A clear ascending triangle is forming on the Bitcoin dominance chart, signaling a potential surge in Bitcoin’s market share, according to several crypto traders. Some, however, argue it’s going to go the other way. “The BTC dominance train is about to leave the station,” crypto trader and Into The Cryptoverse founder Benjamin Cowen declared to his…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a technique to incentivize better decentralization of Ethereum by penalizing correlated failures among validators. Buterin posted his thoughts on March 27 regarding supporting decentralized staking “through more anti-correlation incentives” to the Ethereum Research forum. He suggested if multiple validators controlled by the same actor fail together, they would receive a higher penalty than…
Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Optimism is putting aside $3.3 billion worth of its Optimism (OP) token for its community to grant to projects or people deemed important contributors to the blockchain’s ecosystem. On March 26, the chain’s governance and community arm, Optimism Collective, said that some of the 850 million OP would be doled out…
A United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brief detailing proposed fines and penalties for blockchain firm Ripple describes a different narrative than the one pushed by the company’s executives. In a March 25 filing in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, attorneys for the SEC proposed Ripple pay $876,308,712 in disgorgement and…
As Bitcoin toes around the $70,000 price mark, there’s speculation that short-sellers are feeling the pressure due to diminishing downtrends and quicker-moving uptrends, potentially driving Bitcoin’s price to $80,000, according to an analyst. “This is a textbook sign that shorts are being squeezed as we hit fresh all-time high territory,” trading resource The Kobeissi Letter stated…
Grayscale is confident that spot Ether (ETH) exchange-traded funds will be approved in May despite recent “chatter” about the U.S. securities regulator’s “lack of engagement” with applicants. “I don’t think perceived lack of engagement from regulators should be indicative of one outcome or another […] I personally am not deterred by it and believe the ETFs should…