Ether price faced a significant setback after encountering robust resistance at the $4,100 mark on March 12. Ether has seen a 9% decline over the past week, underperforming when compared to the broader cryptocurrency market, leading traders to speculate whether the current support level of $3,200 will hold. For context, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization fell…

Layerswap — a bridge between centralized crypto exchanges and layer-2 blockchains — regained access to its domain after a short-lived hijack drained roughly $100,000 of user funds. On March 20, at around 19:40 UTC, the layerswap.io domain was compromised, and users trying to access the service were redirected to a phishing website. Moments later, the hacker…

The Ethereum ecosystem is on the cusp of realizing advanced security features and transaction functionality through the advent of smart contract wallets and account abstraction, but adoption of the technology remains gradual. Cointelegraph spoke to Safe co-founder Lukas Schor during ETHGlobal in London to unpack why smart contract accounts and account abstraction promise to unlock…

The reported probe into Ethereum and its foundation could be a way for the securities regulator to comfortably deny spot Ether ETFs and satisfy senator blowback without undermining its ongoing lawsuits, according to a crypto lawyer. On March 22, general partner of Van Buren Capital and finance lawyer Scott Johnsson offered his opinion on why the…

Ethereum scaling protocol Starknet anticipates increased throughput and reduced fees on its layer-2 rollup network by introducing parallel transaction functionality in 2024. The layer-2 rollup released an updated roadmap on March 20 following the successful implementation of Ethereum’s Dencun hard fork. The upgrade to the network introduced several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), chief among them being EIP-4844….

The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has released its final report on its digital krona pilot project. The report looks at the experience of end-users and focuses on offline functionality. There were mixed results. The Riksbank released its fourth and last report on the e-krona on March 20. It examined a different model for offline retail transactions from…