Ethereum

The Ethereum blockchain was built to serve as a single source of truth backed by a public transaction database and to function as a platform for a variety of decentralized applications ranging from financial services to games. Ether is the native token for the Ethereum ecosystem.

The Ethereum blockchain is preparing a significant upgrade, called the Ethereum Merge, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 13-16, 2022.

The Merge reflects a shift in Ethereum’s protocol in which the blockchain will move from a “proof-of-work” to “proof-of-stake” system.

Miners validate transactions by solving complex calculations before a new block can be added to the chain. This is the mechanism that Bitcoin ($BTC) runs on.

Miners are replaced by “validators,” who stake the ETH they own to validate new blocks on the chain. Avalanche ($AVAX) and Solana ($SOL) are proof-of-stake.

The Ethereum Foundation reports that moving to a proof-of-stake model will reduce the blockchain’s energy consumption by more than 99%.

Ether ($ETH) is Ethereum’s native crypto asset, while Ethereum is the underlying blockchain. No disruptions to ETH are expected following the Merge.

Unlike Bitcoin, the founder of Ethereum is publicly known. Vitalik Buterin published Ethereum’s introductory paper in 2013 and launched the project in 2015.

The Ethereum blockchain was built to serve as a single source of truth backed by a public transaction database and to function as a platform for a variety of decentralized applications ranging from financial services to games.

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Buterin emphasizes the importance of quantum resistance and scalability, aiming for the Ethereum blockchain to handle thousands of transactions per second.

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Bitcoin

Solana

The first full trading week of January delivered a sharp divergence across crypto ETFs, with bitcoin and ether ending in net outflows while solana and XRP quietly extended their momentum. Fund-level flows revealed shifting investor preferences as risk appetite narrowed rather than disappeared.

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Dogecoin

Bitcoin is trading around $90,000 as broader crypto sentiment remains neutral despite macro tailwinds; liquidations stand at $211.88 million over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin ETFs saw $250 million in net outflows on Friday, while Ethereum ETFs reported $93.8 million in net outflows.

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Buterin outlined a framework for making Ethereum's base layer ossifiable, emphasizing quantum resistance and protocol independence.

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Ethereum's price has resumed its upward trend after moving back above the moving average lines. This is the third attempt by buyers to break through the $3,400 resistance.

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has declared the blockchain trilemma solved following the December 2025 Fusaka upgrade. The protocol is shifting toward distributed block building to prevent builder oligopolies from controlling transaction inclusion. Experts like Mo Dong note that while technically complex, the real challenge is incentive alignment, as distributed building complicates MEV extraction.

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In a recent interview with CoinDesk, Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang described zero-knowledge as part of Ethereum's midterm roadmap, pointing to “many amazing breakthroughs” in the past one to two years.

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Ethereum's spot price hovered at $3,087 per coin on Saturday, while derivatives traders quietly stacked risk across futures and options markets. The data shows leverage building even as price action stays choppy, a setup that has a habit of punishing crowded positions.

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CoinDesk sat down with Robinhood's head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to get an update on its upcoming layer-2 network, its tokenized stocks program, and its staking offerings.

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Bitcoin is holding above $90,000 amid a solid U.S. jobs data release on Friday. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $90,526.47 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $3,084.76 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $136.55 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $2.09 Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) $0.1402 Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) $0.058633 Notable Statistics: Coinglass data shows 80,473 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $202.65 million.

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Bitcoin continues to trade around $90,000 as crypto sentiment remains neutral; liquidations stand at $222.72 million over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin ETFs saw $398.95 million in net outflows on Thursday, while Ethereum ETFs reported $159.2 million in net outflows.

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The company stated that this move served to innovate and find the most productive way to hold ether with institutional-grade infrastructure, using Consensys' Linea to accomplish this task. Sharplink announced plans to deploy these funds back in October.

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Leading cryptocurrencies came under pressure on Thursday as investors trimmed risk appetite after the market's recent advances.

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Polygon

Polygon is paying $100 million to $125 million for the bitcoin ATM provider, according to one of the sources.

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BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) U.S. head of equity ETFs Jay Jacobs on Wednesday said that despite billions in inflows, crypto ETFs remain in their early days as financial advisors only recently gained platform access. Financial Advisors Just Getting Access To Crypto ETFs Jacobs told CNBC's “ETF Edge” that many investors are still starting their educational journey on what Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is and how it fits in a portfolio.

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Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) has reclaimed the $3,000 level on broader market strength, but signals remain mixed on whether the move can extend into a sustained breakout. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Market Cap 7-Day Trend Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $3,121 $375 billion +4.3% Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $91,076 $1.81 trillion +3.2% XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $2.15 $129.3 billion +14.6% Trader Notes : Michael van de Poppe said Ethereum's recent price action is structurally healthy despite some concerns.

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