scaling
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When L3s started trending, they were met with initial skepticism — but as more use cases emerge, the clearer their need becomes
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Bitcoin developers are looking at ways to grow the ecosystem amid a resurgence of interest in innovation and development
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A greater focus on data availability sampling is top of mind, including additional work that layer-2s must do to become faster and more secure
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For the first time, a major Ethereum hard fork launches on another chain first
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Stwo, StarkWare’s latest prover, is designed to significantly reduce latency and transaction costs
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Celestia had the first mover advantage. EigenDA has staked ether. What sets Avail apart?
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The best way forward is to find a balance between technical sophistication and general usability
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The long-awaited Starknet native asset STRK will soon be in the hands of 1.3 million eligible wallets
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A Fully Ethereum equivalent prover means that it does not need to change any part of Ethereum in order to generate proofs
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The idea that existing generic blockchains can later be molded for specific use cases lacks foresight
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Developers can customize their stacks and plug into different data providers while accessing Arbitrum tooling
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Van Bourg says that scaling solutions were overbuilt during a particular period of high demand in Ethereum’s history
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Mike Dudas is excited to see parallel processing on Ethereum, but “a lot has to happen before we’re going to see that”
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A total of 7,579 developers and almost 600,000 addresses will be eligible to receive the allocated TIA tokens
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