Ethereum 2.0, the Proof of Stake (PoS)-based Ethereum network, has surpassed $20.000 billion in staking. These and more news stories are in this handy daily roundup so you're always up to date with the latest developments in the crypto world.
Bitcoin and Blockchain Adoption
📍Ethereum 2.0 just surpassed $20.000 billion in staking. The Ethereum 2.0 contract muestra There are a total of 6.814.521 ethers deposited by users as of the current date, with a value equivalent to 21.480 billion dollars, according to the current price of ether (ETH) in the markets.
Source: Ethereum Launchpad
In total, the network PoS Ethereum's blockchain brings together over 206.000 validators, who are staking value within it to generate returns. On the other hand, the amount of ethers deposited on centralized crypto exchange platforms has decreased significantly over the past year. OKLink data shows that the amount of ethers on the blockchain has decreased significantly over the past year. exchanges centralized has decreased by around 50%, with less than 12 million ETH currently held within the platform. This amount represents approximately 10% of all ethers in circulation on the market at the time of writing.
📍Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to fund advertising in space with Dogecoin. According to reported the company of the eccentric billionaire, also owner of Tesla, space advertising will reach the Moon and space next year, thanks to the famous cryptocurrency meme Dogecoin (DOGE). SpaceX is partnering with Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC) to launch a mission to the Moon fully paid for with DOGE, during the first quarter of 2022. On this space mission, the company will take the opportunity to install a “billboard” that will be attached to the satellite. In this way, SpaceX hopes to create a “new form of advertising in Earth orbit”, associated with DOGE.
NFT and DeFi Markets
📍reNFT, a new project to rent NFTs on marketplaces. According to the new project launched by ReNFTLabs, Token owners NFT They will be able to lend, rent or lease their properties to other users, who will be able to legally display the NFTs once they have been rented. According to the project, although the image of the NFT can be copied, doing so without the owner's authorization is property theft, so the protocol solves this problem and gives interested parties a way to access the image of the NFT for a certain value, much lower than the total value of the NFT.
Chainlink, Polygon, Rarible and Genesis Shards are partners of ReNFTLabs, the project reports on its website.
Development and Technology
📍Solana developers launch interoperability bridge to connect the Ethereum ecosystem. In her web page, Solana network developers announced the launch of “Wormhole,” a decentralized, two-way interoperability bridge between Ethereum and Solana. According to the post, Wormhole will help DeFi tokens and fungible and non-fungible tokens from the Ethereum ecosystem connect to other Solana and Wormhole-compatible networks, such as BSC and Terra.
Wormhole was designed to enable existing projects, platforms, and communities on Ethereum networks to seamlessly move tokenized assets across blockchains, benefiting from the high speed and low cost offered by Solana.
📍FalconX, a cryptocurrency services company, is the new “unicorn” of the crypto industry. FalconX's revenue has grown 30-fold over the past year, the company said in a statement. release recent. In addition, it has just closed a round of financing for more than 200 million dollars, led by the firm Tiger Global. This round of investment has raised the valuation of the cryptocurrency company located in Chicago (United States), which has just become the new “unicorn” of crypto. FalconX's current valuation is 3.750 billion dollars.
Rules and Regulations
📍The SEC's battle against Ripple Labs continues and once again involves the crypto company's employees. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants access to Ripple Labs employees’ conversations via the team messaging and communication app Slack. According to the SEC, the information provided by Ripple Labs previously was incomplete, so it is asking the court to require Ripple to produce the entire conversation history via the app, which contains “terabytes of data.”
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