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Combined Transactions on Arbitrum and Optimism L2 Chains Outpace Ethereum’s Daily Transfer Count
16.1.2023
Since The Merge, Ethereum’s onchain fees have been considerably lower. However, combined transaction volume on layer two (L2) chains Arbitrum and Optimism has outpaced Ethereum’s onchain transaction output. On Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, Ethereum processed 1.10 million onchain...
Ukraine’s Tascombank Pilots Stellar-based E-hryvnia
15.1.2023
Tascombank, one of the oldest banking institutions in Ukraine, has completed the pilot testing of a digital currency based on the Stellar network. The bank believes that its electronic money platform represents an economically viable implementation of blockchain technology. Tascombank Conducts...
Polygon Announces Upcoming Hard Fork to Address Gas Spikes and Chain Reorganizations
15.1.2023
The Ethereum scaling blockchain, Polygon, has revealed plans to initiate a hard fork on Jan. 17, 2023. According to the team, the network upgrade will “reduce the severity of gas spikes” and “address chain reorganizations (reorgs) in an effort to reduce time to finality.”...
How to connect the Avalanche network to MetaMask?
14.1.2023
Avalanche users can enjoy Ethereum Web3 and DeFi applications by connecting the network to MetaMask. Here’s a step-by-step guide to doing it
NetEase Dissolves Team That Maintained Blizzard Games In China
13.1.2023
Back in November, Blizzard and NetEase ended their 14-year partnership to bring the Warcraft developer’s games to China. Now, it sounds like the NetEase team that handled the company’s games has been dissolved completely.Read more
Today in Crypto: ConsenSys Launches MetaMask Staking, Eurojust Stops Major Crypto Fraud Network, LendHub Loses $6M in an Attack
13.1.2023
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Litecoin to Undergo Block Reward Halving in Just Over 200 Days, First Among Major PoW Cryptocurrencies
12.1.2023
In roughly 202 days, the cryptocurrency network Litecoin (LTC) will experience a block reward halving on or around Aug. 3, 2023. Litecoin will be the first major proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain to see a reward reduction before Bitcoin’s upcoming halving, which is expected to occur 203 days...
Bitcoin Network Braces for Notable Difficulty Increase in 3 Days
12.1.2023
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, the measure of how difficult it is to find a new block and add it to the blockchain, is set to increase significantly on Jan. 15, 2023, according to current estimates. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty appears to be on track for a...
Ava Labs Partners With Amazon Web Services to Accelerate Blockchain Adoption, AVAX Jumps 16%
11.1.2023
Ava Labs, the team behind the layer one (L1) smart contract platform network Avalanche, has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS), according to an announcement made on Jan. 11, 2023. Founder and CEO of Ava Labs, Emin Gün Sirer, said the collaboration was a “big deal” and,...
Nigerian innovator launches first active Bitcoin Lightning node in the country
11.1.2023
A new Bitcoin lightning node in Nigeria could inspire individuals to take “control of their financial future” and break free from ‘rotten' financial systems node runner Megasley told Cointelegraph
Introducing Civilization Network, the Gate to DEFI – Presale Live Token Listing January 23
11.1.2023
PRESS RELEASE. In the crypto world, 2022 was one of the most challenging years. In the wake of the FTX bankruptcy, users lost trust in centralized exchanges and began to question the security of client funds stored on centralized exchanges. Most of the top exchanges, including Binance, had been...
Astar Network launches XVM as the 1st milestone of their 2023 checklist
11.1.2023
Astar Network happens to have successfully carried out the launching of their Cross-Virtual Machine (XVM) and effectively positioned it on the Shibuya testnet. The XVM, in its turn, will provide interoperability between the Ethereum Virtual machine and the WebAssembly smart contract environments....
Bitcoin nodes data: Frankfurt houses the largest city-wide network
11.1.2023
Distributed across 5773 cities worldwide, over 60% and 14% of the Bitcoin nodes run on IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, respectively, while more than 25% run anonymously on .onion
Former FTX Director of Engineering Under Scrutiny by US Law Enforcement, Alleged Proffer Sessions Held With Prosecutors in New York
10.1.2023
U.S. law enforcement officials are reportedly scrutinizing Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at FTX, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter. Another report, published on Jan. 10, 2023, details that Singh met with federal prosecutors at an alleged proffer session...
Manta Network conducts record-breaking Trusted Setup ceremony, 4,000+ contribute
10.1.2023
A Trusted Setup ceremony is an initial process needed to secure systems which utilize zero knowledge proofs
Ethereum Developers Prepare to Deploy Shanghai Public Testnet, Focus on Staked Ether Withdrawals
10.1.2023
According to the Jan. 5, 2023 All Core Devs (ACD) meeting, Ethereum developers are preparing to deploy a public testnet for the highly anticipated Shanghai hard fork in February 2023, with the mainnet implementation tentatively scheduled for March. Ethereum’s core developers emphasized that...
Arkhia embarks on a new venture with Pangolin to strengthen the Hedera network
10.1.2023
Arkhia is actively boosting and providing added thrust to the existing quality and accessibility of data on the Hedera network. On the anvil happens to be backing for some other networks also. Pangolin, in the meantime, will be utilizing the entity’s middleware dependability for gaining access...
Less than 100 Bitcoin ATMs added worldwide in the second half of 2022: Data
9.1.2023
Over the last six months, between July to the end of 2022, just 94 Bitcoin ATMs were added to the global network
Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Boost Could Lead to Record-Setting Difficulty Increase
7.1.2023
During the first week of the new year, Bitcoin’s hashrate reached an all-time high (ATH) on Jan. 6, 2023, at block height 770,709. The network recorded a milestone of around 361.20 exahash per second (EH/s) on Friday, jumping more than 4% higher than the previous record of 347.16 EH/s...
BONK Meme Coin Sees Wild Price Fluctuations and Massive Holder Concentration
6.1.2023
After the all-time cryptocurrency price highs in 2021, suffering through the Luna implosion of 2022 and watching countless crypto businesses go belly up, we’ve got a new entrant to the meme coin scene that launched on the Solana network. The crypto asset bonk inu (BONK) has a circulating...