2024-11-7 14:00 |
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. origin »
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Key Takeaways: The Ethereum Layer-2 ecosystem has grown at a feverish pace, with the total value locked currently over $51. 5 billion as of November 2024, up 205% from last year. While L2 addresses Ethereum’s scalability issues, centralization remains an issue, calling for more decentralized solutions.
2024-12-9 09:40 | |
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Neel Somani, founder of Eclipse, which builds a layer-2 blockchain for Ethereum, said sexual misconduct allegations circulating against him on X were "false."
2024-5-10 01:10 | |
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Blast, a newly introduced Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 network promising “native yield” on ETH and stablecoin holdings, swiftly secured the position of the third-largest holder of staked ether in just three days post-launch, according to on-chain data.
2023-11-24 03:00 | |
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Fuel Labs, which is building permissionless and trustless layer-2 protocols for Ethereum, today announced $1. 5M USD of support led by blockchain-focused investment firm CoinFund. Other participants include Fenbushi Capital and Origin Capital.
2021-9-22 16:23 | |
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Why does Ethereum need Layer-2? Ethereum’s network fees stink right now, and let’s face it, Ethereum has a gas problem. Though Ethereum 2. 0 is years in the making and Beacon Chain has launched, the protocol has not grown fast enough to keep pace with its popularity.
2021-1-10 13:06 | |
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As the entire crypto market has slingshotted higher over the past day, the Ethereum network has become congested. The post Layer-2 scaling project Loopring (LRC) shoots over 50% higher amid Ethereum network congestion appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-1-6 23:27 | |
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On Dec. 3, the venture subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Genesis Block Ventures (GBV) announced that it would be taking over the Ethereum-based Plasma scaling platform OMG Network. Formerly known as OmiseGO, the project is a trustless, non-custodial, Layer-2 scaling solution for transferring value on Ethereum.
2020-12-7 09:54 | |
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A port of the Uniswap exchange has been launched, not to leech liquidity like those before it, but to provide scaling solutions for faster and cheaper transactions and token swaps. Ethereum scaling solutions provider Offchain Labs has announced its own port of Uniswap called Arbiswap which demonstrates Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions for the world’s […] The post Layer-2 Uniswap Port Launched to Quell Rising Gas Costs appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-11-6 10:29 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase has recently implemented a Layer-2 (L2) scaling solution to enable faster and cheaper Ethereum transactions from its wallets as the technology starts to get rolled out on a wider scale.
2020-10-15 08:33 | |
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It’s been quite the year for DeFi.
The post Responding to 1,000%+ spike in Ethereum fees, Synthetix is testing layer-2 tech appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-9-26 04:00 | |
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Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer in the world, is planning to add support for ZK-Rollups, a Layer-2 solution that would reduce the pressure on the Ethereum network.
2020-9-2 23:10 | |
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Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin and the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap announced Thursday its shift to the OMG Network for faster transactions and scalability. Tether Shifts to OMG As per a release, Tether said that after its shift to the OMG Network, a trustless, non-custodial, Layer-2 scaling solution for transferring value on Ethereum, theRead MoreRead More.
2020-8-20 15:00 | |
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After seven months, a Zero-Knowledge Proof Optimistic Rollup (Zkopru) implementation for Ethereum is ready for testing as per the latest update on July 19, 2020. The Layer-2 fraud-proof solution not only introduces privacy to ether, ERC-20, and ERC-721 transactions but also supports private atomic swaps.
2020-7-21 23:07 | |
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Blockchain entrepreneur Tyler Smith tweeted this week on how the protocol is primed to see widespread technological progress this year; led by DeFi and layer-2 tech. dApps to Bolster ETH Tech Smith’s viral tweet talked about the various implementations and technical specifications coming to the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency in the next “6 to 12 months.
2020-7-9 15:07 | |
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A new layer-2 application running on Ethereum promises to bring scalability to the network, even touting “VISA level” transactional volume once deployed. Addressing Ethereum Scalability Developed by Matter Labs, zkSync launched its beta product on the Ethereum mainnet on June 18, as announced via an official blog.
2020-6-19 15:07 | |
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Injective Protocol, a layer-2 protocol based on Cosmos SDK and Ethereum, today announced a strategic partnership with WOOTRADE, a crypto-asset dark pool, to combine resources to focus on increasing user adoption in the decentralized exchange (DEX) space.
2020-6-12 12:13 | |
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Ethereum is on the move in terms of development and price with the recent successful deployment of a number of layer-2 (L2) scaling solutions. Scaling has long been an issue that has plagued the Ethereum ecosystem; however, that has not stopped developers rolling out new solutions and platforms for it.
2020-6-2 09:45 | |
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Celer Network, a layer-2 scaling platform, today announced the launch of its layer-2 state channel mainnet upgrade, Lyra, on Ethereum. Celer has open-sourced the state channel network’s full node code.
2020-2-13 22:24 | |
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Hxro, an alternative crypto trading and gaming platform, recently announced it will integrate Matic Network (MATIC), an Ethereum scaling solution. Matic provides an Ethereum based layer-2 solution for faster transaction confirmations at significantly lower fees.
2020-1-21 19:36 | |
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Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds.
2019-12-6 17:00 | |
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Aventus has announced the release of Aventus Classic, a decentralized open-source protocol for the ticketing industry. With a transaction speed of 100 tickets per second on a public blockchain, the project seeks to establish a new standard for the exchange of tickets without relying on layer-2 solutions.
2019-9-14 22:37 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Celer, the third token to be launched on Binance’s Launchpad, has announced the launch of their mainnet – Cygnus, which marks the launch of the world’s first Generalized State Channel Network, starting from Ethereum.
2019-7-9 12:00 | |
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Celer Network, the layer-2 blockchain scaling platform, today announced a strategic partnership with MakerDAO, the creator of Dai, the first decentralized stablecoin based on the Ethereum blockchain, to bring Dai stable tokens to Celer’s layer-2 scaling platform.
2019-7-9 23:57 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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BTC Lightning to ERC20 Atomic Swap TenX showed a live demo where of their Comit protocol where they swapped a non-native asset to an asset on a layer-2 network on both mainnets. In particular, they swapped 10 PAY tokens on Ethereum for 71240 Satoshi on the Lightning Network using COMIT.
2018-12-13 04:29 | |
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MixMarvel and Tenfold Protocol have joined forces to apply Tenfold’s layer-2 blockchain scalability solutions to “HyperDragons,” a strategy game built on the Ethereum network, in a move that will allow expanded gameplay and decreased transaction costs.
2018-9-19 07:00 | |
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One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).
2018-8-28 04:03 | |
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AED Coin — не просто очередная криптовалюта. Этот стейблкоин, поддерживаемый дирхамом, который будет удобным и безопасным инструментом для всех: от рядовых пользователей до крупных компаний. По словам разработчиков, AED Coin откроет доступ к электронным платежам, трансграничным переводам и даже децентрализованным финансам.
The fund snapped up COIN at an average price of $70.5 in the third quarter, achieving a 40% profit from investment.
Cathie Wood’s fund is continuing to sell crypto-related stocks as the market hits a high not seen since early 2022.
ARK currently owns 11.03 million shares of Coinbase.
Meanwhile, financial services firm Berenberg Capital told Cointelegraph that it viewed Coinbase shares as "uninvestable" in the near term.
Before this sale, ARK Invest owned 9.9 million shares of the crypto exchange worth $575 million.