Ethereum

The Ethereum blockchain was built to serve as a single source of truth backed by a public transaction database and to function as a platform for a variety of decentralized applications ranging from financial services to games. Ether is the native token for the Ethereum ecosystem.

The Ethereum blockchain is preparing a significant upgrade, called the Ethereum Merge, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 13-16, 2022.

The Merge reflects a shift in Ethereum’s protocol in which the blockchain will move from a “proof-of-work” to “proof-of-stake” system.

Miners validate transactions by solving complex calculations before a new block can be added to the chain. This is the mechanism that Bitcoin ($BTC) runs on.

Miners are replaced by “validators,” who stake the ETH they own to validate new blocks on the chain. Avalanche ($AVAX) and Solana ($SOL) are proof-of-stake.

The Ethereum Foundation reports that moving to a proof-of-stake model will reduce the blockchain’s energy consumption by more than 99%.

Ether ($ETH) is Ethereum’s native crypto asset, while Ethereum is the underlying blockchain. No disruptions to ETH are expected following the Merge.

Unlike Bitcoin, the founder of Ethereum is publicly known. Vitalik Buterin published Ethereum’s introductory paper in 2013 and launched the project in 2015.

The Ethereum blockchain was built to serve as a single source of truth backed by a public transaction database and to function as a platform for a variety of decentralized applications ranging from financial services to games.

The Ethereum Foundation

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin funds shed nearly $1 billion after tariff-driven crash, but dip-buyers rotated into Ethereum, Solana, and XRP as European investors stepped in.

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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) are up on Monday after the U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority lifted its four-year retail ban on crypto exchange-traded notes, allowing 21Shares, Bitwise, and WisdomTree to open access to British investors. FCA Opens Doors To Retail Investors The move marks a milestone for U.K. digital asset regulation, expanding access to physically backed Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded products (ETPs) beyond institutional buyers.

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BitMine purchased about 203,800 ETH over the last week, taking its total to 3.24 million ETH and combined crypto and cash to $1.34 billion.

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BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the Ethereum-focused digital asset treasury company led by Fundstrat's Thomas Lee, extended its ether ETH$4,061.94 buying streak purchasing over 200,000 tokens, roughly $800 million, through last week.

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BTC now trades around $111,000 while ether is back above $4,000. There are also slivers of strength in the altcoin market; with LINK rising by 14% and FLOKI notching a 27% gain over the past 24 hours.

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Bitcoin was the primary focus, while investors saw Ethereum price weakness as a buying opportunity, Head of Research James Butterfill said.

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The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK's financial regulator, officially lifted a four-year retail ban on crypto ETNs earlier this month.

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Solana

The recovery rally in major cryptocurrencies gathered pace on Monday as Japanese shares surged to record highs and China's third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data bettered estimates.

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Peter Schiff is once again predicting catastrophe, warning that a looming bitcoin and ether crash will trigger bankruptcies and layoffs, even as gold takes center stage in his latest portrayal of financial reckoning.

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Ethereum ETH$3,979.71 emerged as the frontrunner in crypto's third-quarter recovery, leaving bitcoin BTC$108,466.35 behind as capital flowed into altcoins, DeFi protocols, and a new wave of tokenized assets, a report by CoinCecko found.

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Coinidol.com: Ethereum's price gains have stalled following rejection at the 21-day SMA barrier.

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XRP$2.3504 and Solana's SOL$185.66 stand out as the major cryptocurrencies with a key sentiment gauge showing bullish momentum, while their peers bitcoin BTC$106,887.99, and ether ETH$3,889.25 remain stuck in the gloom.

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Sharplink has raised $76.5 million through an equity sale priced above market value, marking another step in its aggressive ETH-focused treasury expansion. The company also introduced a first-of-its-kind premium purchase contract with the potential to raise an additional $79 million. Premium Equity Sale Fuels Ethereum Growth Strategy for Sharplink Sharplink has raised $76.

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Dankrad Feist has left the Ethereum Foundation to help build Stripe's Tempo blockchain, which Fortune reports is now valued at $5 billion.

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Dogecoin

Bitcoin rebounded on Friday afternoon after setting an early intraday low below $104,000. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $106,795.15 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $3,837.38 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $183.59 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $2.30 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) $0.1850 Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) $0.059750 Notable Statistics: Coinglass data shows 255,556 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $985.30 million.

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Experts believe that some retail traders still follow the four-year Bitcoin cycle rulebook, accounting for part of crypto's recent decline.

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Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) downturn may be only beginning, according to veteran gold advocate Peter Schiff, who warns of an impending collapse across the broader crypto market as Bitcoin broke to $106,000 today. What Happened: In his latest posts on X, Schiff noted that Bitcoin has lost 34% of its value relative to gold since its August all-time high, underscoring the digital asset's sharp underperformance compared to the traditional safe-haven metal.

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The investors are looking to acquire a Nasdaq-listed firm and have reportedly secured hundreds of millions of dollars in Ethereum treasury commitments.

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Li Lin, the founder of Huobi and chairman of Hong Kong-based Avenir Capital, is spearheading a new $1 billion ether ETH$3,811.99 trust alongside several of Asia's most influential early Ethereum investors, according to Bloomberg.

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Dankrad Feist, who made several notable contributions to Ethereum since entering the ecosystem in 2018, is joining alternative Layer 1 Tempo.

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Shuyao Kong said the buyback was completed at a valuation above the seed round, which was at a "9-figure" token valuation.

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Renowned investor and "Shark Tank" personality Kevin O'Leary raised an alarm Thursday about Ethereum's (CRYPTO: ETH) network congestion and fee spike over the weekend. Ethereum's ‘Cracks Are Showing' In an X post, O'Leary highlighted that Ethereum became severely congested, causing even small transactions to cost upwards of $1,000.

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Bitcoin traded as low as $103,856 on Friday morning, with liquidations surging to $1.19 billion over the past 24 hours. Spot BTC ETFs saw net outflows of $536.4 million on Thursday as ETH ETFs saw $56.9 million in net outflows.

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The bank sees growing adoption, tighter supply and rising institutional inflows driving a sharp ether rally within two years.

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