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Tech

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.

CEO of Espresso Systems Ben Fisch (Espresso Systems)

Tech

Bitcoin Staking Platform Babylon to Start Phased Mainnet Launch This Week

Babylon's attempts to introduce BTC staking is one of many developments in recent months that are aiming to introduce greater utility to Bitcoin

David Tse, an engineering professor at Stanford University who co-founded Babylon, a Bitcoin staking protocol (Bradley Keoun)

Tech

Router Launches Mainnet, as More Projects 'Abstract' Away Blockchains

Router Chain is supposed to reduce the complexities of cross-chain interactions and make the development of dapps easier to use.

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Finance

Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'

Celestia has released its mainnet beta after issuing tokens to 580,000 users.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Tech

Scroll Confirms Mainnet Live, as Co-Founder Predicts Speed Gains Over Ethereum

Blockchain data showed that Scroll’s smart contract was deployed on Oct. 8, but the team held off making its official announcement until this week.

Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)

Tech

Scroll zkEVM Launches, Blockchain Data Shows, Competing With Polygon, Matter Labs

The new Ethereum layer-2 network's debut adds to the competition among rival providers of so-called "zkEVMs," including Polygon and Matter Labs.

Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)

Markets

Ether Trading at 27% Discount to Fair Value, New Research Shows

Research firm RxR's blended Metcalfe law-centric valuation model, incorporating active user adoption of layer 2 scaling networks, suggests ether should trade at a market value of $275 billion.

Ether (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

Markets

Sei Mainnet is Live After Testnet Sees More Than 7.5M Wallets Created

The trading focused layer 1 blockchain is backed by Jump Crypto and Flow Traders.

After weeks of delays, the VanEck Bitcoin Strategy ETF is ready to launch. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Videos

Shiba Inu Testnet Blockchain 'Puppynet' Crosses 20M Transactions

The Shibarium network’s native test network, Puppynet, has crossed more than 20 million transactions from 16 million wallets as it crawls closer to a mainnet release in the coming months. "The Hash" panel discusses the activities on the network.

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Tech

Cosmos-Based DeFi Protocol Quasar to Start Mainnet After Raising More Than $11.5M

Quasar is optimized for managing DeFi investments across multiple blockchains.

Quasar logo (Quasar)

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