Ethereum

When people evaluate the unpredictability of the cryptocurrency market, they can see why crypto security is so important. Online crypto wallets and exchanges have been hacked in large numbers in the last 24 months. “The value of cryptocurrency taken from victims climbed by 82% to $7.8 billion in 2021,” Chainalysis’ most recent Bitcoin Crime Report

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Former Cisco employee launches DAO to buy Denver Broncos A

Major Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten has announced the launch of its own nonfungible token (NFT) trading platform dubbed Rakuten NFT. The firm initially revealed its plans to launch a proprietary NFT marketplace in 2021 amid the growing popularity of non-fungible tokens worldwide. According to Rakuten, the NFT marketplace also hosts a platform that allows IP

The cryptocurrency ecosystem has seen a tremendous amount of growth over the past couple of years, as the introduction of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the popularity of nonfungible tokens (NFT) have led to an explosion of projects on more than a dozen blockchain networks.  The rapidly growing ecosystem means investors have to keep track of

The U.S. equity markets and Bitcoin (BTC) have rebounded sharply from their Feb. 24 lows while gold has made a retreat from its recent highs. This indicates that investors may be buying risky assets and reducing exposure to assets perceived as a safe haven. Recent reports also suggest that Russian President Vladimir Putin may send a delegation

zkSync, a provider of zero-knowledge blockchain solutions, has announced the successful deployment of its Rollup protocol on the Ethereum (ETH) testnet. The deployment is seen as a positive development by proponents of Ethereum, as it removes the need for human operators to validate transactions. Last year, the creators of zkSync described their vision for a permissionless,

Despite a number of attempted vampire attacks, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to have a strong run on OpenSea, with the number of unique users and transactions increasing. However, the NFT market’s overall volume is falling behind last month’s figure of nearly $3 billion.  While there are NFT projects readying to hit the secondary market, it

Minutes after Russia announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine, effectively declaring war on the Eastern European country, Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-Canadian cofounder of the Ethethereum B blockchain, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin on Twitter. Buterin Speaks Out Buterin said on Wednesday evening that he was “very upset” by Putin’s choice to start a war

Anton Bukov, the co-founder of 1inch Network, thinks that Ethereum will likely become the main settlement layer for a multi-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.  “There is like a high chance that most of the chains will try to commit their states to Ethereum as a higher layer,” Bukov said in an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph.

Global crypto and stock markets plunged after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on a national broadcast that his army would conduct a “special military operation” in Ukraine.  As the sun began to rise in Ukraine, the Russian army launched missiles around several areas of the country, including the capital of Kiev and the city of

Bitcoin (BTC) and several altcoins have bounced off their immediate support levels after buyers attempted to arrest the current decline. Bloomberg Senior Commodity Strategist Mike McGlone highlighted in a recent Tweet that Bitcoin was trading roughly 20% below its 50-week moving average and such discounted levels have “often resulted in good price support.” The bearish

StarkNet, the Layer-2 scaling solution established by StarkWare, announced that the first few decentralized apps (DApps) built on the platform have been deployed since it launched on the Ethereum Mainnet in November. StarkWare shared the nine projects listed by zkRollups, a digital directory for the zero-knowledge ecosystem, in a Twitter thread. The list ranges from decentralized

With the recent rise in tensions between NATO and Ukraine, ETH’s weekly losses have increased by 17%. Ethereum has been on quite the roller coaster ride over the last 24 hours, with prices dipping as low as $2500 before surging up to a local high of 2,653 USD. However, at press time, it is trading

Amid a marketwide downturn across major crypto assets over the past week, institutional traders tipped almost $89 million into Bitcoin (BTC) funds. However, the money men failed to ba Ethereum (ETH) investment products, which saw outflows totaling $15.2 million. Despite Cointelegraph reporting earlier this week that activity on the Bitcoin network was down 30% since

Puma is the latest in a growing list of major brands to purchase a decentralized URL and reveal their nonfungible token, or NFT, by changing their Twitter handle to Puma.eth. The German sportswear brand registered the domain name with the Ethereum Name Service, or ENS. welcome PUMA.eth (@PUMA) https://t.co/BuPplzfJgR — ens.eth (@ensdomains) February 21, 2022

“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss which memecoins can get you the most return on investment in 2022. But first, market expert Marcel Pechman carefully examines the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) markets. Are the current market conditions bullish or bearish? What is the