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Since its public release on August 9, Ethereum layer-2 network Base by Coinbase has experienced its first significant outage. No new blocks were created on the Base chain for around 45 minutes on September 5. The “stalled” block production was initially noticed by its developers at 9:36 pm UTC. However,
Cardano (ADA) is pushing things to the next level with the introduction of Hydra, which has been praised for its emphasis on scalability and sustainability. The newest Hydra release is supposed to increase Cardano’s transaction throughput to millions per second. Cardano’s improved scalability will make it more appealing to developers
Visa is bringing its stablecoin settlement pilot to the Solana blockchain, enabling high-throughput transactions with negligible costs for issuers and merchants using USDC. The move comes after an extensive evaluation of Solana’s speed, costs, and decentralization. Visa cited demand from clients to leverage newer, high-performance chains for moving USDC settlements.
Toncoin has risen to prominence with the recent price surge taking the price all the way to $1.95. Telegram, a prominent messaging platform within the cryptocurrency industry, has no official affiliation with the project anymore, although it is nevertheless intimately related to the cryptocurrency. The dramatic growth of Toncoin (TON)
In a week marked by dwindling interest in digital asset investments, Solana (SOL) has defied the trend, emerging as the preferred choice for institutional investors. CoinShares, a prominent European cryptocurrency management platform, released its latest report, highlighting the remarkable resilience of Solana in the face of a market-wide slowdown. During
Cardano (ADA), one of the leading blockchain in the cryptocurrency market, is defying broader market trends as it experiences a remarkable surge in its on-chain transaction volume, with an increase of over 1700% since late January. Despite a comparatively gloomy market value when compared to its April highs, Cardano’s performance
The Litecoin halving event in August was perhaps the most anticipated event of the year. Halving of Litecoin occurred on August 2, 2023, as planned after the last halving event on August 5, 2019. However, the price of LTC did not surge after the halving. Contrarily, the token’s value dropped
In a shocking turn of events, the blockchain gaming platform Gala Games, renowned for its play-to-earn (P2E) games, is now embroiled in a legal battle, leaving the crypto community bewildered. On August 31, Gala Games’ CEO Eric Schiermeyer, and co-founder Wright Thurston filed lawsuits against each other in a Utah
Prominent independent reporter with the twitter handle @WuBlockchain revealed an unexpected sale by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: he swapped 500 MKR tokens for 350 ETH, a deal worth around $581,000. The swapped 350 ETH was then transferred to the address 0x3f6. Buterin’s sale of MKR tokens, the first in two
Rune Christensen, MakerDAO founder, wrote a blog for the MakerDAO community, in which he outlined the fifth and final step of the Endgame as recreating the MakerDAO protocol on a fresh independent blockchain. Even though MakerDAO has been running on Ethereum since its inception. The next new native chain will
