Author: Crypto Insider

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…

Ethereum developers have launched a new initiative in a bid to raise the blockchain network’s long-static gas limit, arguing that the change can be used to help scale Ethereum. On March 20, core Ethereum developer Eric Connor and former head of smart contracts at MakerDAO Mariano Conti unveiled a new website called ‘pump the gas’ to raise…

Blockchain game publisher Immutable has launched a $100 million fund to invest in blockchain games, called the “Inevitable Games Fund” — IGF for short. Venture capital firm King River Capital and Polygon Labs also contributed to the launch of the “ecosystem-agnostic fund,” according to a statement shared with Cointelegraph. King River will lead the investment…