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In an article dated Nov. 14, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delves into the intricacies of Plasma and the associated challenges in extending it to tokens and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). While acknowledging rollups as the industry’s primary preference, Buterin highlights the potential advantages of Plasma, particularly in reducing transaction fees
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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 It was superseded by optimistic
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OMG, the native token of the OMG Network, climbed to a six-month high after Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin published a blog post on how Plasma, the technology behind the OMG Network, has the potential to reduce transaction fees and improve security. Source
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Bitfinex’s Tether (USDT) stablecoin is now available on the OMG Network, a plasma-based Ethereum sidechain launched on June 1 by the project formerly known as OmiseGo.The integration, also announced on June 1, marks the first time that Tether integrated an Ethereum sidechain to boost its performance. Tether is by far
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The ethereum network is still looking to boost transaction capacity and the startup Optimism wants to lead the charge. Since the network’s throughput is limited to roughly 15 transactions per second, ethereum can’t become a widespread platform for automating functions, like supply chain management and loans, unless it scales. So Optimism
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In a Jan. 27 post, Dragonfly Research proclaimed Plasma to be dead, noting that the Ethereum (ETH) community is converging on Optimistic Rollup, despite initial enthusiasm. The news comes in stark contrast to earlier claims by Plasma Group arguing that the technology was moving into production phase.The history of
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