Market Wrap: Bitcoin Clings to $10.4K; Ether in Smart Contracts Highest Since...

Since making its way into crypto-space, Ethereum has continued in charting new courses and providing improved technology for creating smart contracts. On Tuesday the developers at ether.camp announced on its blog the release of what they called ‘Ethereum Full Transparency.’ The new product will provide better transparency of transactions and enable regular people to create useful contracts. Better transparency of transactions. This development was inspired by the need for regular individuals to be able to create their own smart contracts. Roman Mandeleil, CEO and Founder of ether.camp,....

If you have no idea what a cryptocurrency is and never heard of Ethereum, then this is the right post for you. Ethereum, you would have heard about it by now. If not, then I guess you have been out of touch with the cryptocurrency industry for a while or you are really new to it. Well, don’t worry we will get you up to speed in this article. What is Ethereum? It is a relatively new cryptocurrency that is making waves in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Unlike bitcoin, it is designed to be a smart contract platform based on the blockchain technology. The crypto tokens on this platform are....

The life cycle of smart contract development involves crucial steps: create, freeze, execute and finalize. Can a smart contract be destroyed?Yes, smart contracts can be destroyed using the selfdestruct function.Ethereum smart contracts provide a selfdestruct function that allows them to destroy a contract on the blockchain system. It is, however, a two-edged sword for developers. On the one hand, the selfdestruct function allows developers to delete smart contracts from Ethereum and transfer Ether in the event of an emergency, such as an attack. On the other hand, this function might add....

While the amount of ETH locked in DeFi protocols is up 75% since the start of 2020, the sum of Ether held on centralized exchanges has fallen by 30% over the same period. Ether is being locked up in decentralized finance contracts at an accelerating rate this year, while the amount held on centralized exchanges continues to fall.On May 7, on-chain analytics provider, Glassnode, shared a chart comparing the number of Ether deposited in Ethereum-based smart contracts to the number of ETH held on centralized exchanges over the past 17 months.Since the start of 2020, the share of supply....

Goldman Sachs says the popularity of Ethereum's smart contracts means it could overtake Bitcoin as the number one crypto by market cap soon. Goldman Sachs said in a note to clients on Tuesday that the blockchain with the highest "real use potential" is Ethereum, suggesting its ETH could become the dominant digital store of value.As such, Goldman predicts the total market capitalization of ether (ETH) could overtake the total market cap for Bitcoin (BTC) in the coming years, according to a report in Business Insider. "[Ether] currently looks like the cryptocurrency with the highest real use....