The Rollkit development team has announced that Bitcoin has been integrated as a means for sovereign rollups to store and retrieve data. The developers have stated that it is now possible to run the E...
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Bitcoin (BTC) Can Have Its Own Rollups
Vladislav Sopov Bitcoin (BTC) can serve as data availability layer for rollups, new research says, here’s why Ethereum (ETH) community is very pessimistic about this opportunity Contents Rollups...
Rollkit opens the door for rollups using Bitcoin’s data
Rollkit has taken to Twitter to announce that it now supports the sovereign rollup on Bitcoin. This marks the first-ever research integration of Bitcoin for sovereign rollups as a data availability la...
Can MATIC Sustain Current Upsurge as Polygon Tests Zero-Knowledge Rollups? ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Among the cryptocurrencies posting impressive gains is Polygon’s MATIC which has added 11% in the past day at $1.03, coinciding with the network’s te...
Polygon tests zero-knowledge rollups, mainnet integration inbound
Ethereum layer-2 scaling protocol Polygon (MATIC) is carrying out performance testing of zero-knowledge rollup (zk-Rollups) technology ahead of full integration with its mainnet. The development of th...
Polygon tests ZK rollups ahead of mainnet integration
Today, Polygon, an ethereum (ETH) sidechain, said they were in the final stage of testing its Zero-Knowledge (ZK) rollups. This is as they gauged the functionality of the zero-knowledge Ethereum virtu...
5988: A new proposal to develop interoperability between EVM & ZK powered rollups
Abdelhamid Bakhta, one of the authors of Proposal 5988, presented the proposal during the All Core Devs, a bi-weekly meeting for leading developers to discuss the future of upgrades. The proposal aims...
Optimism (OP) Soars 7% to Ride Bullish Sentiment Surrounding Rollups
Godfrey Benjamin Optimism (OP) is up 7.25% as L2 protocol maintains its ranking in top 100 As a relatively low-cap digital currency, Optimism (OP) is on a bullish tear today, with its price up 7.25% t...
2022 Review of Optimistic Rollups
December 1, 2022, 2:43PM EST • 6 min read Quick Take The growth of optimistic rollups in 2022 has been significant, largely due to the spike in Optimism’s growth after the launch of its governance tok...
Los rollups de layer 2 de Ethereum reducen los costos, pero se subestiman sus riesgos
Sin embargo, para aquellos que quieran mantener las transacciones dentro del ecosistema de Ethereum, existen los rollups de layer 2, contratos inteligentes que agrupan varias transacciones en un solo ...
Bitcoin Scalability: Validity Rollups Will Make Transactions 100x Faster Claims Researcher
Validity rollups may soon be coming to Bitcoin. Researcher John Light says that rollups could improve functionality on the Bitcoin blockchain in a significant way. It includes making transactions fast...
Ex-Terra Developer Raises $15M for Cross-chain Rollups
Eclipse’s seed round was led by Tribe Capital, and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko was an angel investor Somani announced his Eclipse protocol four months after the Terra stablecoin collapsed Neel...
Validity Rollups Proposed For Bitcoin – Trustnodes
ZK-tech based second layer solutions may be coming to bitcoin with John Light of the Human Rights Foundation’s ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship, putting forward a proposal that has grabbed the attention ...
Polygon and Matter Labs Compete on zkEVM Rollups
EVM compatibility or equivalence allows dapp developers to port their applications from other Ethereum-based chains Multiple zk-rollup implementations of the EVM will go live in the next 6 months The ...
MEXC Launches $20m Ecosystem Fund in Strategic Partnership to Support Rollups on Bitcoin Through Syscoin’s Rollux OPv1
SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MEXC, a global top 10 digital asset trading platform, has entered into a strategic partnership to support the launch of a rollup solution that is secured by the Bitcoin netwo...
Rollups Post-Merge and Arbitrum Exploits
September 23, 2022, 1:40PM EDT • 5 min read Quick Take In this bi-weekly series, we look into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 2 blockchain landscape, from DeFi and ...
Top 5 Rollups Tokens to Add to Your Portfolio in September 2022
Zk-rollups, also known as zero-knowledge rollups, is a Layer 2 scaling solution that enables blockchains to validate transactions more quickly while simultaneously guaranteeing that gas costs are kept...
How The Merge Impacts Rollups and Bridges
September 1, 2022, 1:20PM EDT • 8 min read Quick Take In this bi-weekly series, we look into some of the most interesting data and developments across the Layer 2 blockchain landscape, from DeFi and b...
What are Ethereum roll-ups and why do they matter?
It’s expensive to transfer data on Ethereum. Unlike centralized cloud storage, where gigabytes of data can be held for very little cost, storing even a few bytes on a blockchain can quickly become exp...
The Race to Scale Ethereum With zkEVM Rollups
Key Takeaways zkSync, StarkNet, Polygon zkEVM, and Scroll are some of the top ZK-Rollup projects building with EVM-compatibility in mind. Each project is tackling the questions of throughput, cryptogr...
The role of rollups in Ethereum’s scalability
For many, rollups may be one of the solutions to solve the known scalability problems of the Ethereum network. Improving the scalability of the Ethereum blockchain through rollups The two rollup solut...
‘Big Move’ Coming to MATIC, Hints Price Metric As Polygon Gains Massive Edge With zkEVM Rollups ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Polygon has taken Ethereum scaling to the next level in what appears to be a massive technological innovation for the crypto industry. The top-tier s...
Ethereum will outpace Visa with zkEVM Rollups, says Polygon co-founder
zkEVM Rollups, a new scaling solution for Ethereum, will allow the smart contract protocol to outpace Visa in terms of transaction throughput, said Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic in a recent interv...
Ethereum scalability enhanced by ZK rollups
The scalability of Ethereum is entering a whole new phase with the launch of several “zero-knowledge rollup” solutions based on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). New solutions improving the scalabil...
The Sudden Rise of EVM-Compatible ZK Rollups
In his 2021 rollup primer, Buterin wrote, “In general, my own view is that in the short term, Optimistic rollups are likely to win out for general-purpose EVM computation and ZK rollups are likely to ...
Can the Optimism blockchain win the battle of the rollups?
Ethereum is plagued with criticisms of its less than optimal scaling capabilities and high gas prices. There have been talks about increasing the scaling capacity of the Ethereum mainnet for a while n...
An Updated View of Rollups Development
May 26, 2022, 12:05PM EDT • 15 min read Quick Take Rollups have seen significant adoption and development over the past year In general, optimistic rollups have outperformed zk rollups in terms of ado...
What Are Ethereum Rollups? A Scaling Solution to Cut Transaction Costs
In brief Ethereum rollups “roll up” a bunch of transactions into one. They come in two basic forms: optimistic rollups and zero-knowledge rollups. Even after the latest crypto crash, Ether...
What is Optimism? Using Rollups to Help Scale Ethereum
In brief Optimism is an scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain. It uses optimistic rollups to process transactions in batches, reducing gas fees. Ethereum has grown to become the second largest ...
What is Arbitrum? Speeding Up Ethereum Using Optimistic Rollups
The Ethereum network has a lot going for it—it’s decentralized, reliable, supports smart contracts written in a programming language familiar to many crypto developers, and is home to a thriving decen...
Ethereum rollups promised lower fees and faster speeds, but instead we got…
Ethereum’s rollups were pitched as airlines and super highways to make transactions faster within the ecosystem and solve congestion problems. However, reality hasn’t quite panned out the way many rol...