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Noble’s New ‘AppLayer’ Lets Developers Build Stablecoin Tools on Celestia

The aim of Noble’s AppLayer is to let developers build new financial tools and apps with high throughput of stablecoins and reliable stablecoin infrastructure.

Los rollups no tienen la seguridad de Ethereum. (Luigi Pozzoli/Unsplash)

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The Protocol: Can Based Rollups Solve Ethereum’s Layer-2 Problem?

Also: Lido goes modular; Uniswap finally launches Unichain

Sushi rollup

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SSV DAO Unveils “SSV 2.0” Framework, Bringing bApps to Ethereum

Based applications — bApps — will be able to leverage Ethereum validators directly from the layer-1, allowing them to avoid security and centralizing risks.

SSV Network unveils its new framework, "SSV 2.0", its most ambitious plan to date (Wikipedia)

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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.

StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson (Margaux Nijkerk)

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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)

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VC Darling Eclipse Finally Debuts Its Solana-Ethereum Blockchain Hybrid

Eclipse raised more than $50 million from investors but has been marred by controversy over the past year.

Lunar eclipse (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Is Optimism's 'Superchain' Winning the Ethereum Layer-2 Race?

One of the biggest trends of 2023 among the leading layer-2 projects on Ethereum was the emergence of “blockchain in a box,” where teams encouraged developers to clone their code to spin up new layer 2s. Now, one project in particular, Optimism, appears to be pulling away as the clear leader.

Optimism Foundation Chief Growth Officer Ryan Wyatt (Optimism Foundation)

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Bitcoin Rollup Citrea Aims to Make BTC a Programmable Asset With ZK Proofs, Raises $14M Series A

The goal of allowing greater utility on the Bitcoin blockchain is one of almost existential importance, according to Citrea.

A photo of Citrea's four co-creators (Citrea)

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Kraken Picked Optimism's 'Superchain' After Getting a Pile of OP Tokens

CoinDesk is first to report that the crypto exchange Kraken's decision to build on Optimism's OP Stack framework came with a big, previously undisclosed grant from the Optimism Foundation – of 25 million OP tokens, worth about $42.5 million at the current price.

Business deal. (Shutterstock)

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Astria, Project to Decentralize Crucial Blockchain 'Sequencers,' Goes Live With Main Network

Astria's sequencing layer could be used like a modular plug-in for other networks, as an alternative to a centralized sequencer – sometimes seen as a bottleneck, or a single point of failure, or potentially a vector of transaction censorship.

Astria component diagram, from the project documentation (Astria)

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