Ethereum’s Changing Landscape
For investors, ETH’s future depends on how Ethereum balances innovation with maintaining healthy economic policy, says Matthew Kimmel, digital asset analyst, CoinShares.
Layer 2s
Sonic SVM, Gaming Project on Solana Blockchain, Plans $12.8M Node Sale
The project is taking advantage of an increasingly popular fundraising method known as “node sales” just months after a traditional $12 million fundraise.
Polygon to Start Much-Awaited Swap of POL Token for Longstanding MATIC
The migration from POL to MATIC will also bring in some tokenomics changes with a new emission rate of 2%.
Coinbase Promotes cbBTC, Wrapped Bitcoin Alternative for Base Blockchain
Tweets from the crypto exchange and Jesse Pollack, the creator of Base, suggest cbBTC could run on the layer-2 blockchain.
It’s a Different Sort of Olympics as Cryptographers Face Off in Polyhedra’s ‘Proof Arena’
With Polyhedra’s new “Proof Arena,” it should be easier to tell who’s the fastest (April Walker/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)
Bitcoin Layer 2 Rootstock Verifies Zero-Knowledge SNARK
Rootstock verified the SNARK using BitVMX, which is Rootstock’s modified version of BitVM
Tezos, Smart-Contract Blockchain of ICO Fame, Reveals Roadmap to Rejuvenate
The decade-old blockchain’s development plan, which goes out through 2026, calls for splitting off transaction execution into a separate “canonical rollup” that would support multiple programming languages.
Marathon’s Layer-2 Chain, Anduro, Plugs In ‘Portal to Bitcoin’ for Atomic Swaps
The publicly-traded bitcoin miner Marathon began incubating Anduro in February as a “platform built on the Bitcoin network that allows for the creation of multiple sidechains.”
Sonic, Gaming-Focused Layer-2 Chain on Solana, Raises $12M
Chris Zhu, CEO and founder of Sonic (Robin Huang/Mirror World Labs)
ZKsync’s ZK Airdrop Is Coming ‘Next Week,’ Here’s What to Expect
According to the plan released Tuesday, 17.5% of ZK’s 21 billion total token supply will be airdropped to users beginning “next week.”