Saturday Night Live has brought NFTs to every American house with a twist that makes the Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen look hip and down with the kids. The scene is set at a university classroom where after a talk, the professor asks if anyone has a question for the Treasury Secretary. Anyone? Peter Davidson (pictured, right), the millennial cast member […]

It has been announced that Optimism, the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, will be delaying the launch of its mainnet till at least July 2021. According to the official announcement, the new launch date is not certain as it still depends on the speed of preparations and “ecosystem readiness”. Changed Plans for the Optimism Mainnet Prior to now, the mainnet […]

The Optimism team has announced that its mainnet launch will no longer take place this month as earlier scheduled, but a July take-off may be possible. The team says the change is in a bid to give its ecosystem partners, projects, wallets and others more time to integrate, audit and test the Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution, according to a blog […]

According to Ethereum data provider, Etherscan, there are currently over 830 projects which are based on the ERC-20 token standard with over 350,000 token contracts. This is undoubtedly the most popular standard for token issuance today. Some of the leading crypto projects with native tokens that are based on the ERC-20 framework include Chainlink (LINK), LiquidiFy (LQD), VeChain (VET), Zilliqa […]

On Wednesday (March 24), Mike Dudas, the founder of crypto news and research firm The Block, who joined Paxos on February 9 as VP, Head of Stablecoin Business Development, explained why he believes that the Ethereum (ETH) price “is about to rip.” According to data by TradingView, around 08:20 UTC on March 24, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, the Ethereum price […]

On Saturday (March 13), the Ethereum price went above the $1940 level for the first since February 21. Today’s surge prompted at least two crypto analysts to forecast that ETH would reach $2500 in the short term. According to data by TradingView, around 21:16 UTC, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, the Ethereum price went reached its intraday high of $1943.22; today […]

Ethereum has been rumored to be lagging behind in user activities. The reason being that new tots on the block have snatched a decent number of the network’s users in the past months. While the newbies have been welcoming new users, Ethereum still holds its position as the leading network. On-chain data dismantled the reports, clarifying with new metrics that […]

Quick take: Ethereum’s EIP-1559 is scheduled for implementation this July during the London hardfork EIP-1559 includes the implementation of a BASEFEE that will be burnt with each transaction Burning of the BASEFEE makes Ethereum a deflationary asset EIP-1559 coupled with incoming $1,400 stimulus checks, could send Ethereum back above $2k Ethereum’s EIP-1559 is scheduled for implementation this July alongside the […]

This article provides an update (as of 09:00 UTC on March 7) on some of the currently most popular topics in the Ethereum community. Ethereum Price Action Data from TradingView tells us that, on crypto exchange Bitstamp, the Ethereum price reached $1696.25 at 08:07 UTC. In a video published on YouTube earlier today, crypto analyst Lark Davis said that Ethereum […]