Ethereum News

Ethereum News

Opinion

ETHDenver Looks Cringey to You Because Ethereum Has an Actual Community

Like any good punk or hip hop show, this year's Colorado event for coders will feature events that will "scare away normies," CoinDesk Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes.

Uniswap booth at ETHDenver 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Videos

ConsenSys to Launch zkEVM Public Testnet March 28

ConsenSys, a top software firm working on the Ethereum blockchain, is rolling out a zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) public testnet on March 28, intensifying the race among top crypto firms to be first to go fully live with the fast-emerging technology. "The Hash" panel discusses what this means for the Ethereum community.

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Videos

Bitcoin, Ether Fall as Market Continues To Digest Silvergate

Bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and most other major cryptocurrencies are sinking as customers fled crypto bank Silvergate. Forex.com Global Head of Research Matt Weller discusses the reaction from the broader crypto market and his outlook on Ethereum ahead of the Shanghai upgrade. Plus, why bitcoin long liquidations hit the highest level since August, according to Glassnode data.

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Tech

Flashbots Makes Privacy-Enhanced Block Builder Open Source on Ethereum Testnet Sepolia

Research shared by the team details that block builders will be able to build blocks without accessing private data of users' transactions.

bots robots (Shutterstock)

Tech

ConsenSys, Developer of Ethereum Software, Says zkEVM Public Testnet to Go Live March 28

Zero-knowledge, or ZK, a type of cryptography, is seen as one of the year's hottest blockchain technologies. ConsenSys launched a private zkEVM testnet in December but is now opening it up for anyone to join.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Drop Over 5% in Massive Sell-Off as Market Continues to Digest Silvergate

Bitcoin plunged to $22,277 and ether hit $1,563 as crypto tumbled during the opening hours of East Asia's trading day.

Hong Kong (Unsplash)

Markets

Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade Will Not Crash Ether Price, Analysts Say

Crypto analysts CoinDesk interviewed are saying concerns are overblown and selling pressure will be limited.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Regulators Are Bringing the Multichain Era to a Close

The high cost of understanding multiple chain environments means enterprises are likely to stick to what they know, argues Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.

(Cristina Gottardi/CoinDesk)

Tech

Shanghai + Capella = 'Shapella': How Ethereum Devs Now Refer to Upcoming Upgrade

Technically the Shanghai upgrade is only on the execution side of Ethereum. Capella is the simultaneous upgrade happening on the consensus side. Hence the merging of the two names to “Shapella.”

Shanghái. (Unsplash)