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Avalon Labs Launches Institutional Layer on Bybit to Enhance Bitcoin Lending and Yield
15.4.2025
Avalon Labs has launched its institutional layer on Bybit, aimed at transforming bitcoin lending and yield opportunities within the centralized exchange ecosystem. This new feature allows bitcoin holders to access enhanced yield by leveraging Avalon’s fixed-rate institutional borrowing layer...
Vitalik Buterin says the app layer needs ‘good social philosophy’ most
14.4.2025
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argues it’s Ethereum’s application layer, not its infrastructure layer, where Ethereum needs “good social philosophy” the most. The app layer is where developers build decentralized applications on top of Ethereum’s base...
Cosmos launches Eureka to connect Ethereum and IBC networks
10.4.2025
Cosmos, a blockchain network aiming to become the “internet of blockchains,” has launched Eureka, an interoperability layer designed to link its inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol with Ethereum.According to an April 10 announcement, Eureka has expanded the Cosmos...
Cosmos launches Eureka to connect Ethereum and IBC networks
10.4.2025
Cosmos, a blockchain network aiming to become the “internet of blockchains,” has launched Eureka, an interoperability layer designed to link its inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol with Ethereum.According to an April 10 announcement, Eureka has expanded the Cosmos...
Babylon, Which Has Over $4B BTC Locked, Launches Layer 1 'Genesis' to Advance Its BTC Yield Platform
10.4.2025
With more value tied up in BTC than every other cryptocurrency in existence combined, Babylon is aiming to channel this into the wider crypto ecosystem
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"
Greedy L2s are the reason ETH is a 'completely dead' investment: VC
29.3.2025
Ether's (ETH) declining appeal as an investment comes from layer-2’s draining value from the main network and a lack of community pushback on excessive token creation, a crypto venture capitalist says.“The #1 cause of this is greedy Eth L2s siphoning value from the L1 and the social...
Greedy L2s are the reason ETH is a 'completely dead' investment: VC
29.3.2025
Ether's (ETH) declining appeal as an investment comes from layer-2’s draining value from the main network and a lack of community pushback on excessive token creation, a crypto venture capitalist says.“The #1 cause of this is greedy Eth L2s siphoning value from the L1 and the social...
Greedy L2s are the reason ETH is a ‘completely dead’ investment: VC
29.3.2025
Ether's (ETH) declining appeal as an investment comes from layer-2s draining value from the main network and a lack of community pushback on excessive token creation, a crypto venture capitalist says.“The #1 cause of this is greedy Eth L2s siphoning value from the L1 and the social consensus...
The Protocol: Ethereum’s Final Pectra Test Goes Live
26.3.2025
Also: Hyperliquid Eases Token Transfers for DeFi With Integration Between HyperCore and HyperEVM; Celo Migration to Layer-2 Network Is Done, Bringing in New Era for the Blockchain; Bitcoin DeFi Expansion Faces Fork Dilemma as Developers Explore ZK Proofs
Celo becomes Ethereum L2 with Optimism rollup implementation
26.3.2025
Celo, the blockchain network launched in 2020, has officially transitioned from a layer-1 chain to an Ethereum layer-2 protocol.Celo announced the successful transition in a March 26 X post, stating that “Celo is officially an Ethereum layer 2” protocol. In the thread, the organization...
Crypto Exchange Bitso Launches Stablecoin Business, Eyeing LatAm Cross-Border Payments
26.3.2025
The newly established subsidiary, Juno, will first issue a Mexican peso stablecoin on Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum
Celo Begins Transition to Ethereum Layer 2, Two Years After Proposal
26.3.2025
Celo blockchain developers have officially finalized the transition to an Ethereum Layer 2 network, marking the end of…
Celo Migration To Layer-2 Network Is Done, Bringing In New Era For The Blockchain
26.3.2025
The transition ends a long journey beginning back in July 2023 and a fierce competition, won by Optimism, convincing the Celo ecosystem to build with their tech
Hyperliquid Eases Token Transfers for DeFi With Integration Between HyperCore and HyperEVM
25.3.2025
Moving assets between blockchains or within their layer 2 services isn’t always seamless, but Hyperliquid’s update makes the process easy for users and developers
Pharos Launches Public Test Network for Its Layer 1 Blockchain
24.3.2025
Pharos, a Layer 1 public blockchain focused on integrating traditional finance (TradFi), launched its public development network on…
Bitcoin NFTs, layer-2 and restaking hype ‘completely gone’
21.3.2025
A Bitcoin layer-2 executive explained how Bitcoin narratives that were “overhyped” have now wholly vanished while the ecosystem develops. In a Cointelegraph interview, Bitlayer co-founder Charlie Hu laid out three Bitcoin narratives that he believed were overhyped. This included...
Data Storage Protocol Walrus Raises $140M in Token Sale Ahead of Mainnet Launch
20.3.2025
The mainnet of the protocol, originally developed by Mysten Labs and built on layer-1 blockchain Sui, will launch on March 27
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...