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Tech

Ethereum Handled Friend.tech Frenzy Without 'Gas Fee' Spike. Why That’s a Big Deal

Friend.tech, Crypto's latest fad, didn't drive up congestion and fees on Ethereum the way frenzies have in the past – possibly a sign that the blockchain's efforts to scale by fostering supplemental "layer-2" networks, like Coinbase's new Base, are bearing fruit.

Even as ETFs capture attention, Jan van Eck is focused on gas fees. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk.)

Finance

Visa Tests Way to Make Paying Ethereum Gas Fees Easier

The process is too complex for the masses, the company said.

Casa central de Visa en Foster City, California. (Wonderlane/Creative Commons)

Finance

Crypto Wallet Giddy Lets Polygon Users Pay Gas Fees in USDC

“Autogas will support even more tokens in the future,” the CEO of the wallet company said.

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Tech

Polygon Completes Hard Fork to Reduce Gas Fee Spikes, Disruptive Reorgs

The software upgrade to the Ethereum-scaling project went live on Tuesday and included two proposals from December that Polygon validator teams voted to approve.

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Tech

Polygon’s Blockchain to Undergo Hard Fork

The software upgrade scheduled for Jan. 17 will address gas spikes and chain reorganization.

Polygon APIs will soon be available on The Graph. (Aquaryus15/Unsplash)

Web3

Web3 Platform Alchemy Has a Plan to Thwart Bad Actors in NFT Mints

It’s new technology, Spearmint, is an “allow list” designed to keep out speculators and bots who drive up gas fees.

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Tech

What to Expect From Ethereum’s Next Big Upgrade

“Shanghai” will make it possible to withdraw staked ETH, but a long-wished-for pathway to lower gas fees might be missing from the update.

Shanghai (Edward He/Unsplash)

Videos

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Explains Why He's Against Canada Invoking Emergencies Act and Blacklisting Crypto Wallets of Protesters

CoinDesk's Christine Lee speaks to Vitalik Buterin about the challenges of transitioning into Ethereum 2.0, gas fees, layer 1 competitions as well as his views on the Canadian trucker protests.

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Skale CEO Announces $100M Ecosystem Grant Program

Skale Co-Founder and CEO Jack O’Holleran joins CoinDesk TV’s Christine Lee at the 2022 ETHDenver conference to announce the new $100 million grant program for projects in the Skale ecosystem, with a specific emphasis on blockchain gaming initiatives.

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JPMorgan: Ethereum Losing NFT Market Share to Solana

Ethereum's dominance in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is shrinking because of congestion and high gas fees, JPMorgan said in an analyst report. "The Hash" team discusses their assessment of the findings and why Ethereum might still be the superior blockchain.

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