As decentralised finance protocols (DeFi) take on a more prominent role in driving total cryptocurrency market cap, Kyber Network eyes the $2 high last seen in August 2020. Currently exchanging hands at $1.33 (Binance), KNC surged 35% in 7 days. The KNC token had been in a period of consolidation since October, but the tables…

It’s time to buy a fire suit, because ETH is super hot. As Ether makes headlines surging past its previous high, other less flashy metrics are also near records, signaling the Ethereum network is strengthening not just in price. ETH hit a new all-time high of $1439.33, topping the previous record of $1432.88 reached during…

There are multiple ways with varying difficulties and requirements to stake your ETH. This week we’re covering the most user-friendly, easiest, and fastest ways to start staking.

A Creator’s Perspective: Music & Distributed Ledger Tech Tokenizing music is still in experimental stages but my long-term vision is that digital collectibles will evolve into true fractional ownership in a song’s master recording rights, allowing artists to disintermediate the music industry and fans to gain from their success.  After brainstorming for months on a…

In this week’s podcast, we interview Justin Blau, better known as 3LAU, one of the world’s top DJs, who is also at the forefront of the intersection between music and crypto. He became interested in blockchain technology because it can provide a means for fans to provably to own digital content, and for artists to better…

While your regular crypto asset will fling you around like a ragdoll and reduce your life expectancy by double digits at least twice a month, stablecoins wrap us in a warm embrace and whisper in our ears that maybe, just maybe, things will be okay. They’re an anchor, a refuge and they too come in…

Ledger customers’ data has been leaked yet again, putting the state-of-the-art hardware wallet company into another compromising position.  Ledger announced on Twitter that it has been targeted by rogue Shopify team members who exported over 200 merchants’ customer databases in April and June of 2020. 292,000 customers have been affected, and Ledger says that while…

Joe Biden’s new SEC chair may be, if not an advocate, at least very knowledgeable on blockchain technology. President-elect Joe Biden will be appointing MIT professor Gary Gensler as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Reuters reported. Gensler is a Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at MIT’s Sloan School…

Chainlink has fallen out of favor in the last few months, possibly due to the parabolic run-up it enjoyed in mid 2020, but the worst may be over. LINK’s supply ratio has been transitioning off exchanges ever since it reached a peak price of $20 in early August, on-chain market analytics firm Santiment revealed. .…

Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559, a long awaited update to Ethereum’s core codebase, was rumored to be ready for deployment yesterday in a leaked Discord conversation on Twitter. The proposal aims to change Ethereum’s transaction fee mechanism to improve user experience and reduce ether inflation. Most Significant  As EIP-1559 is viewed by the broader Ethereum community…