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VC Darling Eclipse Finally Debuts Its Solana-Ethereum Blockchain Hybrid

[Nov 7 2:00 PM] Eclipse raised more than $50 million from investors but has been marred by controversy over the past year.

Is Optimism's 'Superchain' Winning the Ethereum Layer-2 Race?

[Nov 6 11:00 AM] One of the biggest trends of 2023 among the leading layer-2 projects on Ethereum was the emergence of “blockchain in a box,” where the teams encouraged developers to clone their code to spin up new layer 2s. Now, it appears, one project in…

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Aims to Make BTC a Programmable Asset With ZK Proofs, Raises $14M Series A

[Oct 31 1:00 PM] The goal of allowing greater utility on the Bitcoin blockchain is one of almost existential importance, according to Citrea

Kraken Picked Optimism's 'Superchain' After Getting a Pile of OP Tokens

[Oct 29 1:45 PM] Crypto exchange Kraken announced last week that it will build a layer-2 network atop Optimism's OP Stack blockchain framework. CoinDesk is first to report that the deal was reached early this year, involving a grant of 25 million OP tokens, at the…

Astria, Project to Decentralize Crucial Blockchain 'Sequencers,' Goes Live With Main Network

[Oct 28 4:30 PM]

Kraken Picks Optimism for New Layer-2 Network, Joining Coinbase's Base on 'Superchain'

[Oct 24 1:26 PM] The disclosure comes nearly a year after CoinDesk broke the news that Kraken was considering its own layer-2 network, following the runaway success enjoyed by Base after it launched in mid-2023.

Coinbase-backed Base to improve decentralization with fault proofs

[Oct 24 9:43 AM] Base will implement fault proofs on the mainnet twice as fast as Optimism, which took about six months to upgrade the system from testnet to mainnet.

Uniswap Developer Unveils Own Layer-2 Network, Unichain, Built on Optimism Tech

[Oct 10 1:00 PM] The news is in line with the ongoing trend that's hit the Ethereum scaling world since the end of 2023: giant and familiar crypto exchanges launching their own layer-2 networks.

Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys BitVM-Based Bridge 'Clementine' on Testnet

[Sep 24 2:00 PM]

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Amps Up Pressure on Layer-2 Networks to Decentralize Further

[Sep 12 4:59 PM] In 2022, Buterin proposed a set of stages for rollups, to classify them in their pursuit of decentralization. The criteria is meant to showcase that rollups tend to rely on “training wheels” and deploy their protocols to users before it's ready to…

Vitalik: L2s that aren’t at least ‘stage 1’ are dead to me

[Sep 12 5:36 AM] The Ethereum co-founder said it was “stage 1 or bust” for his acceptance of a layer-2 project’s decentralization progress.

Bitcoin Rollups - The Rock Or The Hard Place?

[Sep 9 4:13 PM] Rollups have become the narrative focus of scaling Bitcoin lately, becoming the first thing to truly “steal the limelight” from the Lightning Network in terms of wider mindshare. Rollups aim to be an off-chain layer two that is not bound or…

Polygon Begins Token Swap, in Move to Allow More Issuance

[Sep 4 8:00 AM] The migration from POL to MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2%.

Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC

[Sep 3 9:08 PM] The migration from POL to MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2%.

Rollups Are ‘Copies of the EVM,’ Not True Scaling Solutions, Says Developer

[Sep 1 11:30 AM] According to Adrian Brink, co-founder of Anoma and Namada, rollups offer little new functionality beyond the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). He argues they are essentially execution-sharding solutions presented as true scaling solutions. Brink…

Optimism Pushes for 'Interoperability' Between Affiliated Blockchains

[Aug 12 4:00 PM] Optimism networks that are part of the Superchain rely on Ethereum to communicate with each other in order to move assets, which tends to make such moves slow and expensive. To address that, Optimism is releasing its own interoperability roadmap.

Ethereum's future rests on 10,000 blockchains

[Jul 24 12:11 PM] Ethereum layer-2s are proliferating, which means Ethereum will start looking like a much better prospect for new projects in the year ahead.

Bitcoin Blockspace: Dynamics of System Resource Use

[Jun 21 10:04 AM] Competition for blockspace is and always will be one of the core tensions that exist between different users of the Bitcoin protocol. At the end of the day there are only two restrictions on how it will be used, the technical and consensus layer of…

Optimism Finally Gets Its Mission-Critical 'Fault Proofs'

[Jun 10 2:00 PM] For years, Optimism was missing a core feature at the heart of its design: "Fault proofs." On Monday, that tech is finally here.

Layer-2 Network Starknet Gets Ethereum Virtual Machine With Zero-Knowledge Proofs

[May 22 7:00 AM] The zkEVM, called Kakarot, already in testing, will be available via the Starknet Stack.

Hack of a single multisig wallet could drain 12 Ethereum L2s of $121M

[May 21 7:48 PM] One wallet has upgrade permissions for 12 Ethereum scaling networks, but Conduit founder Andrew Huang says it can’t transact without three signatures which would take a trio of physical attacks.

Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots

[Apr 18 1:38 PM] Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”

Worldcoin, Sam Altman's Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain

[Apr 17 9:00 AM] The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains.

Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet

[Apr 15 8:00 PM] The news about X Layer comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.

Venture Firm A16z Releases Jolt, a 'Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machine'

[Apr 9 10:00 AM] The release is the product of a16z's first foray into deep tech research.

Espresso Systems Raises $28M in Fresh Funds, Led By A16z Crypto

[Mar 21 10:00 AM] The leading shared sequencer firm said it would further invest in its products as well as additional hires.

Optimism Finally Starts Testing 'Fault Proofs' at Heart of Design – and of Criticism

[Mar 19 10:40 AM] A version of the new proof system, which will help secure withdrawals from Optimism and other networks based on its tech, will be deployed to Ethereum's Sepolia test network on Tuesday.

BNB Chain Launches Rollup-as-a-Service to Bolster L2 Blockchain Development

[Mar 14 12:30 PM] On Thursday, the team behind BNB Chain introduced a novel Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering for the development of layer two blockchains (L2s) atop the BNB Chain. The team detailed that the service equips sizable decentralized applications…

Ethereum Staking Protocol Swell Unveils Layer-2 Rollup With $1B Total Value Locked

[Mar 13 9:16 AM] Swell developed the rollup alongside Ethereum scaler AltLayer and a16z-backed crypto-staking project EigenLayer.

Ethereum Finalizes 'Dencun' Upgrade, in Landmark Move to Reduce Data Fees

[Mar 13 7:58 AM] A key element of the upgrade is to enable a new place for storing data on the blockchain – referred to as "proto-danksharding," which gives room for a dedicated space that is separate from regular transactions, and at a lower cost.