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Spot Bitcoin ETF receives official approval from the SEC
A real layer 2 would look more like something built on Ethereum (can see all its L2s at https://l2beat.com).
Essentially it's a separate network that every few minutes takes every transaction and compresses it into a data blob that it saves on Ethereum along with a proof that the computation was done correctly. The Ethereum L1 nodes then only need to verify the proof instead of re-executing all transactions that happened on the L2.
With this design users can go straight from an exchange like Coinbase onto the L2 and never need to use Ethereum, and fees are 10x cheaper because of the data compression. Fees will soon be 100x cheaper as Ethereum is adding extra space just for these L2 data blobs that is much cheaper than normal Ethereum data space.
Unfortunately it can't be done on Bitcoin right now because Bitcoin nodes don't have Turing complete scripting and so can't verify the proof that an L2 posts to Bitcoin.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)
We are running & maintaining the site (https://l2beat.com). Our work is to look on the current Layer 2 deployments on Ethereum & show risks and statistics to the end user. Very interesting thing is that we are a public goods company trying to stay as objective as possible in the industry full of subjectivity. What I mostly like in this job is that I am a part of the project shaping how it looks, not only mindlessly taking someones orders.
Candidate:
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Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
Ecosystem fragmentation is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to rapid development through competition. Different L2s are competing against each other to provide the best service and that has lead to a cambrian explosion of solutions. It's also a very effective way to explore the solution space, I'm sure many will disappear, others will get eaten, and at some point there will be consolidation. But all this seems like a good approach early on when tackling complex problems for which the ideal trade-offs are not entirely obvious. Explore as much of the solution space as possible and trim later on.
A perhaps more pernicious problem is liquidity fragmentation. Moving assets between L2s is a tedious friction that leads to fragmentation of liquidity. In that respect, zero-knowledge rollups present a big advantage as you can share liquidity between them as long as they share some zk-circuits that allow to prove statements to both chains. All this is being very actively worked on. And the technology behind it is short of fascinating. The typical HN audience would have a huge hard-on for it, if they didn't have such a strong preconception against crypto-anything.
If anyone is curious to learn more about L2s a good starting point is here: https://l2beat.com/
And if you want to see Ethereum scaling progress you can check it here: https://l2beat.com/scaling/activity
The next major upgrade to the protocol, slated for late this year or early 2024 (date is not finalized yet), will focus on scalability by making L2 activity veeery cheap.
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"Exploring Layer 2 Solutions: Seeking insights into the current landscape and optimal choices for developers and entrepreneurs."
These two links will give you a lot of the info you need to compare L2s: https://l2beat.com/ and https://www.growthepie.xyz/ - enjoy.
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Ethereum rollups have hit the milestone of $10bn of assets and 2 million weekly active users! Scaling and adoption is finally here.
Source: https://l2beat.com
- Polygon (MATIC) Shakes Up Leadership: Potential Game Changer Incoming
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Daily General Discussion - June 7, 2023
Thanks! l2beat.com is the best.
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Are Layer 2s as secure as Layer 1?
In addition to what others said, I always find https://l2beat.com useful to see a summary of the security assumptions behind the various L2s. Currently, all L2 need to be trusted to some extent as they are still quite in development.
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Ethereum liquid staking protocol Rocket Pool deploys on zkSync Era
Exponential.fi has good summaries and links to the projects. And https://l2beat.com is also great for judging L2s.
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Next big Eth upgrade
Take a careful look at https://l2beat.com
EIPs
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Ethereum Foundation removes their canary
Even more relevant would be the Ethereum Improvement Proposal repo (where people submit proposals to change the spec):
https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs
Or the go-ethereum execution client (the most popular execution client):
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
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Bridging the Gap: Better Token Standards for Cross-chain Assets
It’s early in the life of the xERC20 standard, but progress is quickly being made. The standard has been audited and is already live with a few projects. The EIP to adopt the standard has been created, and implementation has begun. Alchemix recently announced support for the xERC20 standard. And Defi Wonderland has published a suggested implementation on their GitHub. This implementation has an interface for the xERC20 contract with eight core functions that the token issuer must implement. These are functions related to setting the Lockbox contract (setLockbox), issuance limits for bridges (setLimits, mintingMaxLimitOf, burningMaxLimitOf, etc.), and the core mint and burn functions.
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Numbers Protocol submitted EIP-7517, Allowing Consent for AI Data Mining on the Blockchain
Check out EIP-7517: Giving Consent for AI Data Mining on the Blockchain
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Exploring ERC20 Tokens: The Powerhouse Behind Ethereum's Tokenized World4
ERC223 is not widely implemented, and there is some debate in the ERC discussion thread about backward compatibility and trade-offs between implementing changes at the contract interface level versus the user interface.
- EIPs/.github/workflows/post-ci.yml at master · ethereum/EIPs
- EIPs/.github/workflows/ci.yml at master · ethereum/EIPs
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Process of recalculating the transactionRoot from a block transaction hash
Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs): These are proposals to change various aspects of Ethereum. They often contain detailed technical discussion and can be a good resource for understanding the finer points of how Ethereum works. EIPs can be found here: https://eips.ethereum.org/
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Burning ETH is great for the price, but may be a risk to decentralization (A critique of the ETH burn model and a recommendation for new economics)
Worth looking at: EIP6968: Contract Secured Revenue on an EVM based L2 https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/6969/files
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Calling All Devs and Crypto Enthusiasts: A Community-Driven Anti-Scam Registry on the Blockchain
Additionally, I have made an EIP that can help standardise and maintain official contract registry of each DApp. This can help identify official contracts of a protocol vs scammers using fraud contracts but presenting like official protocol. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/6807
What are some alternatives?
l2-fees
bips - Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
awesome-starknet - A curated list of awesome StarkNet resources, libraries, tools and more
openzeppelin-contracts - OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development.
crypto-fees - Website for comparing total daily fees of various blockchain protocols.
token-allowance-checker - Control ERC20 token approvals
opensea-js - TypeScript SDK for the OpenSea marketplace
avalanche-wallet - The Avalanche web wallet
polygon-edge - A Framework for Building Ethereum-compatible Blockchain Networks
rocketpool - Decentralised Ethereum Liquid Staking Protocol.
consensus-specs - Ethereum Proof-of-Stake Consensus Specifications
solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language