Kraken Supports Ethereum 2.0 Clients Team Alongside Five DeFi Projects With A $250K Donation Each
29 August 2021 - 8:00AM
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Kraken and five other DeFi projects contribute $250,000 each to
support the teams that work on the Ethereum upgrade. In addition,
they donated the sum to the ETH Foundation to develop the network’s
version 2.0. Open-source developer teams like Erigon, Besu, Nimbus,
Geth, and Nethermind will join the ETH Foundation in the donation.
1/ A diverse execution-layer client ecosystem is at the heart of
all that we’re building together. Today, we're excited to announce
that @compoundgrants, @krakenfx, @LidoFinance, @synthetix_io,
@graphprotocol & @Uniswap are donating $250K each to support
#Ethereum client teams. — Ethereum (@ethereum) August 24, 2021 The
Ethereum Foundation announced the source of the donations. They
mentioned that the tips came from crypto exchange Kraken,
Synthetix, the Graph, Compound Grants, and Uniswap Grants. Related
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$30 Million In Funds The donations will add to the funds the
Foundation provided earlier back the layer teams of ETH execution.
The Funds Aim To Empower The Ethereum Team The Foundation of what
we build together incudes the various client ecosystem of Ethereum.
It consists of the consensus layer clients and the execution layer;
both are vital aspects of future Ethereum mergers. The announcement
also reads: “The donation sums up to $1.5 million and goes to
open-source developer teams like Nimbus, Besu, Geth, Erigon, and
Nethermind”. The developer team is to make provision for the
network’s critical infrastructure to see the transition of ETH. The
ETH is to transit to proof-of-stake mechanism from a proof of work.
An August 24th post on the Ethereum web page reads: “In the heart
of what we are developing together is a broad execution-layer
client ecosystem. So today, we gladly announce that Kraken-fx,
Uniswap, synthetix_io, graph-protocol, compound-grants,
LidoFinance, and donates $250K each to support ETH 20 client
teams.” ETH is trading in a sideways momentum on the daily chart |
Source: ETHUSD on TradingView.com Jesse Powel, the co-founder and
CEO of Kraken, says that the company is proud to give back to
valiant builders who work hard on cutting-edge crypto innovation.
Kraken proposed that the exchange users would have staked up to
800,000 ETH in Eth2 by July. This is worth about $2.5 billion with
current prices. The network platform had given out 25,300ETH as
rewards emerging from staking when it started initially. Related
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New License This project portrays an effort to ensure the security
of Ethereum’s consistent growth and decentralization. Each of the
elements is exemplified by the diversity of clients, our belief in
Ethereum’s continued success, and the strength of the teams. The
announcement revealed. Etherscan Reports The ETH Improvement
Proposal (EIP) 1559 upgrade was launched early this month. It
introduces a burning mechanism as an aspect of its regulated gas
fee structure. According to Etherscan data, about 4.85 ETH worth
almost $15,300 are burned every minute as of writing. Over 70,000
Ethereum (ETH) has been burned or removed from the network’s
circulation. Etherscan is a Block Explorer and Analytics
Platform for Ethereum, a decentralized smart contracts
platform. As of August 12, 31,792.48 ETH has been burned
via Etherscan, amounting to $99,871,306.11. Featured image
from Pixabay, chart from TradingView.com
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