Ethereum News

Ethereum News

Markets

Ethereum Is the Microsoft of Blockchains, ETH Underperformance May Reverse Into Year-End: Bitwise

The Ethereum blockchain has the most active developers, the highest number of active users and ether has a market cap that is five times larger than its nearest competitor, the report said.

Vitalik Buterin is the creator and spiritual leader of Ethereum. (Romanpoet/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

Will Ether’s Supply Crunch Lead to Higher Prices in Q4?

Ether’s price might be falling, but its liquid supply is shrinking. If demand picks up next quarter, we could see a supply crunch that pushes prices higher, says Lucas Schweiger, Digital Asset Research Manager at Sygnum Bank.

Digitally rendered Ethereum logo (Unsplash)

News Analysis

Ether-Bitcoin Ratio Drops to Lowest Since April 2021. Here’s Why It Matters

Analysts suggest the ETH/BTC ratio might drop further, potentially to the 0.02-0.03 range, unless there's a significant change in investor sentiment or regulatory clarity that might favor riskier assets.

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Finance

World Liberty, Crypto Project Helmed by Donald Trump's Family, Will Release on Sept. 16

World Liberty Finance is helmed by Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr, and the 18-year-old Barron Trump is the project's "DeFi visionary.”

Donald J. Trump at a rally (Gerd Altmann, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Amps Up Pressure on Layer-2 Networks to Decentralize Further

In 2022, Buterin proposed a set of stages for rollups, to classify them in their pursuit of decentralization. The criteria is meant to showcase that rollups tend to rely on “training wheels” and deploy their protocols to users before it's ready to fully decentralize.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin speaks at the EthCC conference on Wednesday in Brussels (Margaux Nijkerk)

Tech

Protocol Village: Oracle Platform DIA Introduces 'Lumina,' HashKey Cloud Helps Decentralize Metis Sequencer

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Sept. 5-11.

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Markets

Are Ethereum Staking Yields Too High?

As staking grows in popularity through liquid staking derivatives, there is a need to better quantify staking returns for different platforms and how they change over time, says Marcin Kazmierczak, co-founder and coo, RedStone.

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Tech

Ethereum Foundation's Main Wallet Down to About $650M, Top Official Says

As recently as March 2022 – when the price of Ethereum's native cryptocurrency, ether (ETH), was higher – the foundation's treasury held about $1.3 billion of ETH.

Screenshot from Justin Drake appearance at the Ethereum conference Devcoin in 2022. (Devcon/YouTube)

Tech

Protocol Village: Food DePIN Bistroo Moves to Peaq, ApeChain Releases 'The Blueprint'

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Aug. 29-Sept. 4.

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Finance

Switzerland’s Fourth-Biggest Bank ZKB Offers Retail Customers Bitcoin and Ether

ZKB’s new service also allows other Swiss banks to offer customers the trading and custody of cryptocurrencies, with Thurgauer Kantonalbank being the first partner bank to use the service.

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