Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Crosses $11K While DOJ Takes Aim at Crypto

Prices for ether, the Ethereum blockchain's native token, have nearly tripled in 2020 to about $350. Such returns make better-known bitcoin's 52% year-to-date gain look paltry.

CoinDesk is preparing for the invest: ethereum economy virtual event on Oct. 14 with a special series of newsletters focused on Ethereum's past, present and future.

Every day until the event the team behind Blockchain Bites will dive into an aspect of Ethereum that excites or confuses us.

All this creates an opening for competitors that are nowhere near ready to concede Ethereum's first-mover advantage as the dominant smart-contract blockchain.

Can Ethereum 2.0 address these pain points? Is this the opportunity for so-called "Eth Killers"? We assess this critical fork in the road as Ethereum looks to level up.

Join MakerDAO's Rune Christensen, NEAR Protocol's Illia Polosukhin and Framework Ventures' Michael Anderson for a live stream starting at 9:30 a.m. ET.$1B BTCAt invest: ethereum economy on Oct. 14, we will address the ramifications for investors as decentralized finance takes the crypto world by storm.

Whether it's wBTC, renBTC or tBTC, tokenized bitcoin is the hottest thing on Ethereum right now.

Ethereum 101.Non-fungible tokens are the latest decentralized tools to send the Ethereum economy into warp speed.

NFTs are ways to append real-world or digital objects to a blockchain, usually Ethereum.

Created by Sky Mavis, a Vietnamese startup, Axie Infinity is a decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain where players breed, raise, battle and trade adorable digital critters called Axies.