Tag: Zero knowledge
Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain
“A big problem with Ethereum right now is that for a block to be considered finalized, it generally takes 12 to 19 minutes,” Farmer said. “If you're m [...]
Ethereum’s ENS Identity System Set to Launch Own Layer-2 Blockchain
ENS’ decision to go ahead with ENSv2 follows a series of other announcements of major crypto firms coming out with their own layer-2 projects. Recentl [...]
Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys BitVM-Based Bridge ‘Clementine’ on Testnet
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Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography
“Fabric’s VPUs can accelerate the timeline for wider adoption of zero-knowledge technology from three to five years to six to 12 months,” Polygon co-f [...]
Solving Fragmentation Is Next Blockchain Race as Layer 2s Multiply, ZKsync Developer Says
Solving Fragmentation Is Next Blockchain Race as Layer 2s Multiply, ZKsync Developer Says
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Investment Firm Lemniscap Raises $70M Fund Targeting Early Stage Web3 Projects
Lemniscap is targeting zero-knowledge infrastructure, consumer applications and decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN).
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Pi Squared, Building 'Universal ZK Circuit', Raises $12.5M
The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote c [...]
ZKsync Airdrop of ‘ZK’ Token Puts Initial Market Cap Near $900M
The ZK token opened at $0.31 and is down about 21% since then, trading at $0.24 at the time of writing, according to CoinGecko. The market capitalizat [...]
Another Episode in the Layer-2 Teams Drama
This isn’t the first time that Matter Labs has found itself in hot water with its competitors. In August 2023, the Polygon team went on a media blitz [...]
Polygon Acquires Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Firm Toposware
“Toposware joining Polygon Labs signals our continued commitment to building the world’s best ZK research and development team,” said Marc Boiron, the [...]
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 [...]
ZkSync, Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Hints at Airdrop By End of June
ZkSync is a layer-2 network designed to scale Ethereum, providing cheaper transactions by performing computation and storing data off-chain; taxonomic [...]
Thiel-Backed Cryptography Startup Lagrange Raises $13M
As EigenLayer continues to build out its core technology, Lagrange will have "a set of operators from very, very reputable groups that run our infrast [...]
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 [...]