Cointelegraph By Brian Newar
Ethereum network developers have decided to delay the difficulty bomb, a major step leading up to the highly anticipated Merge upgrade for the layer-1 blockchain.They set the delay to two months in order to “be sure that we sanity check all the numbers before selecting an exact delay...
Crypto staking and lending platform Celsius may be dealing with its rumored liquidity crisis by unstaking $247 million worth of Wrapped Bitcoin from Aave and sending it to FTX exchange.Speculations among the crypto community are now flaring as the project has been moving massive amounts of WBTC, ETH,...
The total number of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), the number of governance proposals put forward, and the number of votes cast, have all seen astounding 8X growth over the past 12 months.Data compiled by Snapshot Labs, shared by Electric Capital Engineer Emre Caliskan in a June 9 tweet,...
Financial and technical information platform Bloomberg has vastly expanded its coverage of crypto markets after a decision to include data on the top 50 crypto assets to the Bloomberg Terminal.Product manager for cryptocurrencies at Bloomberg Alex Wenham suggested that as “the global institutional investor” community’s interest in digital...
The honeymoon period for the Optimism layer-2 scaling solution has been cut short as an exploit in its market maker’s smart contract led to the loss of 20 million OP tokens.The exploit took place May 26 but has only just been reported to the community. One million tokens...
Solana Ventures and the Solana Foundation have formed a $100 million fund to help support the growth of nonfungible token (NFT), blockchain gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects in South Korea.In addition to supporting projects built on Solana (SOL), the fund will help keep some Terra-based projects afloat...
Metaverse tokens are vastly outperforming every other crypto category in the current bearish condition, up by nearly 400% year-on-year.Leading the gains are Decentraland (MANA) up 41%, Sandbox (SAND) up 470%, Axie Infinity (AXS) up 511%, and STEPN (GMT) up 746% according to data from the May 2022 market...
Kenyan energy company KenGen has put out a call to Bitcoin miners to move nearby and buy its excess renewable power capacity.KenGen claims 86% of its energy is generated from renewable sources, mostly geothermal from pockets of ground source heat in the Great Rift Valley. Local news outlet...
The co-founder of MakerDAO Rune Christensen has issued a new monumental proposal to push the project into its final form called The Endgame Plan. Across 3,000 words including 35 detailed infographics, Christensen explained that the current model of governance at Maker creates a deadlock which makes it difficult for...
Former Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Alma Angotti says this week’s news about an OpenSea employee being charged with insider trading could open the doors to non-fungible tokens being labeled as securities. On Wednesday, in a first for the industry, prosecutors in Manhattan charged former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel...
