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Tech

Sony, Electronics Pioneer Behind Walkman, Starts Own Blockchain 'Soneium'

The new project, "Soneium" will be a layer-2 network atop the Ethereum blockchain, using technology from Optimism's OP Stack.

Sony Block Solutions Lab Director Sota Watanabe (Startale Labs)

Tech

Optimism Pushes for 'Interoperability' Between Affiliated Blockchains

Optimism-affiliated networks, including Coinbase's Base, that are part of the Superchain rely on Ethereum to communicate with each other in order to move assets, which tends to make such moves slow and expensive. To address that, Optimism is releasing its own interoperability roadmap.

Co-founder of OP Labs Mark Tyneway (OP Labs)

Tech

Sam Altman’s Layer-2 Blockchain Project, World Chain, Opens to Developers

This means that select developers can apply to build, test, and give feedback to Tools For Humanity, the developer firm behind Worldcoin, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk.

Worldcoin co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman (Marc Olivier/Worldcoin)

Tech

The Protocol: How Optimism Filled in Its Missing Tooth

In this week's newsletter, we delve into the Ethereum layer-2 network Optimism's delivery of "fault proofs," a piece of functionality that was glaringly missing even though it was at the heart of the project's security setup.

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Tech

Optimism Finally Gets Its Mission-Critical 'Fault Proofs'

For years, Optimism was missing a core feature at the heart of its design: "Fault proofs." On Monday, that tech is finally here.

OP Labs CEO Karl Floersch. (Optimism)

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Celo Community Ratifies Plan to Use Optimism's OP Stack for New Layer-2 Chain

The vote passed with overwhelming support, with 65 addresses representing 14.6 million CELO tokens signaling approval for the measure.

Celo Foundation President Rene Reinsberg (Celo)

Tech

Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync

The chains' users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.

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

Tech

The Protocol: Analyzing Runes Impact as Bitcoin Fee Bonanza Fades

Last week's Bitcoin halving came and went – just as Satoshi Nakamoto programmed it. But the big surprise was the fast uptake of Casey Rodarmor's new Runes protocol, his second big hit on the original blockchain in two years.

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Markets

OP, YGG Feeling Sell-Side Pressure as Unlocks Loom

DYDX also has a large release of tokens scheduled but is not experiencing the same pricing pressure.

Token unlocks are usually bearish events, increasing a token's supply.(FLY:D/Unsplash)

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Celo Chooses Optimism, Concluding Bake-Off Among Layer 2s

CLabs officially proposed using Optimism’s OP Stack for the transition. The proposal will be discussed on a couple of community calls and then go to a vote among holders of the project's CELO tokens, under the chain's governance rules.

Celo Foundation President Rene Reinsberg (Celo)