Ethereum

On episode 12 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Eche Emole, co-founder of Afropolitan, explains what it means to build a country on the blockchain. From an event and media company, Afropolitan has transitioned to a blockchain-based state of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Emole, an African in the diaspora with a political

In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Dave Weisberger, CEO and co-founder of CoinRoutes. Weisberger has over 35 years of experience in market structure, quantitative finance and trading automation. He started his career at Morgan Stanley where he built its first program and electronic trading systems. Weisberger is a strong economic freedom advocate and digital

On the evening of Jan. 7, Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, was arrested in Miami. The following day, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a complaint in federal court charging him with “conducting a money transmitting business that transported and transmitted illicit funds.” According to the DOJ, Bitzlato failed to

Centralized regulatory organizations typically govern the inflation of asset prices in traditional capital markets. Is that the same in Web3? Who ensures fair play? In the United States, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) assumes the responsibility of maintaining inflation at reasonable levels by implementing tools such as altering interest rates, bond-buying programs and money printing.

Ether’s price (ETH) reached $1,400 on March 10, which proved to be a bargain as the cryptocurrency rallied 27.1% until March 21, at the time of writing. However, the three reasons that supported the price gain, including correlation with tech stocks, its increasing total value locked and its deflationary token economics, all suggest that the

MetaMask Institutional is set to be an avenue for the creation of new Ethereum (ETH) validators after announcing a new staking marketplace for its institutional clients. Institutions that make use of MetaMask’s institutional-grade wallet and custody service will be able to manage ETH staking through four vendors, including ConsenSys Staking, Allnodes, Blockdaemon and Kiln. The

Arbitrum, a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, announced the airdrop of its ARB governance token on March 16, with eligible receivers expected to get the token by March 23. The hype around its airdrop has now helped another layer-2 solution, zkSync, to see significant week-over-week growth. ZkSync is another layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum, supporting

Tokenized asset issuance platform Synthetix has secured a $20 million investment through a new partnership with Web3 investment and quantitative trading firm DWF Labs. The market making and algorithmic trading company acquired $15 million worth of Synthetix’ native token SNX paid for with USD Coin (USDC) in March 2023. DWF Labs will be tasked with

Due to the popularity of cryptocurrency, numerous individuals are searching for means to acquire free crypto. Here are seven methods one can use to earn cryptocurrency without having to invest your own money, including crypto faucets, airdrops, staking, bug bounties and more.  There are several common risks to be aware of when earning free crypto,

Nonfungible token trading volumes took a massive beating following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week as traders fled the markets, fearing the repercussions of a major United States bank going under. According to a March 16 report from data aggregation platform DappRadar, NFT trading volumes were hovering between $68 million to $74 million in

The recent attack that drained $197 million from Euler Finance was dubbed the biggest decentralized finance (DeFi) hack of 2023 so far. However, this may not hold for much longer as the hacker reportedly had a change of heart. On March 18, roughly 3,000 Ether (ETH) ($5.4 million) were returned to Euler Finance’s deployer address

Ten separate audits conducted over two years on the Ethereum-based lending protocol Euler Finance deemed it “nothing higher than low risk” and had “no outstanding issues” before it suffered from a $196 million attack. In a series of tweets on March 17, Euler Labs CEO Michael Bentley described the “hardest days” of his life after

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Cryptocurrency investment firm Grayscale Investments is taking more time to decide whether it should acquire and sell post-Merge forked Ethereum tokens. Grayscale announced on March 16 that the company intends to extend the review period for evaluating the market environment to determine whether it can acquire EthereumPoW (ETHW) tokens — the forked asset that emerged after Ethereum’s

Scammers continue to prey on nonfungible token (NFT) users looking to claim Blur (BLUR) token airdrops through numerous scam websites. According to data from TrustCheck, over $300,000 has been stolen from unsuspecting users that have linked wallets to malicious websites. The legitimate Blur platform is a newcomer to the NFT marketplace space, making waves in

The target date for the highly anticipated Shanghai hard fork on Ethereum has now been set: April 12. Ethereum core developers approved the target deadline during the All Core Developers Execution Layer #157 call on March 16. The Shanghai mainnet upgrade features five Ethereum Improvement Proposals, including EIP-4985, which will enable staked Ether (ETH) withdrawals