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The share of Ether held by so-called whale addresses has dropped since Ethereum’sĀ Shapella upgradeĀ in mid April, suggesting that large investors may be leaning bearish in the near term. ETH whale population shrinks post-Shapella…
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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights ā a newsletter crafted to bring you significant developments over the last week. The past week in DeFi was filled…
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When levees break, liquidity flows ā Analyzing Ethereum Shapella and liquidity staking derivatives
The Ethereum networkās planned Shanghai hard fork is nearly here. Planned for April 12, this is the first major upgrade since the Merge in September 2022. The āShapellaā upgrade (a combination of the…
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The Shapella hard fork has officially been executed on the Ethereum Mainnetā meaning that Ethereum validators can finally withdraw their staked Ether (ETH) from the Beacon Chain. The long-awaited upgrade took effect at…
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Ether (ETH) price has increased by 58% year to date, but it has far underperformed the market leader Bitcoin (BTC). In fact, the ETH/BTC price ratio has dropped to 0.063, its lowest level…
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The Ethereum Foundation has announced April 12 as the date of deployment of the much-anticipated Shanghai and Capella upgrade, together dubbed as Shapella. The upgrades will enable withdrawals from Ethereum 2.0 staking contracts….
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For the past twelve days, the price of Ether (ETH) has been trading in a narrow descending range. Surprisingly, not even the news of Binance and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao being sued by the…