Ethereum


Markets

JPMorgan Is Cautious About Crypto Markets Into 2024

Ether is expected to outperform bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies next year due to the Ethereum blockchain’s EIP-4844 upgrade, the report said.

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Tech

Protocol Village: COTI Layer-1 Blockchain to Become Ethereum Layer-2 Network

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Dec 7-Dec. 13, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Tech

Ethereum's Buterin Floats Prospect of Taking Some Layer-2 Functions Back on Main Chain

Vitalik Buterin, a member of the Ethereum Foundation's executive board, once pushed "layer-2" networks as a way to provide faster and cheaper transactions. Now he's got ideas for "enshrining" some of those functions on the main chain.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin (Bradley Keoun/modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: Crypto Spring Is Airdrop Season With Tokens From Starknet, LayerZero

In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're covering Worldcoin's latest update, airdrop season, the new Bitcoin wallet from Jack Dorsey's company and the "data availability" network Celestia's market-moving plan to plug into Polygon's blockchain development kit.

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Markets

Bitcoin, Ether, and Major Altcoins in Deep Red

Bitcoin and Ether lead in liquidation heatmap with over $335 million in rekt positions in the last 12 hours.

Bitcoin (André François McKenzie/ Unsplash)

Tech

Protocol Village: EOS Network Ventures Invests in Spirit Blockchain Capital, Gets Board Seat

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 30-Dec. 6, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Tech

The Protocol: Bitcoin Censorship, or Just 'Spam Filtering?'

In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're highlight blockchain developers named in CoinDesk's Most Influential list just out, including Blockstream's Lisa Neigut, Polygon's Jordi Baylina, Base's Jesse Pollak and Optimism's Karl Floersch.

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Tech

Ethereum's 'Censorship' Problem Is Getting Worse

Four of the five biggest "block builders" on Ethereum are excluding transactions sanctioned by the U.S. government, data shows.

Builder censorship on Ethereum has more than tripled over the past 12 months. (Toni Wahrstätter/censorship.pics)

Finance

DeFi Market Rebounds to $50B as Speculators Hunt for Yield

An uptick across Solana-based protocols coupled with more than $700 million in deposits to Blast has fueled growth of the value locked in decentralized finance.

DeFi TVL and volume (DefiLlama)

Consensus Magazine

LOGIK: Tieshun 'Pacman' Roquerre 'Knows His S--t'

The artist made an NFT of the Blur and Blast founder for our Most Influential package.

Logik, artist for the NFT.