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Eclipse Labs CEO Steps Down After Sexual Misconduct Allegations Surface
10.5.2024
Eclipse Labs founder and CEO Neel Somani has decided to reduce his public role within the company temporarily amid allegations of sexual misconduct, asserting his innocence and readiness to defend his reputation on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Eclipse Labs, aiming...
Van Eck Analysts Foresee $1 Trillion Market Cap for Ethereum’s Layer Twos by 2030
4.4.2024
Van Eck analysts predict that Ethereum’s Layer two (L2) scaling solutions will reach a $1 trillion market cap within six years, fueled by the need to overcome Ethereum’s limitations in processing capacity, data storage, and computation. Despite acknowledging the potential...
Vitalik Buterin Explores Blobs and Parallelization in L2 Rollup Analysis
29.3.2024
In a recent deep dive into Ethereum’s future scalability and infrastructure, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin discusses the latest introduction of blobs and their significant role in the evolution of layer two (L2) rollups. This pivotal development marks a transition towards more efficient...
Optimism Foundation Executes $89 Million OP Private Token Transaction
8.3.2024
The Optimism Foundation recently sold approximately 19.5 million OP tokens, valued at nearly $90 million, to an unnamed buyer, with these tokens being sourced from the unallocated segment of their OP Token treasury initially set aside as working capital. This sale is part of the foundation’s...
Vitalik Buterin Debates Over Blockchain Scaling Terminology
18.1.2024
Amid the rapidly evolving Ethereum ecosystem, Vitalik Buterin has rejoined the debate on the classification of layer-two scaling solutions, putting the spotlight on the security and scalability trade-offs between rollups and validiums. Vitalik Buterin Weighs in on Ethereum Layer-Two Inclusion...
Starkware Plans to Open Source Key Tech Linked to Starknet Prover
6.2.2023
At the Starkware Sessions 2023 event, held at the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel, Starkware co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson informed the audience that the company intends to open source “key tech” linked to the Starknet Prover. During the event, the co-founder of the Ethereum scaling...
Matter Labs raises $50M to build EVM-compatible zk-rollups
9.11.2021
The funding will be used to further develop zkSync v2, which is currently live on testnet
Ethereum layer-twos reportedly processing more transactions than BTC
7.9.2021
With an average gas cost of $40, it is no surprise that layer-two platforms are surging in terms of usage
Smart Contract Blockchains Are Struggling to Scale
17.10.2019
Second generation blockchains were presented as being faster, cheaper, and more scalable than Bitcoin. Third generation chains (basically anything that came after Ethereum) promised even greater optimizations. In the event, these networks have run into the same difficulties as Bitcoin, with...