Ethereum ecosystem

Buterin lauds struggling yet biggest ETH L2 solution, Arbitrum’s efforts in the space

Arbitrum, the Ethereum L2 rollup is one of the first optimistic commercial solutions. It lowers costs and speeds up transactions on the Ethereum mainnet. Over the years, Arbitrum has done an excellent job in scaling Ethereum. At press time, it is the biggest Layer 2 solution on the Ethereum network and its growth in just four months has been exceptional. The value locked (TVL) stands at $2.67B and accounts for 47% of the overall market share. However, it seems to be losing heat. Appreciation post Arbitrum and its community have covered

Record Ethereum Network Use and Gas Fees Pose Risk to DeFi Expansion

The number of Ethereum network transactions more than doubled in 2020 and is now virtually identical to the January 2018 all-time high. As shown on the chart below, the number of transactions doubled in the past six months to stand at 1.23 million per day. Ethereum 7-day average daily transactions. Source: CoinMetricsThis situation might seem very bullish at first, but one must remember both EOS and Tron (TRX) started as ERC-20 tokens before launching their own mainnet and running fully independent blockchains.A similar chain migration is happening on Tether’s USDT, a stablecoin

Crypto Tidbits: Bitcoin Explodes Past $11k, Ethereum 2.0 Nears, Cardano’s Shelley Launches

Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. It’s been an explosive week for the Bitcoin and crypto market, to say the very least. Bitcoin surged from under $10,000 to as high as $11,500 this week. Over the past seven days, the asset has gained approximately 20% — the best weekly performance in many months. Chart of BTC's price action over the past two weeks from TradingView.com Bitcoin’s recent price action comes as a breath of fresh air for crypto traders, which had to deal with BTC flatlining in the $9,000s for