A report from blockchain analytics platform Nansen highlights 5 entities that hold 64% of staked Ether (ETH) ahead of Ethereum’s highly anticipated Merge with the Beacon Chain.

Ethereum is preparing to carry out its “merge“ and unify two important parts of the blockchain network.

Bitfinex rolls out plans to support the Ethereum PoW (ETHPoW) fork ahead of The Ethereum Merge. Several big names in the industry have declared support for the imminent fork to the Ethereum blockchain post-Merge. Bitfinex is the latest in line to join in the bandwagon.

Miners dumped over 16,000 ETH, worth more than $20 million, in the past week, on-chain data showed. The Ethereum miners still have about 245,000 ETH left – and no longer any business affiliation with the blockchain network.

Norway’s central bank – Norges Bank – is now spearheading efforts to build the country’s own central bank digital currency (CBDC). The central bank has decided to release the open source code for its CBDC sandbox.

Buterin responded to criticism by claiming PoW-based mining rewards are not much different from the PoS system, however, Wertheimer was quick to point out the differences.

A hacker managed to steal $3.3 million worth of cryptocurrencies from several Ethereum addresses generated with the “Profanity” tool. The funds were drained even ...

Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded up 0.8% against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 9:00 AM ET on September 12th. Ethereum Classic has a total market capitalization of $5.30 billion and $1.16 billion worth of Ethereum Classic was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last seven days, Ethereum Classic has traded 13.6% higher against the dollar. One Ethereum Classic coin can currently be bought for $38.72 or 0.00173247 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Merge is round-the-corner, and the Ethereum [ETH] developers may be on cloud 9. However, there are a few concerns that have been finding their way around the crypto market lately. However, the ETH community are growing skeptical of the much-awaited Merge.

A widely followed crypto analyst says that macro conditions could spell trouble for the leading smart contract platform Ethereum (ETH).

The high-profile upgrade of the world’s most commercially important crypto network was supposed to make it less centralized and vulnerable to attack. A little more than a week after the enhancement, industry observers fear it may have the exact opposite effect.

In Part I of this ‘Ethereum (ETH) Merge’ Primer Series of blogs, we provided a background to the Ethereum platform and its originally envisaged range of potential applications, such as sub-currencies (token systems), financial derivatives, savings wallets, and ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs) (Ethereum 2013). We also summarised key blockchain and Ethereum concepts, namely proof-of-work (PoW), proof-of-stake (PoS), hard fork, the ‘difficulty bomb’, and the ‘Ice Age’. In Part II, we set out a brief evolutionary history of Ethereum developments which included earlier iterations of Ethereum, i.e., ‘Frontier’, ‘Homestead’, ‘Metropolis’.

They came. They saw. They merged. Now that Ethereum has wedded itself to a new consensus mechanism, slashing its energy consumption by 99.9 percent overnight, what comes next?

Since the crypto industry expanded its growth, it has become the favorite place for hackers to commit exploits. The Ethereum vanity addresses generated via the Profanity tool have now become the latest loophole to dupe millions of crypto users.

On the daily time frame, the sitaution is also rather more bearish than bullish, as Ethereum (ETH) could not fix above $1,800. At the moment, one needs to pay attention to the support at $1,705. If a false breakout happens, the bounceback may lead to the short-term growth to the $1.750 zone. Read more on U.Today https://u.today/ethereum-eth-price-analysis-for-september-12

As expected, Ethereum has been doing poorly since the much-touted Merge event. This was a groundbreaking moment for the crypto industry.

While the cryptocurrency market is still trading in the red, crypto traders and investors are looking to various sources that might give them some idea of what awaits its major asset Ethereum (ETH), in the future.

Following some positivity in the last week of trading, Ethereum has entered the short-term local correction trend and will most likely be tested in the upcoming week as it reaches the important support level that stayed intact for the last 50 days. The drop below it will mark the continuation of the downtrend. Read more on U.Today https://u.today/ethereum-eth-to-get-at-pivotal-level-next-week-heres-what-to-expect

With the ETH/BTC ratio trading at previous highs, some have started to unwind their long ETH/short BTC trade, one researcher said.

The U.S. dollar value of the recently airdropped coin native to the forked Ethereum proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain will be at par with that of ether, Chandler Guo, the instigator of the latest Ethereum hard fork, has said. Guo added that he expects the value of the token, which is currently “very cheap,” to grow by 100x in ten years’ time.