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BONK.fun partnered with streaming platform Kick to link crypto creators with a broader audience. Summary BONK.fun will integrate Kick streaming directly into its memecoin launchpad Pump.fun was the first launchpad with a livestreaming service, which raised controversy Crypto platforms have long struggled to attract a more mainstream audience, something that a recent LetsBonk initiative hopes to change. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, Solana-based memecoin launchpad BONK.fun partnered with the streaming platform Kick to bring crypto to a more mainstream audience. There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years about connecting Crypto to the mainstream through entertainment channels, but…
According to recent metrics, bitcoin miners sustained solid earnings results in August, capturing revenue nearly on par with July’s tally, or marginally above, with earnings ranging from $1.633 billion to $1.66 billion. Bitcoin Fees Inch Higher While Miners’ Locked in $1.63B–$1.66B Last Month At the time of writing, data from mempool.space and Johoe’s mempool tracker indicate a queue of approximately 85,000 to 93,000 unconfirmed transactions. This points to a spurt of heightened onchain activity alongside increased fees. On Sept. 1, the average cost of a BTC transaction reached 0.000016 BTC, or 8.7 satoshis per byte, equivalent to $1.75 per transfer.…
The Ethereum community is agitated by a startling announcement: The Ethereum Community Foundation, which is not the same as the official Ethereum Foundation, has announced the release of BETH, a new token that will be used to represent ETH that has already been burned. Details on new token As stated by the group, BETH is a proof-of-burn token, meaning that each unit represents an equivalent quantity of ETH that has been verified to have been taken out of circulation, in accordance with EIP-1559 and other burn mechanisms. Accordingly, the 40.6 million ETH that have been burned since the London upgrade…
Crypto whale address 0x4ED0 has been identified by blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain as having amassed a huge amount of Ethereum. In 40 minutes alone, the wallet had accumulated 5,553 ETH, which is worth 24.44 million dollars, obtained via Bybit exchange hot wallets. Whale 0x4ED0 bought another 5,553 $ETH($24.44M) in the past 40 minutes.Since Aug 11, this whale has bought 18,447 $ETH($81.5M) at $4,417 avg, and 1,357 $WBTC($160M) at $117,547 avg, then deposited them into #Aave to borrow 114.2M $USDT.https://t.co/yKCGIiV30u pic.twitter.com/u6z3qoWkfT — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 2, 2025 The transaction records indicate that there are two large inflows of 3,283 ETH valued…
The market cap of top publicly-traded Bitcoin miners soared last month, according to JP Morgan analysts in a note Tuesday, as some of the industry’s largest companies expanded into high-powered computing. The analysts wrote that the aggregate market cap of the 13 U.S.-listed miners hit a record high of over $39 billion in August. The bank tracks miners Hut 8, Core Scientific, TeraWulf, IREN, and Riot, which all trade on stock exchanges. Mining the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value has grown increasingly difficult and expensive. The process has also generated smaller rewards since last year’s halving cut the…
The 15 Altcoins Developers Focused on the Most in the Last Week Have Been Revealed – Here’s the List
Developer activity, as well as price movements in the cryptocurrency market, continues to be a key indicator for investors. According to data obtained from GitHub over the past week, the projects with the most developer activity have been revealed. Here are the top 15 altcoin projects with the highest number of commits according to weekly data: Ethereum (ETH) – 377 commit Cardano (ADA) – 322 commit Hedera (HBAR) – 167 commit Flow (FLOW) – 127 commit Internet Computer (ICP) – 112 commits Chainlink (LINK) – 95 commits Stellar (XLM) – 77 commit Polkadot (DOT) – 72 commit Gnosis (GNO) –…
AEON, a cutting-edge payment platform, has partnered with Fastex, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange. The main purpose of this collaboration is to enable payments via Fasttoken ($FTN), the native token of Fastex. As AEON mentioned in its official press release, the partnership attempts to streamline real-world cryptocurrency adoption with wider $FTN accessibility. Hence, this move marks a groundbreaking move to integrate digital assets and the mainstream financial sector. AEON and @fastex team up to bring @fasttoken_com to real-world payments!Shop, dine, and pay effortlessly with $FTN through #AEON Pay, available in SEA, Nigeria, Mexico & soon more markets. Seamless crypto adoption, powered…
A new report assessed the environmental impact of Bitcoin and other cryptoassets, casting a particularly harsh light on BTC. It claimed that one Bitcoin transaction uses as much power as an average UK home does in three weeks. Renewables in the global hashrate and carbon offsets are important metrics, but difficult to fully quantify. Currently, it seems like electricity costs are the most reliable way to measure a blockchain’s green credentials. Bitcoin’s Shocking Environmental Impact Since the early days of Bitcoin, crypto’s environmental impact has been a long-running concern in the industry, especially because it’s a lightning rod for political…
Exchanges registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission should be allowed to facilitate trading of some spot crypto products, the two agencies announced in a joint statement on Tuesday. The SEC and CFTC, the primary regulators of asset markets, did not mention specific digital assets, but said their joint staff statement covers crypto products centered on “leverage, margin, and financed spot retail commodity transactions.” Earlier this year, a report, dubbed “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology” and issued by the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, asked the agencies to provide “regulatory…
Trader Benjamin Cowen Warns It’s Matter of Time Before Ethereum ‘Comes Home To Roost’ – Here’s His Timeline
Closely followed crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says that Ethereum (ETH) is destined to revisit a support level after an overheated rally. In a new strategy session on YouTube, Cowen tells his 926,000 subscribers that there appears to be a bearish divergence playing out between ETH and its relative strength index. A bearish divergence is when price trends higher while an indicator, in this case the RSI, trends lower, foreshadowing the exhaustion and potential reversal of the price movement. According to Cowen, ETH’s RSI is signalling a correction coming for Ethereum, likely in September. “There is still a chance that the…