After the successful completion of Ethereum’s Shapella upgrade, the percentage of total ether staked on its network has declined to 14.5% from 15.6% earlier. The number of active validators on Ethereum’s blockchain has fallen slightly, by 0.1%, to 562,168, as of this writing, from yesterday. This means that an insignificant percentage of validators have fully… Read More Notes 4/13: Ethereum Unstaking, Ether Prices, and CZ Profile
Even as his agency cracks down on token offerings, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton is letting bitcoin off the hook. Clayton, who has been vocal about regulating tokens as securities, told CNBC in an interview that cryptocurrencies do not qualify as securities under current SEC provisions. “Cryptocurrencies…are replacements for sovereign currencies, (they) replace yen, US dollar,… Read More Bitcoin Is Not A Security: SEC Chairman Jay Clayton
Almost a year long, it was the longest initial coin offering (ICO) in the world. The ICO by EOS, a blockchain that is building an alternative to ethereum’s smart contracts, finally finished this past week. Launch of its mainnet is still in progress. One billion tokens were offered during the ICO. Those tokens garnered $4… Read More Evaluating The EOS ICO
Ethereum has ambitions to become the world’s first distributed computer running applications that accomplish a varied set of tasks on its platform. But the cryptocurrency will have to contend with SEC regulations before it reaches that goal.… Read More Ethereum’s Security Problem
During a Congressional hearing last month, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said all ICO tokens he had seen were securities. That remark, with all its attendant implications, has spooked investors and snowballed into a series of actions that might end up radically reshaping cryptocurrency markets. Since Clayton’s remark, the SEC has tightened the screws on coin… Read More The Case For Ethereum As A Security Token