Ethereum

The controversial layer-2 network had taken $2.3 billion in deposits since November as it prepared for launch, but within 24 hours of going live, that figure had dwindled to $650 million.

The beginning of "The Surge" era in Ethereum's roadmap sees a range of enhancements to scalability, efficiency and security. Here’s a breakdown.

The publicly traded U.S. crypto exchange said it would add support for the additional Ethereum "clients" – computer programs used to access and run the distributed network – to help reduce dependence on the dominant Geth software.

Injective has partenred with DEX DojoSwap to introduce the CW-404 standard.

Institutional interest in digital assets means that crypto terms such as 'Nakamoto Coefficient' are now mainstream issues.

The pioneering restaking project EigenLayer, led by Sreeram Kannan, isn't even live but investors are piling in. A16z Crypto is affiliated with the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

The zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine enables real world asset tokenization on a far greater scale, says Colin Butler at Polygon Labs.

More than 490,000 individual wallets claimed 420 million starknet (STRK) tokens in the 24 hours after the highly anticipated airdrop went live, with the token's market cap remaining above $1.2 billion.

Liquid restaking protocols are seeing ample demand from users as speculation mounts over potential applications for the Ethereum restaking juggernaut EigenLayer, and the prospects for rewards paid out to early users.

The value of ethereum, the crypto market’s second-largest asset by market cap, eclipsed the $3,000 milestone on Tuesday, peaking at $3,014 per unit in the morning trading hours. Over the last week, ether has seen a 13.1% climb…