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Bitcoin transaction fees flip Ethereum’s as Ordinals hype returns

Average daily transaction fees on Bitcoin (BTC)  have flipped with Ethereum following a frenzy of Ordinals-related activity on the Bitcoin network. On Nov. 20, the average daily transaction fee for Bitcoin stood at $10.34, while Ethereum’s transaction fees came to an average of $8.43, according to BitInfoChart data. Bitcoin’s average daily

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Ethereum’s Layer-2 Expansion, Rise of Zero-Knowledge Cryptography, and Bitcoin’s New Frontier in Tokenization, Smart Contracts, and File Hosting

LAYER 2'S EVERYWHERE: In last week's The Protocol, we dedicated a not-inconsiderable quantity of ink to the fast-growing list of new "layer 2" blockchains aiming to provide a venue for fast and speedy transactions atop Ethereum. Grab another well, cause there's been plenty more announcements already this week. The most

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Microsoft, Tencent Are Partners to Ethereum’s Infura in ‘Decentralized Infrastructure Network’

"There's that ethos in Web3 about decentralization being a core value," Thomas Hay, the lead product manager for Infura, told CryptoX. "We know there are advantages to a centralized service in terms of the ease of use and the ability to get up and running, but moving in the direction

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Ethereum’s rollups are ‘gold standard’ but Plasma needs a revisit: Buterin

Plasma, a once-prominent Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, should be revisited by teams currently working on zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (EVMs), says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.Invented in 2017, Plasma diverts data and computation — except deposits, withdrawals and Merkle roots — to an off-chain environment. It was superseded by optimistic

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How Ethereum’s Staking Mechanism Could Propel Cryptocurrency Into Mainstream Finance

As staking becomes better understood, investors will demand that yield rate be more predictable. Moreover, they will pit providers – LSTs, funds, ETPs, CEXes, futures contracts – against each other to hunt for the best return. Benchmarking these returns provides a yardstick for investors, and allows providers to show the

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Ethereum’s Dencun Upgrade Will Increase Data Availability for Layer-2 Rollups : Goldman Sachs

Proto-danksharding will also “serve to set the scaffolding for future scalability upgrades, including danksharding, as part of the blockchain’s ‘Surge’ roadmap,” the report said. Danksharding is a way of making Ethereum more scalable, and applies the same concept of splitting the network into shards, but instead of using these shards

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Vitalik Buterin discusses Ethereum’s future and innovative projects in AMA

In a recent interactive session, Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, shed light on the platform’s technical advances and celebrated emerging decentralized projects within its ecosystem. In a recent Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin touched on several topics that offer a glimpse into the potential trajectory of the Ethereum

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