A bipartisan group of US lawmakers are again pushing a bill to keep key crypto infrastructure — such as validators and miners — from being considered brokers once and for all. House Financial Services...
Tag: Proof-of-Stake
Pantera and Archetype co-lead $12.5 million Series A round for Obol Labs
Obol Labs, a startup aiming to make proof-of-stake blockchains more secure, raised $12.5 million in Series A funding. Investment firms Pantera Capital and Archetype co-led the round, with addit...
Ethereum Remains Dominant Amidst Major Impacts to DeFi Ecosystem
December 9, 2022, 8:23PM EST • 9 min read Quick Take Ethereum continues to be the largest DeFi ecosystem by far, and has consequently endured significant impacts from the collapse of FTX and Alameda T...
Kraken’s Ogilvie says staking adoption set to skyrocket
Prior to the fall of FTX, Ethereum’s shift to proof-of-stake was all the rage in crypto circles. Two months removed from The Merge, Ethereum is still playing catch-up with more mature staking networks...
Improving Capital Efficiency of Staking
November 14, 2022, 12:57PM EST • 7 min read Quick Take Liquid staking and superfluid staking are some of the typical methods to improve the capital efficiency of staking. Cross-staking enables the sam...
Will The Ethereum Merge Really Lead To A Rally?
| BARCELONA, SPAIN – Ethereum mining software. Getty Images Key Takeaways The Ethereum merger is finally complete as the cryptocurrency switches to the proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism for verifyi...
Proof of security? Gensler eyes proof of stake after The Merge
Ethereum’s successful shift from proof of work to proof of stake was a public relations win for the cryptocurrency thanks to dramatically shrinking the network’s energy consumption. But the most infl...
On-chain Trends 24 Hours After The Merge
September 16, 2022, 10:31AM EDT • 4 min read Quick Take The hashrates of multiple proof-of-work networks such as Ethereum Classic surged to record levels on the day of The Merge. Ether borrow rates ha...
A Comprehensive Look at Ethereum and The Merge: Part Two
September 12, 2022, 3:42PM EDT • 14 min read Quick Take The Ethereum network is just days away from the merge, where it will finally transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) consens...
The Merge gets rid of ‘proof of waste’
Ben Edgington’s career has run the gamut from academia through supercomputing, and now working on Ethereum. The Merge is just the latest stop on his journey. After joining ConsenSys in 2017, Ed...
One Chart You Must See
Bitcoin getty Most eyes are on Ethereum ETH with the “merge” imminent. That will likely be a moment of serial unintended consequences. I’m not a fan of proof-of-stake (POS), it runs against the foundi...
Why The Merge won’t solve Ethereum’s scaling challenges
Ethereum’s pivot from proof of work to proof of stake is imminent. But despite common belief, the event, known as The Merge, will not solve the network’s scalability challenges. This pivot, schedule...
Ethereum Foundation confirms September dates for the Merge
Ethereum’s developers have officially confirmed September 6 as the date for Ethereum’s long-anticipated transition from proof of work to proof of stake, known as The Merge. “Followin...
Circle to only support Ethereum proof-of-stake chain after integration
USD Coin (USDC) issuer Circle Internet Financial will only support the Ethereum proof-of-stake chain after the chain integrations, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The integration, du...
Potential Ethereum proof-of-work fork unlikely to succeed, says Vitalik Buterin
The potential upcoming Ethereum proof-of-work fork is unlikely to have substantial long-term adoption, according to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The idea of a fork gained traction over the pas...
Cardano also enters the Proof-of-Stake confrontation
There is increasing talk these days about the differences between PoS (Proof-of-Stake) and PoW (Proof-of-Work) consensus algorithms. In fact, while Ethereum is moving from PoW to PoS, Bitcoin will re...
The first is the passage of Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake
On 8 June there will be a very important test for Ethereum’s move to Proof-of-Stake. Merge of Beacon Chain on the testnet Ropsten. Ropsten-beacon-chain config has been merged! Expect client releases...
Cloudflare embraces Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake – The Cryptonomist
Cloudflare has announced that it is experimenting with Web3 by embracing Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake, becoming a blockchain validator soon after the Merge. Cloudflare embraces and experiments with Ethe...
IRS May Not Tax Passive Income From Holding Crypto Right Away
rear view of businessman sitting on green grass landscape with laptop watching view with flying large group of money over sunny blue sky getty What Happened Taxation of staking rewards has been a cont...