Cryptocurrency

The launch of generative AI products over the past nine months has the world talking about how it will change the future. Many are frightened. Others are excited about the opportunity. A report last month from Next Move Strategy Consulting predicts the AI industry will grow 20x in the next seven years, creating a $2

Digital currency investment company Grayscale is the latest firm to file for a new Ethereum futures’ exchange-traded fund (ETF) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Grayscale on Sept. 19 officially proposed to list and trade shares of the Grayscale Ethereum Futures Trust (ETH) ETF under the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Arca Rule 8.200-E.

Wormhole has integrated Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), allowing USD Coin (USDC) to be transferred between Ethereum, Avalanche, Arbitrum and Optimism via Wormhole-based bridges, according to a Sept. 20 announcement. The new feature is available to end-users via the Portal bridge, and developers can integrate it into their own apps using Wormhole Connect. Portal USDC

Major cryptocurrency investment firm Grayscale has finally taken a decision to abandon all the rights to the post-Merge proof-of-work (PoW) Ethereum tokens (ETHPoW). Announcing the news on Sept. 18, Grayscale said that the firm has “irrevocably abandoned” all the rights to ETHPoW tokens on behalf of the record date shareholders of each product. After thorough

Balancer, an Ethereum-based decentralized finance protocol has confirmed its user interface is currently “under an attack.” The platform notified its community on Sept. 19 at 11:49 pm UTC, urging users to not interact with Balancer’s protocol until further notice. The balancer frontend is under an attack. The issue is currently under investigation. Please do NOT

USD Coin (USDC), the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization after Tether (USDT), continues expanding across different blockchain networks, now being launched on Polkadot. USDC issuer Circle has officially launched USD Coin on the Polkadot network, the firm announced on Sept. 19. According to the Circle’s website, Polkadot USDC is immediately available for developers and users

Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Token 2049, one of the largest crypto conferences of the year, attracted a record 10,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 5,000 companies during the two-day event in Singapore. From Sept. 13–14, attendees entering the majestic Marina Bay Sands Convention Expo and Center

AI and crypto isn’t just a buzz phrase AI Eye has been out and about at Korean Blockchain Week and Token2049 in Singapore over the past fortnight, trying to find out how crypto project leaders plan to use AI. Probably the most well-known is Maker founder Rune Christensen, who essentially plans to relaunch his decade-old

The lawyer responsible for laundering $400 million from the OneCoin fraud has been denied a motion seeking a new trial, despite a prosecution witness having perjured themselves in the trial against him in 2019. According to a Sept. 18 report from Bloomberg, 54-year-old lawyer Mark Scott argued that he didn’t know OneCoin was a fraudulent

Cosmos-native layer-1 blockchain Canto has become the latest chain to migrate to Ethereum as a layer 2 zero-knowledge rollup, after another layer-1 blockchain, Astar, announced similar plans moving from the Polkadot ecosystem to Ethereum. Canto is a permissionless general-purpose blockchain, which is Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible with aims to onboard the traditional financial sector to

After two years of development, a group of Ethereum idealists are close to launching their zero-knowledge EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) — Scroll — developed with Ethereum’s values in mind.  While there are already several zero-knowledge EVMs in existence today, Scroll co-founder Ye Zhang told Cointelegraph at Token2049 that the project was “idealistic” as the team

The crypto industry is far too focused on token prices, rather than figuring out how smart contracts can be used to solve real-world business problems, according to Google Cloud’s Web3 lead.  In an interview with Cointelegraph, Google Cloud’s Head of Web3 James Tromans stressed the need to focus more on the business logic in the

Ether (ETH) price has been dealing with some strong headwinds and on Sept. 11, the price of the altcoin endured a critical test when it plunged to the $1,530 support level. In the days that followed, Ether managed to stage an impressive recovery, by surging by 6%. This resurgence may signal a pivotal moment, following

Bitcoin (BTC) has been stuck inside a large range since April, indicating indecision about the next directional move. Efforts by the bears to sink the price below the support of the range were thwarted by the bulls on Sep. 11. However, Bitcoin is not out of the woods yet.  Jamie Coutts, a chartered market technician

Ethereum developers launched a new testnet on Sept. 15. Called “ Holešky,” the network is expected to be used for staking, infrastructure and protocol-development, according to its developer documents. Sepolia will remain the dominant network for application development. Hello Holesky, Ethereum’s Newest Testnet Read details below#cryptonews #ETH pic.twitter.com/Z6DUMkOExz — Amy Kols Network (@Amyykols) September 14,

One year after its historic transition to proof of stake, Ethereum has seen a massive reduction in energy use and a marked improvement in access to the network, however, a number of technical issues still mark the road ahead. The Merge was executed on Sept. 15, 2022 — an event that saw the Ethereum mainnet

Capital outflows in the crypto industry reached $55 billion in August, according to a report released by crypto exchange Bitfinex.  The analysis is based on the aggregate realized value metric, which measures the realized capital of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) with the combined supply from the top five stablecoins: Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC),

Matter Labs recently announced the launch of a new ecosystem portal for zkSync, managed by DappRadar, in what both partners are calling a step towards fully decentralizing the protocol.  zkSync is a layer-two blockchain for Ethereum payments. It was created by Matter Labs as a method for scaling the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem. It currently boasts

For a long time, Solana (SOL) has been associated with the founder of now insolvent crypto exchange FTX and hedge fund Alameda Research, Sam Bankman Fried. He was an early investor in the project and invested in numerous Solana ecosystem projects during the 2020-2021 bull mania. So when FTX collapsed toward the end of 2022,

Criticisms aimed at the perceived centralization of Ethereum (ETH) staking pools may finally be quelled by an alternative staking infrastructure that aims to improve private key security and reduce validator down times and slashing penalties. Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph, SSV.network founder Alon Muroch outlined how the platform’s distributed validator technology (DVT) developed in partnership with the

PUBG meets Cosmos Krafton, the company behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), is venturing into Web3 with Settlus, a Cosmos-based blockchain project specifically designed for the creator economy. Settlus aims to provide content creators with a payment platform that streamlines transparent settlement processes. The South Korean gaming giant’s project was announced at the Korea Blockchain Week’s Circle