News with the tag "Sidechains"

This year, Bitcoin layer two (L2) solutions and sidechains have gained incredible traction, with the top ten Bitcoin-based sidechains or L2 protocols now controlling a combined $1.31 billion in total value locked (TVL). The latest figures reveal that more than 56% of this total is held within two pr...

A look at different solutions to solving the issue of end users interactions with the Lightning network, i.e. the last mile problem.

Wormhole, a cross-chain communication protocol enabling the transfer of assets between blockchains, recently launched an airdrop campaign for its newly issued governance token, W. Early users were rewarded with 617 million W tokens, and the protocol also released a roadmap outlining its plans. Wormh...

The growing adoption of crypto's latest Layer 3 chain has minted millionaires and drawn in criticism from high-profile detractors.

Sygnum tokenized Matter Labs' treasury reserves onto the zkSync Layer 2 in the form of Fidelity International's Institutional Liquidity Fund (ILF) security tokens.

Blob transactions, part of EIP-4844 (or protodanksharding), will be implemented on Ethereum with the Dencun upgrade tomorrow.

Eclipse Labs is developing an Ethereum Layer-2 solution using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), aiming for scalability and composability.

In a recent announcement, Layer 2 (L2) protocol Injective (INJ) has reached a major milestone with the launch of its inEVM Layer 2 rollup solution on the mainnet. This technology introduces an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) environment to the Injective ecosystem, opening up new prospects for develop...

Anduro is a federated/merge mined hybrid sidechain design, specifically designed to enable the federation to manage multiple sidechains with differing architectures.

Crypto mining firm Marathon Digital has incubated a new sidechain network on bitcoin named Anduro.