Uniswap now accounts for more gas fees than anyone else on the Ethereum network. Press time data from EthGasStation shows decentralized exchange Uniswap as the place users have spent the most Ethereum (ETH) on gas payments over the past 30 days. Uniswap participants shelled out a combined 17,700 total ETH as fuel to send their […]
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The East Asia crypto market has reacted fast to news of Beijing’s national digital currency and regional economic tumult. Cryptocurrencies — and Tether (USDT) in particular — could be playing a key role in recent capital flight from China, according to a new report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. The report states that over 44% […]
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The new EIP-2878 would reduce block rewards by 75% and has received sharp criticism from miners who say it will compromise the network’s security. A new Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) has been met with sharp criticism from miners suggesting those behind the proposal are less interested in the network’s security and more focused on investors’ […]
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Almost an even split between fiat and USDT Chainalysis contends that the new issuance of Tether (USDT) may dampen Bitcoin’s (BTC) bull run. In a weekly Market Intel newsletter, company’s chief economist Philip Gradwell said: Newly issued Tether arriving at exchanges can be used to buy Bitcoin just as much as existing Tether can be. But […]
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Developers could soon build dapps to run on multiple blockchains without compromise thanks to new cross-chain protocols. Cross-chain or blockchain interoperability research could finally be reaping results, with multiple projects launching interoperability protocols this week. Ontology (ONT), Neo (NEO) and Switcheo have collaborated to launch the “heterogeneous interoperability protocol alliance” Poly Network, while the NEAR […]
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XRP contributes to the development of CBDCs and stablecoins, says key exec. XRP, the world’s third largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, is not competing with national digital currencies like the forthcoming digital yuan, according to a senior executive at Ripple. Emi Yoshikawa, senior director of global operations at Ripple, claimed that XRP does not compete […]
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Huobi makes a pitch to those who ”want to earn a good profit worry-free.” Singapore-headquartered exchange Huobi Global is rolling out cryptocurrency savings accounts tomorrow. The new product will go live at 7:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 20, with availability restricted to certain jurisdictions. Residents of China, Hong Kong Japan, Singapore, the United States, Germany, […]
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“Everything you heard, every theory that just doesn’t seem possible, every small inkling that something was just off about the world… is true.” Thank you for calling the Clinic of Advanced Biological Computing, this is Dr. Elliott Fisher. So began the strangest conversation Ive had as a journalist, with a time-traveling group of Monero-mining musicians […]
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Developing the DeFi space is perhaps the most important task that lies ahead for the crypto community in the coming years. The rapid growth of the decentralized finance space, the rise in demand, the improvement of its protocols, and the breadth of offered services and opportunities will provide retail users with the options they are […]
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Ethereum network use and transaction fees are rising to record highs, will this interfere with DeFi’s current expansion? The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six […]
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