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Holding Stablecoins Was More Profitable Than Fiat in 2022: Report

CryptoQuant – a blockchain analytics firm – has released a report evaluating data around stablecoins and their peg-robustness. It found that holding almost any of the current top stablecoins throughout 2022 was slightly more profitable than holding actual U.S. dollars. According to the report, the historical mean daily closing price for nearly all top stablecoins is slightly above $1.00, based on volume-weighted price closing data spanning back to 2017.

Vitalik Buterin considers Ethereum development only ‘55% complete’ after The Merge

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin sees Ethereum’s history moving off-chain to reduce the protocol’s complexity. Speaking on the main stage of EthCC on July 21 about the long-term future of Ethereum, Vitalik stated that Ethereum is going through a transitional state and its development is only “40% complete.” The merge is coming around September when Ethereum finally moves to proof of stake, the surge relates to the implementation of sharding, the verge brings in verkle trees, the purge will reduce the hard drive space needed for validators, and the splurge will do “all the other fun stuff.”