Ethereum

Some of the most sought-after nonfungible tokens (NFTs) of 2022 have taken a massive hit in value over the past year. The trend mirrors the depreciating value of metaverse properties in 2023, which were considered top virtual lands for investment in 2022. Investments in top NFT projects, including Doodles, Invisible Friends, Moonbirds and Goblintown, have
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With its historic Merge event in September, Ethereum has become a proof-of-stake blockchain. The mechanism now used to confirm transactions relies on validators staking their Ether (ETH). Ethereum’s March upgrade, codenamed Shanghai, finally enabled stakers to withdraw their locked Ether.  The Ethereum ecosystem’s “investment themes” have included a) decentralized finance (DeFi) b) stablecoins c) Bitcoin
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On Episode 21 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Elisha Owusu Akyaw talks to Lukas Schor, co-founder and head of ecosystem at decentralized custody protocol, Safe. Schor breaks down how account abstraction is an overhaul of regular asset management processes and an improvement to existing wallet recovery options.  Safe Wallet leverages smart account features to
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a lengthy blog post warning of the dangers of “stretching” Ethereum’s consensus past its core functions of validating blocks and securing the network.  Ethereum consensus is the process whereby blocks are validated by the proof-of-stake mechanism implemented in September 2022 with “the Merge.” In a May 21 blog post
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