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As DeFi matures, Bitcoin emerges as the ideal foundation for secure and scalable financial innovation, offering a battle-tested infrastructure that surpasses Ethereum’s experimental ethos.
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Ethereum Classic News
Ethereum Classic is a blockchain-based smart contract platform for powering decentralized applications, or DApps.
This blockchain and its native cryptocurrency, ETC, are the result of a split in the Ethereum network following the infamous DAO hack of July 2016, in which an attacker compromised 3.6 million Ether (ETH) — one of the largest hacks in history — creating a rift in the Ethereum community on how to respond: accept the hack had happened and fully commit to the ethos of censorship-resistance and immutability, or gauge community sentiment informally and save the funds through a hard fork. Supporters of the first option maintained the legacy chain and transaction record after the fork, resulting in Ethereum Classic.
While the network is cross-compatible with Ethereum applications, with shared architecture and programming language support, the network later adapted a completely new monetary policy and design roadmap from its progenitor. In March 2017, Ethereum Classic adopted a fixed supply cap and ETC issuance rate more similar to Bitcoin than Ethereum. The network has also committed to proof-of-work consensus in contrast to Ethereum’s long-planned transition to proof-of-stake.
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Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade was successfully deployed on the Sepolia testnet, but developers may delay the mainnet launch due to unresolved issues on Holesky.
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Following the Lazarus hack, an online debate erupted about potentially rolling back the Ethereum blockchain to invalidate the stolen funds.
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Discover the key factors influencing cryptocurrency mining profitability in 2025, including electricity costs, hardware efficiency, mining difficulty and evolving regulations.
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The next decade will bring more institutional adoption for Ethereum, but solving the security concerns of the wider crypto space remains a priority.
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Solana’s surging fees are correlated with growing trading activity on the network’s leading decentralized exchange, Raydium.
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Some top LSTs have previously seen price deviations of up to 77% from Ether’s price due to mass sell-offs paired with liquidations on leveraged lending protocols.
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Some analysts don’t see this as a centralization concern due to the Ethereum network’s underlying builder-proposer architecture.
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“Solana is the biggest slap in the face” for Ether maximalists due to its monolithic scalability approach, according to the analyst.
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Institutional interest is increasing thanks to the capital efficiency introduced by restaking and liquid staking.
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We need to “divorce Ethereum from Ether” to onboard the 6 billion Web2 users, Wood told Cointelegraph during an exclusive.
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Nick Johnson, lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service, shared his thoughts and memories of Ethereum on its 10th anniversary.
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Conor Grogan tracked down $322,000 of dormant Ethereum Classic and returned it to its owner, who was unaware the money ever existed.
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The purported sales are the latest measures the embattled firm has taken following moves in recent months to raise capital and preserve liquidity.
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Grayscale’s Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash Trusts are at steep discounts as concerns whirl around Digital Currency Group’s liquidity.
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