Samourai Wallet shutdown: Implications for other privacy and self-custody tools

The new EIP-2878 would reduce block rewards by 75% and has received sharp criticism from miners who say it will compromise the network’s security. A new Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) has been met with sharp criticism from miners suggesting those behind the proposal are less interested in the network’s security and more focused on investors’…

According to the DMCA, PolygonPunks would have had to have claimed its material "was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification." 182 Total views 11 Total shares Nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea is once again listing the Polygon-based copy of CryptoPunks after a successful Digital Millennium Copyright Act counter notice. In a Sept. 28 announcement on Twitter,…

Decentralized finance projects like Ren pumped in 2021, only to finish the year right back when they started as high fees on Ethereum (ETH) led to decreased activity for many protocols and DeFi took a backseat to more popular sectors like nonfungible tokens (NFTs). Now, it appears as though that downtrend is in the process of…

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Out of the 1,000 respondents, 21% plan to take on consumer debt for buying cryptocurrency while more than 20% have decided to use either their bank savings or refinancing homes. 665 Total views 9 Total shares As the crypto ecosystem continues to mature and go mainstream, a new study of millennials has shown a change…

The Ethereum Merge could force many crypto miners to give up and abandon their expensive mining rigs amid a race to the bottom for profits. 6716 Total views 22 Total shares The Ethereum network’s transition from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus is likely to flood the crypto industry with out-of-work Ether (ETH) miners, causing severe disruption to…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is a natural product made possible by blockchain technology and has the right and ready infrastructure to propel the technology to a bigger playing field. The space has grown by leaps and bounds since the Ethereum network went live in July 2015, with Ethereum network transactions growing by 33x to 1.2 million…

Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain hosts approximately 80% of Uniswap’s monthly active traders.

Balancer hacked twice within 24 hours, though this time the sum is relatively small. 3160 Total views 91 Total shares We recently reported that the Balancer DeFit protocol suffered a $500,000 attack. Less than 24 hours later, a second attack claimed about $2,300 worth of Compound tokens (COMP).Hao, an engineer at DeBank, tweeted that an…