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Optimism just approved the upgrade its Superchain needs before interoperability can go live
Four OP Stack testnets are moving first, while mainnet remains conditional on a healthy seven-day soak.
Oluwapelumi Adejumo 3 min read
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Optimism pushes network speeds to 200 ms, but standard data feeds are dropping key information
The Aug. 31 target keeps the stream parseable while forcing direct consumers and forwarding RPC providers to audit placeholder values.
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Galaxy’s Alex Thorn calls Ethereum L2s ‘ETH extractive’ amid fee retention concerns
Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn argued that post-EIP-4844 fee models favor L2 profits over Ethereum mainnet's financial health.
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Crypto tokens explode from 20k in 2022 to 18.9M following launchpad frenzy on Solana, Base, BSC
Despite the proliferation of assets, value continues to concentrate in a few hundred coins at the top.
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Kraken’s L2 network rolls out native INK token to power protocol incentives, allocation
Ink Foundation to unleash 1 billion INK tokens, steering decentralized finance through airdrop incentives.
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Base becomes 10th L2 network to reach at least Stage 1 decentralization
The introduction of a Security Council and fault proofs granted the decentralization milestone to Base, according to a blog post.
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Ethereum’s planned blob increases insufficient to sustain L2 transaction growth
A tenfold increase in transactions on Ethereum layer-2 blockchains could present prohibitive costs to users.
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Bank of Canada assesses flash loans relevance in latest study
Although contagion risks are deemed plausible, the study recognizes flash loans' relevance for policymakers.
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Ethereum Foundation unveils interoperability framework to unify liquidity across EVM chains
The Open Intents Framework aims to seamlessly bridge the fragmented liquidity in the Ethereum ecosystem.
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