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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Calls on Power Users to Move to Layer 2 Scaling
14.10.2020
Talking at CoinDesk's invest: ethereum economy event, the Ethereum founder called for users of the second-largest blockchain to move over to scaling solutions that are “already here."
DeFi projects rush towards Layer 2 as Ethereum clogs up
24.9.2020
Leading DeFi protocols are rushing to implement Layer 2 to ease the burden of high gas fees
Ethereum Gas Fees Drive Gnosis-Powered Prediction Market to xDai’s Layer 2
17.9.2020
"Ethereum is on the way to becoming a whale chain," said Gnosis co-founder Stefan George. That's why his team's tech is moving to xDai
DeFi mainstreaming impossible until DEXs integrate layer 2, experts say
13.9.2020
DeFi is booming again but experts caution that mainstreaming won’t occur without decentralized exchanges integrating layer 2 options
IRS to Pay $625K to Crack Monero, Crypto Proponents Scoff at Contract
11.9.2020
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to pay a contractor $625,000 if they can crack layer-two privacy schemes and the privacy-centric crypto asset monero (XMR). The tax agency says that the entity has “limited investigative resources” for tracing these types of cryptocurrency...
Developer Reveals Layer-Two Private Messaging and Payment System on Bitcoin Cash
7.7.2020
On July 4, 2020, the Bitcoin Cash proponent Cain published an interview with the blockchain developer, Shammah Chancellor, about a new project called Stamp Chat. At its basic level, “Stamp is a prototype of a layer-2 private messaging and payment system on Bitcoin Cash. It implements stealth...
Layer 2 Will Make Bitcoin as Easy to Use as the Dollar, Says Kraken CEO
17.6.2020
Kraken CEO Jesse Powell told Bloomberg in a recent interview that Bitcoin would surpass gold as a store of value in the long-term
Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments
5.12.2019
Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, a privacy-minded scaling tool meant to help blockchains boost transaction speeds
Lightning Labs Designs Monitoring Tool for ‘Layer 2’ Bitcoin Network
26.7.2019
The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed “Lndmon” that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest...