Bitcoin, Ethereum, and most other cryptocurrencies have largely stalled over the past few weeks. That’s in terms of price.But data shows that the two leading blockchains are seeing rapid growth in usage. This comes in spite of fears that a second leg to the 2020 bear market/trend is on the horizon.Related Reading: Buying Bitcoin at $8k…
The number of daily transactions on the Ethereum blockchain network surpassed 1 million, a level unseen since January 2018.In recent months, network activity on Ethereum surged as a result of rising demand for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and growing anticipation towards ETH 2.0.Why is Ethereum Daily Transaction Volume Climbing So Rapidly?Since January 2020, within six…
The past few days and weeks have seen Ethereum’s decentralized finance ecosystem erupt higher.As Camila Russo, a former Bloomberg journalist turned Ethereum publicist, accentuated this when she noted on June 19th that the past week has seen the value of tokens locked in DeFi applications surge by 40% to $1.4 billion.Some are skeptical that the…
Decentralized finance has been branded as one of Ethereum’s — and crypto’s — killer use cases over recent months. But from a dollar perspective, this market segment has not seen as much market penetration as its proponents would believe is “fair.”Yet while DeFi continues to gain steam as other blockchains seemingly stall, Ethereum and its…
HackMoney Hackathon, a 30-day virtual Aave hackathon organized by Ethereum developer group ETHGlobal, has announced its three winning projects—Learn&Earn, a gamified online learning platform, YieldHero, a suite for managing Aave, and MagicBet, a no-loss betting platform that enables users to stake DAI.Hacking Lending and Money Maker Protocol AaveOrganized by ETHGlobal, an organization focused on onboarding…
Ethereum’s budding decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem took a heavy beating after the March capitulation crash.As I detailed in an analysis for LongHash, what happened was that MakerDAO became unstable due to what some say is an erosion in trust in the protocol. Ethereum investor Parafi Capital wrote in a blog post:“We believe this lack of…
Argent, a non-custodial Ethereum mobile wallet, has officially come out of beta and is now available for both iOS and Android users to download. The company wants to bring DeFi to the masses with its simple UX and an innovative approach to security.First Public Version of Argent Wallet Officially LaunchedArgent has launched the first public…
Supply chains have ground to a halt and dozens of millions are unemployed but this hasn’t stopped crypto from getting a big fundamental boost: one of Silicon Valley’s most respected venture capital firms just raised half a billion dollars to invest in industry startups.Related Reading: Crypto Tidbits: Bitcoin Hits $9ks, a16z Raises $500M Crypto Fund,…
Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Bitcoin has effectively been flat on the week, recently returning to around where it started the week after briefly interacting with the ever-important $7,400 resistance. Altcoins, interestingly, came into their own this week, with Ethereum, Link, Tezos, EOS, among other top altcoins posting double-digit percentage gains in the past…
Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Over the past week, Bitcoin has performed rather well, rallying from $6,100 to $6,800 as of the time of this article’s writing, a few percent shy of the multi-week high of $7,200. Altcoins followed the market leader, posting similar gains.Bitcoin remains below the key resistance around $7,000, which some…