Ethereum

The Ethereum blockchain was built to serve as a single source of truth backed by a public transaction database and to function as a platform for a variety of decentralized applications ranging from financial services to games. Ether is the native token for the Ethereum ecosystem.

The Ethereum blockchain is preparing a significant upgrade, called the Ethereum Merge, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 13-16, 2022.

The Merge reflects a shift in Ethereum’s protocol in which the blockchain will move from a “proof-of-work” to “proof-of-stake” system.

Miners validate transactions by solving complex calculations before a new block can be added to the chain. This is the mechanism that Bitcoin ($BTC) runs on.

Miners are replaced by “validators,” who stake the ETH they own to validate new blocks on the chain. Avalanche ($AVAX) and Solana ($SOL) are proof-of-stake.

The Ethereum Foundation reports that moving to a proof-of-stake model will reduce the blockchain’s energy consumption by more than 99%.

Ether ($ETH) is Ethereum’s native crypto asset, while Ethereum is the underlying blockchain. No disruptions to ETH are expected following the Merge.

Unlike Bitcoin, the founder of Ethereum is publicly known. Vitalik Buterin published Ethereum’s introductory paper in 2013 and launched the project in 2015.

The Ethereum blockchain was built to serve as a single source of truth backed by a public transaction database and to function as a platform for a variety of decentralized applications ranging from financial services to games.

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Polkadot

The following article is adapted from The Block's newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.

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Ethereum treasury firms are poised to outperform Bitcoin rivals as staking yields boost sustainability, a Standard Chartered analyst predicts.

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Standard Chartered said digital asset treasury (DAT) flows will be a stronger price driver for Ethereum than for Bitcoin or Solana.

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Bitcoin

Payments giant PayPal will soon allow users to send crypto tokens to each other directly via text message, DM, and email.

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Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee, newly appointed chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc (AMEX:BMNR), is positioning the company as a leading Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) treasury play as Wall Street accelerates its shift toward blockchain-based finance.

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BitMine Immersion Technologies Inc (AMEX:BMNR) has amassed over 2.15 million ETH tokens worth approximately $10 billion, cementing its position as the world's largest Ethereum (CRYPOT: ETH) treasury company. What Happened: The company's total crypto and cash holdings reached $10.771 billion as of Sep. 14, including 2,151,676 ETH, 192 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), $214 million in “moonshot” investments and $569 million in unencumbered cash.

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Ethereum layer-2 network Base is "exploring" a token launch, Coinbase confirmed on Monday, in a pivot from previous messaging.

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The company says it holds $10.7 billion—mostly in ETH, BTC, and cash.

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Payments firm PayPal (PYPL) said it is expanding its peer-to-peer service by adding cryptocurrency transfers to its payment flow, the company announced on Monday.

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Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) delivered a dominant $2.34 billion inflow for the week, with ether ETFs rebounding to secure $638 million. Institutional favorites led the charge, pointing to the strengthening appetite for digital asset exposure.

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Solana

Digital asset treasuries (DATs), publicly traded firms that hold crypto on their balance sheets, have been hit hard in recent weeks as their market NAVs (mNAVs) slid below 1, Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick said in a new report.

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EF formed a new dAI team led by core dev Davide Crapis, introducing a standard to verify and transact with AI agents called ERC-8004.

Ethereum Foundation forms ‘dAI' team to make Ethereum a base layer for the AI economy

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is creating a dedicated artificial intelligence (AI) group to make Ethereum the settlement and coordination layer for what it calls the “machine economy,” according to research scientist Davide Crapis.

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Worldcoin

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the digital asset treasury company focused on Ethereum's ether (ETH) and helmed by Fundstrat's Tom Lee, said its crypto, cash and equity holdings hit $10.77 billion.

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The team, led by Davide Crapis, will collaborate with Silicon Valley titans and crypto developers on making Ethereum the foundational layer of the AI ecosystem.

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Tom Lee-chaired Ethereum treasury company BitMine Immersion reported its crypto and cash holdings had reached $10.8 billion on Monday.

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Dogecoin

Cryptocurrency markets are trending down on Monday morning. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $115,147 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $4,539 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $236.18 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $2.99 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) $0.2656 Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) $0.00001312 Notable Statistics: Coinglass data shows 172,929 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $450.21 million.

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The crypto market has stalled since Saturday, with bitcoin once again failing to keep gains above $116,000 alongside continued selling by wallets of early adopters, or OGs.

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The OG whale who recently swapped billions of dollars worth of BTC for ETH has resumed selling bitcoin, according to Lookonchain.

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The Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) Foundation released a roadmap on Friday to bring end-to-end privacy features across the network's application layer. Privacy The Norm Rather Than The Exception The foundation, a non-profit dedicated to supporting the Ethereum blockchain, rebranded its "Privacy & Scaling Explorations" team to "Privacy Stewards of Ethereum" to reflect the new approach.

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The total stablecoin supply on Ethereum climbed to an all-time high of $166 billion as of Saturday, up from $149.5 billion a month earlier.

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Fears of a downside for bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) have eased substantially, according to the latest options market data. However, the pace of the next upward move in these cryptocurrencies will largely hinge on the magnitude of the anticipated Fed rate cut scheduled for Sept.

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Shiba Inu

The Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) team posted a detailed account of the hacking incident that impacted its ecosystem on Saturday, including details about the assets affected and subsequent actions taken. Flash Loan Attack On Shibarium According to the official X account tied to the SHIB token, the attacker acquired 4.6 million Bone ShibaSwap (CRYPTO: BONE), the governance token of Shiba Inu's Layer 2 network Shibarium, through a flash loan and momentarily gained validator voting power.

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Despite September's pullback, investors see scope for a year-end Bitcoin rebound on supportive macro trends and options flows.

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Leading cryptocurrencies fell on Sunday, while stock futures rose, as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's decision on rate cuts. Cryptocurrency Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 9:25 p.m.

News for Ethereum Crypto (ETH)