Russia's Sberbank Planning To Launch DeFi Platform On Ethereum

Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, has announced it is going ahead with its plan to launch its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform on Ethereum.  According to the bank, there are plans to launch open trials for the platform as early as March 2023.

Timeline of Ethereum

Ethereum [ETH] experienced a price increase before the close of the trading session on 2 February, bringing it to its highest level in more than four months. How did traders respond to it, and how might their responses impact the future price of ETH?

Top US crypto exchange Coinbase has added the altcoin Liquid Staked Ethereum (LSETH) to its listing roadmap. Liquid Staked ETH is a new “receipt token” investors receive when they stake their Ethereum (ETH) with the Liquid Collective, a liquid staking protocol.

Digital real estate platform Roofstock announced on Friday the successful sale of a rental property in Alabama through a non-fungible token (NFT) enabled by Roofstock onChain (ROC), its Web3 subsidiary. What Happened: The transaction was settled via an NFT marketplace on the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) blockchain built by Origin Protocol.

A recent report details that Russia's largest financial institution, Sberbank, plans to launch a decentralized finance (defi) platform in May. Konstantin Klimenko, product director of Sberbank's blockchain laboratory, said that open testing will begin in March.

Ethereum price analysis shows ETH is trading at $1,663.79 after opening today's trading session at an intraday high of $1,703.03. Ethereum is trading in a horizontal trend; however, it is facing minor selling pressure and a rejection from the $1,700 resistance level.

Key Points: EigenLayer, an Ethereum restaking protocol that has yet to deploy, is raising $50 million in a Series A fundraising round, according to The Block and two persons familiar with the situation.

Ethereum gas fees have increased 13.71% in the last two weeks, with the average fee rising from $4.52 per transaction to $5.14 per transfer on Feb. 3, 2023. Despite ethereum's price seeing significant growth this year, its network's gas fees have also seen a similar increase.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) traded lower, but remained above the key $23,000 level on Friday. Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) also recorded losses, but remained above the $1,600 mark this morning.

A red-hot Ethereum (ETH) scaling solution printed a fresh all-time high on Thursday after a new protocol upgrade proposal. Optimism (OP) reached a peak of $3.10 on Thursday, the token's new all-time high (ATH). OP has since retraced to $2.

According to Wu Blockchain: "The burning amount of Ethereum reached 3040 on February 2, reaching a new high since November 10 last year. The main burning sources are Uniswap and OpenSea.