Bitcoin price is currently testing $20,000 support once again, as price ranged slightly above and below the previous all-time high overnight.
Top-20 altcoins have shown some weakness over the last day of trading, as Ethereum falls 6%, BNB drops 7% and Uniswap stands out with a gain of less than 1%.
Anchorage Digital, which owns the first federally-chartered crypto bank in the US, has announced that it will be launching an Ethereum staking service for institutions.
The feature will enable institutional investors to collect ETH rewards on their custodied Ether after its shift to proof-of-stake, both in the form of block rewards and transaction priority fees on the network.
The date for Ethereum's mainnet merge is estimated to be around August 2022, however this could be delayed further depending on development.
MetaMask creator ConsenSys has announced a partnership with Ethereum scaling company StarkWare, to integrate Layer-2 technology into MetaMask and the infrastructure service Infura.
StarkWare's platform, known as StarkNet, uses a technology called ZK-rollups to increase the number of transactions possible via Ethereum, as well as save on gas costs. MetaMask developers can now build with StarkNet via experimental development feature, MetaMask Flask.
Popular crypto derivatives exchange Bybit will be supporting contract settlement in USD Coin (USDC) – the second-largest stablecoin currently on the market today.
USDC will initially be used for the settlement of options contracts, offering an alternative to Bitcoin or Ether-settled options. Bybit now supports USDT, BTC, ETH and USDC as collateral.
