News with the tag "Plasma"

A stablecoin firm backed by veteran investor Peter Thiel is raking in tens of millions of dollars worth of funds during a recent fundraising event. In a new thread on the social media platform X, Plasma – a company designing a Bitcoin ( BTC )-based blockchain specifically tailored for stablecoins – ...

Plasma, a crypto startup building a Bitcoin-based blockchain designed specifically for stablecoins, raised $20 million to further its development, the company said on Thursday. The fundraising round was led by Framework Ventures and will support Plasma’s testnet and mainnet launches, as well as its ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin urges Web3 developers to re-explore Plasma scaling solution technology. The post Vitalik Buterin bats for Plasma scaling solution appeared first on AMBCrypto .

In this week's edition of The Protocol newsletter, we share a few trends stand out to close 2023: the proliferation of Ethereum layer-2 networks, the ascendancy of zero-knowledge cryptography and the appearance of tokens, smart contracts and now file hosting on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Vitalik Buterin called the early Ethereum scaling solution Plasma “underrated” and a “significant security upgrade” for chains that would otherwise be validiums.

Vitalik Buterin called the early Ethereum scaling solution Plasma “underrated” and a “significant security upgrade” for chains that would otherwise be validiums.