Kraken and five other DeFi projects contribute $250,000 each to support the teams that work on the Ethereum upgrade. In addition, they donated the sum to the ETH Foundation to develop the network’s version 2.0. Open-source developer teams like Erigon, Besu, Nimbus, Geth, and Nethermind will join the ETH Foundation in the donation. 1/ A…
Solana, with its fast-growing ecosystem, has found a position at the forefront within the crypto space. By hitting $314 million in its private token sales, Solana crept the headlines in early June. Polychain and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered the Solana token sales. This funding impacted greatly in developing the fast-growing ecosystem of Solana. This pushes it…
The Uniswap community is debating against a new proposal that favors Flipside Crypto to the tune of $25 million in funding. The funding is for two years, but the arguments against it are numerous. Many DeFi protocols such as Uniswap provide governance tokens for people to participate in core decisions on their network. The recent…
The DeFi exchange SushiSwap would have joined the many projects that lost millions to the dubious activities of online hackers. For instance, Poly network lost $600 million in a similar hack one week ago. The good news is that the miscreants have returned many of the assets. It could have been a terrible blow if…
Bitcoin has maintained its superiority in the market through the bull rally. Through the summer, bitcoin remains the strongest performer in the market. But the altcoins remain hot on its heels as prices rebound from two-month lows. Despite being the strongest performer of the summer, the DeFi space beat out Bitcoin to post the strongest…
White hat hacker Samczsun from investment firm Paradigm reported what could be one of the biggest rescues ever on the SushiSwap protocol, the Ethereum ecosystem, and maybe the entire internet. Just pulled off maybe the biggest whitehat rescue ever. Story time soon 🔥 — samczsun (@samczsun) August 17, 2021 Samczun claimed in a post that…
KingTiger Casino recently went out of operation due to Ethereum congestion issues. The online casino announced that they wouldn’t be operating until they get a suitable solution for their users. On their website, the company said they shutting-down due to congestion on the Ehereum network. According to them, it has become impossible to run their…
The Lightning Network is one of the most bullish developments that the Bitcoin ecosystem has seen so far. And all the available metrics point up, a healthy and vibrant network is brewing. However, investor Kevin Rooke took a deeper look and found out that the Lightning Network is probably even bigger than previously thought. “Inaccurate…
The crypto industry was taken by storm when Poly Network, an interoperable cross-chain platform, revealed that they were attacked. The hacker pulled what turned out to be one of the biggest thefts in DeFi history, at least, that it has been called by the mainstream media. The attacker managed to transfer funds from several blockchains…
Alchemy has announced that it will be rolling out cryptocurrency cards that will support above 40 cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and others. Furthermore, the crypto-fiat platform disclosed that users could link the cards to their Paypal digital wallets and Google Pay from the announcement. With such, users can pay through both Visa and MasterCard networks seamlessly.…