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Markets

Bitcoin Layer 2 Coins, STX, ELA, SAVM, Outperform BTC After Halving

Top Bitcoin Layer 2 coins have risen 5% to 20% since halving, leaving BTC behind, according to data source CoinGecko.

STX's price. (CoinDesk)

Tech

Avail Confirms Token Airdrop Plans, a Week After Leaked Screenshots

Avail shared in a blog post that 354,605 wallet addresses are eligible to claim the 600 million tokens in their “unification drop.”

Avail co-founders Anurag Arjun and Prabal Banarjee (Avail)

Tech

Worldcoin, Sam Altman's Crypto Project, Is Building a Layer-2 Chain

The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains.

Worldcoin's iris-scanning technology is being questioned by regulators (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet

OKX's comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.

OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)

Tech

Alpen Labs Looks to Scale Bitcoin With Zero-Knowledge Proofs Using $10.6M Funding

Alpen Labs has emerged from stealth mode following the funding round, having spent the last year developing Bitcoin rollup infrastructure to bring smart contract functionality to the network

16:9 Alps mountains (Simon Fitall/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Layer 2 Mezo Emerges From Stealth With $21M Raise Led by Pantera

Mezo is a permissionless Bitcoin economic layer that uses a neutral smart contract infrastructure to offer a wide range of applications.

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Markets

Ethereum Layer 2s Could Rocket to $1T Base Valuation by 2030, VanEck Says

The valuation is based on the future expected usage of several layer 2 networks across usecases such as metaverse, banking and gaming.

A rocket launching. (United Launch Alliance / U.S. Air Force)

Tech

The Protocol: Meme Coins (and Pepe's Best Friend) Swarm Coinbase Layer 2 Chain

The meme coin frenzy that drove up activity – and failed transactions – on Solana appears to have quickly migrated to Base, Coinbase's six-month-old layer-2 blockchain. Who is the blue-faced creature behind the $BRETT token?

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Markets

Layer-2 Blockchain Mantle’s Token Hits All-Time High as Reward System Goes Live

The rally in the MNT token pushed the market cap of the blockchain to over $4 billion.

Messari

Finance

BOB, a 'Hybrid' Layer-2 Blockchain Mixing Bitcoin and Ethereum, Raises $10M

The fundraising round was led by Castle Island Ventures and included participation from Mechanism Ventures, Bankless Ventures, CMS Ventures and UTXO Management

BOB team (BOB)