Ethereum

Ethereum’s Shanghai/Capella upgrade — also known by the portmanteau Shapella — may not be the technical marvel of last year’s “Merge” or introduce turbocharged speeds to the network.  Volumes of over 100,000 transactions per second will have to wait for future “danksharding” upgrades, according to the Ethereum Foundation. But the hard fork remains an important

Tether, the issuer behind the leading stablecoin Tether (USDT), has blacklisted an address that drained Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bots for $25 million last week.  The address in question exploited a bug in the MEV-boost relay to outsmart the MEV bots trying to execute a sandwich trade. Sandwiching occurs when one order is placed immediately

According to an Apr. 10 post from Etherscan, the blockchain explorer has disabled the display of zero-value token transfers on its website by default. From now on, users must manually switch on the display from the website’s setting page. Etherscan says it made the update to deter “address poisoning” attacks that have phished and spammed

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol SushiSwap recently suffered an exploit due to a smart contract bug, leading to over $3 million in losses. Members of the crypto community responded to the hack, with some thinking that there was something fishy about it.  On April 9, security firms detected unusual activities in the DeFi platform’s smart contract

Cross-chain automated marker maker Symbiosis has onboarded layer-2 scaling protocol zkSync to improve speed and reduce fees of token swaps on its platform. The decentralized exchange (DEX) was launched in March 2022. It provides single-sided stablecoin pools that deliver zero impermanent loss to liquid providers. It also facilitates ‘any-to-any’ native asset swaps on its platform across

A 689 Ether (ETH) reward worth $1.28 million has been paid from a single Miner Extractable Value (MEV)-boost relay block on the Ethereum Beacon Chain in one of the largest rewards in recent months. Ethereum liquid staking solution Lido was paid the reward from block number 17007842 on the Beacon Chain — which was finalized

Ethereum staking deposits have declined slightly in recent weeks due to increased regulatory pressure and the Shapella upgrade slated for April 12. On April 9, on-chain analytics provider Glassnode reported on the current state of the Ethereum staking ecosystem. The data revealed that deposit activities are currently low “due to regulatory pressure and the Shanghai

Top Stories This Week Bitcoin white paper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper laying out the thesis for the Bitcoin network is seemingly hiding within every modern version of the operating system for Apple’s Mac computers. An April 5 blog post from technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF

Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) token dropped by over 7.5% in its Bitcoin (BTC) pair in 2023. But ETH/BTC may wipe its year-to-date (YTD) losses entirely in April as Ethereum’s long-awaited Shanghai hard fork is just days away. The upgrade is set for April 12, enabling Ethereum stakers to withdraw around 1.1 billion ETH in rewards — worth

While it may have some short-term negative impact on the price of Ether (ETH), the upcoming Shanghai upgrade will be extremely bullish for Ethereum’s native token, as it will attract more capital to staking and increase the network’s security, according to Ethereum researcher Vivek Raman.  The Shanghai upgrade, scheduled for April 12, will allow network

Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace LooksRare has upgraded to version 2, reducing fees by 75% and implementing several other features, according to an April 6 announcement from the company. ! Rolled out rn:– Fee dropped to 0.5%– Gas 50% cheaper than Blur– One-signature bulk listing– Buy 70+ NFTs at once– Sellers get ETH instead of WETH

The March 13 flash loan attack against Euler Finance resulted in over $195 million in losses. It caused a contagion to spread through multiple decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, and at least 11 protocols other than Euler suffered losses due to the attack. Over the next 23 days, and to the great relief of many Euler users,

Hackers were able to gain access to more than $320 million just in the first quarter of 2023, according to on-chain data consolidated by the quarterly report released by blockchain security firm CertiK. The losses were significantly low when compared to 2022’s first and fourth quarters, where hackers were able to take around $1.3 billion

A new protocol that allows Ethereum validators and stakers to “re-stake” their assets onto other emerging networks has just launched on testnet. The mainnet launch of the EigenLayer protocol is not expected until Q3 however, and testing will be phased in three stages to onboard various participants into the ecosystem. The first stage is using

Matter Labs, the team behind Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution zkSync, has denied that 921 Ether (ETH)  worth $1.7 million will be “stuck forever” in one of its new projects. The statement comes as one zkSync project is currently experiencing issues in transferring the funds that it accumulated during its token sale. In a response tweet,

The pseudonymous Twitter user and blockchain investigator Officer’s Notes believes they may have been a suspect in the $195 million Euler Finance hack. In an April 4 Twitter thread, the security researcher stated, “Seems like I was a suspect in this case, as usual.” The Euler team has denied that Officer’s Notes was a suspect,

In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Justin Bram, co-founder and CEO of Astaria — which allows users to put up their nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as collateral to earn instant liquidity. Bram also has his own YouTube channel with over 30,000 subscribers. We kick things off by getting Bram’s opinion on the most

Lending protocol Sentiment has managed to recover the stolen funds from the recent hack by offering the hacker a bounty worth $95,000. In an on-chain transaction on the Arbitrum blockchain, Sentiment sent a message to the hacker offering $95,000 if the hacker returned the funds by April 6, urging the hacker to “do the right

Masa Finance’s soulbound tokens will soon be available on Coinbase’s Base network, according to an April 4 announcement from Masa Finance. The new tokens will allow users to link identifying and reputational characteristics to their wallet addresses, making credit underwriting possible on the blockchain, the company said. @getmasafi to Launch Soulbound Token Protocol & Developer

The total amount of funds bridged to zkSync reached $115 million within 10 days of the public mainnet launch as users rush to farm the airdrop of the Ethereum rollup’s expected native token, per L2BEAT data. The zkSync era mainnet was launched one day after the March 24 Arbitrum airdrop. The median airdrop for eligible