Get the weekly summary of crypto market analysis, news, and forecasts! This Week’s Summary The crypto market ends the week at a total market capitalization of $2,17 trillion. Bitcoin continues to trade at around $62,300. Ethereum experiences no changes and stagnates at around $2,400. XRP is down by 2%, Solana by 1%, and Dogecoin by 3%. Almost all altcoins are trading in the red, with very few exceptions. The DeFi sector decreased the total value of protocols (TVL) to around…
Token Burning
London Hard Fork Expected to Boost ETH’s Price by Ushering in EIP-1559
The highly anticipated Ethereum (ETH) hard fork upgrade code-named London is scheduled on the ethereum network on Thursday, according to the countdown on Ethereum.org. The primary improvement in this hard fork will be a change in how transaction fees work. But, unfortunately, it will also start to destroy coins to trim the pace at which the supply of Ether tokens grows. The upgrade EIP-1559 will ultimately affect how the network handles transaction fees. The move will make transaction fees more…
4 years ago
Token Burning: Reasons Why Burning Tokens Is Important
What is Token Burning? Token burning or coin burning is an intentional action taken by the coin's creators to "burn," i.e., remove from circulation a specific number from the total available tokens in existence. There are several reasons to burn tokens this way, but generally, the move is for deflationary purposes. In a coin burn, the tokens are algorithmically taken out of circulation by sending the outputs to a public address known as an 'eater address.' However, the keys to…
5 years ago