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ForkLog 158 04.03.2025

Can Ethereum outpace Solana? Inside MegaETH, an ambitious new rollup

In June 2024, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, together with venture giant Dragonfly Capital and other backers, invested in an Ethereum-based start-up, MegaETH. It is a layer-2 (L2) solution that claims instant transaction finality and throughput of 100,000 TPS. These are the kinds of figures the Ethereum Foundation (EF) ultimately wants to see at the base […]

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ForkLog 31 26.02.2025

Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, and Other Developers Discuss Ethereum’s Future

Leading researchers from the Ethereum Foundation (EF), including Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, and Dankrad Feist, addressed questions on scaling, L1 revenue, and security during an AMA session. The discussion occurred against the backdrop of Aya Miyaguchi stepping down as the organisation’s executive director due to community pressure over recent months. She will continue as EF’s […]

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ForkLog 66 25.02.2025

Hamster Kombat Launches Gaming Layer-2 Network on TON

The team behind the Telegram clicker game Hamster Kombat has announced the launch of Hamster Network, heralded as the “first-ever” gaming Layer-2 blockchain based on TON.

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ForkLog 49 20.02.2025

Stacks Co-Founder Predicts Collapse of Most Bitcoin L2 Solutions

Stacks co-founder and CEO Muneeb Ali stated in an interview with Cointelegraph that most second-layer projects based on the leading cryptocurrency will disappear within three years.

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ForkLog 44 20.02.2025

zkLend Allocates $400,000 for Compensation Plan Following Hack

The team behind the L2 protocol zkLend, built on Starknet, has released a report on the hack and introduced a compensation plan aimed at returning the maximum portion of lost deposits to affected users.

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ForkLog 21 18.02.2025

Abstract Users Report Fund Theft via Cardex

The Ethereum-based L2 platform Abstract has encountered a leakage of funds from user wallets. A company representative, known by the pseudonym 0xBeans, announced an investigation into the incident.

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ForkLog 30 12.02.2025

Compromised zkLend Protocol Offers Hacker $960,000 Reward

On February 12, the L2 protocol zkLend, based on Starknet, suffered a loss of approximately 3666 ETH (valued at $9.6 million at the time of writing) due to a hack. The withdrawal function has been suspended. To the hacker: We understand that you are responsible for today’s attack on zkLend. You may keep 10% of […]

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ForkLog 78 11.02.2025

Uniswap Launches Unichain Mainnet

Developers at Uniswap Labs have announced the launch of the Unichain mainnet, an Ethereum layer-two solution. The pink chain has arrived You can swap, bridge, and provide liquidity on @Unichain directly from the Uniswap web app and in the latest version of the wallet Just look for the ✨ pic.twitter.com/3G4F3kQSr4 — Uniswap Labs ? (@Uniswap) […]

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ForkLog 36 27.01.2025

Ethereum’s L2 Developers Agree on Implementing ‘Based’ Rollups

Representatives from leading Ethereum L2 projects have pledged to work on implementing so-called based rollups to enhance security and reduce network fragmentation. According to Jesse Pollak, head of Base, “based” rollups are a flexible and powerful tool. Their implementation will strengthen connectivity with L1. Ben Jones, director of the Optimism Foundation, added that the new […]

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ForkLog 47 24.01.2025

Vitalik Buterin Confirms Ethereum’s Focus on L2 Scaling Solutions

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stated in a new article that the ecosystem will primarily scale through L2 solutions. Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyondhttps://t.co/T36dnaEYXj — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 24, 2025 According to him, the main obstacles in this direction are: insufficient space for BLOB objects, which “meets the needs of existing […]

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ForkLog 100 22.01.2025

Mantle Unveils Financial Blockchain Hub Concept with $4.3 Billion Treasury

The Mantle team has concluded the year 2024 by unveiling a concept for a financial blockchain hub based on the modular L2 solution Mantle Network, the mETH Protocol for liquid staking and restaking, and the omnichain asset Ignition FBTC. The total TVL of these products amounts to $5.4 billion, supported by the Mantle Treasury with […]

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ForkLog 78 17.01.2025

Tether launches cross-chain stablecoin USDT0 on Kraken’s Ink L2

Launched by Kraken, the Ink network is the first Ethereum layer-2 to deploy the cross-chain stablecoin USDT0, the exchange said in its blog. Ink is built on Optimism’s technology and is compatible with all networks on the OP Stack. Kraken’s rivals have launched their own OP-based DeFi layer-2s, including Coinbase’s Base and Unichain from Uniswap. […]

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