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Four patent applications were published since Sept. 21, suggesting that PayPal is taking a close look at distributed ledger tech

By year-end, the complete QuarkID roadmap aims to reach over 2.5 million users by broadening the range of available credentials

Eclipse will use Solana’s virtual machine for execution, Ethereum for settlement, Celestia for data availability and Risc Zero for proving

Amid dwindling on-chain activity, Ethereum blockspace dips into negative profitability

Manta Pacific is built using OP stack and will rely on Celestia for data availability

Users on X, formerly Twitter, were quick to notice the issue

“We want to do more than build a great business — we want to change the world”

The successful launch of layer-2 chains like Base has “increasingly validated” the modular blockchain thesis, Celestia’s Nick White says

A centralized sequencer “makes a lot of sense” for many rollup applications

Asynchronous solutions create information asymmetry and break composability, Yakovenko says

The token bridge is designed to bring in a new wave of DeFi activity onto Linea.

Analysts say that Coinbase’s strong start could be the real deal

More than 100 decentralized apps and service providers will operate on the network at launch

A lot of early volume on Base appears to be from “degen crypto power users”

Monthly aggregate active users across DEXs has continued to rise this year, despite repeated hacks against the DeFi sector

Average total transactions per second on layer-2 is now four times greater than that of Ethereum mainnet

Although more rollups are joining the L2 race, optimistic rollups still possess the greater share of total value locked

“What computational ability is possible on Solana that isn’t possible on Arbitrum or Optimism at this point?” Jonah Van Bourg asks

Celer Network releases benchmarking results pitting zero-knowledge provers head to head

Celo is ready to migrate back to the Ethereum ecosystem, with plans to hard fork its blockchain into a rollup

Merge-mining layer-2s with Bitcoin enables incredible network speeds to be achieved without sacrificing security

The leading rollup solutions are all in their early stages, despite the top 4 alone attracting over $9 billion in value

A key component of Fraxchain will be its decentralized sequencers

Optimism bedrock has seen reduced gas costs already, now the team is preparing for its next steps to bring its superchain vision to life