Ethereum News
Regulatory Pressure Did Not Shut Down Privacy Tool, Aztec Founders Say
Despite U.S. efforts to sanction Tornado Cash and other crypto privacy tools, Aztec says it shut down its Ethereum zero-knowledge tools for commercial reasons.
Zero Knowledge Proofs Explained
Matter Labs is opening its zkSync Era to general users after it launched to developers last month. CEO and co-founder Alex Gluchowski explains what zero-knowledge proofs are as competition between Ethereum scaling platforms heats up.
Matter Labs Opens zkSync Era to Users, Claiming First in ‘Zero Knowledge’ Tech on Ethereum
After zkSync Era was launched only for developers last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening to general users. The latest push comes just days ahead of the rival Polygon system’s planned rollout Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”
Ethereum Network DRPC Aims to Quell Centralization Risks Ahead of Shanghai Upgrade
DRPC developers say Ethereum remains dependent on a few major centralized RPC players, which undermines ecosystem sustainability and security.
Ethereum Usage Will Drop If the Blockchain Doesn’t Boost Speed: Bank of America
The network has had a first-mover advantage thus far as a platform developers could build apps on, a report from the bank said.
ConsenSys’ MetaMask Institutional Starts Staking Marketplace With Allnodes, Blockdaemon, Kiln
The new marketplace comes just weeks before Ethereum’s much-anticipated Shanghai hard fork that should spur growth in staking services.
Bitcoin Mining Firm Navier Starts Tokenized Hashrate Marketplace for 'Qualified' Customers
The Navier platform is intended to give users more control over their acquired hashrate, and enable them to sell it on.
Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship
Noncensoring relays such as Agnostic and ultra sound are delivering more data blocks on Ethereum than Flashbots, the one-time king of MEV-delivering relays.
Polygon Partners With Salesforce for NFT-Based Loyalty Program
Salesforce partnership with the blockchain platform marks another major company’s investment into customer engagement initiatives using Web3 technologies.
