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Ethereum’s Next Upgrade ‘Fusaka’ Could Cut Layer-2 and Validator Costs
12.5.2025
Developers have thus far agreed to include one technical change, "PeerDAS," designed to improve data availability
Are layer 2s good for Ethereum, or are they ‘extractive?’
8.5.2025
Layer 2s have been a great blockchain success story. They’ve reduced congestion on the Ethereum mainnet, driving down gas fees while preserving security.But maybe they’ve become too successful, drawing chain activity and fee income from the parent that spawned them? At least...
Are layer 2s good for Ethereum, or are they ‘extractive?’
8.5.2025
Layer 2s have been a great blockchain success story. They’ve reduced congestion on the Ethereum mainnet, driving down gas fees while preserving security.But maybe they’ve become too successful, drawing chain activity and fee income from the parent that spawned them? At least...
Are layer 2s good for Ethereum, or are they ‘extractive?’
8.5.2025
Layer 2s have been a great blockchain success story. They’ve reduced congestion on the Ethereum mainnet, driving down gas fees while preserving security.But maybe they’ve become too successful, drawing chain activity and fee income from the parent that spawned them? At least...
Stacks' STX Is Week's Best Performer as Bitgo Link Seen Boosting Institutional Use
25.4.2025
The Stacks-based DeFi ecosystem has seen a significant increase in liquidity, with stablecoin supply surging over 400% in the first quarter
Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys Bridge to Tackle Collateral Bottleneck of Using BTC in DeFi
23.4.2025
Citrea deployed its Clementine Bridge on the Bitcoin testnet, using programming language BitVM2
The Protocol: EigenLayer Ready to Launch Missing Feature
9.4.2025
Also: Bitcoin L2 SDKs; North Korea's THORChain Use; and Quantum-Resistant BTC
Rootstock Prepares to Release SDKs for Bitcoin Layer 2s Using BitVMX
8.4.2025
Rootstock founder Sergio Lerner sees Bitcoin layers-2s as fundamental to BTC fulfilling its purpose of being "money for the people"
The fallacy of scalability — why layer 2s won’t save crypto
20.3.2025
Opinion by: Dan Hughes, founder of Radix Crypto has spent years betting on layer-2 (L2) solutions as its magic bullet for fixing issues with scalability. What if they’re the very thing putting us at risk?Instead of paving the way for mass adoption, this fixation has created a tangled...
Brevan Howard Digital Deploys $20M on Ethereum-Based Kinto in Institutional DeFi Push
17.2.2025
The investment enables participation in Kinto’s mining program, which rewards asset deposits on the chain with token emission
Could 'Based Rollups' Solve Ethereum's Layer-2 Problem?
12.2.2025
As layer-2 chains continue to proliferate, some Ethereum developers are pushing rollup tech that takes a new approach to interoperability: “based rollups.”
Uniswap Labs Officially Launches Layer-2 ‘Unichain’
11.2.2025
Powered by Optimism's OP stack, Unichain—like other layer-2s on Ethereum—offers faster and cheaper transactions compared to Ethereum's mainnet
Ethereum Layer-2 Protocols Achieve Record Transaction Throughput
23.1.2025
Layer 2 protocols are faster than ever in processing transactions, according to data source growthepie.xyz
Ethereum L2s Are About to Hit a Brick Wall: Polynomial Protocol Founder
20.1.2025
Sustained demand for Layer 2s could quickly deplete the available blob capacity. The impending Pectra upgrade only kicks the can down the road, Polynomial's co-founder said
Blockchain Fragmentation Is a Major Problem That Must Be Addressed in 2025
31.12.2024
For true interoperability to exist, we have to take a step back and re-approach blockchain modularity from a fresh perspective
Ethereum layer 2s hold $13.5B stablecoin supply
20.12.2024
Ethereum layer-2 networks now lock over $13.5 billion in stablecoins, driving total market capitalization to $205 billion
Ethereum layer 2s hold $13.5B stablecoin supply
20.12.2024
Ethereum layer-2 networks now lock over $13.5 billion in stablecoins, driving total market capitalization to $205 billion
Ethereum layer 2s hold $13.5B stablecoin supply
20.12.2024
Ethereum layer-2 networks now lock over $13.5 billion in stablecoins, driving total market capitalization to $205 billion
Ethereum layer 2s hold $13.5B stablecoin supply
20.12.2024
Ethereum layer-2 networks now lock over $13.5 billion in stablecoins, driving total market capitalization to $205 billion
Ethereum layer 2s hold $13.5B stablecoin supply
20.12.2024
Ethereum layer-2 networks now lock over $13.5 billion in stablecoins, driving total market capitalization to $205 billion