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In this week’s newsletter, read about how the team behind Bitcoin Ordinals plans to drive the development of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin and find out why metaverse platform The Sandbox requires Know Your Customer (KYC) checks for staking. In other news, learn why NFT gas usage is on a
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Ethereum gas consumption of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) has gone through significant drops since its highs in 2021. Marketplaces and NFT projects that occupied top spots in terms of gas consumption at the time have since shown a sharp decline in two years. Data shared by the on-chain analytics platform Glassnode shows
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Oil and gas companies are keen to use gas that would normally be flared off to run bitcoin mining operations. But environmentalists claim the practice merely perpetuates the use of fossil fuels. Source
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Blur, the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has introduced the second iteration of its platform, tagging two notable improvements. The platform introduced enhancements by has slashed gas fees by 50%. At the same time, they have added
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It is widely recognized that cryptocurrencies are subject to volatility, which is no longer a surprising fact. The crypto winter in 2022 led to several incidents and events that brought digital currencies to the forefront of discussions. As anticipated, much of the attention revolved around bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH),
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The layer 2 landscape on top of Ethereum has seen some intense competition over the past few months. According to L2Beat, Arbitrum, another optimistic scaling solution and Optimism’s biggest rival, leads the way with $5.69 billion total value locked (TVL), a measure of collateral socked into decentralized-finance (DeFi) protocols on
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The average gas fee — transaction fee — on the Ethereum network has cooled substantially in the first week of June after reaching a multimonth high in May, owing to the memecoin frenzy and much maximal extractable value (MEV) bot activities. The average gas fee has decreased to $7.34, an almost
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A new program from the Fantom Opera network (FTM) team will pay developers for the gas fees they generate from users, according to a May 31 announcement. Specifically, the “Gas Monetization Program” will pay eligible developers 15% of the total gas fees their apps generate.Gas Monetization on #Fantom is live!
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The gas monetization functionality encourages a more inclusive and robust developer ecosystem on the Fantom platform. Blockchain protocol Fantom (FTM) announced on Twitter that it has released a gas monetization feature that will enable its developers to receive 15% of the gas commissions generated. With this groundbreaking development, Fantom is set to
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A single trader just spent a staggering 64 Ether — equivalent to $118,000 — in gas fees purchasing $155,000 worth of a memecoin called Four (FOUR).According to an update from the popular blockchain tracking service Whale Alert, the lone trader paid an astonishing $119,157 in Ether (ETH) to complete a
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