On January 12, Merlin Chain, a bitcoin native two-layer project, announced its support for Goldinals, the first unified asset protocol for bitcoin. Goldinals was developed by Nubit, a bitcoin ecosystem native technology project, and was contributed by Domo, the founder of BRC20. It is backward compatible with all bitcoin existing asset protocols such as BRC-20, Ordinals, and Runes. It aims to unify the bitcoin asset ecosystem and promote liquidity, transparency, and programming capabilities. Mer...
On January 7th, the BTCFI carnival launched by Bitcoin Finality-based Bitcoin native two-layer project Bitlayer entered the third week of activities. This week, the interactive task of Bitlayer ecological project DeSyn Protocol and DeAgentAI will be launched on Binance Wallet. Users who complete this week's task can participate in the equal share of the total value of 480,000 dollars of Token rewards. So far, the number of users participating in the Bitlayer BTCFI carnival has exceeded 500,000, ...
On December 5th, Bitlayer, a Bitcoin native two-layer project based on Bitcoin finality, officially released maintenance version v1.1.6, which aims to fix DoS attacks that may be caused by malicious P2P messages. The official recommends that all nodes upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
Optimism, the Ethereum ecosystem layer 2 network, has announced that it has joined the Chainlink Scale initiative. Chainlink Data Streams, Chainlink Functions, and Chainlink VRF have gone live on Optimism's OP Mainnet. OP mainnet developers will now be able to use Chainlink's low-cost oracle service to build applications.
Base, an Ethereum two-layer network, posted on the X platform that it had no intention of imitating another artist's work when designing the One Billion Transactions commemorative collection on Zora, but did not cite the source. Base expressed its regret for this and will give all the proceeds to Chris Biron, while also improving the process to ensure that this does not happen again. Yesterday, Base published an article saying that it had reached a single-day 1 billion transaction milestone and ...
Linea, the Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by Consensys, continues to move in the direction of decentralization and announced the establishment of the Linea Association at Devcon in Bangkok, Thailand on November 13. The newly formed association will have three main goals: to support Linear technology, develop the Linea market, and further advance Linea's decentralization roadmap. One of the core features of the operation of the Linea Association is token holder governance, which means that Li...
Zerion launched the ZERO Network, a "free" Ethereum two-layer network that allows Zerion Wallet users to trade, mint, exchange, and bridge without paying gas fees, using a native account abstraction with smart accounts and payers to provide Zerion Wallet users with free transactions. Zerion also announced an undisclosed amount of funding from angel investors.
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 ...
On October 16th, Bitlayer, a bitcoin native two-layer project, announced the results of the first phase of its Booster Grants Program. After a demo display and review, RollDex, Desyn Protocol, Jasper Vault, DeAgentAI and UXUY Wallet stood out among all the projects that entered the selection and received Grants support from the Bitlayer Foundation. Among them, RollDex received the highest Grants support of $1 million. The Bitlayer Acceleration Program is part of the developer airdrop campaign Re...
On October 14th, the Kakarot team of Ethereum's second-layer network recently announced that its testnet has been successfully migrated to the Starknet Sepolia network. Developers need to redeploy smart contracts on the new testnet Kakarot Starknet Sepolia. Kakarot is a verifiable EVM built on Starkware's STARK-friendly ZK-VM, developed by KKRT Labs, which aims to accelerate the application of zero-knowledge proof technology in blockchain infrastructure such as Ethereum through the "STARKization...
On October 14th, Bitlayer, a bitcoin native two-layer project, announced the launch of the Telegram Mini Apps integration tutorial to help developers quickly build Bitlayer-based Mini Apps. Telegram has more than 900 million active users, its open ecosystem and strong support for Mini Apps make it an ideal platform for Web3 application integration. According to the Bitlayer integration tutorial, developers can quickly develop Mini Apps that interact with on-chain applications, and users can dire...
On October 10, according to official reports, Bitlayer, a bitcoin native two-layer project, announced the shortlist for the first phase of the Booster Grants Program, with a total of 11 projects passing the primary and entering the final stage. The shortlisted projects cover multiple sub-tracks such as BTC-Fi, AI, and gaming, including: - RollDex: Bitcoin's native perpetual contract and derivatives trading platform. - bullishs: full-chain advertising game platform; - Cygnus Finance: Modular real...
Bitcoin two-layer network Bitlayer at a valuation of $300 million to complete the $9 million A round of expansion financing, Polychain Capital and Franklin Templeton led the investment, SCB Limited, Selini Capital, G-20.Group and other participation, it is reported that the valuation of this round of financing is $300 million, and in July A round of financing the same, as of now the company's total amount of financing reached $25 million.
On September 26th, Bitlayer, a bitcoin native second-layer public chain, announced that it has completed the integration support of UXUY Telegram wallet, becoming the first bitcoin ecosystem project to complete the deep layout of the Telegram ecosystem. At present, 900 million Telegram users can experience the Bitlayer ecosystem on Telegram directly through the UXUY Telegram wallet, and seamlessly explore the Bitlayer ecosystem applications. It is understood that this move is part of Bitlayer's ...
BitcoinOS (BOS), the infrastructure that supports Bitcoin's Layer 2 network, says it has open-sourced the BitSNARK verification protocol for further experimentation in Bitcoin. According to the team, BitSNARK allows zk-SNARK proofs to run on Bitcoin without changing the core protocol. With advanced cryptography, any code can be compiled and run onto Bitcoin. (CoinDesk)