Protocol Village: BNB Chain Unveils 'Rollup-as-a-Service,' to Spur Layer 2s Built on BSC
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of March 14-March 20. Source link
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The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of March 14-March 20. Source link
“Scalability is the fundamental unlock that enables permissionless collaboration between developers across projects and teams,” said Karl Floersch to CoinDesk, CEO of OP Labs, the developer firm behind the Optimism blockchain. “With EIP-4844 and Dencun, developers across the Ethereum ecosystem can more seamlessly build together. The upgrade will enable a group of loosely coordinated developers […]
Eclipse seeks to use a mix of technology from Solana, Celestia, Ethereum and RISC Zero for its proposed scaling solution – basically, speed like Solana with security provided by Ethereum. Apps built for Solana will be able to run on Eclipse with minimal changes, with SOL being the token of the realm. Source link
“The popularity and interest in ETH and SOL has increased substantially over the past few months,” Josh Deems, head of institutional business development for Figment, said in the statement. “However, it is still challenging for institutions to buy crypto and stake directly. The ETPs will contribute to an increased accessibility to staking rewards for a […]
The upgrade will provide the scaling needed to support millions of users on layer-2 blockchains, making it a more “fitting distributed database for other blockchains,” the report said. The improvements are expected to bring substantially more users into the Ethereum ecosystem and should expand the network’s total addressable market (TAM). Source link
Fees on layer 2s, designed to scale the Ethereum network, also surged, with transactions costing as much as $1 on Arbitrum, the highest since 2022, the report said. This issue has a quick fix though with the Dencun upgrade coming up next week, which is expected to lower transaction costs on layer 2s to cents. […]
With over $10 billion in inflows in less than two months, the spot bitcoin ETF is already considered the most successful product launch in ETF history, drawing widespread mainstream attention to the exciting crypto asset class. With its supply cap of 21 million tokens, bitcoin’s narrative as “digital gold” or a store of value is […]
The Taiko project, distinguished for its “based sequencing” architecture, is one of several competing for relevance among a deep field of Ethereum layer-2 networks. Source link
CORRECTION (19:08 UTC): An original version of this story misinterpreted data from DefiLlama to suggest that most of the funds in the original Blast deposit contract were withdrawn immediately after the network’s launch this week. The funds were indeed withdrawn from the Blast contract, but further analysis shows that most of the funds were just […]
The controversial layer-2 network had taken $2.3 billion in deposits since November as it prepared for launch, but within 24 hours of going live, that figure had dwindled to $650 million. Source link