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Bitcoin Frogs, the newly-launched non-fungible token (NFT) fashioned after frogs, has become the most-traded collection in the past 24 hours, surpassing even prominent collections such as Bored Apes. Bitcoin Frogs, which launched in late February on Bitcoin Ordinals, reached a trading volume of over $2.2 million, data from CryptoSlam show.
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The Bedrock hard fork, proposed earlier this year and approved by the Optimism community in April, is supposed to bring a “new level of modularity, simplicity and Ethereum equivalence.” Source
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Optimism, an Ethereum-based layer-2 blockchain, will use Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS), an on-chain attestation protocol, that will enable users to assess the trustworthiness of the platform’s users and vouch for whether something actually happened on the blockchain, as per a release sent to CryptoX. Source
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Two weeks after the upgrade, the options market is assigning a slightly more negative sentiment to ether. Source
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The project is a new client for OP Stack, the standardized, open-source development stack that powers Optimism. The client is written using the Rust programming language and is meant to serve as a faster alternative to op-node, the only existing rollup client that’s maintained by OP Labs and written in
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Multichain lending protocol Hundred Finance has experienced a significant security breach on the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Optimism. According to the protocol on Twitter, the losses sit at $7.4 million.Hundred Finance announced the exploit on April 15, saying it had contacted the hacker and was working with various security teams on
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The cryptocurrency market has had a strong start to the year, with Bitcoin (BTC) up 71% and Ethereum (ETH) up 51% since January. Many investors are
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Expectations for Paris Blockchain Week were relatively low considering the downbeat market conditions. However, Paris can always surprise you. Indeed, conference halls at the event were not nearly as empty or depressing as Consensus after the big crypto meltdown of 2018. People were present, and conversations were fruitful. (And yes,
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With Privacy Pools, users deposit their funds into a common pool and withdraw their funds into a new wallet address that is untraceable and unlinkable to any prior transaction history, using zero-knowledge proofs that allow for information to be verified, such as a transaction on a blockchain, without leaking specific
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The recent move in all-time weekly fees follows Coinbase’s announcement last week launching BASE, another layer two network built using Optimism tech, which has sparked interest in Optimism’s ecosystem. The price of Velodrome’s native token VELO, which has a market capitalization of roughly $62 million, has soared 84.3% in the
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