Layer 2 News

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed introducing multidimensional gas pricing.

The leading Ethereum decentralized exchange, Uniswap, contributes substantially more volume to layer 2 blockchains compared to the activity seen two years ago.

Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, and zkSync integrate the data availability layer from the Avail modular blockchain.

Following the Bitcoin halving, three so-called BTC layer-2 protocols have outperformed crypto’s leading token. 

Muneeb Ali, co-founder of Stacks, shared his perspective on the rapid shift towards a diverse and active phase of innovation within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Grand Base, an RWA tokenization platform on the layer 2 Base network, suffered a major security breach. 

Coinbase's layer 2 network, Base, has been making headlines for its high transaction-per-second throughput compared to Solana.

EOS has announced a new solution aiming to improve Bitcoin’s scalability and compatibility with layer-2 networks. EOS Network, a blockchain platform powered by the EOS virtual machine, has announced the development of exSat, a docking layer, aimed at bridging the…

Global fund manager VanECK has high hopes for Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) networks, predicting that these could be valued at over $1 trillion by 2030. Despite its ambitious targets for L2s, VanECK asserted that it remains “generally bearish” about the…

The Dencun upgrade has benefited layer-2 solutions, yet some experts are concerned about their complexity and potential risks. On Mar. 13, the much-anticipated Dencun upgrade went live on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet, promising enhanced scalability and reduced transaction fees for…

A study by Austin Adams from Uniswap Labs revealed that transactions and liquidity provisions on layer-2 networks offer lower cost advantages over Ethereum's mainnet.

Arbitrum developers will reduce the cost of layer-2 transactions by 10 times, with gas fee reductions going live on March 18.

BNB Chain has introduced a rollup-as-a-service solution to foster the growth of custom Layer 2 networks within its ecosystem.

Ethereum’s much-anticipated update is here. Could this be the turning point for lower user fees on the network? Just before the Dencun update went live, the average gas fee on Ethereum was 66 Gwei — one of the highest levels…

Ethereum developers have successfully deployed the Dencun update to the mainnet.

Developers at Gnosis Chain have deployed a version of the Dencun update to the network to help scale decentralized applications further.