The number of gold vending machines in GS Retail Co.'s convenience stores is six times that of 2022.

Goldman Sachs (GS) said in a report on Thursday that Ethereum's Dencun upgrade could take place in the first quarter of 2024, the next step for blockchain to become a scalable settlement layer. The main impact of the Dencun upgrade will be to improve the availability of data aggregated at Tier 2 through raw risk sharding, thereby reducing aggregated transaction costs and passing them on to end users. As reported earlier, Ethereum client developers confirmed on Thursday that the expected Dencun upgrade will not be implemented in a network hard fork before the end of 2023.

PANews news on June 6, according to Coindesk, Goldman Sachs (GS) said in a report that the number of Bitcoins held on exchanges fell by 12% in May, and the supply of Ethereum increased slightly. The bank said network congestion on the bitcoin and ethereum blockchains was a factor in May, which led to a 13.8% and 16.7% drop in monthly address activity for bitcoin and ethereum, respectively. The report added that Bitcoin’s average average hash rate continued to break new all-time highs in May, increasing by 5.4% for the month, while miner revenue increased by 16.4%.