Traditional finance companies are boosting their engagement with Ethereum-based real-world asset protocols, resulting in RWAs outperforming DeFi blue chips. Real-world asset (RWA) protocols have become a hot trend within decentralized finance (DeFi) circles. An RWA protocol is a decentralized application that allows entities to tokenize and trade real-world assets. These assets range from stocks and…
Ether could eventually run afoul of the SEC, but at the moment, key data points suggest ETH is poised to hold the $1,800 level. Ether’s price retested $1,780 after the news of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suing cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Coinbase, but it’s not preposterous to suggest that Ether bulls…
The upgrade is part of a series of reforms meant to increase modularity in the OP Stack, allowing developers to spin up their own networks using the software. The Optimism network concluded its “Bedrock” upgrade on June 7, reducing deposit times, lowering layer-1 fees and enacting additional security features, according to an announcement from network…
The SEC lawsuit against Binance led to outflows of over $750 million on Ethereum in the past 24 hours, with outflows still exceeding inflows. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) lawsuit against Binance — accusing the crypto exchange of violating various securities laws — has directly impacted the crypto market and the exchange’s…
Besides Ethereum, Bitcoin’s meme frenzy via Ordinals has steeply declined from its high in May. The average gas fee — transaction fee — on the Ethereum network has cooled substantially in the first week of June after reaching a multimonth high in May, owing to the memecoin frenzy and much maximal extractable value (MEV) bot…
The cryptocurrency market has been experiencing low volatility for the past two months, but does that mean investors should just sit and wait? Cryptocurrency markets are well-known for their volatility, where large price swings help investors create or lose fortunes. Yet there are often periods of relative stability where the tight price action bores some…