Vitalik Buterin, then a 19-year-old Canadian programmer, dreamed up the idea for Ethereum in 2013. Since then, it’s sailed on a stormy course fraught with spectacular highs and lows, with a close-to-death hacking incident in 2016. Even in the face of these obstacles, Ethereum experienced a historic technological leap forward...
As a Tokyo-based analyst with a global perspective, I've been watching Ethereum's evolution with a mix of admiration and growing concern. We have all seen what it can do technologically, the move to PoS, and the boom in its roll-up ecosystem. Beneath the surface lies a "dangerous divergence," a growing...
Bitcoin is the king. We all know it. Its dominance in market capitalization and mindshare is equally unquestionable. Kings often get fat and lazy, and empires, even cyber ones, grow old and die from the inside out. Bitcoin solidifies its place on top. At the same time, Ethereum is quickly...
Ethereum, the blockchain platform that promised to revolutionize everything from finance to art, has faced a persistent challenge: explaining itself to the masses. Past marketing efforts have unfortunately gotten bogged down in technical terms, causing would-be users to wonder what it’s all about. Now, Ethereum is trying a new approach:...
Picture yourself at a tiny corner cafe in Paris. Not some glittering, glitter-walled, tourist-trap dump, but a real-down neighborhood joint. You catch bits and pieces of dialogue – about politics, romance, and, oddly enough, Ethereum. Not from hedge fund managers, but from the average citizen, le peuple again, whom you...
While technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, it has a negative impact. In the blockchain world, that negative is enormous energy use. For years, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have sounded environmental warnings with good reason. The energy-intensive Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism has been most often featured in this narrative....
Launched in 2015, Ethereum has rapidly become one of the most significant innovations in the blockchain industry. It has surged up to be a serious contender against Bitcoin. Its native cryptocurrency, Ether, has rapidly ascended to become the world’s second most popular cryptocurrency. The platform stands out on the whole,...
Project Promissa is a joint initiative between the BIS Innovation Hub, Swiss National Bank and the World Bank. This new program would be a big step toward changing that mindset and fundamentally improving the way we use promissory notes. This program serves as the proof-of-concept platform for tokenized promissory notes....
The numbers don't lie. Ethereum's market share is shrinking. While the die-hard Ethereum maximalists will scream "FUD!" and point to future upgrades, ignoring the current trajectory is like ignoring the iceberg while steering the Titanic. And we aren’t talking about a little bump in the road. We’re talking about a...
Ethereum, a name so interconnected with the concept of blockchain goodness, has had an exciting adventure since 2017 until now in 2022. Its success during this recent time period is a testimony to its innovative technology. The never-ending creation of new ecocentric gameplay has fueled that development. After 2022, a...
