Rollups


Tech

Optimism 'Bedrock' Upgrade to Speed Confirmations, Cut Gas Fees, Set Path to 'Superchain'

The "Bedrock” upgrade will improve the usability of the chain by lowering gas fees and cutting deposit-confirmation times by 90% – pitched as a key step toward the Optimism network's goal of becoming a "Superchain."

OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch. (Optimism)

Tech

Ethereum Scaler Arbitrum Is Launching Friday With Developer Support From Alchemy

The rollup platform from Offchain Labs is going live this week, with over 150 projects having requested early access.

Arbitrum's co-founders

Tech

Ethereum Rollup Hermez Network, to Be Used by Tether, Goes Live

Tether and Hermez announced mutual support in January to address the problem of historic Ethereum transaction fees.

Hermez rollup is live on Ethereum's network (Unsplash)

Finance

USV Leads Round in Matter Labs as Ethereum Scaling Wars Intensify

The round was joined by a host of cryptocurrency projects that are considering adding zkSync, including Coinbase, Aave and Curve Finance.

newspaper, media

Tech

Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix

A potential fix for Ethereum's costly congestion problems.

Members of the Synthetix team

Tech

Ethereum's Top Dapps Are Increasingly Turning to 'Rollups': Here's Why

A majority of the top Ethereum-based decentralized applications (dapps) are switching to rollups, a layer 2 for increasing throughput.

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