Coinbase has rolled out its Layer 2 network, Base, built on Ethereum. This platform has quickly gained traction with 100,000 users and hosting more than $200 million in assets. The impressive adoption ...

Crypto exchange Gate has launched Gate Layer, a proprietary Layer 2 blockchain designed to boost transaction throughput and reduce costs, while simultaneously rolling out a major upgrade to the GT ...

Jeff, the founder of Merlin Chain, argues that Ethereum can handle most of the innovations built on layer-2 networks, but Bitcoin cannot, making layer-2s more important for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Jeff ...

Ethereum Layer 2 network Arbitrum has launched a new project called Converge, a blockchain for processing tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and on-chain finance. Created by Ethena Labs and Securitize ...

Popular dog-themed cryptocurrency Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) witnessed an astronomical burn rate jump as the ecosystem's Layer-2 network, Shibarium, marked its first anniversary. What Happened: ...

GOAT Network today launched its BitVM2 Playground, a new way to enable users to explore and experiment with the upcoming GOAT Bridge mechanism. This launch represents a notable milestone toward GOAT ...

Ethereum ecosystem scaling has moved from theory to actual production-grade infrastructure. Optimistic Rollups, ZK Rollups, major Layer 1 upgrades like The Merge and The Dencun upgrade (EIP-4844), and ...

Stacks, the Bitcoin layer-2, has begun the Satoshi upgrade that decouples the block production schedule on Stacks from Bitcoin's. Network operators now have a two-week window to implement the Nakamoto ...

Around 30% of Base’s users on Aug. 10 were new to the blockchain, which launched only a day prior. Daily active users on Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain have exceeded 100,000 for the first time, just ...

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Brian Armstrong, founder of Coinbase, photographed for Forbes by Jamel Toppin in January 2020. Coinbase officially launched the public mainnet for its long-awaited Base layer 2 blockchain network on ...