Should Optimism (OP) Airdrop Sellers be Penalized in Future Rounds? Community is Divided

Soon after the Ethereum layer 2 network scaling solution Optimism (OP) went live on exchanges, community members proposed new rules for future airdrops. The post Should Optimism (OP) Airdrop Sellers be Penalized in Future Rounds? Community is Divided appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Balancer Goes Live on Ethereum Layer 2 Network Optimism

Balancer is the latest decentralized exchange to arrive on Optimism. Balancer Comes to Optimism Balancer has launched on Optimism. The leading decentralized exchange, which currently ranks in the top five...

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Exchanges Announce Spot Trading for Ethereum’s Much-Awaited Optimism (OP); Airdrop Underway

Ethereum layer 2 network scaling solution Optimism is live on centralized exchanges under ticker OP, with the initial airdrop reportedly underway. The post Exchanges Announce Spot Trading for Ethereum’s Much-Awaited Optimism (OP); Airdrop Underway appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Ethereum Layer 2 Optimism Launches Token Airdrop

Its the first of several planned OP token airdrops. Optimism Goes Live With Airdrop Optimisms OP token is live on Ethereum. The Layer 2 scaling network launched its new token...

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This leading Polkadot DeFi project hit $1 billion in total value locked

Having recently won the third parachain auction slot and going live on the Polkadot mainnet this year, , , and all major layer 1 blockchains. The post This leading Polkadot DeFi project hit $1 billion in total value locked appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Scalability issues no more? First EVM compatible ZK Rollup live on ETH's public testnet

Ethereum's scalability issues have created a whirlwind of problems for the cryptocurrency industry, however, it has also fostered a ground for innovative ideas to overcome the same. Many layer 2 solutThe post Scalability issues no more? First EVM compatible ZK Rollup live on ETH's public testnet appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bybit Crypto Exchange Integrates Ethereum L2 Scaling Solution Arbitrum

Leading cryptocurrency exchange platform Bybit today announced its integration with Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) scaling solution Arbitrum. Bybit Goes Live on Arbitrum Bybit, one of the fastest going crypto exchanges in the world in terms of reported trading volume and user growth today announced it had successfully completed the integration with Arbitrum. For the uninitiated,Read More

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After Polygon (MATIC) and Avalanche (AVAX), Aave (AAVE) v3 Might Go Live on StarkNet

Leading Layer 2 scaling solution StarkNet may be the next platform to host flagship DeFi protocol Aave

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Syscoin smart contract chain goes live, uniting top security and decentralization

Phase 1 of the NEVM launch of Syscoin is now complete. The platform’s Bitcoin-secured Layer 1 for EVM smart contracts reached mainnet on block 1,317,500 today, Invezz learned from a press release.

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What Ethereum 2.0 Looks Like As Vitalik Buterin Celebrates Its Birthday

The Ethereum 2. 0 upgrades of the consensus layer built by multiple teams in the ecosystem promise to bring a “more scalabe, more secure, and more sustainable Ethereum”, and now Vitalik Buterin celebrates 1 year since the proof-of-stake Beacon Chain went live.

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EasyFi Lending Protocol Goes Live with Money Markets on Polygon

The universal layer 2 digital assets lending protocol, EasyFi Network has announced that it is now live with its lending protocol on Polygon. The new lending protocol went live on Nov 15, 2021 and will be initially supporting six money markets with supplying and borrowing on Polygon Network.

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Microsoft’s Decentralized Identifier Network (ION) Goes Live on the Bitcoin Network

The new framework for authenticating online identities was launched on the Bitcoin mainnet on Monday. A layer 2 technology, DID is similar to Bitcoin’s scaling solution Lightning network with the exception that instead of payments, it uses the largest blockchain to create digital IDs.

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Developers can now port their Ethereum dApps to Nervos as ‘Godwoken’ goes live

Nervos today announced that “Godwoken,” the first EVM-compatible Layer 2 blockchain in the network’s multi-layer roadmap, is now in mainnet beta. The post Developers can now port their Ethereum dApps to Nervos as ‘Godwoken’ goes live appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Chainlink Oracles Now Running Live On Arbitrum One

A key component of onboarding projects onto Arbitrum One—a fully-featured Optimistic Rollup layer 2 network that enables highly scalable and low cost smart contracts— is integrating...

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Arbitrum One Integrates Chainlink (LINK) Data Oracles

Chainlink data oracles are now running live on Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum One. Chainlink Data Oracles Integrated with Arbitrum One Arbitrum One, a fully-featured Optimistic Rollup layer 2 network that facilitates highly scalable and low-cost smart contracts is now running industry-leading Chainlink’s data oracles.

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Chainlink launches data oracles on Arbitrum One's Ethereum scaling solution

Chainlink’s data oracles are now live on Arbitrum One, with the team also planning to soon launch its Proof of Reserve and verifiable random function on the layer two.

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High Yield Farming Program Now Available on EasyFi and QuickSwap

EasyFi Network, the universal layer 2 DeFi lending protocol known for scalability, composability and adoption has announced the launch of its high yield farming program. Launched in association with QuickSwap, this one-of-a-kind LP farming and staking program went live on August 4, 2021.

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MahaDAO Picks Ethereum Layer 2 Polygon for Its Valuecoin ARTH

Indian blockchain infrastructure protocol MahaDAO is the latest to launch on a Layer 2 network, announcing its deployment on Polygon (formerly known as Matic). MahaDAO’s ARTH algorithmic stablecoin will go live on the Polygon network, a framework for building and connecting ethereum-compatible blockchain networks, on June 22.

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Ethereum Layer 2 Solution Polygon Launches SDK to Transform Ethereum Into An Internet of Blockchains

Popular Ethereum layer two scaling solution Polygon has added another milestone to its cap. Polygon said its SDK stack is now available for use on the Ethereum network in a Medium post. Polygon SDK Is Live This will see developers build Ethereum-compatible blockchains easily and seamlessly.

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Augur Launches ‘Augur Turbo’ on Polygon to Expand Sports Betting Program

Decentralized prediction market platform Augur has launched a new sportsbook, Augur Turbo, that will live on the Polygon Layer 2 network. The post Augur Launches ‘Augur Turbo’ on Polygon to Expand Sports Betting Program appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Ethereum Layer-2 Scaling Solution Arbitrum Inches Closer to Launch 

Offchain Labs has announced that its Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, Arbitrum now comes with a transaction sequencer. The team says the Arbitrum Sequencer testnet will go live on May 14, while the Arbitrum mainnet will be opened to developers on May 28, 2021.

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Largest Stablecoin, Tether (USDT), is Now Live on Ethereum Scalability Solution, Hermez Network

Tether’s stablecoin, USDT, is now live on Hermez, a scaling solution on Ethereum based on the ZK-rollup solution. Announced on Monday, the move to Ethereum Layer 2 is set to reduce the hiking gas fees, which have been rising as the DeFi and NFT space grew on the blockchain.

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Microsoft’s ION Identity Layer for Bitcoin Is Now Live

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Ethereum Layer 2 Solution, Hermez Network, Mainnet is Live; Using ZK-Rollup’s For Cheap Payments

Hermez Network, a layer 2 blockchain scaling solution on the Ethereum network, is now live on the mainnet. Hermez's launch on Ethereum hopes to solve some of the transaction bottlenecks that have plagued the network.

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ZKSwap Decentralized Exchange Live on Ethereum Layer 2

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Optimistic Ethereum Finally Soft Launches Mainnet; Synthetix (SNX) Staking Goes Live Too

To “alleviate the gas crisis,” the Layer 2 solution has taken its first big step so that small users don’t get priced out by extremely high fees. The post Optimistic Ethereum Finally Soft Launches Mainnet; Synthetix (SNX) Staking Goes Live Too first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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A Tool for Reversing Ethereum Transactions is Now Live

An Israeli government-backed tech firm, Kirobo, is repurposing its invention from Bitcoin to Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, CoinDesk reports on Nov 12.   Reversing ETH Transactions They have now built a logic layer–a Retrievable Transfer service, on the Ethereum network to protect users from human error and sending transactions to non-deposit smart contracts.

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A Live Demonstration of What Tokenization Means for Digital Finance

Coinspeaker A Live Demonstration of What Tokenization Means for Digital FinanceThe Tokenized Protocol is an open source application layer protocol that utilizes the Bitcoin SV network for passing and storing messages.

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UMA Goes Live on Coinbase.com and Apps While Loopring (LRC) Surges on Coinbase Pro Listing

The price of LRC jumped 38% on the news that Coinbase Pro was listing Loopring. The self-custodial Ethereum layer two solution, Loopring, will be supported in all of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange’s supported jurisdiction, except for New York state.

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Third Generation Exchange Network Goes Live

Hashflow, a layer 2 protocol to build and operate an emerging generation of CeFi-DeFi hybrid exchanges, launched its alpha today on Ethereum mainnet and announced...

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Tether интегрировался в сайдчейн Ethereum c «тысячами» TPS

Эмитент крупнейшего по капитализации стейбклоина Tether (USDT) заявил о поддержке сайдчейна OMG Network (ранее OmiseGO), решения по масштабированию Ethereum. We are pleased to announce that Tether (USDt) is live on the OMG Network transport layer.

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Matic Could ‘Go Nuts Again’ as the Network’s First Stage of “Staking” on Mainnet Goes Live

Among the top 100 cryptocurrencies, Matic Network was started in 2017 and its Alpha mainnet was launched at the end of June last year, which was sidechain working on the top of the Ethereum Mainnet, that allowed developers to build and test their full end-to-end applications.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3

Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.

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Sequoia-backed Band Capital launches Bitcoin binary options on Ethereum mainnet

Band Capital, the decentralized data governance startup, has announced launching the first version of Band Protocol on Ethereum Mainnet on 30 September. The now, live and operational protocol, aims “to become the universal data query layer for all future decentralized web 3.

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Is Liquid Tether a Libra Alternative or a Headache?

Tether’s (USDT) launch on the Liquid Network makes Libra obsolete even before it goes live, according to Samson Mow, chief strategy officer (CSO) at Blockstream. Liquid USDT Might Overshadow Libra At the end of July, Tether announced that it was launching on the Liquid Network sidechain, which was developed by Blockstream.

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BELDEX (BDX) Stats Live

Today BELDEX (BDX) stats have gone live for all to view. These stats are 100% accurate. Users can now see their ROI as well as additional details in the stats. Beldex is a private cryptocurrency based on Monero.

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Innisfil Becomes First City in Canada to Accept Bitcoin for Municipal Taxes

Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Influencer Shares His Side on Privacy Being the Base Layer and Scaling as a Secondary Layer

A Greek-British author, Bitcoin activist and Let’s Talk Bitcoin Host, Andreas M Antonopoulos has spoken on BTC’s scaling problems during a session on YouTube. There has been an ongoing debate on Bitcoin scalability for the past 6 years.

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Lition ICO

Lition is developing the only scalable public-private blockchain with deletable data features, made for commercial products. Designed with Lition's live P2P trading use case, and co-innovated with SAP.

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Blockstream Satellites Now Cover Asia Pacific, Send Messages With Lightning

While most crypto investors are shooting for the moon, Blockstream is focused on things a bit closer to Earth: in the outermost layer of its atmosphere, to be exact.

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RSK Merges With New RIF OS, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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RSK Merges With New RIF Labs, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live

The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.

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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins

Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.

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AT&T Dives Into Blockchain Solutions With Microsoft Azure, IBM Blockchain

Internet and phone giant AT&T has designed a set of blockchain solutions compatible with both IBM and Microsoft technology to help customers reduce risks and costs and solve other complex business problems.

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Pay From Bitcoin Mainnet to Lightning and Back: Submarine Swaps Are Now Live

In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.

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Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System

U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets.

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Kleros Blockchain ‘Justice Protocol’ Revealed As ‘Doges On Trial’ Experiment Launches

Kleros is a blockchain company that wants to create a dispute resolution layer for almost any transaction online. It recently went live with an initial version of the platform. As part of the trial period for this tech, the company launched Doges on Trial.

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