ethereum

Ethereum developers have planned activation of Istanbul hard fork in the main network to block # 9 056 000. Miners will get it tentatively on December 4. In case of unforeseen circumstances, the hard fork will be postponed to January 8. At the same time, the developers believe that nothing should interfere with timely activation. They also approved the EIP 2124 upgrade, which allows users to determine which chain the majority supports. […]

Tron-based USDT tokens account for more than 12% of the total offer of the most popular stablecoin. According to Tronscan, to date, 520 million Tether “stable coins” have been issued on the Tron blockchain. Given the current supply volume of Tether (4.1 billion USDT), the share of TRC20 tokens in it is 12.65%. A significant increase in the share of USDT of the new standard occurred today, October 25th. At first […]

Colleen Myers from the Brooklyn startup ConsenSys claims that after the launch of Ethereum 2.0, validators will be able to expect 4.6% -10.3% annual remuneration for staking, CoinDesk reports. According to him, for the validation of blocks, network participants must have at least 32 ETH (about $ 5200 at the current rate). He also develops an application to calculate the gross and net annual income of validators, taking into account […]

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin put forward a number of ideas to address some of the obstacles to the development of the Ethereum 2.0 ecosystem, which is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2020. The main differences between the new Ethereum chain are the switch to the Proof-Of-Stake algorithm, staking support and the use of sharding to increase throughput. The ability to transfer ETH between networks 1.0 and 2.0 It is assumed that with the current […]