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Optimism’s Ben Jones highlighted the difference between peacetime and wartime Ethereum

By leveraging L1 validators for proofing and execution, native rollups remove the need for centralized sequencers and complex governance

Developers can use the Madara framework to develop appchains, or Dojo for onchain gaming apps

Taiko is the largest based rollup today, with a multi-proof system in place

MagicBlock went through a16z’s crypto startup accelerator and began advertising its tech earlier this year

As projects like BitVM innovate, Bitcoin builders call for transparency over misleading buzzwords

The middleware blockchain infra platform is breaking the “one-size-fits-all” mold that comes with existing blockchain tech stacks

Movement Labs co-founder Rushi Manche says its approach affords “all the benefits of Move combined with Ethereum’s liquidity”

Lumina introduces transparency and permissionless integration via an OP stack-based optimium, challenging traditional oracle designs

Martin Köppelmann outlines a proposal for Ethereum-native rollups, emphasizing security, scalability, and a stronger connection to the Ethereum ecosystem

Optimistic rollups like Optimism, Arbitrum and Base are seeing rapid adoption relative to zk rollups

The integration of Across’s intent-based bridging allows traders to easily bridge and perform cross-chain swaps all within Uniswap

Plus, PayPal’s PYUSD supply tapers off from late-August highs

G2 is delivering real-world performance breakthroughs at 50-100 Mgas/s, Conduit says

AltLayer’s new platform offers developers templates and tools to rapidly deploy Actively Validated Services

The Astar Network’s “evolution” includes a pivot away from Polygon to OP stack

Optimism’s Superchain consists of 29 OP Stack chains today, soon to be unified through one interoperability layer

Competing teams each verified zk proofs on Bitcoin mainnet during Bitcoin 2024

The industry-first general purpose zk programmable blockchain charts a fresh course

Espresso sequencing marketplace will enable efficient coordination and fast transaction finalization across multiple Ethereum layer-2s

X Layer is a zkEVM validium running on Polygon’s CDK tech stack

In a forum post, Polygon detailed what went wrong with its zkEVM in a recent outage

The funding round was led by a16z crypto, and will be used by the team to continue product development and team scaling

Fault proofs are a critical security measure to ensure transactions are valid on optimistic rollups