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The demand for transactions on the Ethereum blockchain is at its lowest level since summer. This low demand comes when the price of ether once again drops below $3,000.
Laszlo Dobos 3 min read 
Announced today, the Ethereum layer-2 chain Optimism was alerted by a white hat hacker of a critical bug in a smart contract. The bug was fixed and $2 million in bug bounty was paid out to the hacker.
Waving a DMCA notice, Larva Labs, creators of the famous CryptoPunks NFT collection, has forced NFT marketplace OpenSea to delist the deprecated V1 version of the CryptoPunks collection.
ETHDenver is back, in person, in Denver, Colorado and there is an impressive line up.
Transactions on the Cardano blockchain have reached a milestone as the network surpassed 30 million processed transactions in total. As the number of smart contracts on the blockchain grows, so do transactions.
The total market cap of all stablecoins surpassed $150 billion on Monday. Tether’s USDT is still the largest stablecoin on the market, but Center’s USDC is catching up.
KPMG in Canada adds both bitcoin and ether to its corporate treasury. The crypto asset allocation is a first-of-its-kind investment for the accounting and advisory company.
Brantly Millegan, now former Director of Operations and DAO Steward of the ENS DAO, was suspended from both duties over the weekend due to controversial opinions expressed in a tweet back in 2016.
The new DeFi primitives target a market segment with a more conservative risk profile.
