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The open-source monitoring system is capable of identifying threats in the OP Stack and other EVM blockchain events

Matter Labs’ Rose said the scaling problem can be “solved horizontally”

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

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

The ‘ZK Stack’ is Matter Labs’ proposed framework for building independent ‘hyperchains’ powered by zero-knowledge proofs

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

OP holders might not be feeling very optimistic with the rollup’s token unlock schedule now in effect

Bedrock will pave the way for Optimism to introduce a multi-client ecosystem

Coinbase’s vision is to eventually make it possible to sequence several chains at once, an exchange executive told Blockworks

Smaller cryptoassets largely act as high-beta alternatives to ether and their prices have been positively correlated with ETH performance in recent weeks

Optimism and Arbitrum are reaping the benefits of cheaper, faster transactions

A flurry of trader activity and speculation of layer-2 projects have seen their associated tokens posting gains to start the year

The DeFi sector is flashing signs of life despite the recent turmoil that has gripped digital assets’ spot market

A Twitter user helped prevent a 200 billion BitBTC exploit

Attacker deployed layer-1 multi-signature technology to the layer-2 before the Wintermute recovery team

Jason and Byron cover this week’s biggest stories and explore crypto’s outlook as an investable asset class

Optimism, an Ethereum layer-2 network based on optimistic rollup technology, has a new spin on airdrops, governance and incentive alignment

Empire’s weekly roundup on Optimism’s airdrop, algo stablecoins, the BAYC hack and more