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Even if you aren’t personally familiar with famed Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami, you have surely seen his work. The pop artist’s brightly colored signature characters have appeared on everything from limited edition Louis Vuitton bags to Supreme shirts to Vans skateboarding shoes. Having collaborated with celebrities like Drake, Kanye West and Billie Eilish, and

Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has launched natively on both Base and Optimism networks, allowing Circle account holders to send USDC stablecoin from their accounts to Base or Optimism. Coinbase has also made USDC transfers to Base available, according to a Sept. 5 social media post. Circle claimed that it is working with “ecosystem partners” to

Ether (ETH) price surged by 31.3% from March 10 to March 18, coinciding with the U.S. Federal Reserve’s injection of $300 billion to address the insolvency of Silicon Valley Bank.. Since then, Ether’s price consistently maintained a daily closing price above $1,600.  However, investors are now casting doubt on Ether’s ability to sustain this support

On-chain data shows that 44.2% of all Ethereum investors are now carrying their coins at a loss, a sign that the bottom may be close for the asset. Ethereum Percentage Of Holders In Loss Has Surged Recently According to data from the market intelligence platform IntoTheBlock, the percentage of ETH investors in loss has grown

Global payments processor Visa has rolled out support for USD Coin (USDC) payments settled on the Solana blockchain as its stablecoin offering begins to expand. Visa revealed that it is carrying out live and completed pilots with issuers and acquirers, moving millions of USDC tokens between partners across the Etheruem and Solana blockchains to settle

The Ethereum (ETH) market has been gripped by escalating bearish sentiment as the taker buy-sell ratio, a critical indicator of market dynamics, plunged to a yearly low. This downward trajectory has sparked concerns among investors and traders, highlighting the prevailing pessimism in the Ethereum futures market. ETH’s taker buy-sell ratio, as revealed by a recent

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 Vitalik Buterin. At current, the majority of the 5,901 active Ethereum nodes are being run through centralized web providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS),

Crypto betting platform Stake has reopened deposits and withdrawals and resumed services for users only five hours after the platform was hacked to the tune of $41.3 million, blockchain security firms estimate. Stake confirmed that all services resumed at 9:28pm UTC time on Sept. 4 — a few hours after the platform confirmed that several

A global survey featuring respondents from 15 countries indicates that Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, has the most cryptocurrency-aware population in the world. ConsenSys and YouGov released the findings from the global Web3 perception survey, which sought to provide both macro and regional insights into the perception of different countries toward cryptocurrencies and the broader Web3 ecosystem. A key

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” — which would work similarly to the United States Supreme Court — serving as a

Top Stories This Week Grayscale wins SEC lawsuit for Bitcoin ETF review Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments recently scored a big win in its battle against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. In an ongoing effort to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), the U.S. appeals court judge

A new zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proof) technology is set to improve the ability to access and verify historical data from the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, with deep chain validation cited as a usability barrier of the network. Technology firm Herodotus has released its on-chain accumulator which uses storage proof cryptography, allowing users to verify data from any

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. In this week’s newsletter, Ethereum staking services have agreed upon a 22% limit on all validators to ensure fair markets. August proved to be another costly month

The Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem could welcome a variety of new layer 2 (L2) protocols built on Polygon’s newly open sourced codebase Chain Development Kit, which harnesses zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proof) technology to ensure security and fast finality. Jordi Baylina, technical lead of Polygon Hermez zkEVM, spoke to Cointelegraph exclusively about the new tool set which is

At least five Ethereum liquid staking providers have either imposed or are working to impose a self-limit rule in which they promise not to own more than 22% of the Ethereum staking market — seen as a move to ensure the Ethereum network remains decentralized. Among the Ethereum staking providers either already committed or are

On the latest episode of Cointelegraph’s Market Talks, host Ray Salmond spoke with Luke Broyles, a popular Bitcoin (BTC) advocate and content creator on YouTube and X (formerly Twitter). During the show, Broyles laid out his Bitcoin investment thesis and his unique perspectives on how the asset’s price could eventually rise into seven-figure territory. Broyles

On-chain data shows that Ethereum traders are capitulating following the slowdown of the rally, something that may turn out to be positive. Ethereum Traders Are Selling At A Loss Right Now According to data from the on-chain analytics firm Santiment, ETH investors are getting increasingly frustrated as they are now participating in significant loss-taking. The

Grand Theft Auto owner enters Web3 via mobile gaming arm Fun fact: mobile gaming giant Zynga is owned by Take-Two Interactive, the same company that also owns Rockstar Games, which is behind ultra-popular video game series like Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and NBA 2K. Now Zynga is making its Web3 debut with a

A United States District Court judge has called Ether (ETH) a commodity in her dismissal of a class action lawsuit against the decentralized exchange Uniswap. In an Aug. 30 dismissal order of the case brought by Uniswap users who claimed they lost money due to scam tokens on the exchange — Judge Katherine Polk Failla

Bitcoin (BTC) led the cryptocurrency markets higher on Aug. 29 following Grayscale’s victory in the lawsuit against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. However, the rally could not be sustained as analysts cautioned that the victory did not guarantee the approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Still, the victory may prove to be