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Bitcoin Network Difficulty Expected to See Largest Increase of the Year Amid High Hashrate, Shorter Block Times
21.2.2023
After a small decrease of 0.49% on Feb. 12, 2023, Bitcoin’s network difficulty is expected to experience a significant increase in three days on Feb. 24. Estimates indicate the difficulty could see the largest rise of the year, surpassing the 10.26% increase that occurred on Jan. 15 at block...
Bitcoin’s bullish price action continues to bolster rallies in FIL, OKB, VET and RPL
19.2.2023
BTC’s shallow correction near the $25,000 level could lead to dip buying in FIL, OKB, VET and RPL
Block Sizes Exceeding 3 MB Now Common on Bitcoin Blockchain as Ordinal Inscription Demand Rises
12.2.2023
Since Luxor, a bitcoin mining pool, mined a record-setting 3.96 MB block (#774,628) on the Bitcoin blockchain, block sizes have been larger than they were prior to that block height in the past 12 days. Statistics show that blocks larger than 3 MB are now quite common, and demand for Ordinal...
Bitcoin Network Experiences Slight Dip in Difficulty After Record High
12.2.2023
Bitcoin’s difficulty decreased 0.49% on Feb. 12, 2023, following a sustained all-time high of 39.35 trillion over the previous two weeks (2,016 blocks). The decrease in difficulty offers a brief respite for bitcoin miners, after the network recorded a 14.94% increase in the last month....
SEC enforcement against Kraken opens doors for Lido, Frax and Rocket Pool
10.2.2023
Kraken has put an end to staking as a service and Coinbse could eventually be forced to follow suit. Will this create opportunities for LDO, FXS and RPL?
Rocket Pool’s Ethereum staking service reaches $1B in TVL
9.2.2023
The milestone comes less than two years after the launch of its mainnet
Yield farming is live on Bitcoin․com’s Verse DEX with ~80% APY
9.2.2023
Bitcoin.com is excited to announce that Verse Farms are live on the Verse DEX. Anyone can now deposit select Liquidity Pool (LP) tokens into Verse Farms to earn additional rewards on top of the trading fees already earned for providing liquidity. The first Verse Farm is for the VERSE/ETH pool with...
Ethereum Liquid Staking Trend Continues to Swell; 5 Platforms Control 97% of Market
7.2.2023
As of Feb. 7, 2023, the value locked in 11 Ethereum-based liquid staking protocols has risen above $11 billion, with Lido, Coinbase, and Rocket Pool recording 4-10% gains over the past month. Lido holds more than 73% of the total value locked (TVL) out of the 6.87 million ether held by the...
Next Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Change Estimated to Decrease as Block Times Have Lengthened
4.2.2023
The last two mining difficulty changes on the Bitcoin network have driven difficulty to an all-time high, causing a decrease in hashrate and block interval speed. Before the latest difficulty retarget increase of 4.68%, block intervals were faster than the 10-minute average, at approximately...
Orion Protocol Loses $3M of Crypto in Trading Pool Exploit
2.2.2023
Crypto trading venue Orion Protocol is down $3 million after an apparent exploit drained pools
Giant Bitcoin 'Taproot Wizard' NFT Minted in Collaboration With Luxor Mining Pool
2.2.2023
Luxor Mining collaborated with independent developer, Udi Wertheimer to mint the NFT advertising “Magic Internet JPEGs” in “the largest Bitcoin block ever mined.”
Rocket Pool Community Voting Whether to Self-Limit its Growth
1.2.2023
If passed, the vote establishes a guiding set of principles to inform Rocket Pool’s decision-making process in limiting the percentage of staked ether in its ecosystem
Litecoin’s Hashrate Reaches All-Time High, Difficulty Follows Suit
28.1.2023
The blockchain network Litecoin’s computational power reached an all-time high (ATH) on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, at block height 2,411,048, reaching 798.43 terahash per second (TH/s). In addition, Litecoin’s difficulty also reached an all-time high this week, hitting 23,505,031...
Maple Finance Plots Comeback With New $100M Liquidity Pool for Tax Receivables With 10% Yield
25.1.2023
After defaults and a major overhaul, crypto lending protocol Maple Finance moves away from uncollateralized lending toward bringing yield-generating real-world assets to crypto investors
Cardano recovers from an outage on 50% relay and block-producing nodes
23.1.2023
An anomaly apparently caused around half of Cardano’s nodes to disconnect and restart over the weekend, with the root cause still under investigation
Can Rocket Pool Joining Forces With Coinbase Steal a March on Lido
17.1.2023
Rocket Pool, the third largest Ethereum liquid staking protocol by trade value locked (TVL), has joined forces with Coinbase Ventures. According to an announcement on Rocket Pool’s discord channel, Coinbase Ventures will be joining Rocket Pool’s Oracle DAO (oDAO)....
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MetaMask Staking launches, plugging into Lido and Rocket Pool liquid staking
13.1.2023
ConsenSys plugs into liquid staking providers Lido and Rocket Pool with the launch of MetaMask Staking
New MetaMask Product to Add Liquid Staking via Lido and Rocket Pool
13.1.2023
The update comes two months before an Ethereum upgrade is expected to allow users to withdraw their staked ETH
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12.1.2023
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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...