Ethereum News

Crypto exchanges vow to keep trading open during the Ethereum Merge, despite deposits and withdrawals of ETH and ERC-20 tokens being halted.

ETH open interest on the futures market has retraced from near-term highs but with the Merge nearly upon us, that could be a temporary easing.

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Bitcoin is still hovering near USD 20,000. Ethereum is still below USD 1,600, XRP is trading near USD 0.33. 1INCH and DCR are gaining bullish momentum.

With Ethereum (ETH) advancing toward the Merge, the blockchain’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin reiterates that his influence over the network has been decreasing over the past two years, as many new developers are taking over multiple roles.

After a large increase in the open interest (OI) in ethereum (ETH) options contracts over the course of July and the first half of August, warnings have emerged that traders should brace for increased volatility in the nearest term.

In a bid to develop transparent accounting rules for digital assets, the US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has released the criteria for the assets the industry body will include in its crypto rule-making project, leaving NFTs and certain stablecoins outside its scope.

With Ethereum’s (ETH) Merge nearing, risks that the event could bring are increasingly being discussed, with crypto researcher Coin Metrics pointing to price discrepancies in DeFi protocols as one obvious danger, and advising users to refrain from transacting at all on the day of the Merge.

With summer nearing its end and autumn, a boom time for booksellers across the world, approaching, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin is joining the race for this year’s crypto-related bestseller with the forthcoming release of Proof of Stake, a compilation of his writings from the past 10 years.

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