Ethereum Monthly Burn Surpasses 146,000 ETH As Total Clears $6.5 Billion

Featuring Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559, the London hard fork introduced significant changes to Ethereum’s transaction fee mechanism. Users now pay a base fee that is subsequently burned, effectively removing ether from circulation forever.

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AVAX: Bears refuse to let go even as DeFi activity rises

DeFi protocols contributed significantly to Avalanche's transaction count and active user base. AVAX was still grappling with bearish sentiment. Avalanche [AVAX], the decentralized proof-of-The post AVAX: Bears refuse to let go even as DeFi activity rises appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Arbitrum’s DAO to receive over 3,350 ETH in revenue from transaction fees

Proceeds come from base fees and surplus revenue generated from network transactions. The incentive follows a recent clash between Arbitrum’s team and its community.

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Starknet releases roadmap to address ongoing challenges, details inside

Starknet's user base expanded 8x over the last two months. The scaling solution grappled with low throughput and high transaction costs. Launched in 2021, Ethereum’s [ETH] layer-2 solutionThe post Starknet releases roadmap to address ongoing challenges, details inside appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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What Is Base? Coinbase’s L2 Network Explained

Coinbase’s Layer 2 Network: A Complete Guide Cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase has been making waves in the crypto industry with the launch of its Layer 2 network. This network is designed to enhance transaction speeds and reduce costs on blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, making it an attractive proposition for developers and crypto enthusiasts alike.

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Coinbase’s layer-2 network to face transaction monitoring

Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, has revealed that the company's new layer-2 network, Base, is likely to incorporate transaction monitoring and anti-money laundering measures.

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Coinbase’s Base will likely feature transaction monitoring, AML measures

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on March 6 that his company’s layer-2 network, Base, will likely feature transaction monitoring and anti-money laundering measures. The post Coinbase’s Base will likely feature transaction monitoring, AML measures appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Ethereum Targets Enterprise Adoption With Infura Transactions (ITX) Launch

The Ethereum network is seen as the front-runner for decentralized finance (DeFi). However, high transaction fees and network congestion have seen rival platforms steal the blockchain’s user base.

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As BTC and ETH Pursue Multilayer Schemes, Elon Musk Says ‘There’s Merit to Doge Maximizing the Base Layer’

The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, is a fan of base layers when it comes to blockchain technology and on Friday, Musk explained there’s “merit” to the Dogecoin chain “minimizing transaction cost.

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Elon Musk Comes Out as Big Blocker

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The first blockchain achievements in MMA — to all fans of hard sports

Cryptocurrencies have forced us to look at the world of business, technology, and entertainment from a different angle, transferring many traditional processes to the blockchain base. Experimenting with building networks and platforms using the blockchain can provide benefits in security, transaction costs, reduced intermediaries, and privacy, which in turn appeals to any business and government. […]

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Stablecoins Facilitated $1 Trillion in Transaction Volume in Q1 2021

Stablecoin monetary base is also growing, on track to hit $100 billion after more than doubling so far this year. The post Stablecoins Facilitated Trillion in Transaction Volume in Q1 2021 first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Cardano (ADA) price forms strong base at $0.13, but transaction volume concerns investors

Cardano (ADA) – like all other digital assets – saw a notable decline yesterday that came about in tandem with Bitcoin’s plunge from highs of $12,000 to lows of under $11,000. The post Cardano (ADA) price forms strong base at $0.

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Study: DApp Transaction Volumes, User Base Slump in Q3 2019

DApp transaction volume and user activity have slumped in the third quarter of 2019, per Dapp.com

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Bitcoin close to being at the base of the financial system in ten years, claims Blockstream’s Samson Mow

The San Francisco-based blockchain development company took Bitcoin to another level by launching a satellite to broadcast Bitcoin blockchain, while also initiating a transaction recently. The CSO of Blockstream, Samson Mow, expanded upon the necessity of the satellite in a recent interview with Charlie Shrem.

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Bitcoin has record-breaking Q2, network health at all time high – here’s what happened

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that started it all. It first entered the wild ten years ago after its pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto released the eponymous white paper and got the world thinking about decentralized digital cash.

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Tron DApp Weekly Report: Tron DApps cross 500 while transaction volume takes a hit

Tron recently celebrated its one year anniversary and according to the data for the first half of the year, Tron DApps ruled the market again, reporting the largest number of new DApps. Tron surpassed its fierce competitors, Ethereum and EOS, with an active users base of  710.

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Blockchain technology ‘not suitable for payments,’ says Bank for International Settlements’ Annual Report

The recent Bank for International Settlements report has stated that cryptocurrency’s backbone, blockchain, might not be “suitable for payment at all. ” Referring to the market’s 2018 crypto-winter when prices fell to new lows, the report stated that regulatory action has a significant impact on digital assets’ valuation, transaction volume, and user base.

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Ethereum’s 1M Transaction Volume Propells Expert Predictions to Further Price Upsurge

Coinspeaker Ethereum’s 1M Transaction Volume Propells Expert Predictions to Further Price UpsurgeEthereum price is set to undergo a 52 days bull-strike as crypto analysts base their bullish predictions on the current rise in transaction volume of the second most used cryptocurrency in the world.

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Sidechains vs Plasma vs Sharding

Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.

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Ripple is Experiencing “Dramatic Growth” in RippleNet’s Transaction Volume and Client Base

Ripple is one firm with a strong penchant for the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency and sometimes via its own XRP. The parent body for the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency is known for its initiatives to support cryptocurrency and blockchain startups and also to deliver solutions to a large number of financial institutions already in their hundreds, […] The post Ripple is Experiencing “Dramatic Growth” in RippleNet’s Transaction Volume and Client Base appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems

About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.

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Liquid Network Expands With New Memberships and Integrations

Blockstream's Liquid Network has expanded to include 14 new members. With these additions, Liquid’s client base now boasts 35 institutions. The company also announced that Liquid is now available on Bitfinex and RenrenBit, a crypto finance app.

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Breez Wants to Make the Lightning Network More User Friendly

New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.

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Samourai Wallet Adds Tor Integration in Privacy Push

Samourai Wallet announced this month that its latest update supports Tor integration, offering additional privacy for users. What Does Tor Integration Enable?In a conversation with Bitcoin Magazine, Samourai’s lead developer, who is known simply as “TD,” gave a rundown of the Tor integration.

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Grim Stories of Ethical, Privacy Abuses Emerge About Coinbase’s New Partners

When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.

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CoinCasso ICO

CoinCasso is a multifunctional, multi-layered design and hybrid exchange that combines the advantages of centralized and decentralized exchanges. As the first on the market, we give financial benefits to active users.

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Bytus ICO

Bytus wants to revolutionize the payment system as it works today and blockchain enables us to do that. Point of Sale transactions are always delayed by fiat payments, crypto transactions will set this right.

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Chainalysis Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding From Accel Ventures

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.

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Cryptocurrency Transaction Analysis Blockchain Startup Chainalysis Secures $30 Million

Chainalysis has recently concluded a very successful series B funding round where they raised $30 million which was headed by Accel, a VC firm and also saw investments from Benchmark, who had been involved in their previous series A funding.

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Can Bitcoin Scale?

The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.

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RSK Merges With New RIF OS, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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RSK Merges With New RIF Labs, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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Progress Report: Lightning Network Surpasses $1M BTC Capacity, 4,000 Nodes

The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,070 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10.

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Civic Looks to Expand Adoption With App-to-App Developer Tool

If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.

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Minting the Future of Cryptocurrencies - [BTC Media Sponsor]

In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Details of One of Bitcoin’s Nastiest Bugs Yet

For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.

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Battle of the Privacycoins: Verge Offers Little Privacy and Nothing Unique

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).

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U.S. Crypto Investment Firm Attracts $22M in Series A, Looks to Expand Services

Los Angeles-based cryptocurrency investment firm SFOX has raked in roughly $22. 7 million in its Series A funding. The round was headed by venture platforms Social Capital and Tribe Capital and earned the participation of other firms like DCG, SV Angel, Blockchain Capital and Y Combinator.

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Ethereum Transaction Fees Are Up Because of Ongoing Network Spamming

The Ethereum blockchain seems to be under some sort of attack by a network spamming that is causing congestion within the network which in turn, has had a negative impact on the base fee for the verification of an Ethereum transaction.

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AxiomLevel Targets Institutional Investors With Investor Onboarding Platform

The slow trickle of traditional investment into the crypto market may turn into a flood if a new platform launched by blockchain services provider AxiomLevel Technologies makes its desired impact.

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Monero Glitch Allowed Hackers To Steal XMR From Exchanges

The Next Web’s in-house cryptocurrency column recently reported that Monero, the foremost privacy-centric cryptocurrency, was subject to a relatively minor cybersecurity vulnerability. According to the technology news outlet, “inventive” hackers could create false transaction data via the copying of a simple line of code from the Monero wallet code base, which is open-sourced and easily […] The post Monero Glitch Allowed Hackers To Steal XMR From Exchanges appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Bodhi Bets on the Decentralized Prediction Marketplace

As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.

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Strategic Partnership Announced Between TokenPay and Litecoin Foundation

In May 2018, TokenPay Swiss AG joined with WEG Bank in Germany. The former attained a 9. 9 percent stake in the bank, along with the option to purchase as much as 90 percent, pending regulatory approval.

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The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.

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