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Ethereum L2s Are About to Hit a Brick Wall: Polynomial Protocol Founder

Sustained demand for Layer 2s could quickly deplete the available blob capacity. The impending Pectra upgrade only kicks the can down the road, Polynomial's co-founder said.

Brick wall. (Michael_Laut/Pixabay)

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Sony’s Layer-2 Blockchain 'Soneium' Goes Live

The 78-year-old technology giant is the latest big name company to release a blockchain using Optimism's OP Stack.

Sony Block Solutions Lab Director Sota Watanabe (Startale Labs)

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StarkWare Launches Appchains on Starknet with New Developer Toolkit

The “SN Stack” enables developers to create blockchains for specific crypto use cases, potentially bringing StarkWare's technology to a variety of chains.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

Technology

Deutsche Bank's L2 Blockchain to Be 'Public and Permissioned,' Says Tech Partner

The banking giant is building a rollup on Ethereum using ZKsync technology developed by Matter Labs.

Deutsche Bank

Technology

Kraken’s Ink Layer-2 Goes Live

The team had originally planned for Ink to go live in early 2025, so the launch of the main network is ahead of schedule.

Kraken CEO Jesse Powell

Technology

Botanix Labs' Mission to Bring Bitcoin to Defi Moves to Final Testnet Phase

The Aragog testnet as it is known, introduces a set of tools that will form the basis for the mainnet's DeFi offering.

Spiderchain, a Bitcoin layer 2 blockchain. (Shutterstock)

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The Protocol: Bitcoin Bridged Trustlessly to L2; Ethereum's Blob Mob

Also: Avalanche's big upgrade; rollups welcome Beam Chain

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Ethereum Layer-2 Project Starknet to Roll Out Staking Feature Later This Month

StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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Espresso, Project for Composability Between Blockchains, Pushes Main Product Live

According to the team, the new "confirmation layer" will be a critical piece of infrastructure for composability among layer-2 rollups, allowing two networks to read and trust each other's blocks of transaction data.

CEO of Espresso Systems Ben Fisch (Espresso Systems)

Technology

Nansen Expands to Bitcoin Layer 2, Will Provide Analytics for Bitlayer

Nansen aims to pave the way for more efficient decision-making in Bitcoin layer 2s empowered by the insights its data and analytics provide

Nansen co-founders Alex Svanevik and Evgeny Medvedev. (Nansen)