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Unchained and the University of Austin (UATX) have announced their collaboration to create a long-term endowment holding Bitcoin. “I’ve been very passionate about what UATX is building in Austin,” said Joseph Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Unchained, who has personally donated 2 BTC to kickstart this campaign. “I’ve seen the values the organization places on free speech and on building a modern academic institution that’s integrated with the marketplace, and I’m thrilled to play a role in helping the university make bitcoin a part of its long term strategy.” The initiative aims to raise $5 million for the university’s endowment,…

Doodles, an NFT-driven entertainment property, is making a move. On Monday, the project announced that it will migrate its “Stoodio” avatar customization platform to Ethereum layer-2 scaling network Base, departing the Flow blockchain in the process. The transition, set to take place in mid-July, aims to leverage Base’s cheaper and faster transactions compared to the Ethereum mainnet. Base, which was developed by popular crypto exchange Coinbase, is gaining steam within the increasingly crowded field of Ethereum scaling networks. The original Doodles profile picture (PFP) collection will remain on Ethereum, and only the Stoodio and the various NFT wearables and character…

Ethereum’s (ETH) price has disappointed investors, falling from nearly $4,000 to below $3,500. This has led to many holders moving their ETH to the exchanges to minimize their losses. Ethereum Investors Lose Confidence Ethereum’s price drop is causing ETH holders to become increasingly skeptical, with many moving to sell their holdings to offset their losses. Looking at the network realized profit and loss indicator, profit-taking has surged over the last few days. The spike in the metric is the largest in three months, with the last such selling observed back in March when ETH was rallying. But this is being…

The aggregate market cap of the 14 U.S.-listed bitcoin mining stocks the bank tracks hit a record high in June, the report said. The bank noted that miners outperformed bitcoin on news of Core Scientific’s deal with AI firm CoreWeave. U.S.-listed miners increased their share of the global network hashrate for the second month in a row. The total market cap of the 14 U.S.-listed bitcoin (BTC) miners followed by JPMorgan hit a record high of $22.8 billion on June 15, the Wall Street bank said in a research report on Monday. The bank noted that almost all the companies…

Key Points: Ethereum Foundation moved 18,089 ETH worth $64.48M within an hour, sparking market interest. Since 2015, the Foundation has moved 44,167 ETH multiple times, strategically selling or recharging trading platforms. Ethereum Foundation has gained wide appeal in the crypto community. An on-chain data analyst, @ai_9684xtpa, tells us that this is only part of the Foundation’s continuous strategic management of its holdings. 哦豁，以太坊基金会关联地址正在大额转移 ETH，是要有什么动作吗？🤨2015.11.20 以太坊基金会向地址 0x8e2…3D052 转移 44167 枚 ETH（币价仅为 $0.9268），这笔 $ETH 在九年内经过三次中转，且每次都伴随部分卖出 / 交易所充值；最后 18089 枚已于过去一小时内转移至地址 0x2f7…eE2e3，价值 6448… pic.twitter.com/2FMm2A90MO — Ai 姨 (@ai_9684xtpa) June 16, 2024 On November 20, 2015, the Ethereum Foundation sent a large chunk of 44,167…

Nic Carter from Castle Island Ventures and Elizabeth Olson, an Ordinals educator, discussed how the adoption of Ordinals and BRC-20 is saving Bitcoin from irrelevance in a recent panel titled “Bitcoin Renaissance” at Consensus, which took place today. “I would actually argue to say that Ordinals and these fungible token standards, like runes, these are actually saving Bitcoin,” Olson said. She pointed out that Bitcoin Ordinals, alongside runes and BRC-20, have incurred over $160 million in fees paid to miners, helping to secure the Bitcoin network. Olson also mentioned the potential of OP_CAT, a protocol proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto himself,…

Key Points: BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes transferred 3,000 ETH to LRT protocol EtherFi today. Hayes uses the remaining 1,034.5 ETH in his address for ether-liquid yield, leveraging DeFi opportunities. Hayes’ significant investment signals confidence in EtherFi, potentially driving more interest in the protocol. BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes deposited 3,000 ETH—equivalent to approximately $10.67 m—into the LRT protocol EtherFi at 16:39 UTC+8 today, thus actively participating in innovative DeFi platforms. Arthur Hayes, one of the most influential people in the crypto space, has made strategic investments and moved to EtherFi in the past. In his latest move, he moved funds to…

Today, enjoy the Lightspeed newsletter on Blockworks.co. Tomorrow, get the news delivered directly to your inbox. Subscribe to the Lightspeed newsletter. Howdy! For today’s edition, I dove into Solana’s technical inner workings, which turned my brain into a ball of magma for a few hours. If you need me for the rest of the day, I’ll probably be lying on a couch somewhere, contemplating the meaning of existence. Anyways: How v1.18.15 could make Solana more efficient Solana’s block-creating software just experienced a pretty consequential update, but there’s no way to tell how many validators are actually using it. Over the…

Bitcoin has a built-in scripting language that allows for the creation of simple smart contracts. However, the scripting language has limitations, and some of the original opcodes (operation codes) were disabled in the early days of Bitcoin’s development. One such opcode is OP_CAT, which has recently resurfaced in discussions within the Bitcoin community. What is OP_CAT? OP_CAT, short for “Operation Concatenate,” is an opcode that was initially proposed by Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The opcode allows for the joining of two data values on the stack within a Bitcoin transaction script. In simpler terms, it enables the combination of two…

Ethereum (ETH) is the second most valuable cryptocurrency and the leading infrastructure for Web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi). However, a recent indicator’s all-time high suggests the token may be overvalued in relation to the network activity. Finbold retrieved premium data from Santiment’s Sanbase Pro on June 16, highlighting a network value indicator making bearish new highs. For validation, we also compared it to another solid network value indicator, both in a two-year time frame. Notably, the NVT metric raised concerns with an all-time high 134 ratio. This result indicates ETH’s daily capitalization is 134 times higher than the daily volume…