2023-9-22 18:45 |
Explosive Ethereum growth is on the way, with layer 2s like Arbitrum, Optimism and now Base paving the way, Michael Nadeau of The DeFi Report writes. origin »
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Intro Based on our investigation, the best way to get the most of your crypto assets is to connect them to L2 (Layer 2 network). This way, you will have lower transaction fees, higher throughput, and a better user experience in general.
2022-4-28 18:57 | |
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FediMint could provide the Bitcoin stack with an open source, distributed, censorship resistant custody layer for less technical Bitcoin users.
2022-4-16 05:00 | |
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To democratize science through decentralized science would allow for a new kind of interface layer for a modern Scientific Revolution.
2022-4-4 14:07 | |
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Arbitrum One core network has now been fully integrated by Binance, the cryptocurrency firm announced earlier today. This has paved the way for Ether withdrawals on Arbitrum One Layer 2, which is a scThe post Binance integrates Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution, Arbitrum One appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-11-20 07:30 | |
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Ethereum layer 2 scaling solutions aggregator Polygon has announced another way to get faster and cheaper transactions on the world’s most-used smart contract network. The post Polygon Turbo Charges Scaling Efforts With New zk-Rollup Launch appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-11-17 13:17 | |
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The interesting thing about disruptive technology is you don’t know that it’s disruptive until it has caused a major shift in the way we use, automate, bank, and conduct our daily business as consumers.
2021-11-11 15:31 | |
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In a time of many new crypto coins, platforms, and contracts, Polygon is starting to pave a way and rise to the throne of Ethereum layer 2s. Polygon, formerly known as the Matic Network, is a scaling solution that aims to provide multiple tools to improve the speed and reduce the cost and complexities of transactions on blockchain networks.
2021-11-10 04:43 | |
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Blockchain technology has come a long way from its initial inception in 2008 with the introduction of Bitcoin. Since then, distributed technology has transitioned from strictly financial use cases to being implemented in industries such as the art, medical, and logistics industries, with the list of industries growing daily. At the current rate that blockchainRead More
2021-10-21 10:00 | |
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Bitcoin traders have found a way to use the recently launch Chivo App, the countries own BTC wallet, by El Salvador’s government to make a profit. As part of their BTC Law, this app operates with the second layer payment solution lightning network.
2021-10-19 02:46 | |
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Almost two years ago, in June 2019, the Matic Network integrated with Chainlink to enable decentralized oracles on its Layer 2 sidechain network. At that time, this development brought decent gaiThe post Will MATIC and Chainlink falter on their way to all-time-highs, because of this appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-29 16:00 | |
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The Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s Layer 2 solution for fast and cheap transactions, has been a rather fascinating project, especially after its significant adoption in El Salvador for payments. PropoThe post What you should know about 'this smart way of using Bitcoin' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-7-17 01:30 | |
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Ethereum-based layer 2 protocol Metis DAO has launched its first network testnet, paving the way for new developments within its ecosystem. The blockchain platform also revealed its new ecosystem development program, designed to help companies build products by leveraging blockchain technology.
2021-6-17 17:00 | |
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The Umbria governance token (UMBR) has been added to Polygon’s token mapper paving the way for key Umbria DeFi developments on Layer 2. Umbria Network...
2021-4-27 09:18 | |
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With an upcoming public sale on Polkastarter and a recently launched DEX, e-Money is an innovative addition to the Cosmos ecosystem. With international money transfers remaining expensive, opaque, and drawn out processes, the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a faster, more transparent method of cross-border payments promised to improve the way the world sends and receives money.
2021-1-12 18:24 | |
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"Ethereum is on the way to becoming a whale chain," said Gnosis co-founder Stefan George. That's why his team's tech is moving to xDai.
2020-9-18 19:10 | |
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Layer two scaling solutions have been accepted as the way forward by blockchain developers at large. Putting decentralization at risk by attempting to scale the base layer is a trade-off that doesn’t make sense for this technology.
2019-12-7 00:00 | |
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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.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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A new oracle is in town, and it’s brought a few friends with it. Band Protocol has integrated financial data from CoinGecko, DeSquare, Woodstock Fund and a staking pool in China to its oracles feed.
2019-10-24 17:16 | |
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In this video interview, Bitrefill CCO John Carvalho talks about Lightning Network adoption, building Bitcoin’s Layer 3 and supporting small blocks. The post John Carvalho on Lightning and Bitcoin’s Layer 3: ‘We’re Thinking Way Ahead’ appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-24 00:03 | |
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Swedish company Yubico has announced that its hardware security keys can now be used to login to a local Windows OS account. The feature, which underwent extensive testing over the past six months, lets you add a second layer of authentication to your Windows accounts, by plugging a USB key into your PC.
2019-10-18 08:32 | |
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Covering consumer tech is always great fun. From phones to semiconductors, innovation happens at a breakneck pace. Each day, I get to see the world change in a subtle but profound way. But the most intriguing products are seldom those with a mass-market appeal.
2019-9-9 23:34 | |
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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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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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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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The beauty of blockchain is that it’s steadily making its way through communities and now seeking to engage 1. 7 Billion unbanked productive individuals through making funds accessible to micro, small and medium enterprises.
2019-5-7 15:45 | |
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The rivalry between Ethereum and EOS has been inevitable from the start. The idea behind EOS was to outstrip Ethereum, in one way or another. EOS aims to become a solid foundation layer for developing dapps and, at the same time, promises to solve the issues Ethereum has been struggling with.
2019-4-5 16:29 | |
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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.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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After obtaining your first bitcoins on an exchange, you’ll want to keep them safe, even if the funds are only sitting there temporarily. One way to keep your crypto secure online is by using two-factor authentication (2FA).
2019-1-27 20:40 | |
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Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. In previous Hard Fork basics articles we’ve mentioned something called “blockchain layers.
2019-1-24 15:01 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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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.
2019-1-13 14:03 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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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.
2018-12-18 00:31 | |
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INTRODUCTION We want to build an exchange website known as Bittrader where many coins will be listed and the main pair will be the TRD Coin. Similar to Binance, some of the notable features of Bittrader include strong security, privacy, and untraceable features.
2018-12-11 09:03 | |
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Cura Network is a global decentralized health system comprising of entities collaborating and sharing data with each other to promote, restore or maintain health. These entities are patients, specialists, providers, and third party app developers.
2018-12-3 13:35 | |
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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.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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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.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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Ever since the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a stern warning about initial coin offerings (ICOs) in February 2018, cryptocurrency projects have had to consider different options for distributing their tokens — and funding their development.
2018-10-20 19:31 | |
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The Sylo Protocol provides confidential communication as a utility to the Sylo Confidential Communication App. The protocol acts as the confidential networking layer for the Sylo App, creating P2P connections and providing a way for users to interact and exchange data confidentially.
2018-10-14 13:46 | |
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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.
2018-9-28 00:04 | |
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London-based ONEm Communications has announced the launch of its mCoin program across Africa. Designed to be a hybrid currency, mCoin is a digital currency that can be transferred over text or through the smartphone app.
2018-9-25 21:26 | |
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Most layer 2 scaling solutions come with some less-than-ideal assumptions. SNARKs can help, but they come with some other issues. Vitalik Buterin thinks he has a way around them.
2018-9-25 23:40 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-18 19:50 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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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.
2018-8-30 22:18 | |
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Many people know bitcoin as an anonymous digital currency, one whose privacy features prime it for concealed payments in sketchy recesses of the internet’s dark web.
2018-8-29 17:33 | |
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To Mark Pascall, co-founder of BlockchainLabs New Zealand (NZ) and president of the Blockchain Association NZ, the blockchain space is more than just a new technology layer, it’s a “fundamentally different way for organizations and societies to operate.
2018-7-31 21:27 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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Binance support for Optimism network upgrade aims to improve performance and user experience. On Jan. 10, 2025, at 2:00 (UTC+8), Binance announced its support for the Optimism (OP) network upgrade and hard fork.
Layer 1 blockchain Celo (CELO) will migrate to layer 2 on 16 January 2025. The move, which has been ongoing for over a year, signals the increasing interest in L2 solutions to fight efficiency and scalability issues.
Crypto exchange Kraken announced the upcoming launch of Ink, an Ethereum layer-2 network based on the Optimism Superchain, in an Oct. 24 statement. Ink aims to empower users to trade, borrow, and lend tokens without the need for intermediaries, marking a significant shift from Kraken’s current centralized exchange model.
Coinbase’s layer-2 network Base is set to launch the fault-proof system, allowing users to independently confirm the validity of withdrawals. Ethereum-based network Base will integrate Optimism‘s fault-proof system — also known as fraud proofs — on Oct. 30, enabling users…
As of October 14, 2024, Base now dominates Layer 2 (L2) transactions, accounting for 67. 6% of total activity. Arbitrum follows with 22. 6%, and Optimism holds 9. 7%, according to data from IntoTheBlock.
Ethereum L2 network for the NFT industry, Mint Blockchain received a grant of 750,000 OP tokens ($1.35 million) from Optimism Governance in the 28th cycle of Optimism Grants. On Oct. 15, Mint Blockchain announced in an X post that Optimism(OP)…
The gap between Layer 2 networks is widening, with Base now recording nearly 40% more daily active addresses than both Arbitrum and Optimism combined. As of August 2024, Base has solidified its position as a key player in the Layer 2 space, drawing significant attention from the crypto community. The […]