The price of Ethereum’s Ether has been rallying in the lead-up to the EIP-1559 upgrade. ETH crossed $2,500 for the first time since June 16 over the weekend — that’s a 47% increase from $1.7K on June 22, the lowest since hitting an all-time high above $4.3K on May 12. Analysts and traders speculate Ethereum’s…

Shame on you indeed. Much like the former leader of the free world, one DeFi protocol has had apes in thrall to its narrative of global domination. A force to break down walls between chains and conquer every territory on offer. Thorchain has been the darling of the wokest of woke defi influencers with its…

Okay, so this ultra sound money thang. What is it? Well it’s a meme. A joke from the inner circles of Ethereum communities to describe what’s going to happen to Ethereum as it transforms this year. And we have researcher Justin Drake to thank for its genesis which starts with a single tweet.

Ethereum gas prices spiked on Sunday as collectors, bots and apes raced to get their hands on newly launched NFT projects.  Gas fees, which briefly hit 600 gwei on Sunday due to demand, were reminiscent of a time when triple-digit gas fees were the norm. Gas fees for minting an NFT cost around $160. Yet,…

Arbitrum is a L2 scaling solution for Ethereum from Off-chain Labs. It should make it extremely easy for developers to move apps to L2 since no new tooling is required. They just announced their Mainnet Beta so this was a perfect opportunity to get a very first taste of a rollup future. It didn’t go…

I have to confess, much like Mr. Cuban I’ve never found myself particularly charmed by Cardano. It’s just never been my jam. But this project is mentioned more than any other in our comments section each and every week. So, I decided to kick my personal biases firmly in the Hoskins and take a good…

Injective Protocol, a decentralized derivatives exchange, said it raised a $10M at a $1B valuation from investors including Pantera Capital, BlockTower, Hashed, Cadenza Ventures (formerly BitMex Ventures), among others. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban also participated, while Cumberland, DRW’s crypto arm, disclosed its investment in the company. “Raising a sum of money so small relative…

The Rainbow Bridge, which connects the NEAR blockchain to Ethereum, is live. NEAR Protocol is a proof-of-stake blockchain that hosts the NEAR platform, a decentralized development platform that facilitates scalable, decentralized apps with low gas fees and fast transaction speeds.  The Rainbow Bridge is a decentralized, permissionless bridge protocol built by NEAR Protocol that allows…

Enjin has revealed more details about their NFT-focused blockchain, Efinity Network, which was announced earlier this month alongside their “high-speed bridge network” scaling solution, JumpNet. Efinity Network will be built as a parachain (ie: an offshoot blockchain) on the Polkadot network. Enjin plans Efinity Network to be a cross-chain highway for NFTs, capable of supporting…