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Offchain Labs Launches Arbitrum One Mainnet — Startup Raises $120 Million
2.9.2021
On August 31, 2021, Offchain Labs announced the official launch of Arbitrum One mainnet and further detailed that the company has raised $120 million in funding. The Series B financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners gives the firm a $1.2 billion valuation. Arbitrum One Mainnet Is Now Live...
Offchain Labs launches Arbitrum One mainnet, secures $120M in funding
1.9.2021
More than 400 teams are already building on Arbitrum One
Weekly Defi Swaps Tap $17 Billion While Dex Aggregators Now Share 22% of the Trade Volume
19.8.2021
Over the last seven days, decentralized exchange (dex) trade volume has tapped $17 billion across the 21 Ethereum dex platforms. Pancakeswap has seen between $400K to $860K every 24 hours during the last week as well. Meanwhile, dex aggregators are eating away at dex trade volumes, becoming more...
Dex Aggregator 1inch to Utilize Ethereum Scaling Solution Optimism
19.8.2021
On August 17, the decentralized exchange (dex) aggregator 1inch announced the platform will leverage the Layer 2 solution called optimistic rollups provided by the project Optimism. The collaboration with Optimism aims to “substantially increase transaction speeds and lower gas fees for 1inch...
Chainlink launches data oracles on Arbitrum One's Ethereum scaling solution
13.8.2021
Chainlink’s data oracles are now live on Arbitrum One, with the team also planning to soon launch its Proof of Reserve and Verifiable Random Function on the layer-two
SushiSwap CTO reveals why the project isn't scaling on Optimism anytime soon
12.8.2021
Joseph Delong feels that rival DEX Uniswap had preferential treatment from the L2 solutions provider
Synthetix turns on layer-two alpha, launches Olympics betting on options platform
30.7.2021
Users of the Synthetix-based Thales platform can now bet on the outcome of Olympic events
Uniswap v3 launches Optimistic Ethereum layer two scaling in alpha
14.7.2021
Long-awaited layer two scaling is finally being launched on Uniswap v3, albeit in a limited format initially
EY publishes Ethereum scaling solution to the public domain
5.7.2021
Global auditing giant Ernst and Young has released the third iteration of its zero-knowledge proof Ethereum scaling solution
Vitalik Buterin Says People Difficulties Not Technical Difficulties Slowed the Ethereum 2.0 Rollout
3.6.2021
The cofounder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, recently discussed the highly anticipated full transition from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus model to proof-of-stake (PoS) as its replacement. Buterin admitted at Hong Kong’s Startmeup HK 2021 Festival that the transition was taking too long...
Optimistic Rollups Not All the Same: A Review of Ethereum L2 Solutions
18.5.2021
Disclaimer: The Industry Talk section features insights by crypto industry players and is not a part of the editorial content of Cryptonews.com.
Optimistic Rollups are often considered as the next major achievement for Ethereum, which will allow it to scale and take back the crown it has recently...
Hermez Network launches zk-rollups on Ethereum mainnet to process cheap payments
24.3.2021
Hermez users will be able to transact with ETH, USDT, WBTC on a scalable layer-two network
Ethereum’s Buterin Highlights Layer-Two Rollups as Potential Scaling Solution
12.3.2021
As questions circle about the network’s capacities following surging transaction costs and accelerating activity in the decentralized finance (defi) arena, Ethereum’s founder Vitalik Buterin opines that layer-2 solutions could help the network scale by a factor of 100x in mere months...
‘Game changer’ for Maker and Ethereum with Optimism Dai bridge announced
10.3.2021
The Optimism-Dai Bridge will allow fast withdrawals later this year
Solution to scale Ethereum '100X’ is imminent and will get us through until Eth2: Vitalik
10.3.2021
The author of the Ethereum whitepaper, Vitalik Buterin, believes rollups will solve Ethereum’s scaling woes until the introduction of Eth2 sharding
Vitalik proposes solution to link certain layer-two scaling projects
3.3.2021
L2 DeFi protocols currently cannot communicate with each other, so Vitalik has proposed a fix
Matic rebrands to Polygon in pursuit of ‘Polkadot on Ethereum’ strategy
9.2.2021
The Layer-two protocol plans to become an aggregator and interoperability facilitator for Ethereum scalability solutions
New project uses rollups to build Linux-based decentralized computer
29.1.2021
The Cartesi team thinks rollups can be used for more than just Solidity smart contracts
Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix
15.1.2021
A potential fix for Ethereum's costly congestion problems
Ethereum’s 6 biggest accomplishments of 2020 (and 5 disappointing moments)
16.12.2020
Ethereum’s year was rich with astounding successes, but nothing can be perfect