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Ethereum’s search decline is slightly worse than Bitcoin’s.Roughly 96% of search interest originating from the United States has disappeared.A glance at ETH’s developer count reveals a silver lining for Ethereum.Nearly two years on from Ethereum’s all-time high, Google search interest for the No.1 altcoin has plunged 96%.Ethereum Popularity Nosedives Along
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Footwear giant Nike patented shoes that are tokenized as a non-fungible token (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain, dubbed CryptoKicks.The patent — dated Dec. 10 — describes a digital asset for footwear and ways to use it. One implementation of the technology described in the document is an Ethereum ERC721
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Hitting at block number 9,069,000, the systemwide upgrade is the network’s third in 2019. Source
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As of press time, Ethereum has passed block #9068000, putting it within 1000 blocks of the scheduled Istanbul hard fork, which should take place at around 23:30 UTC.The much-anticipated shift to Istanbul will be the Ethereum network’s first hard fork since February’s Constantinople. Both are stages of a broader
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For Aurora Labs, the company behind IDEX, Istanbul means lower operating costs as well as more transactions processed, CTO Jason Ahmad said in a phone interview. In fact, Ahmad expects EIP 2028 to reduce gas fees by as much as 90 percent on the new platform. Source
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IDEX is launching a new DEX built on a layer 2 scalibility protocol made possible through Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork. Source
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Ethereum developers have proposed a hard fork, named Muir Glacier, that should address the impending Ice Age, which could cause a significant slowdown on the Ethereum mainnet.In an Ethereum improvement proposal at the end of November, Ethereum developer James Hancock wrote that the proposed Ethereum Muir Glacier hard fork
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In a rather lengthy but surprisingly interesting interview with Forbes, one of Ethereum’s founders, Joe Lubin, gave an in-depth insight into what Ethereum 2.0 is all about including the different stages associated with the project and how Ethereum 2.0 would change the world for good.One of the most fascinating points
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Binance’s latest research report has argued that with Ethereum’s pending switch to proof-of-stake (PoS), staking is set to have a major impact on the industry. The report, published on Oct. 28, highlights that the largest 10 crypto assets supporting — or poised to support — staking represent a cumulative market
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When cryptocurrency fans gathered in Osaka, Japan, this week for the Devcon developer conference, the halls were filled with buzz about smaller projects seeking access to ethereum’s decentralized finance smorgasbord, especially loans and financial products, via interoperability. “Connecting to
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