Uniswap will deploy on Polkadot parachain Moonbeam

    The decentralized exchange gets a Polkadot version via the Moonbeam network. The Uniswap crypto exchange will soon be available on Moonbeam, a parachain of Polkadot, according to a May 17 approved proposal on the exchange’s governance forum. The proposal was put forward by educational group Blockchain at Michigan. It passed with near-unanimous support, with only a single…

    Celsius moves $781M in stETH just as Lido withdrawals open

    The bankrupt crypto lender has been moving its massive stash of staked Ethereum. It appears that embattled crypto lender Celsius is wasting no time in shifting its Ethereum staking tokens from liquid staking platform Lido, which has just enabled withdrawals. On May 15, a transaction was identified on Celsius wallets for 428,015 stETH (Lido staked…

    Optimism’s major mainnet upgrade to Bedrock set for June 6

    The much needed upgrade will provide a number of improvements across the network, and come at a time when competition in the Layer 2 space has been heating up. Layer 2 scaling solution Optimism is set to undergo its highly anticipated Bedrock upgrade on June 6. The move is expected to result in significantly reduced…

    Ethereum’s Beacon Chain is updated after finality issues

    Ethereum core developers released patches for Prysm Labs and Teku clients in response to a Beacon Chain issue preventing block finalization. Ethereum core developers rolled out patches for Prysm Labs and Teku clients as a response to two Beacon Chain finality issues within a 24-hour period. The Beacon Chain serves as the consensus layer for…

    Worth it? Trader spends $120K on gas buying $155K worth of a memecoin

    A user spent an additional 76% of their total purchase price in gas fees on a single memecoin trade. A single trader just spent a staggering 64 Ether — equivalent to $118,000 — in gas fees purchasing $155,000 worth of a memecoin called Four (FOUR). According to an update from the popular blockchain tracking service Whale…

    The Ethereum Foundation just sold $30M in Ether — But will ETH price fall this time?

    Ethereum Foundation’s previous big sale of ETH preceded a bear market, but there’s little evidence that such sales affect the general market trend. On May 6, Ethereum Foundation transferred nearly $30 million in Ether to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, causing jitters in the market about a potential selloff event. ETH price fell 4.8% to $1,900 on the…