Kevin Rose, founder of the NFT company PROOF, whose Los Angeles home was completely destroyed in the recent California wildfires, shared footage of himself walking past burned cars and homes on social media platform Threads, saying: "It's a shame that everything was lost in the fire and nothing was left."
Bitcoin Proof of Stake Protocol Babylon Labs announced a strategic investment in BitVM2 development company Fiamma. The specific investment amount has not been disclosed yet. This investment will support its efforts to build a bitcoin bridge development software solution that minimizes trust to connect the Cosmos chain. It intends to integrate zero-knowledge technology into Bitcoin and reshape the application of Bitcoin in programmable blockchains and other fields.
On January 9, the Aligned Foundation, a decentralized zero-knowledge proof verification layer, tweeted that it has completed $1 million community financing. Aligned Layer is a ZK validation layer developed on top of the EigenLayer. This will make the validation of any SNARK proof cost-effective, leveraging the security of an Ethereum validator without the limitations of Ethereum. As the EigenLayer AVS, it promises to provide an affordable validation and versatile proof system for L2 and bridges,...
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Zero-knowledge proof research firm NEBRA is launching its universal proof aggregator tool on World Chain, World's blockchain. The integration aims to reduce the cost of running ZK proofs on World Chain.
Coinbase's two-layer chain Base has enabled proof-of-failure on the mainnet. According to a blog post by Base "Proof-of-failure is an important part from Stage 0 to Stage 1, where cryptocurrencies have'full training wheels', while in Stage 1, cryptocurrencies have'limited training wheels'. This year, the Base core team worked closely with Optimism to bring the OP stack error proofing system to Base. This enables a decentralized approach to proposing and verifying L2 status and paves the way for ...
Base has announced that Fault proofs are live on the Base mainnet, allowing anyone to make or challenge proposals about L2 status in a permissionless manner. Base says that Fault proofs are a fundamental step towards decentralization. Another important step for Base to reach the first stage of decentralization is to add Security Council to its contract upgrade key. Once this step is completed, Base can only perform contract upgrades based on actions taken by Optimism Security Council, which only...
Base 宣布 Fault proofs 已于 Base 主网上线,使任何人都可以以无需许可的方式提出或质疑有关 L2 状态的 proposal。 Base 表示,Fault proofs 是其迈向去中心化的基础一步。Base 达到第一阶段去中心化的另一个重要步骤是将 Security Council 添加到其合约升级密钥中,一旦这一步完成,Base 只能根据 Optimism Security Council 采取的行动进行合约升级,而 Optimism Security Council 只采取 Optimism Governance...
The Council for Cryptocurrency Innovation (CCI) plans to work with one of its members, the Proof-of-Stake Alliance (POSA), to further delve into the issue of staking. The CCI said the market value of staking has increased from $19 million in 2019 to more than $500 billion. U.S. lawmakers have been working on legislation around staking taxes, and the Securities Exchange Commission has also brought charges against the staking schemes of several companies, including Kraken, Consensys, and Coinbase....
On October 23rd, Celestia Labs announced the results of the proof-of-concept Mammoth Mini testnet, with an average permissionless data throughput of 27 MB/s. Many improvements to Mammoth Mini (e.g. FBSS) have ended the research phase and entered the design phase. Others (such as Vacuum! and the redesigned QUIC-based p2p stack) are in the prototype and MVP stages, and iterative improvements are underway. The core developer community hopes to present these improvements when they are ready for depl...
On October 17, it was reported that the X account of Lagrange, the developer of the decentralized proof network ZK Prover, was suspected to have been stolen, and a fraudulent link about the token LGR was posted. Users should interact with caution.
Opacity Network, a zero-knowledge proof data verification platform, announced the completion of a $12 million seed round led by Archetype and Breyer Capital, with participation from a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX), Finality Capital Partners, Bodhi Ventures and Escape Velocity (EV3). This seed round financing brings Opacity's total financing to $13.40 million. The previous seed round of financing for the company was $1.40 million.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved CattleProof's "Verified" as a blockchain-based Process Verification Project (PVP). The system records cattle information, including data and status of electronic identification tags, through a decentralized digital ledger. CattleProof also provides "U.S.-Born" certifications and digital certificates for individual cattle, a move that shows USDA's endorsement of blockchain technology in agriculture.