Scaling

Reddit Taps Layer 2 and FTX For Community Token
Social Media Giant to Launch Arbitrum-based ERC20 Tokens

Arbitrum To Launch Nitro Upgrade on August 31
Nitro is a major upgrade for Arbitrum expected to enable faster transactions and lower fees.

ZK Roundup: Ethereum Scaling Projects Are Forging Ahead
Polygon, Matter Labs and Scroll have released updates on their Ethereum-compatible zero-knowledge rollups.

StarkNet Testers Fume After Token Announcement
StarkWare plans to launch its native token in September.

Ethereum Rollup Startup StarkWare Closes Series D At $8B Valuation
Even though the price of ETH has fallen by about 50% since early April, Ethereum scaling solutions continue to secure huge amounts of funding to address the bottlenecks that slow down the blockchain and make it expensive to use. On May 25, StarkWare, an Israeli startup building Layer 2 scaling solutions for Ethereum, announced the…

Ethereum Foundation, AMD, Polkadot Launch $7M Competition to Boost Zero-Knowledge Scaling
Leading crypto projects have banded together to offer $7M in prizes to teams innovating using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Ethereum’s Merge Delayed Despite Successful ‘Shadow Fork’ Test
The most recent test processed mainnet transactions on a “shadow fork” – a subset of proof-of-work nodes that had been merged with the Beacon Chain to process proof-of-stake transactions.

Polygon Taps Zero-Knowledge Proofs For New Identity Service
Polygon Embraces ZK in Anticipation of Ethereum's PoS Shift

Sunflower Game Throws Wrench in Polygon’s Gears
Fees on Ethereum scaling solution Polygon are surging to record highs. The cause? A game. Polygon gas prices spiked to an all-time high of a 410 Gwei average. That’s nearly twice as much as the previous high of 226 posted on Dec. 4, according to Polygon’s block explorer.






