Ethereum


Finance

Market Maker B2C2 Teams With Blockdaemon, Stakewise to Provide Ethereum Staking Liquidity

B2C2 says it will be the sole over-the-counter spot liquidity provider for the staked ether token sETH-h built on liquid staking platform Portara.

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Tech

Ethereum Developers to Launch New Testnet ‘Zhejiang’ for Simulating ETH Withdrawals

Users will be able to get a sense of how staked ETH withdrawals will work from a testnet due to go fully live on Feb. 7.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Issuance Startup Tokensoft Brings Its Token Launchpad On-Chain

Tokensoft version 2 will allow for greater abstraction in how teams structure their token distributions.

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Web3

EthBoy NFT Painting Continues to Evolve With Fourth Edition

The generative artwork, which depicts Vitalik Buterin in a harlequin suit, changes every day in response to external data.

EthBoy NFT, fourth edition. (Trevor Jones)

Markets

Deflationary Ether Is Underperforming Bitcoin, Here Are 3 Reasons Why

While bitcoin has gained nearly 43% this month, ether has appreciated by 36%.

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Markets

Decentralized Exchange Vela’s DXP Token Surges Ahead of Beta Release on Arbitrum

The utility token has rallied 50% in the past 24 hours and more than doubled since Wednesday ahead of the release of its widely anticipated beta version next week.

Traders are betting Vela, which means sail in Spanish, can take a share of the growing decentralized exchange activity on Arbitrum. (Johannes Plenio/Unsplash)

Opinion

Tech’s Money Woes: Beginning of the End for Web2?

Gloomy forecasts, mass layoffs and antitrust lawsuits have bruised "Big Tech" over the past year. But that doesn't automatically portend the end of Web2. For Web3 to emerge, we have to address key questions about AI and decentralization.

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Finance

DeFi Lender Aave Deploys Version 3 on Ethereum Network

Aave v3 allows users to benefit from the highest borrowing power out of their collateral.

AaveV3 is live. (app.aave.com)

Finance

Crypto Custodian Aegis to Add Coverage of Lido's Staked Token Derivatives

Aegis’ end-to-end custody now includes liquid staking services through Lido for its institutional users wary of regulation.

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Markets

Optimism’s OP Token Hits All-Time High as Layer 2 Adoption Interests Grow

The OP token has surged 140% this year, surpassing bitcoin and ether.

Bitcoin jumped to $23,500 Wednesday shortly after the release of the U.S. CPI for July. (Denny Luan/Unsplash)