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Bitcoin Layer 2 Protocol Stacks Achieves New High in Smart Contract Deployments
9.9.2024
Stacks, the Bitcoin Layer-2 protocol, has achieved a new high in smart contract deployments, with a 30% month-over-month increase. This growth reflects the ongoing efforts of developers to enhance the Bitcoin ecosystem, making Bitcoin a more productive network. The increase in deployments...
Co-Creator of Ethereum thrilled with layer 2 protocol OP mainnet
12.6.2024
The Co-Creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, is thrilled with layer 2 protocol OP mainnet and considers it a significant landmark. He used the occasion to showcase the many success stories of Ethereum’s upgrading services. OP Labs, the firm responsible for building the Optimism protocol,...
Ethereum Layer-2 Protocol Starknet Sheds Light On What Caused 4-Hour Block Outage
5.4.2024
Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, Starknet, is giving insight into why the protocol experienced an estimated four hour outage on April 4. The Block outage marks the latest in a challenging year for the protocol ahead of the April launch of its STRK coin.
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Blast’s TVL is Fast-Approaching $2 Billion – Check Eligibility for the Airdrop Here
23.2.2024
Ethereum Layer 2 protocol BLAST is nearing $2 billion in TLV ahead of its mainnet launch at the end of the month. Notably, commenters argue that the protocol – created by the BLUR team – already has an entire ecosystem ready to go, while the community and developers are eagerly awaiting the Blast...
Study: Only 6% of Crypto Exchanges Integrated the Lightning Network
3.1.2024
A new research study has partly attributed the growth in the use of bitcoin “as a transactional layer” to the increased number of crypto platforms that have joined the Lightning Network ecosystem. The study however found that just over 6% of centralized crypto exchanges have...
Shibarium transaction touches peak milestone, Cardano (ADA) and InQubeta (QUBE) Gaining Massive Momentum
22.12.2023
The world of cryptocurrencies is always on the move, with every project trying to outdo each other in terms of innovation and growth. Just recently, Shibarium, which is the Layer 2 protocol of Shiba Inu, turned heads by handling over 100 million transactions. At the same time, there are other...
What is Stacks? An Introduction to the Popular Bitcoin Layer-2 Protocol
20.3.2023
Stacks has been making waves since the start of the year as Bitcoin Ordinals brought attention to Bitcoin NFTs, which already exist on the Stacks blockchain as layer-2 NFTs, thus creating a surge in demand for STX and increasing trading volumes among Stacks-based NFTs.
In this guide, we look...
Crypto Market February Roundup: Bitcoin Layer 2 Protocol Stacks, Ethereum Staking Derivative Tokens Surge
1.3.2023
Stacks’s STX token was the biggest winner among 160 assets in the CoinDesk Market Index, soaring 216% during the month
DeFi Firms Iron Bank, Yearn Finance Join Layer 2 Protocol Optimism
16.8.2022
Developers of the DeFi protocols said that layer 2 networks offer improved security and capital efficiency for users
Ethereum Layer 2 Protocol Metis to Host dApp Creation Hackathon on October 2021
28.9.2021
Metis, an Ethereum Layer-2 rollup platform promising low gas fees, quick transactions, native storage, and high security, has confirmed that it will hold a hackathon event beginning in early October. The project addresses Ethereum’s most critical challenges, including simplicity, speed...
Lightning Network Exploits Continue to Hinder the Bitcoin Scaling Solution
1.11.2020
While bitcoin has run-up to all new price highs in 2020, a great number of crypto supporters have been complaining about the mempool backlog and the high fees needed to send a transaction. Meanwhile, the Lightning Network is far from seeing widespread adoption, and a number of attack vectors have...