Rapid growth in DeFi-focused Ethereum liquid staking derivatives platforms raises eyebrows

    ETH use in DeFi is down due to an uptick in staking, but rapid growth in LSDfi could be a bull market catalyst. Ether’s DeFi activity has declined in the bear market and the sector faces further competition from Ethereum’s annual staking reward of 4%, according to Glassnode analysts. However, a DeFi narrative is building…

    Circle to launch ‘official version’ of USDC natively on Arbitrum

    USDC stablecoin developer Circle will replace the current version of its token with one running natively on the Arbitrum network. Circle recently announced plans for a June 8 launch of a new native version of its USD Coin stablecoin on the Arbitrum network. 1/ Circle is launching USDC natively on @Arbitrum on June 8th! Keep scrolling…

    The Sandbox CEO’s Twitter was hacked, used to promote alleged ‘airdrop’ scam

    The executive appears to have now recovered his account. Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used Madrid’s account to promote a fake…

    Vitalik Buterin warns against overloading Ethereum consensus

    Buterin has advocated preserving Ethereum consensus minimalism and not overloading validators with other things. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a lengthy blog post warning of the dangers of “stretching” Ethereum’s consensus past its core functions of validating blocks and securing the network. Ethereum consensus is the process whereby blocks are validated by the proof-of-stake mechanism implemented…

    Bitcoin, Ethereum bears are back in control — Two derivative metrics suggest

    Given the uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment, Bitcoin price bulls have no reason to bet against a six-week descending wedge pattern. A bearish market structure has been pressuring cryptocurrencies’ prices for the past six weeks, driving the total market capitalization to its lowest level in two months at $1.13 trillion. According to two derivative metrics,…

    Ethereum users are increasingly demanding self-custody: Casa CTO

    Security expert Jameson Lopp said some users lost Ethereum tokens because of the lack of a secure storage method. The demand for Ethereum self-custody solutions is growing, according to Jameson Lopp, co-founder and chief technology officer of Bitcoin wallet provider Casa. In a conversation with Cointelegraph at Bitcoin 2023, Lopp stated that Casa has found…