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Markets

Bitcoin Layer 2 Stacks' Token a Top Performer in March

STX has gained 23% for the month and is up 350% over the past year.

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Tech

ConsenSys Launches zkEVM Public Testnet, Renames It ‘Linea’

The release comes in the days after competitors, Polygon and Matter Labs, came out with their own zkEVMs.

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Tech

Matter Labs Opens zkSync Era to Users, Claiming First in ‘Zero Knowledge’ Tech on Ethereum

After zkSync Era was launched only for developers last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening to general users. The latest push comes just days ahead of the rival Polygon system’s planned rollout Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”

Citrea says its zero-knowledge rollup will help expand Bitcoin's ability to accommodate NFTs and DeFi. (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Polygon Partners With Salesforce for NFT-Based Loyalty Program

Salesforce partnership with the blockchain platform marks another major company’s investment into customer engagement initiatives using Web3 technologies.

(Polygon Labs)

Tech

OpenZeppelin Reveals Top 10 Blockchain Hacking Techniques in 2022

The first and second place bugs involved layer 2 scaling system Optimism and vanity address generator Profanity.

A computer popup box screen warning of a system being hacked, compromised software enviroment. 3D illustration. (Getty Images)

Finance

Coinbase Is Adding DeFi Apps Uniswap and Aave to Its Base Blockchain: Source

A person familiar with the process said Uniswap would probably appear on Base in a couple of months.

Base booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Let’s Talk About Crypto Protocol Layers and Why Investors Must Examine Them

They’re the overflow rooms for the bustling Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.

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Tech

Zero-Knowledge Technology Has Great Potential: FS Insight

The technology has a wide range of use cases in areas such as privacy, security, scalability, interoperability and sovereign identity, the report said.

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Videos

Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Service Provider to Make Lightning More Reliable

TBD, a division of Jack Dorsey's financial-technology company Block, has launched a new business entity named “c=” that focuses on improving liquidity and routing on the Lightning Network. CoinDesk Editor at Large Christie Harkin breaks down its significance to Bitcoin’s layer 2 scaling system.

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Tech

Chainlink Price Feeds Go Live on Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 Testnet

Base also joins the Web3 services platform's Scale program, allowing developers to construct smart contracts that can react to external information at a subsidized cost.

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink Labs)