Ethereum DeFi plus Binance Smart Chain Surpass $100 Billion In Total Value Locked

Ethereum’s recent run is one for the books. Their supremacy is under attack from every side, with great projects trying to steal a piece of their smart contracts pie. Nevertheless, ETH’s price and their blockchain’s adoption keep rising.

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Ethereum Transaction Volumes Rise to 2017 Levels, ETH Price Soars above $500

The Ethereum smart contract transaction volume is back to 2017 levels as per a confirming tweet on Nov 20. Accompanying the swell is the expansion of ETH price above $500. For the first time in two years, bulls have broken above the psychological round number, printing new 2020 highs.

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Ethereum is leaving exchanges and moving to smart contracts

Ethereum held in smart contracts has increased while that in exchanges has gone down… The post Ethereum is leaving exchanges and moving to smart contracts appeared first on Coin Journal.

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How vulnerable are Ethereum smart contracts?

With the total value of assets locked in DeFi now worth over $13 billion, many expect this part of the crypto-space to grow at a rapid pace. In fact, in Q3 of 2020 alone, the DeFi ecosystem saw its trThe post How vulnerable are Ethereum smart contracts? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Tezos (XTZ) smart contract fees went down by 75%

Tezos (XTZ) recently introduced its latest upgrade, called Delphi. The upgrade managed to strongly reduce the project’s smart contract fees, taking them down by as much as 75%. The move was made in order to attract DeFi developers, as fees on Ethereum — the birthplace of DeFi — continue to grow due to the project’s scalability issue.

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A Tool for Reversing Ethereum Transactions is Now Live

An Israeli government-backed tech firm, Kirobo, is repurposing its invention from Bitcoin to Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, CoinDesk reports on Nov 12.   Reversing ETH Transactions They have now built a logic layer–a Retrievable Transfer service, on the Ethereum network to protect users from human error and sending transactions to non-deposit smart contracts.

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Ethereum vs. Binance Smart Chain: Who wins in a crypto DeFi battle?

The decentralized finance market has reinvigorated the crypto space from a brutal three-year-bear slumber, with the market now moving towards real-world solutions such as non-custodial lending, loans, credit, and away from just acting as a proxy for digital payments.

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Substrate-based Moonbeam Enables Ethereum Applications Deployment in Polkadot Ecosystem

Moonbeam, a Substrate-based smart contract chain wants to change the dynamics of blockchain interoperability. Enabling Ethereum Smart Contracts on Substrate In an announcement made today, Phil Lucsok, Product Communications Manager, Parity Technologies, unveiled a Substrate-based smart contact chain aiming to be a parachain on Polkadot – Moonbeam.

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Moonbeam Launch Paves Way for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Polkadot

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Five Top Reasons to Join Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 Staking

Why might becoming a validator on the second most popular blockchain be a smart bet? Here's why people join staking and what is so special about ETH2 validators

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Binance CEO Says Ethereum 2.0 Will Be Awesome And Won’t Be Killed Or Replaced By Binance Smart Chain

Binance Smart Chain is a better ecosystem than ETH 1. 0 but will not replace the upcoming upgrade, ETH 2. 0, according to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. It is currently more affordable to transact and efficient to develop on Binance Chain than on Ethereum, in almost all aspects.

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OpenZeppelin Launches Defender Developer Suite Allowing DApp Building In ‘Minutes’

OpenZeppelin announced the launch of Defender, a developer suite aiming to help developers build smart contracts in “minutes,” on Tuesday. The suite aims to enhance and automate the development and the building of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications on Ethereum.

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Ethereum long-term Price Analysis: 26 October

Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Ethereum has been the most-relied upon smart contracts platform siThe post Ethereum long-term Price Analysis: 26 October appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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What If One Multifunctional Blockchain Could Do It All?

Over the years that blockchain has evolved, different platforms have found their niche in various use cases, often based more on their limitations than their strengths. For example, as the world’s first smart contract platform, Ethereum gained a lot of early traction but most recently has become known as the hub for decentralized finance applications. […]

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Bloomberg brands Polkadot (DOT) an “Ethereum blockchain killer” in new article

Ethereum has long been the leading smart contract blockchain after its launch in 2015. The post Bloomberg brands Polkadot (DOT) an “Ethereum blockchain killer” in new article appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Ethereum Foundation Introduces New Smart Contract Language Dubbed ‘Fe’ Aiming to Attract More Developers

The Ethereum Foundation has announced a new smart contract language dubbed ‘Fe’ which is currently in development. This language derives its fundamentals from an Ethereum compiler known as ‘Vyper’; its code is written on Ethereum’s Virtual Machine (EVM) Rust programming language.

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Half of Ethereum’s circulating supply has been still for a year

Ethereum has seen great network activity over the past several months, mostly due to the DeFi sector, as well as other coins and projects, smart contracts, dApps, and more. However, when it comes to its own circulating supply, more than half of it has not moved for over a year, according to recent reports.

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Binance’s CZ Views ‘CeDeFi’ as a Complement, Not a Competitor, to DeFi

Binance’s latest experiment to integrate decentralized finance with its centralized platform, Binance Smart Chain, is not here to beat DeFi, said the company’s CEO during CoinDesk’s invest: ethereum economy program.

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Ethereum Foundation Introduces New Programming Language for Smart Contracts

The Ethereum Foundation, an organization behind the development of Ethereum, announced the creation of a new programming language called Fe for smart contracts. Previously, only the Solidity language was used for these purposes.

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Aztec launches private smart contracts as Ethereum rollup

Aztec 2.0 is both a scaling and a privacy solution rolled into one.

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Curve, Matter Labs announce testnet for Ethereum's first user-defined ZK rollup contract

In what is big news for the community, Curve and Matter Labs have announced that they have taken the next big step towards scaling Ethereum - a zkSync L2 smart contracts testnet with Curve Finance as The post Curve, Matter Labs announce testnet for Ethereum's first user-defined ZK rollup contract appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Smart Contract Protocol RSK Attempts to Bring Defi to the Bitcoin Network

During the last year, Ethereum has dominated the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem but a number of other blockchain projects plan to join the fray. The second layer, smart contract protocol RSK aims to bring the defi demand to the Bitcoin blockchain and there’s already a few RSK-based defi projects in the wild.

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Crypto VC that thinks Ethereum will hit $1 trillion market cap admits it will have competitors

Ethereum has been the leading smart contract blockchain of the past few years without a doubt: its decentralized applications currently have tens of thousands of daily active users, which have siphoned over $10 billion worth of cryptocurrency into these apps.

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English Law Reforms Proposed for Bitcoin and Ethereum to “Flourish”

The Law Commission for England and Wales has began two new strands of work related to smart contracts and digital assets. They are to analyze the current English legal system...

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EY Debuts First ERP Solution on the Ethereum Public Blockchain and Enhances On-Chain Analytics Explorer

Consulting giant Ernest & Young (EY) has launched an enterprise procurement solution based on the Ethereum public blockchain. This initiative will leverage smart contract capabilities to enable participants to design and implement procurement contracts on a public blockchain.

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VIDYA’s Public Sale Marks the Dawn of a New Blockchain Gaming Era

In 2017, the gaming world was revolutionized by the massive success of a simple blockchain game called CryptoKitties. It enabled players to breed and trade unique digital cats via a series of smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.

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В смарт-контрактах заблокировано более 15% Ethereum

Команда аналитической компании Unfolded опубликовала твит, в котором написала, что более 15% от общего предложения Ethereum (ETH) заблокировано в смарт-контрактах. Over 15% of ETH is locked in smart contracts | @glassnode pic.

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Ethereum network congestion rockets as ETH supply moves into smart contracts

The Ethereum network has been placed under immense pressure to handle significant demand for its blockspace, with users interacting with smart contracts, DEXs, and AMMs directing massive transactional volume to the network.

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Ethereum Supply in Smart Contracts Surpasses That on Exchanges: Glassnode

Glassnode agency has reported that users are currently putting most of their ETH in DeFi smart contracts instead of keeping it on centralized digital exchanges

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Ethereum as a hedge? Thank smart contracts

After Bitcoin, Ethereum has been the hottest cryptocurrency in the market, especially off-late, with its growth driven by Decentralized Finance [DeFi]. In fact, DeFi's growth has become synonymous witThe post Ethereum as a hedge? Thank smart contracts appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Galaxy Digital, IOSG Lead $1.2M Raise for Startup Creating Automated Ethereum Services

Gelato said the seed round will fund further development of its bot network that will provide automated smart contract execution.

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EOS long-term Price Analysis: 14 September

EOS was/is a supposed competitor to Ethereum and a new place for smart contracts, DApps, etc. However, lately, it hasn't amounted to much. Once positioned in the top-10 of CoinMarketCap's rankings, EOThe post EOS long-term Price Analysis: 14 September appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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RGB Continues Its Work to Bring Better Smart Contracts to Bitcoin

The RGB protocol, now in beta, is working to outfit Bitcoin with the capabilities that have made Ethereum the go-to blockchain for issuing tokenized assets.

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Binance CEO CZ Wants More DeFi Projects on Smart Chain

Coinspeaker Binance CEO CZ Wants More DeFi Projects on Smart ChainTo justify his stance on the suitability of the Binance chain for projects, CZ stated that the platform recently attained the milestone of 10% of Ethereum volume in terms of usage.

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BakerySwap DeFi Platform Shuns Ethereum, Launches on Binance Smart Chain

The past few weeks have seen a slew of new DeFi yield farming clones emerge. Many newcomers like BakerySwap are gravitating away from Ethereum to take advantage of the newly-launched Binance Smart Chain.

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Former Monero Lead Dev Calls Binance Smart Chain a Drop-In Replacement for Ethereum, Here's Why

Prominent developer and entrepreneur Riccardo Spagni (@fluffypony) is sure that Binance Chain (BNB) will replace Ethereum (ETH) as dApps hosting platform

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Defi Boom Fueling ETH Gas Fees, Threatens Viability of Smart Contracts

Growing Ethereum network transaction fees, which touched new highs recently, are a direct consequence of the increasing number of defi projects and yield farming. Yield farmers need to pay ETH for transactions like moving funds in and out of pools.

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Vitalik Buterin Floats EIP 2929 to Tackle Rising Ethereum Gas Fess

Vitalik Buterin the co-founder of the Ethereum smart contracts blockchain has introduced the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 2929 as a possible solution to the rising gas fees of the network. Buterin Focuses on Gas Fees Reduction  As the world of decentralized finance (DeFi) continues to expand, transaction fees (gas fees) on Ethereum, the engine roomRead MoreRead More.

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There Is a New Insurance Product Just in Case Tether (USDT) Goes Bust

Opium is introducing credit default swaps (CDS) against the world’s largest stablecoin, USDT, casting doubt on Tether Limited’s solvency according to a CoinDesk report on Sep 3.   Opium CDS against USDT as a Hedge The product will rely on Ethereum smart contracts, insuring holders just in case USDT’s issuing company folds and fails to fulfill its obligationsRead MoreRead More.

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Ethereum Contract Calls Set New All-Time High Amid DeFi Explosion

With the flurry of activity in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, the number of Ethereum (ETH) contract calls continues to increase. As numerous DeFi projects emerge weekly, dry-runs and tests on smart contracts are increasing as developers work out bugs.

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Binance Targets Ethereum With ‘Smart Chain’ and DeFi Platform

Binance has unveiled a new blockchain and a raft of DeFi products to take aim at the industry-standard Ethereum, which has been suffering under heavy loads and all-time high fees. It has become painfully clear for anyone that has made a transaction on Ethereum lately that it’s become financially unviable for smaller amounts.

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‘DogByte’ Attack Found in ‘Randomness’ Protocol Proof for Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain

The “DogByte” attack would have allowed attackers to cheat the Ethereum 2.0 random beacon chain by gaming smart contracts and block validator selection.

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USDC 2.0 Introduces “Gasless Sends” to Tackle Skyrocketing Ethereum Gas Fees

Members of the Centre Consortium — Circle and Coinbase – have unveiled USDC 2. 0 to tackle notorious Ethereum network gas fees. Circumventing Ethereum Gas Woes U. S. -based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and P2P payments technology firm Circle have launched a new USDC stablecoin with several upgrades to the underlying protocol and smart contract.

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Over $1 Billion Ethereum-Based Tokens Vulnerable to ‘Fake Deposit Exploit’

A number of university researchers published a study that demystifies the “fake deposit vulnerability” in Ethereum-based smart contracts. The findings show that over 7,000 tokens worth more than $1 billion built on top of Ethereum are vulnerable to two types of attacks that exploit smart contracts.

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A new Polkadot to Ethereum bridge could enable cross-chain DeFi composability

Smart contracts on Ethereum will be able to directly interact with Polkadot.

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Ethereum Potentially Trades Inside Livermore Accumulation Cylinder Pattern, New ATH Imminent

Ethereum has spent more than two years in being accumulated by smart money at low prices ahead of substantial markup. It has caused the asset to outperform most of the crypto market, including Bitcoin.

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This Smart Contract-Based Ethereum Wallet Has Crossed $1 Billion in Holdings

A smart contract-based Ethereum wallet now boasts more than $1 billion in held assets, reported crypto publication Decrypt on August 24. $1 billion in Holdings Gnosis Safe, an Ethereum wallet that leverages the power of smart contacts to hold crypto assets, now holds more than $1 billion in total assets as of this week.

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Praises Flare Network, Says It Combines Best of XRP, ETH, AVAX

Coinspeaker Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Praises Flare Network, Says It Combines Best of XRP, ETH, AVAXRipple CEO says that Flare combines the best technological features of Ethereum and Avalance and serves as a smart contract platform for XRP.

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Chainlink to Provide Decentralized Weather Data for Arbol’s Crop Derivatives on Ethereum

Chainlink has partnered with Arbol, a crop insurance startup, to enable farmers to hedge against weather risks based on Ethereum’s smart contract infrastructure. Arbol will leverage Chainlink’s decentralized data feed to keep its fundamentals up to date such that the farmers are settled in time and at the prevailing market prices. Arbol’s smart contract ecosystem […]

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