Ether

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Markets

Ether Whales Scooped Up $94M in ETH as Price Plunged to $1.6K

Last Thursday's plunge in prices drew the attention of a number of sizable holders.

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Markets

Bitcoin Gives Up Gains, Slips Below $26K Ahead of Fed's Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole

The Kansas City Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole Symposium is underway, and Powell will deliver his keynote address Friday morning.

BTC price in the past 24 hours (CoinDesk)

Markets

Binance's Ether Futures See Lowest Open Interest Since July 2022

Don't ready too much into the move, said one observer, calling it a typical position reset.

Binance ETH futures open interest (Coinglass)

Finance

DeFi Shrinks to Multiyear Low as the Crypto-Fueled Future of Finance Falters

The total value locked in DeFi protocols has slumped to the lowest level since February 2021 even as ETH, which underpins the market, has soared this year.

DeFi total value locked, or TVL, has dwindled (DefiLlama)

Markets

Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Uptick Fails to Inspire Bullish Positioning in ETH Options

Options skew remains in favor of ether puts across different timeframes despite the past week's increase in the ETH/BTC ratio.

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Finance

Ether Staking Demand Remains Unfazed as EigenLayer 100K ETH Cap Limit Filled Within Hours

Future cap increases will need to be approved by EigenLayer's multisignatory governance system.

EigenLayer deposits (Dune)

Markets

Crypto Analysts Split on Why Ether Outperformed Bitcoin During Last Week's Slide

The ether-bitcoin ratio rose more than 2% past week. The gain is inconsistent with its record of taking losses during bouts of risk aversion.

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Markets

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Sends $1M ETH to Coinbase

Vitalik Buterin transferred over $1 million worth of ether to crypto exchange Coinbase on Monday.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Friend.tech Becomes Massive Ether Money Machine as NBA Players, FaZe Clan Join In

The application has zoomed to becoming the second-largest revenue maker among crypto protocols in just over two weeks.

image of a crypto trader aka degen (Anjo Clacino/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)