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CoinDesk Winds Down Ethereum Validator ‘Zelda,’ and We Now Wait to Get Money Back
Following last week's milestone Shanghai upgrade, we moved to wind down CoinDesk's Ethereum validator project, but it could be a week before the 32 ETH we staked (about $67,000 worth) hits our wallet. C. Spencer Beggs, our director of engineering, breaks down the technical steps he's taken.
First Mover Asia: Ether Price Hits Fresh 11-Month High
ALSO: In his latest Money Reimagined column, CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey writes that to prevent the potentially destructive impact of AI, we need open-source innovation and collective governance that is possible through blockchain protocols and Web3, not the monopoly defaulting structure of Web2.
LIVE BLOG: Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade
CoinDesk reporters and editors chronicle the first-ever activation of withdrawals from the Ethereum staking mechanism, set for Wednesday at 6:27 p.m. ET (22:27 UTC). We've got the play-by-play on Shanghai – also known as "Shapella" – from what we're seeing on the blockchain and at the watch parties.
CoinDesk’s Ethereum Validator Enters Final Weeks, Sitting on More Than $30K of Gains
To better chronicle the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a proof-of-stake network, CoinDesk started its own validator. We plunked down the 32 ETH (roughly $15K at the time) and laid the technical groundwork. With staking withdrawals due to start April 12, we take stock of the project.
Rapid Bank Runs Reveal Deposits Are Now Magic Internet Money, Too
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the speed of the Silicon Valley Bank run was “very different from what we’ve seen in the past.” However, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she is not considering a "blanket" deposit guarantee.
ConsenSys’ MetaMask Institutional Starts Staking Marketplace With Allnodes, Blockdaemon, Kiln
The new marketplace comes just weeks before Ethereum’s much-anticipated Shanghai hard fork that should spur growth in staking services.
Crypto Trading Tech Firm CoinRoutes Wins Patent for ‘Smart Order Router’
The invention by the father-and-son team of David and Ian Weisberger allows “clients to keep control of their own private and exchange keys to their wallets and accounts, but can execute orders across multiple exchanges simultaneously,” according to the patent document.
How Silvergate’s Crypto Collapse Differed From Silicon Valley Bank’s: No Bailout
A deep dive into regulatory filings shows how Silvergate Bank's collapse was, in a strange way, the ideal scenario for a failing institution. Sure, shareholders got wiped out, but depositors are made whole and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. isn't putting in a dime.
Coinbase Starts ‘Wallet as a Service’ Companies Can Build Into Their Own Apps
The U.S. crypto exchange says the new service could help companies “to help bring the next hundred million customers into Web3 through a seamless wallet-onboarding experience.”
Cross-Chain Protocol Swing Says ‘No-Code’ Product to Speed Up App Deployment
Decentralized applications that straddle multiple blockchains are becoming more common, though the cross-chain “bridges” often used to move digital assets back and forth between the different networks are frequently targeted by hackers.
