trusted by many venture capitalists, such as Solana Ventures and Alameda Research. In addition, there are over 2 million monthly users, totaling over 180 million data requests. Related:

The price of Ethereum (ETH) has continued to trade upwards over the past several days, following a dramatic reversal from the previous low near $1,000 during the last seven days. Wednesday saw the ETH/USD pair surge to the $1,175 barrier level, recording a clear higher high. As of this writing on Thursday, ETH was trading

Ethereum domains showed an increase in demand as Ethereum Name Service (ENS) registration totaled 126,141 registrations in just one week.  The ENS Dashboard, a data tracker created by developer Nick Johnson, showed that registrations went from 11,042 to 29,727, showing an increase of over 200% over the weekend. This happened amid the second-largest .eth domain

Ethereum has now completed its second-to-last major Merge trial on the public test network Sepolia, paving the way for its transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. While it’s been judged mostly a success, it was not incident free. The final trial of the Merge is set to occur on the Goerli network over the

DappRader’s Dapp industry report for Q2 2022 raised, among many points, the idea that an upcoming non-fungible platform war could be on the horizon. The report, which was provided to Cointelegraph, spoke of how UniSwap recently acquired Genie and OpenSea purchased Gem in an effort to expand their respective services to include NFT aggregation tools,

Despite some touting crypto as a hedge against traditional markets, digital assets today share a similar risk profile to commodities such as oil and gas, and tech and pharmaceutical stocks, according to analysis from Coinbase’s chief economist.  The observation comes from a blog post from Coinbase chief economist Cesare Fracassi on July 6, noting that

Ethereum (ETH) climbed about 10 percent in the past 24 hours to $1,155, after coming close to falling back under $1,000. The world’s second-biggest cryptocurrency has experienced a robust comeback in a short span of time, with buying activity over the U.S. market holiday bolstering prices. But, can ETH sustain this rally? Or, will it be

Multichain, a cross-chain platform, has announced the integration of the Bitcoin-based (BTC) smart contract protocol Rootstock (RSK) blockchain into its ecosystem. This will allow users to exchange Ether (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), Binance USD (BUSD), and other assets between RSK, Ethereum, and BNB Chain. According to Monday’s announcement, the integration is a major milestone for

Ethereum active addresses have continued to decline. This follows the market crash where the price of Ethereum had dropped to below $1,000 before staging another recovery. This decline has shown various implications for the digital asset and also points towards how investors could be feeling towards the digital asset. Activity Falls To 2020 Lows Data

After reaching a level last seen in November 2020, the average Ethereum gas fee is now below $1. Ethereum Gas Fees Falls The Ethereum network experienced transaction fees as low as 69 cents on Saturday, which has not happened in the previous 19 months. The following day, gas prices reached $1.57 or 0.0015 ETH, which

The Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem’s biggest roadblock to mainstream dominance is often attributed to the extremely high transaction fees or gas fees it requires to complete a transaction. However, with Ethereum’s average gas fees coming down to 0.0015 ETH, the narrative is set to change.  The average transaction fee on the Ethereum blockchain fell down to

Given Ethereum’s dominance coupled with the current crypto bear market, it remains questionable if L1s will flourish. This was recently highlighted in a Chainalsys blog post entitled “New layer 1 blockchains are expanding the DeFi ecosystem, but no ETH killers yet.” Ethan McMahon, an economist at Chainalysis, told Cointelegraph that Chainalysis published this report to

The Open Network (TON) Foundation is the latest cryptocurrency company to upgrade its ecosystem with Ethereum Name Service (ENS)-like domain names. The TON Foundation on Thursday announced the launch of TON DNS, a new service to allow users to assign human-readable names to crypto wallets, smart contracts and websites. Similar to other popular crypto-related domain

Nonfungible tokens (NFT) took center stage in the year 2021 as artists, influencers, A-list celebrities and the sports industry finally came across a fan engagement tool that empowered the general public to cash in on their success. However, the hype around NFT did not manage to stand its ground as sales plummeted to one-year lows

According to Mike Darlington, the CEO of Monstercat, an electronic music platform, and Jake Udell, the founder of social NFT platform Metalink, bear markets are a time to ideate and build new products. During this week’s episode of NFT Steez, a bi-weekly Twitter Space hosted by Cointelegraph analysts, both Darlington and Udell agreed that the

The World Of Women NFT collection has great marketing, strong leadership, and first-mover advantage. Plus, a flourishing community. Also, behind the punks and the apes, these ladies seem to have the biggest celebrity support. From World of Women’s partner Reese Witherspoon to Eva Longoria, to Bryce Dallas Howard; from Snoop Dogg to Gary Vee, everyone

Bitcoin dropped 56.2% in the second quarter of 2022, according to crypto analytics platform Coinglass. That makes it Bitcoin’s worst quarter since the third quarter of 2011 when BTC price fell by 67%. A large part of the damage was done in the month of June when Bitcoin plunged 37%, the worst monthly drawdown since

The difficulty bomb-delaying Gray Glacier hard fork went live on Ethereum on Thursday without a hitch according to the network’s core devs including Ethereum Foundation’s Tim Beiko. The Sepolia testnet is also set to run through its Merge trial over the next few days and is the second last testnet to go through the trial