Base exceeds 6M daily transactions, beats Arbitrum — What next?

Base scored a home run after dethroning Arbitrum to secure the top spot among Ethereum Layer 2s Multiple ATHs contributed to the network’s leading position Base has been on a dedicated camThe post Base exceeds 6M daily transactions, beats Arbitrum — What next? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Ethereum Price Set To Surge To $4K in Q4, Sparking 8000% Rally For New ERC20 Token, Arbitrum Struggles Still Likely

As the crypto market gears up for a new exciting rally, experts believe the Ethereum price could rise above $4,000. The bull run is expected to spread to layer 2 coins like Arbitrum, but analysts believe that ARB might still struggle. 

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CARV Launches Alphanet: $35M Node Sale Propels Decentralization Milestone

Santa Clara, USA, July 1st, 2024, Chainwire New Initiative to Scale Network and Reward Node Operators with Airdrops and Voting Rights CARV, the largest modular data layer for gaming and AI, today announces the launch of its Alphanet, run by the 38,000 verifier nodes distributed to its community worth $35M.

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Bull Run Season: Layer 1 BlockDAG’s $49.5M Presale Tops Chainlink & Quant in 2024

BlockDAG has distinguished itself in the cryptocurrency market following its impressive presale and innovative Keynote 2 presentation. Despite Chainlink (LINK) maintaining bullish prospects above $17 and Quant (QNT) experiencing a downtrend, BlockDAG’s forward-thinking strategies and robust market presence make it the superior investment choice.

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BitReXe: Enabling Parallel VMs on Bitcoin Network

BitReXe is a proposed Layer 2 architecture to build out multiple EVM's on top of Bitcoin that can run in parallel, accomplishing more scalable smart contract execution on a second layer.

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Top Narratives for the Upcoming Crypto Bull Run: Expert Reveals High-Potential Altcoins

In a recent tweet, crypto analyst Alek shared his top narratives for the upcoming bull run, highlighting a diverse range of altcoins across various sectors. Among the Layer 1 protocols, Alek predicts substantial returns for several projects, with $SUI and $SEI leading the pack with potential 15x and 17x gains, respectively.

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Unified Liquidity Platform Range Protocol Unveils Skate: The First Universal Application Layer Powering Apps to Run on All Chains With One State

Range Protocol, a unified liquidity provisioning platform, today announced the launch of Skate, the universal application layer that empowers apps to run on thousands of chains with one state.

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Unified liquidity platform Range Protocol unveils Skate: The first universal application layer powering apps to run on all chains with one state

Singapore, Singapore, April 3rd, 2024, Chainwire Skate is backed by leading founders in web3, including EigenLayer, Polygon, Manta, Axelar, Pendle, A41 and Galxe, supporting its vision to make web3 efficient for a modular future by solving application fragmentation Range Protocol, a unified liquidity provisioning platform, today announced the launch of Skate, the universal application layer […] The post Unified liquidity platform Range Protocol unveils Skate: The first universal application layer powering apps to run on all chains with one state appeared first on CoinJournal.

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Ethereum (ETH) Layer 2 Networks Growth Is Crucial: Here's Why

True bull run on Ethereum is only about to start

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Blast L2 TVL Over $500 Million, Team Addresses Centralization Criticism

Ethereum Layer 2 Blast smashes through another TVL milestone in its spectacular run

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Why Strategic Money Will Enter Crypto Despite The Slowdown: Mysten Labs CEO

In a recent interview with The Block, Evan Cheng, CEO of Mysten Labs, shared his insights on the shifting dynamics of the crypto investment landscape. Cheng, who co-founded Mysten Labs, the creator of the innovative Layer 1 blockchain Sui, believes that the recent slowdown in crypto investments following the hype-driven bull run will soon give […]

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Areon Network launches Testnet on September 20

The crypto space has been hearing about fewer layer 1 projects lately. But there are still teams out there, developing new blockchains with the latest technology, waiting to be discovered by crypto enthusiasts, while everyone waits for the next bull run.

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Shanghai Upgrade Pushed to Early April Following Latest Ethereum Core Developers Meeting

The Ethereum community may have to wait longer for the Shanghai upgrade after the core developers’ bi-weekly meeting, Execution Layer Meeting 156, ended with a decision to have the hard fork run on the Goerli test network by March 14 and the final deployment somewhere in April.

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Layer Two Solution, Arbitrum, Gives Ethereum A Run Two Times Already. Here’s Why

Arbitum, an Ethereum layer two scaling solution, broke records last week after reaching 1. 1 million transactions, surpassing Ethereum by over 20,000 in transaction volume. The symbolic feat was posted on Arbitrum’s official Twitter page: “For the first time, Arbitrum One processed more transactions than Ethereum.

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Layer 1 Blockchain Aptos Hit All-Time High After A Blistering Uphill Run This Week

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We Compare Oryen Network (ORY) With Ravencoin (RVN) And Rocketpool (RPL)

A developing trend observable on crypto Twitter is the search for micro-cap gems. Alternative layer one projects dominated the 2021 bull run, and established traders are now looking for the 100X.

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Erlay Makes It Easier To Run A Bitcoin Node

Erlay will bring bandwidth efficiency gains to Bitcoin’s peer-to-peer layer by changing the transaction relay protocol where full nodes share data.

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XRP Signals Considerable Uptick – Will Social Media Lift Its Price Past $0.34?

XRP price has demonstrated a significant uptick that come with engaging social media tweets and discussing. Does this hint a potential bull run?         XRP price amplified by social media mentions during summer         Ripple now an official World Economic Forum partner           Crypto price bleeds by 10% in 24 hours Related Reading: Tamadoge Makes Noise – Is TAMA A Better Alternative To SOL? Ripple Is Now The Official Partner Of WEF Now, Ripple is an official partner of the World Economic Forum as announced on their website which also adds another layer of credibility and trustworthiness to XRP.

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In Crypto, Base Layer Security Isn’t Enough

Blockchains are only as secure as the applications they run.

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Ankr Unveils Its Biggest Upgrade, Ankr Network 2.0, to Truly Decentralize Web3’s Foundational Layer

The upgrade brings decentralized RPC, new utility and staking for the ANKR token, and the ability for independent node providers to run full nodes and earn rewards.

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Ankr unveils Network 2.0 to truly decentralize Web3’s foundational layer

The upgrade brings decentralized RPC, new utility and staking for the ANKR token, and the ability for independent node providers to run full nodes and earn rewards  Ankr, one of the world’s leadThe post Ankr unveils Network 2.

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Web2 giant Cloudflare to run Ethereum 2.0 validator nodes

Almost 20% of all internet traffic on the planet runs through Cloudflare’s infrastructure, and they are now going to be running an Ethereum Consensus Layer node by staking ETH. The post Web2 giant Cloudflare to run Ethereum 2.

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Ankr Launches Support for Nervos Layer 1 and Layer 2 Nodes

Nervos today announced the completion of its integration with Ankr, a Web 3.0 infrastructure platform and marketplace. Users can now easily host and run Nervos...

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Polygon Layer 2 Hub Will Assist Atari in Its NFT Bet

Legendary game producers Atari inked a partnership wih Polygon (formerly Matic) to advance token scalabilty and break into NFT run

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Bank Protocol: All in One DeFi Lending Protocol for Digital Assets

What is Bank Protocol? Bank Protocol is a general layer 2 lending protocol worked for DeFi based on versatility, composability, and reception. Bank Protocol has been planned as an open network foundation to run on public organizations.

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Shielded Zcash (ZEC) withdrawals are now available on Gemini

US-based crypto exchange Gemini, run by the Winklevoss twins, has recently added support for the so-called ‘shielded’ Zcash transactions. The move is meant to add yet another layer of privacy for ZEC users, Gemini enables private ZEC withdrawals Zcash (ZEC) is used by people around the world who seek additional privacy when it comes to crypto transactions.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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Asure Network ICO

First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.

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Samourai’s “Dojo” Set to Boost Transaction Privacy on Bitcoin

Wallet users are generally required to rely on the wallet’s back end server for transaction functionality. The release of Samourai Dojo marks a new age of wallets where users can bypass centralized wallet servers and run one of their own, June 3, 2019.

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Scaling Bitcoin: Is the Lightning Network a Viable Solution?

In laymen’s terms, the Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol built on top of the Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Monero blockchains; these protocols are called “layer two protocols” because they run on top of an existing network.

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Microsoft Is Building an ID Verification Platform on Bitcoin

Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.

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Bolt-A-Thon, a Virtual Lightning Network Event, Invites Borderless Progress

Bolt-A-Thon, a unique kind of Lightning Network hackathon and conference kicks off today, April 5, 2019, to help gather contributors from all over the world and propel Bitcoin’s vital Layer 2 solution.

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Dr Doom Shares Blockchain Gloom, Says Central Bank Digital Currencies Won’t Run as Base Layer

Nouriel Roubini, an American economist and infamous cryptocurrency critic has debated that blockchain technology will not be the basis on which central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be adopted.

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BetterHash Protocol Lets Pool Miners Regain Control Over Their Hash Power

One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.

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RSK Merges With New RIF OS, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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RSK Merges With New RIF Labs, Opens Potential for Increased Interoperability

Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.

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Detailed Trade Recommendation : QTUM

Qtum is a hybrid blockchain application platform. Qtum’s core technology combines a fork of bitcoin core, an Account Abstraction Layer allowing for multiple Virtual Machines including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Proof-of-Stake consensus aimed at tackling industry use cases.

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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live

The Liquid Network is up and running. More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's Government Forum in Ottawa, Blockstream’s bitcoin scaling solution made its public debut on October 10, 2018, after going live among its partners on September 27.

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Blockchain’s Report Examines Benefits (and Failures) of Today’s Stablecoins

Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.

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Berkeley Professor Questions Stablecoin Viability in Unflattering Op-Ed

University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.

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Gemini and Paxos Both Launch Stablecoins on Ethereum Blockchain

Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar.   New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).

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Pay From Bitcoin Mainnet to Lightning and Back: Submarine Swaps Are Now Live

In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.

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Layer 1 Should Be Innovative in the Short Term but Less in the Long Term

One of the key tradeoffs in blockchain design is whether to build more functionality into base-layer blockchains themselves (“layer 1”), or to build it into protocols that live on top of the blockchain, and can be created and modified without changing the blockchain itself (“layer 2”).

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Coinbase Seeks Patent for Security-Enhanced Bitcoin Payment System

U. S. -based digital currency exchange Coinbase has filed a patent on a new Bitcoin payment system designed to make cryptocurrency payments safer. The new platform will provide an added layer of security for users’ keys and allow them to make Bitcoin payments directly from their digital wallets.

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Meet Wormhole: The Platform for Bitcoin Cash’s First ICOs

Watch out, Vitalik. There’s a new player in the crowd sale game, and it might give Ethereum a run for its digital money. Bitcoin Cash developers have recently announced Wormhole, a second layer that will allow transactions of asset tokens and crowd sales on the fourth-most valuable blockchain.

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Qtum Platform Now Available Through Amazon Web Services

Singapore-based Qtum has launched its decentralized application (DApp) development platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With this launch, AWS users and developers will be able to develop and launch smart contracts using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), made up of Qtum Core, Solidity and Qmix web IDE.

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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.

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Notes on Blockchain Governance

In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.

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