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The Astar Network, a smart contract platform for multi-chain, announced the launch of its zero-knowledge (ZK) Ethereum layer-2 solution, zKatana, to enhance interoperability with Ethereum-compatible chains. The zKatana testnet zKatana refers to the project’s Japanese roots, which depict a served blade used by feudal samurais in combat. The project is a zero-knowledge EVM
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Orbit is one of many customizable blockchain stacks that have come to market over the past few months. Arbitrum’s competitor, OP Labs, behind the layer-2 chain OP Mainnet (formerly named Optimism), has its own version of a customizable environment, called the OP Stack, which currently powers crypto exchange Coinbase layer-2
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PancakeSwap v3, a decentralized exchange, has deployed on opBNB, a layer-2 scaling solution for the BNB Chain. The launch aims to reduce gas fees and enhance capital efficiency. By launching on opBNB, PancakeSwap is now available in six layer-2 solutions distributed across various mainnets, including off-chain scaling solutions for Ethereum.
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Chainlink(LINK), a decentralized oracle network, has announced the implementation of its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, Base. This development offers Base developers a method to devise cross-chain services and applications, enhancing the capability to transmit messages, handle token transfers, and process other transactions across varied
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Celo, a blockchain platform, is exploring migrating from its standalone blockchain to an Ethereum (ETH) Layer-2 (L2) network. Originally, Celo had planned
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Celo may be inclined to consider the Polygon proposal as well as potentially other project teams that might float their own competing offers: “Frankly, would not be surprised to see other stacks chime in too,” a person close to the Celo ecosystem told CryptoX. Source
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The BNB Chain development team has unveiled launched opBNB on the mainnet to scale decentralized applications (dapps). This milestone comes after a rigorous testing phase aimed at assessing the network’s overall reliability and functionality. Built on Optimism’s software package known as OP Stack, opBNB is a layer-2 scaling solution engineered to
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The BNB Chain blockchain ecosystem is set to tap into Optimism's rollup technology powering its newly launched opBNB layer 2 scaling platform.BNB Chain announced the public mainnet launch of its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible L2, which delivers lower gas fees and faster transactions to decentralized applications running within the
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A criticism of the setup is that today’s rollup sequencers are typically run by “centralized” entities, and thus represent single points of failure, potential vectors for transaction censorship, or possibly a choke point if authorities ever chose to shut it all down. Coinbase, for example, runs the sequencer for its
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Coinbase's Ethereum layer-2 network Base has suffere its first major outage since its public launch on Aug. 9. For approximately 45 minutes on Sept. 5, no new blocks were produced on the Base chain. Its developers first identified the "stalled" block production at 9:36 pm UTC, according to the Base
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