Developers of the Binance Smart Chain, the Binance-backed decentralized blockchain platform, have proposed applying a mechanism to burn BNB tokens based on the utilization of the network. According to the proposal, this would benefit both validators and holders due to the increase in value that the token would experience thanks to token burns. The proposal,…
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Bitcoin surpassed the $52K handle on Monday morning, as crypto-asset markets have been moving northbound and gathering more fiat value. The overall crypto economy is around $2.45 trillion and it has gained 3.5% during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, bitcoin charts show a pending golden crossover which to many means the overall market outlook looks…
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Uniswap is currently the second-ranked crypto platform by daily fee generation after Ethereum. The world’s top decentralized exchange, Uniswap, is currently beating out Bitcoin’s daily fee generation by more than 50%. According to the data tracking website, CryptoFees, the leading Ethereum-powered decentralized exchange Uniswap has generated more than $4.8 million worth of fees over the…
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Users and investors delight as EIP-1559 is scheduled for July, but ETH miners are less than thrilled. A hotly awaited upgrade to the Ethereum network that may result in ETH becoming a deflationary asset is now scheduled for the “London” hard fork in July. Ethereum lead developer Tim Beiko previously teased that the decision would…
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SushiSwap is exploring integrating with high-speed AMM, Raydium, on Solana to alleviate high gas fees. Major decentralized exchange SushiSwap is the latest to consider action to mitigate Ethereum’s extreme transaction fees, and it involves a potential port to the Solana blockchain. A proposal, which was posted to the SushiSwap forum on Feb. 22 under the codename…
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Galloping gas fees are hurting the average user but Grayscale, and Ethereum advocates, can see the bright side. Ethereum and DeFi proponent Ryan Sean Adams has drawn attention to how high gas fees relative to the current Ether price could actually be a bullish sign. Citing this week’s Grayscale research paper ‘Valuing Ethereum’ the Bankless…
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With Ethereum’s fees rocketing to new highs amid Ether’s rally into new price highs, the fees associated with using some complex DeFi protocols has increased above $1,000. Ethereum’s gas fees are again spiking to record highs, rendering many decentralized finance protocols unusable for casual investors. After increasing roughly 20% in the last 24 hours, average…
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Fees are a DeFi user’s nightmare. How can you pay less? This is a repost of Finance Redefined’s latest installment, where Cointelegraph unpacks the latest developments in DeFi. The newsletter is delivered to subscribers every Wednesday. Decentralized finance was reasonably quiet in terms of major fundamental developments, instead letting prices do the talking. Many tokens…
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Avoiding U.S. trading hours could save you a gwei or two. Anyone who has used Ethereum in 2020 knows the frustration of paying for gas, the measure that represents a transaction’s computational weight. With gas prices sometimes rising up to 100 to 200 gwei, a unit equal to one billionth of an Ether (ETH), many…
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Tezos is seeking to attract DeFi developers, implementing a protocol upgrade that reduces smart contract gas fees by roughly 75%. Top-20 crypto asset by market cap Tezos (XTZ) has successfully completed its latest upgrade, “Delphi,” which aims to reduce smart contract gas fees by 75% to attract decentralized finance (DeFi) developers to build on top…
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