Ethereum (ETH) News

At the end of last week, ether (ETH) again fell in price following bitcoin. BTC fell below $43,000, and the leading altcoin pulled back below $3,000. On the night of Monday, February 14, ETH is trading at $2,880. Network activity on Ethereum has been weakening over the past few days. According to...

Ethereum offchain scaling solution Optimism revealed that there was found a vulnerability in the codebase by software engineer Jay Freeman (saurik), who reported the issue. The bug would enable a hacker to print assets on any chain via a fork of go-ethereum. Optimism patched the bug, and awarded...

Vitalik Buterin shared his views of how rollups will scale the Ethereum network, and what additional solutions can be executed. According to Buterin, rollups are in the short and medium-term, and likely in the long term the only trustless scaling solution for the protocol. Rollups provide...

In a recent AMA with the network of high school coding clubs and makers, Hack Club, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin answered the questions of participants. He told how he got interested in Bitcoin and joined the community. Vitalik said that putting together the team was the main challenge in...

At the beginning of December last year, open interest in Ethereum futures was at its maximum. The number of contracts was close to $14 billion. However, then this figure began to decline as ETH retreated in the spot market. As a result, open interest in Ethereum futures dropped 50.5% to $6.87...

Bank of America strategist Alkesh Shah recently expressed his opinion on the future of the Solana cryptocurrency project, calling it, by the way, the main competitor to Ethereum. According to a well-known analyst, Solana is actively entering the digital asset market, taking away popularity in...

Data from the Glassnode platform shows that investors are buying up Ethereum (ETH) despite the drop in its value. The ETH exchange rate on the night of Wednesday, January 19, fell to $3,100; over the week, the capitalization of the altcoin decreased by almost 5% to $371.078 billion. In two months,...

The price of Ether (ETH) has increased by almost 3.5% over the past 24 hours to $3342. According to the ViewBase platform, during the week investors withdrew 203,147 ETH from centralized crypto exchanges for a total amount of up to $682.997 million. The exchange balance of ETH in mid-January...

Serial entrepreneur, co-chief investment officer at crypto-focused hedge fund Pantera Capital, Joey Krug finds that although crypto protocols are growing, Ethereum will keep dominating the market with the biggest share. Moreover, during an interview with Bloomberg, Krug said that, possibly in 10 or...

The US SEC chair Gery Gensler was asked whether he finds Ethereum is a security or not during a recent Squawk Box program. To the question of his views on Ether and XRP, which the regulator argues is security, Gensler said that he wasn't going to speak about a certain project during a public forum....

San Francisco resident Siraj Raval uses his 2018 Tesla Model 3 to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency. According to the crypto enthusiast, he launched free mining software on an Apple Mac mini M1 computer by connecting it to the car's center console. Five graphics cards are powered by a Tesla battery....

During a recent podcast of the program Bankless, Vitalik Buterin talked about the future of Ethereum, what the protocol will look like when the upgrades are complete, how much time is needed for it, and more. Buterin said that the previous year was great for the adoption of crypto, mentioning the...

Crypto billionaire, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared his previous articles written over a decade, where he expressed his views on various aspects of the blockchain industry and cryptocurrencies. On Twitter, Buterin wrote which predictions were correct, which ones were not, and what he...

Blockchain protocol Internet Computer added Ethereum integration via a cross-chain bridge. The upgrade was one of the 25 proposals that the community members voted for. It was submitted on December 20, and was adopted as the absolute majority voted yes to...

Traders have shown weak interest in micro-Ether (ETH) futures on the Chicago Exchange (CME). As a reminder, this product became available on December 6th. A similar Bitcoin-focused product was launched at CME on May 3rd. Moreover, the interest in micro-futures on BTC was significantly higher...

The Ethereum development team has completed the Kintsugi public testnet, set to check for the latest blockchain algorithms as a part of switching from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake consensus. With the switch Ether mining will be based on deposits and become environmentally friendly. The...

The support zone around $4000 did not work, and Ether (ETH) continues to retreat. On Monday, December 20, the altcoin price fell to $ 3,807, but analysts note that the attractiveness of ETH is not only not weakening, but on the contrary, is increasing. Large investors have been buying Ethereum...

Optimism, one of Ethereum’s off-chain scaling solutions, that uses rollups techniques revealed, removing its whitelist. Now, anyone can deploy applications to the Optimism mainnet. Originally Optimism launched with a whitelist, and only projects included in it could deploy smart contracts on the...