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Sony’s Layer-2 Blockchain 'Soneium' Goes Live
The 78-year-old technology giant is the latest big name company to release a blockchain using Optimism's OP Stack.

StarkWare Launches Appchains on Starknet with New Developer Toolkit
The “SN Stack” enables developers to create blockchains for specific crypto use cases, potentially bringing StarkWare's technology to a variety of chains.

Deutsche Bank's L2 Blockchain to Be 'Public and Permissioned,' Says Tech Partner
The banking giant is building a rollup on Ethereum using ZKsync technology developed by Matter Labs.

Kraken’s Ink Layer-2 Goes Live
The team had originally planned for Ink to go live in early 2025, so the launch of the main network is ahead of schedule.

Botanix Labs' Mission to Bring Bitcoin to Defi Moves to Final Testnet Phase
The Aragog testnet as it is known, introduces a set of tools that will form the basis for the mainnet's DeFi offering.

The Protocol: Bitcoin Bridged Trustlessly to L2; Ethereum's Blob Mob
Also: Avalanche's big upgrade; rollups welcome Beam Chain

Ethereum Layer-2 Project Starknet to Roll Out Staking Feature Later This Month
StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout.

Espresso, Project for Composability Between Blockchains, Pushes Main Product Live
According to the team, the new "confirmation layer" will be a critical piece of infrastructure for composability among layer-2 rollups, allowing two networks to read and trust each other's blocks of transaction data.

Nansen Expands to Bitcoin Layer 2, Will Provide Analytics for Bitlayer
Nansen aims to pave the way for more efficient decision-making in Bitcoin layer 2s empowered by the insights its data and analytics provide

Ethereum's ENS Identity System Set to Launch Own Layer-2 Blockchain
"Namechain" will use a zero-knowledge rollup for scaling and is likely to go live around the end of 2025.
