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.

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…

In this week’s podcast episode, we interview Fred Chesnias, the CEO of Atari. The video game company now has a token and plans to release a wallet and even an exchange. The token is an erc20, which Atari hopes will get used across any game, not just its own. With the token, users will be…

On-Chain Markets Update by Lucas Outumuro, IntoTheBlock This Week: Ethereum’s Growth Catalysts Amidst an Overheated Market After underperforming Bitcoin in Q4, Ether’s price has managed to grow by over 60% in the first week of January. Having officially launched phase zero of ETH 2.0 in December, Ethereum has seen a wave of positive events unfold.…

Wall Street’s favorite ether investment vehicle is plunging just as the underlying cryptocurrency is near records. But there’s a good reason why. Grayscale’s Ethereum Investment Trust, ETHE, has dropped from a 6-month high of $23 on Dec. 22, to $14 at the time of writing. That ~40% drop contrasts with the near 70% rise of…

The good news: Ethereum is booming. The bad news: gas fees are, too. ETH is surging past $1k—the highest it’s been since the crypto boom of January 2018. Investors have taken notice, with the co-founder of Three Arrows Capital hedge fund (which just made headlines for their SEC filing stating $1.3 billion in Grayscale Bitcoin…

After a week of record volumes for 2020, bitcoin’s price dropped on decreasing trading volumes. Meanwhile, assets locked in DeFi are recovering since the November dip – said to be due to the Ethereum 2.0 network upgrade. Bitcoin is trading around $22,770 (Bitfinex) at the time of writing, reclaiming some of the losses from the…

The first phase, or Phase 0, in the transition to Ethereum 2.0/ aka Eth2.0/ aka Serenity successfully launched today. In this phase of the process a proof-of-stake chain, known as the Beacon chain, is now running. ETH holders can deposit (or stake) ETH in multiples of 32 and start accumulating staking rewards, thus becoming validators in...

Phase 0 of Eth2 is set to kick off on its targeted launch date of Dec. 1 now that more than 584,224 ETH (or about $350M) is staked in the deposit contract. The historic threshold was needed to deploy the Beacon Chain, the new primary source of truth for Ethereum as it transitions from Proof…

We are in the middle of a crypto bull market but you wouldn’t know it from social media trends, news headlines and anchors, and just all-around hype. If it feels a lot quieter this time around, it’s because it is. The gap between BTC and ETH prices and mainstream interest, measured by Google search, is…