Babylon Labs Brings New Momentum to Bitcoin ZK Tech Through Bridge to Cosmos Chains
Babylon, developer of the largest BTC staking protocol, is teaming up with Bitcoin developers Fiamma to build a trust-minimized bridge using BitVM2
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Ethereum Layer-2 Teams Welcome Proposal to Overhaul Blockchain
Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon. zkSync builder Matter Labs is also bullish.
Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Deploys BitVM-Based Bridge ‘Clementine’ on Testnet
Clementine (Fotozeit/Pixabay)
Polygon to Buy $5M of Servers With Computer Chips Devoted to Zero-Knowledge Cryptography
The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, that is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon’s AggLayer.
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%.
Solving Fragmentation Is Next Blockchain Race as Layer 2s Multiply, ZKsync Developer Says
Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
Investment Firm Lemniscap Raises $70M Fund Targeting Early Stage Web3 Projects
Lemniscap is targeting zero-knowledge infrastructure, consumer applications and decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN).
Pi Squared, Building ‘Universal ZK Circuit’, Raises $12.5M
The startup, led by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign computer science professor, uses zero-knowledge technology to enable “trustless remote computing” along with other blockchain use cases including AI.
ZKsync Airdrop of ‘ZK’ Token Puts Initial Market Cap Near $800M
The layer-2 blockchain ZKsync, has kicked off its highly anticipated airdrop of its ZK token, with 45% of the tokens already claimed.
The Protocol: Another Episode in the Layer-2 Teams Drama
We take a look at what unfolded after Matter Labs’ planned to trademark the term “ZK.”