Digital euro can ward off a host of private payment service ills: ECB official

    Private payment services can gain a monopoly with no benefit to other market players or economic stability, ECB board member Fabio Panetta said. The European Central Bank (ECB) is quite happy with the European Commission’s legislative proposals for the digital euro. ECB executive board member Fabio Panetta told the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and…

    Vitalik Buterin on fix for Ethereum centralization — make running nodes easier

    Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says node centralization is one of Ethereum’s main challenges but the perfect solution may not come for another 20 years. The centralization of nodes is one of the biggest problems facing the Ethereum network and should be addressed by making the running of nodes cheaper and easier, according to Ethereum co-founder…

    Weekend Wrap: Vitalik offloads MakerDAO tokens, confidence for Bitcoin ETFs and more

    Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sold his remaining MakerDAO, while confidence has remained high for upcoming spot Bitcoin ETF approvals. Buterin sells remaining MakerDAO tokens Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has sold his remaining stack of 500 MakerDAO tokens (MKR), a day after MakerDAO proposed a potential move away from Ethereum to competitor blockchain Solana. On-chain…

    Shibarium hits 1M wallets amid meteoric growth, SHIB yet to catch up

    Shibarium network activity has soared despite the price of SHIB falling more than 20% since the tumultuous launch of the layer-2 network. The total number of wallets on Shiba Inu’s newly launched layer-2 blockchain, the Shibarium network, has surpassed the one million mark in a meteoric rise since its relaunch. The milestone — announced in…

    Matter Labs co-founder proposes ‘Ethereum Supreme Court’ for on-chain disputes

    The crypto entrepreneur believes it would scare off bad actors and strengthen the state of the Ethereum network. Matter Labs co-founder and CEO Alex Gluchowski has proposed an Ethereum court system resembling a hierarchical court system similar to the real world. In a Sept. 2 post on X (Twitter), Gluchowski floated the idea for an “Ethereum Supreme Court” —…

    Whale Alert sparks speculation as XRP transfers surge

    A recent substantial purchase of Ripple’s XRP token has been detected by the crypto tracking platform Whale Alert. Whale Alert reported a transfer of 66,666,659 XRP, worth approximately $33,065,809, from Binance to an undisclosed wallet. The move has sparked speculation about its potential price impact. In the XRP ecosystem, there have been recent transfers of substantial amounts of XRP into…