Searches for the ethereum merge have spiked to an all time high ahead of the upgrade this September 15th. Google searches for the ethereum merge have more than 5x-ed over last month, from 17 out of 10...
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DAO Raises Millions to Save Congo Forest – Trustnodes
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization, RedemptionDAO, has bid to become a key player in saving the Yasuní National Park, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, and the Virunga National Par...
EthereumPoW to Remove EIP1559 – Trustnodes
EthereumPoW, a proposed chain-split fork to keep the current ethereum Proof of Work chain once eth merges to Proof of Stake this September, is to remove EIP1559. Known as the burning, EIP1559 stabiliz...
Bitcoin Jumps as US Inflation Falls to 8.5% – Trustnodes
The inflation rate in the United States has increased by less than expected, up 8.5% rather than analysts’ estimates of 8.7%. It is down from June’s decades high of 9.1%, with the Bureau for Labour St...
LUSD’s Token Jumps, RAI’s Rises 50% – Trustnodes
The governance token of LUSD, a dollar pegged stablecoin collateralized by only eth, has seen a 37% gain after USDc froze a Tornado Cash pool with $75,000. The LQTY governance token of LUSD was tradin...
Infura Censors Tornado Cash Smart Contract – Trustnodes
Infura, ethereum’s biggest node infrastructure provider, which handles some 10 billion requests a day, has for the first time blocked access to a smart contract. “Infura and Alchemy are now blocking R...
Iran Pays For $10 Million Import with Crypto – Trustnodes
Iran has paid for $10 million worth of goods with crypto, making this the first time crypto is used at state level for trade. Iran’s Deputy Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade, Alireza Peyman Pak, ...
Torn Token Dives as US Bans a Smart Contract, ENS Domain Goes Offline – Trustnodes
The United States has for the first time banned the usage of a smart contract running on the ethereum network called Tornado Cash. The zk tech based mixer, which hides asset ownership identity, was us...
BitMex, DeBank, Argent, Chainlink, Lines on Fork Get Drawn – Trustnodes
No hats, no trolls, no cheerleading groups at war, but quietly and unemotionally, the ethereum ecosystem is taking positions as the first fork of defi starts the countdown. “We’re extremely excited fo...
ETHW Starts Trading at $135 – Trustnodes
The ethereum Proof of Work coin, ETHW, has began trading on Poloniex, the oldest ethereum crypto exchange, at a market cap of $16 billion, making it a top ten coin. Significant volumes of 10,000 eth, ...
Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work – Trustnodes
An ancient debate in crypto terms goes head to head as ethereum upgrades to Proof of Stake (PoS) while the Proof of Work (PoW) chain keeps on running. The invention of Proof of Stake in crypto usage i...
stETH Dips on Forkening – Trustnodes
The ethereum staking tokens, Lido’s stETH and Rocketpool’s rETH, have been falling slightly recently in relation to eth. stETH dipped from 0.974 eth to 0.968 as of writing, when in theory it should be...
Huobi Lays Ground Rules For Fork – Trustnodes
The former China based crypto exchange Huobi has laid down some ground rules on what fork of ethereum they will list. Crucially, the chain must have “two-way replay protection implemented by default; ...
Ethereum Crosses $1,700, Ratio Jumps – Trustnodes
Ethereum has crossed above $1,700 once again after testing $1,500s over the past week. Its ratio has also jumped to near a new local high of 0.0737 bitcoin, its highest level since May. The reason? We...
The First Defi Fork “Gone Be Wild” Says Synthetix’s Kain – Trustnodes
Kain Warwick, the founder of one of the most prominent defi dapp, Synthetix, has stated that chaos is what he’s here for as that’s exactly what the defi land in the proposed EthereumPoW chain-split is...
Ethereum to Hit $5,000 on Merge Bullishness Says Arthur Hayes – Trustnodes
Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of once the biggest crypto derivatives exchange, BitMex, says his target for eth is $5,000 based on the triple halving due to the Merge upgrade to Proof of Stake. “I belie...
EthereumPoW Claims to Have 60 Developers – Trustnodes
A newly proposed chain-split fork of ethereum to keep the current Proof of Work blockchain running, EthereumPoW, claims they have as many as 60 developers. Chandler Guo, a longtime eth miner and one o...
Coinbase Partners with BlackRock to Tap into Crypto – Trustnodes
Coinbase is gaining access to Aladdin, BlackRock’s end-to-end investment management platform which handles trillions in assets, to provide exposure to crypto. “Our institutional clients are increasing...
Work Begins on ZK Scaling the Ethereum Base Layer – Trustnodes
A team of developers funded by the Ethereum Foundation has already began working on using zero knowledge (ZK) technology to scale the ethereum base layer. “The Privacy and Scaling Explorations team ZK...
Proposed New Bill Classifies Bitcoin and ETH as Commodities – Trustnodes
A new bill by the Senate Committee on Agriculture gives a definition on “digital commodity” with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to have jurisdiction over the crypto spot market. “Th...
Satoshi Nakamoto Talks ZK Tech – Trustnodes
“This is a very interesting topic. If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.” Those are the few words that bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi...
21,000 Sign Petition For SEC Chair to Resign – Trustnodes
21,000 American citizens have signed a petition on Change.org for the chairman of the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, to resign. The petition accuses Gensler of being “complic...
Bitcoin Info-Stealer Source Code Released – Trustnodes
The source code for a Rust based hacking tool has been released for free on hacking forums and on GitHub with it already used in the wild. “The stealer can target multiple Chromium-based browsers, cha...
Tesla Sells, Michael Saylor Steps Down, Can it Get Worse? – Trustnodes
The chief cheerleaders of bitcoin are getting rekt, and some of them are out or halfway there as Michael Saylor is the latest to depart from MicroStrategy as CEO after 33 years of running the company ...
Chinese Stocks Fall on New Tensions – Trustnodes
The Shanghai stock index dropped by more than 2% today in one of the biggest fall in a month. In Shenzhen stocks fell 2.37% while the ChiNext Index fell 2.02% with state media there pointing to the pl...
Cryptos and Stocks Rise on US Slowdown – Trustnodes
US stocks saw a 1% gain on Thursday with Nasdaq rising another 1.2% on opening today. Bitcoin crossed $24,000 and eth almost touched $1,800 even while US GDP data showed a second slowdown quarter over...
Europe Grows 0.7% – Trustnodes
The euro area GDP grew by 0.7% over the last quarter while the European Union grew by 0.6% according to the just released data by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Europe moreove...
UK Awaits the New Crypto Prime Minister – Trustnodes
The United Kingdom will for the first time have an openly crypto friendly Prime Minister this September. Regardless of wether Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss win the leadership contest, both will back the cr...
First NFT Funded Movie Debuts – Trustnodes
The fight of the century, well the forgotten one. That’s the story of Jem Belcher told in a movie partially funded by the new digital frontier of NFTs with Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher curren...
US Officially in Recession as GDP Shrinks 0.9% – Trustnodes
The United States economy has contracted for the second quarter in a row according to the just released data by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. “Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annu...
Ledger NFTs Sold Out in New Market Launch – Trustnodes
10,000 NFTs by the hardware wallet Ledger have sold out within 24 hours with the Genesis Pass NFT becoming the #1 project in volume on OpenSea. The NFTs were minted alongside the launch of the [ LEDGE...