Bitcoin’s Transaction Fees Soar Post-Halving
Transaction fees on Bitcoin have increased by close to 250% since the network’s third block reward halving on May 11. If this is the start...
Ethermine Accepts Mystery $2.5 Million Dollar Ethereum Transaction Fee
Key Takeaways Ethermine offered to wait for the sender to come forward to correct the high fee error. The pool has now decided to keep...
Those Million Dollar Ethereum Transactions? Could Be a Hacked Exchange
Key Takeaways The transactions could be the result of an exchange getting hacked. The hacked address could only send funds to other whitelisted addresses, so...
Bitcoin May Be Down, but DeFi Is Pumping Like It’s 2017
Key Takeaways DeFi tokens have performed extremely well in 2020, with LEND, BNT, LINK, and KNC leading the way. Balancer's liquidity mining initiative proves that...
Data Shows 80% of ETH Investments Are in Profit
Key Takeaways Demand for ETH comes from investors who are accumulating and DeFi users who require ETH for transaction fees. The number of unique ETH...
Balancing Black Swan Events With Centralization May Cost Maker Its Community
Despite making up more than half of the entire DeFi ecosystem, Maker has made a few enemies along the way. Key Takeaways The Mar. 12...
Big Institutions Are Making Room for Bitcoin, Says Fidelity
Large institutional investors are coming around to the idea of cryptocurrency, with Fidelity claiming over 36% of American and European funds own cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin...
CoinMarketCap’s New Rating Algorithm Sinks BitMEX, Bybit, and Deribit
CoinMarketCap pushes top derivative exchanges to the bottom of its rankings. Key Takeaways CoinMarketCap pushed BitMEX to the 175th spot in its exchange rankings. BitMEX...
Despite Decentralization Ambitions, DeFi is Still Dominated by Super Rich Tokenholders
Decentralized finance doesn't seem so decentralized after all, especially when looking at token concentration. Key Takeaways 90% of the supply for most DeFi tokens is...
Ethereum’s DeFi Back at $1 Billion, Maker Leads the Charge
Ethereum’s DeFi is once again at $1 billion of value locked with MakerDAO accounting for over half of this amount. Other notable growth from Aave...