optimism
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Ex Revolut executive received $6.5 million from investors to create hybrid exchange x10
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Worldcoin-related activity currently makes up 43% of activity on Optimism, a Dune dashboard suggests
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Fault proofs are a critical security measure to ensure transactions are valid on optimistic rollups
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Outside of EVM smart contract deployments, general contract deployments are most commonly seen on Polygon and BNB chains
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The Optimism Mainnet underwent an hour of maintenance, but went down prematurely earlier today for 2 hours
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Manta Pacific becomes first layer-2 to transition to Celestia for data availability, while offering Ethereum staking yields
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Whitelisted borrowers on Clearpool Prime’s private credit marketplace will have visibility to counterparty names and terms
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The layer-2’s community is split on who is deserving of 30 million OP tokens earmarked for providers of free services
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On-chain debt capital markets platform deploys on Coinbase-incubated layer-2 after structured investment products push
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The DeFi credit marketplace secured 150,000 OP tokens and will be launching undercollateralized lending products on Optimism
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The latest system will comprise three components, a fault-proof program, a fault-proof virtual machine and a dispute game protocol
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The open-source monitoring system is capable of identifying threats in the OP Stack and other EVM blockchain events
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Celo is ready to migrate back to the Ethereum ecosystem, with plans to hard fork its blockchain into a rollup
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The leading rollup solutions are all in their early stages, despite the top 4 alone attracting over $9 billion in value
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The ‘ZK Stack’ is Matter Labs’ proposed framework for building independent ‘hyperchains’ powered by zero-knowledge proofs
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Optimism bedrock has seen reduced gas costs already, now the team is preparing for its next steps to bring its superchain vision to life
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OP holders might not be feeling very optimistic with the rollup’s token unlock schedule now in effect
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Coinbase’s vision is to eventually make it possible to sequence several chains at once, an exchange executive told Blockworks
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