Tag: Rollups
Optimism Finally Gets Its Mission-Critical ‘Fault Proofs’
Similar "proof" technology is used by all layer-2 rollup networks, including Optimism competitors like Arbitrum. It's meant to ensure that a rollup's [...]
Layer-2 Network Starknet Gets Ethereum Virtual Machine With Zero-Knowledge Proofs
“This is a great sign of Starknet’s growth and maturity," said the CEO of StarkWare, Eli Ben-Sasson, in a statement to CoinDesk. "Starknet dared to be [...]
Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots
According to a blog post from the Avail team, 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.” Recip [...]
Worldcoin, Sam Altman's Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain
The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains.
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Crypto Exchange OKX Goes Live With New Layer-2 Chain, Following in Footsteps of Coinbase
“We envision X Layer and other layer-2 chains as the highway infrastructure of the Web3 world, with dApps as the marketplaces and self-hosted wallets [...]
Venture Firm A16z Releases Jolt, a ‘Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machine’
But that's not the only way Lazzarin thinks a16z's research initiatives can help advance the firm's bottom line. The code for Jolt has been open-sourc [...]
Espresso Systems Raises $28M in Fresh Funds, Led By A16z Crypto
“Rollups have enriched the greater Ethereum ecosystem with horizontal scalability and a diversity of execution environments, but at the expense of fra [...]
Optimism Finally Starts Testing ‘Fault Proofs’ at Heart of Design – and of Criticism
Optimism and similar rollups aim to borrow their security from Ethereum, meaning recording transactions should be tantamount to writing transactions d [...]
Swell Unveils Layer-2 Ethereum Restaking Rollup With $1B Total Value Locked
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Ethereum Activates ‘Dencun’ Upgrade, in Landmark Move to Reduce Data Fees
“Scalability is the fundamental unlock that enables permissionless collaboration between developers across projects and teams,” said Karl Floersch to [...]
Ethereum Preps Dencun Upgrade as Layer-2 Blockchains Starknet, Polygon Eye Lower Fees
“Scalability is the fundamental unlock that enables permissionless collaboration between developers across projects and teams," said Karl Floersch, CE [...]
The Dencun Upgrade Marks the Dawn of ‘The Surge’ Era”
As we look ahead, in addition to ether, other high beta names in Layer 2 are also poised to benefit from the Dencun upgrade. Layer 2 networks like Arb [...]
Polygon Labs, StarkWare Unveil New ZK Proof Collaboration, Just Days After STRK Airdrop
“This really is coming to play in Plonky3, which is our new proving system,” Brendan Farmer, co-founder of Polygon, said in an interview with CoinDesk [...]
Polygon Labs, Developer of Layer-2 Networks, Releases ‘Type 1 Prover’ Said to Bring Ethereum Equivalence
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, has previously written about the different types of provers, arguing that the benefit a Ty [...]
Ethereum Developers Target March 13 for Milestone 'Dencun' Upgrade on Mainnet
The timing for the long-awaited Dencun upgrade, with its much-touted "proto-danksharding" feature, was announced Thursday on a call with top developer [...]