Over 7,000 decentralized applications (dapps) are currently operating on the Ethereum (ETH) network. However, the Ethereum network was not originally designed for such a workload. Ethereum dapps have suffered from the chain’s scalability issues, which have caused transaction speeds to slow down and gas fees to skyrocket. Layer-2 scaling solutions are being deployed to…
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The Bank of Uganda (BOU) has commenced a study that explores the feasibility of issuing a digital currency. However, an executive with the institution warned that the central bank needed to be clear why it must have this in the first place.
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Ethereum (ETH) took another step towards the Merge, when the current Ethereum Mainnet will “merge” with the beacon chain proof-of-stake (PoS) system — as configurations for Kiln, the last public testnet before switching to the PoS mining algorithm, have been published. “The configs for the Kiln testnet are out,” said Ethereum Foundation’s Parithosh Jayanthi.…
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The WAVES token, issued by the protocol with ties in Russia, is close to a 3x price gain in a matter of just two weeks after it rallied right after Russia invaded Ukraine. The massive gains also follow crypto exchange Binance integrating the token into its Loans platform last week, and a new roadmap…
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Cryptocurrency markets were hit by a sudden fall over the weekend, with the global market cap dropping 3.80% in just 24 hours and now sitting at $1.73 trillion. Bitcoin fell by 3.44% in the last 24 hours to $38,168 per coin. The second-largest token by market cap after bitcoin, Ether also showed in red by…
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Crypto’s transparent nature makes it a terrible choice for those who want to evade sanctions, said Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer (CLO) of major crypto exchange Coinbase. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US and its allies imposed an extensive round of sanctions on a number of Russian financial institutions and entities, basically trying to…
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Solana’s ambitious design aims to solve the blockchain trilemma; however, it still suffers from various drawbacks such as its vulnerability to centralization. What is Solana? Solana is a highly functional open source project that implements a new, permissionless and high-speed layer-1 blockchain. Created in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former executive at Qualcomm, Solana aims…
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The past week’s non-fungible token (NFT) sales have dropped again, following the last few weeks of diminishing volumes. Across 14 blockchains that support NFTs, sales have slipped 29.46% lower than the week prior. Despite the drop in NFT sales volume, NFT sales stemming from the Arbitrum network spiked by 97.53% this week.
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