
Ethereum Foundation Sunsets Holesky Testnet as Fusaka Upgrade Looms
The Ethereum Foundation announced Holesky testnet will shut down following critical failures during Pectra testing that led to the launch of Hoodi testnet.
The Ethereum Foundation announced Holesky testnet will shut down following critical failures during Pectra testing that led to the launch of Hoodi testnet.
The Bitcoin price is closing August with a 6% monthly loss, breaking a five-month winning streak as large investors shift their focus to Ethereum. Can Michael Saylor’s imminent purchase halt the BTC price dip?
Some investors are still pushing for accumulation despite the market-wide disbelief and correction.
NASDAQ-listed Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla approved a $250 million share repurchase program and disclosed holdings of 102,237 ETH valued at approximately $489 million.
Bitcoin price missed the $120,000 breakout target while Ethereum approached all-time highs near $4,900, with market data revealing three key reasons for BTC’s underwhelming performance.
Crypto trader James Wynn has taken a 25x leveraged long on Ethereum, using $5,568 in margin to control 29.3 ETH at an average entry of $4,239.
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump family’s native token, has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet with early supporters from $0.015 and $0.05.
Sharplink Gaming purchased 143,593 ETH for $667.2 million, becoming Ethereum’s second-largest corporate holder with 740,760 ETH total treasury worth $3.1 billion.
BitMine Immersion Technologies announced $6.612 billion in crypto holdings, making it the world’s largest Ethereum treasury. The disclosure includes 1.52 million ETH and positions the company as a major institutional crypto player.
This is likely to be an impactful week for the crypto market, as investors focus on key macroeconomic events.
BitMine recently added 109,485 ETH to its Ethereum stash, bringing its total holding to 1,297,093 ETH, valued at approximately $5.68 billion.
SharpLink Gaming confirmed its position as the second-largest corporate Ether holder after acquiring 728,804 ETH valued at $3.3 billion in Q2 2025.
Ethereum’s market capitalization reached a historic $570 billion milestone, overtaking major corporations like Netflix and Mastercard. The surge follows a 55% monthly rally driven by ETF inflows and corporate treasury purchases.
The anonymous, or as some say, mysterious, 7 Siblings has been selling Ethereum like there’s no tomorrow.
Ethereum rallied 6.31% to $4,515 following BitMine’s announcement of a massive $20 billion fundraising expansion. The move aims to accelerate ETH acquisitions as the firm targets owning 10% of Ethereum’s total supply.
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Ethereum is a public blockchain network that gave rise to the most popular altcoin; ether (ETH). The Ethereum platform was developed by Russian programmer Vitalik Buterin in July 2015 and it features smart contracts as well as an open-source nature that avails its users the choice of designing their programs without the interference of third parties or middlemen.
Ethereum’s Ether (ETH) was built on the ERC-20 protocol and it is ranked the 2nd digital currency based on market capitalization which currently stands at over 18.8 trillion USD. The coin serves as the network fees to miners on the Ethereum platform.
On its launch in 2015, there were 72 million ETH tokens pre-mined after its ICO raised over 16 million dollars in 2014. On 13th January 2018, ETH reached an all-time high of over 1,432 USD. Few months after its launch in 2015, ETH’s price dropped to its all-time low of 0.4209 USD on 21 October 2015.
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Interestingly, users can also create their custom tokens on the Ethereum blockchain network. This unique feature as seen the platform often referred to as the leading decentralized Apps (dApps) and smart contracts platform. Decentralized Apps are run and implemented precisely as programmed after it is set out on the Ethereum network; this makes it hard to censor and reduces their vulnerability to attacks. Ethereum emphases on running software design codes of dApps.
When it comes to decentralized finance in the dApps industry, Ethereum boasts of leading all other blockchain platforms in the number of applications developed. Ethereum has made significant attempts to solve the scalability issues in the crypto space in recent years and appears to be making progress in that regard.
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