Creating a successful startup is challenging at the best of times, especially in the crypto industry, where an estimated 95% of startups fail. There have been thousands of crypto startups as the industry has developed. According to the business platform Crunchbase, at least 2,619 are operating in various stages of development as of 2024. There has also been a…
Ethereum’s Dencun hard fork, considered the biggest upgrade since the Merge, went live on mainnet on March 13. While most people were focusing on the promised transaction fee reduction for layer-2 scaling networks, the most significant benefit of the upgrade is actually fee stabilization, Nick Dodson, the co-founder and CEO of Fuel Labs, told Cointelegraph…
A sharp plunge in the price of Bitcoin has caused crypto trader liquidations to top $661 million in the past 24 hours, affecting nearly 200,000 traders. In early trading on March 15, Bitcoin shed 7.5% in just a few hours falling from $72,000 to $66,500. The asset rebounded slightly to reclaim the $68,000 level before getting…
Bitcoin has surged this year thanks to an influx of money from traditional institutional investors via exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Likewise, integrations by traditional retail payments players — Visa and Mastercard — could push the crypto market to dramatically higher valuations in the year ahead. Despite explosive growth, crypto’s daily active users still pale in comparison to…
Entangle omnichain infrastructure introduces a versatile messaging infrastructure, bringing new standards in blockchain interoperability, seamless data access and liquidity enhancement for Web3. As the blockchain landscape evolves into an increasingly complex ecosystem of interconnected networks, seamless communication and integration between networks becomes essential to decentralized applications (DApps) and services that seek to operate across multiple blockchains. Developers…
Ethereum’s much-anticipated Dencun upgrade, which allows for the reduction of gas fees on layer-2 solutions through proto-danksharding, went live on March 13, drawing both applause and doubts from speculators. “I don’t think this upgrade will significantly impact ETH’s price in the short term,” Ruslan Lienkha, chief of markets at crypto wallet provider YouHodler, told Cointegraph. “But we…