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An investigation of MEVbots’ contract revealed a backdoor that allows the creators to drain Ether from its users' wallets.

The strength of the U.S. dollar continues to negatively impact risk assets, but that did not prevent Bitcoin and select altcoins from staging a few strong rallies this week.

Ethereum developer Preston Van Loon encouraged GitHub to fully restore Tornado Cash’s repositories after partial unbanning.

Many of the top-80 cryptocurrencies dropped by 15%+ in the past week, but the Tether premium in Asia-based futures markets shows traders remain calm.

The Fed has once again increased interest rates by another 75 basis points. Join us as we discuss this and more with Tim Warren, co-host of Coffee N Crypto, and Yashu Gola, a Cointelegraph market analyst.

The Merge marks a turning point for the Ethereum network, but what are the consequences of switching to a new consensus mechanism?

“The collaboration-maxi nature was a welcome breath of fresh air.”

An alternative to Ethereum, Fantom is a layer-1 blockchain on which you can stake Fantom (FTM) to earn passive income with crypto holdings.

Macroeconomic factors and centralization concerns are putting pressure on Ethereum's price post-Merge.

Bitcoin and altcoins rallied ahead of the Fed’s rate hike decision, indicating that traders viewed the 0.75% rate hike as a “priced-in” event.

Are there too many cryptocurrencies? Choice can be a good thing — but not all digital assets are born equal.

Scalability trilemma implies that to scale, blockchains usually need to sacrifice one of their three fundamental cornerstones — security or decentralization, or transaction throughput.

Buterin believes collusion and corruption can be minimized when deciding power is in the hands of the entire group, rather than an individual or small minority.

Bloomberg crypto analyst Jamie Coutts believes it's a “missed opportunity” that traditional asset managers choose not the educate themselves on crypto.

The recent Ethereum upgrade highlights staking opportunities for institutional holders. In the short term, however, liquidity is still an issue, .

On this week’s episode of “The Market Report,” Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss why the crypto market is dumping after the Ethereum Merge and the top headlines in the crypto space.

Ethereum miners have sold over $40 million worth of ETH because of the Merge and plummeting revenue.

“Putting Paris Agreement carbon markets on Ethereum and connecting the national carbon accounts of the world, is blockchain’s killer app.”

Total crypto payments on BitPay remained stable despite the bear market, with monthly transactions surging from around 58,000 in 2021 to 67,000 in 2022.