Lido and Idle DAO launch new risk-adjusted ETH 2.0 staking products

Lido, a multichain liquid staking solution, and Idle DAO, a decentralized organization building financial products for Web3, have partnered to launch a novel DeFi primitive. The newly launched stETH Perpetual Yield Tranches... Read more »

Only 6 of 18 exchanges have fully adopted Bitcoin SegWit update

Segregated Witness, or SegWit for short, is a Bitcoin protocol extension that was activated on the network in August 2017. The primary reason for introducing SegWit is to increase the scalability of... Read more »

Derivative markets hit an ATH in market share in January, as spot volumes fall 30.2% 

In January, crypto exchanges saw spot volumes reach their lowest level since December 2020, CryptoCompare’s recent market data analysis report revealed. While spot volumes fell 30.2% month-on-month, derivatives market volumes remained steady... Read more »

$2 million in crypto recovered from hacked Trezor wallet

Three years after it became apparent that Dan Reich couldn’t access his Trezor One hardware wallet, a computer engineer and hacker, Joe Grand, has come to his rescue.  Trevor one owner loses... Read more »

The dark side of the NFT market

As new and exciting use cases for NFTs emerged, so did their potential for abuse, revealed a recent report by Chainalysis. The blockchain research and analysis company investigated two forms of illicit... Read more »

Coachella Festival offers Lifetime Passes with new NFT marketplace

Setting the stage for the future of NFT’s at festivals, Coachella has teamed up with FTX US to build an environmentally friendly NFT marketplace on Solana Blockchain. For the first time, Coachella... Read more »

Ethereum community bemoans Vitalik Buterin’s role as Dogecoin advisor

Speaking to the UpOnly YouTube channel, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he became convinced by Proof-of-Stake (PoS) in 2014, leading him to go that direction ever since. One of the factors behind... Read more »

USDC blacklist cost users an extra $3.6 million – per month

Stablecoin USDC is getting increasingly popular among crypto users and ditto institutions, so much so that USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market cap, is on a steady streak narrowing the distance to... Read more »

MicroStrategy buys the dip, adding 660 more BTC to its reserve

In its first major purchase of the year, MicroStrategy added 660 additional BTC to its reserves, which currently holds over 125,000 BTC. MicroStrategy’s doubles down on Bitcoin following conference announcement According to... Read more »

3 Reasons for Optimism’s Slow Development

Ethereum is now the undisputed king of chains, but its transaction congestion and high fees make it nearly impossible to use. In response, Layer 2 projects have become one of the fastest-growing... Read more »