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State of Urbit, Austin Convention Center: Protocol Village, Austin, Texas, USA - 28 Apr 2023
Urbit, a Network Older and Weirder Than Bitcoin, Finally Turns Toward Growth
The peer-to-peer network started in 2002 says it's taking on "MEGACORP," much in the same vein as many blockchain networks. A bit more fun are the "secret code names" that users are assigned.
State of Urbit, Austin Convention Center: Protocol Village, Austin, Texas, USA - 28 Apr 2023

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Google Cloud to Help Accelerate Polygon's Growth Via New Agreement
The tech giant will be "strategic cloud provider" for Polygon protocols.
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How the Hunt for Yet-to-Exist Tokens Is Shaping Ethereum’s Layer 2 Landscape
Token airdrops – and the prospect of them – have become the default customer acquisition strategy for Ethereum's layer 2 scaling projects. But is this strategy sustainable?
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Polygon Co-Founder Explains zkEVM
Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform, released its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) beta to the public last week. Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal explains what zkEVMs are and why it's the "holy grail of scaling of blockchains."
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Polygon ZkEVM Mainnet Beta Goes Live; Ethereum’s Buterin Sends First Transaction
Ethereum scaling platform Polygon released its zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine zk EVM beta to the public and Ethereum blockchain's co founder Vitalik Buterin was granted the privilege of initiating the first transaction Polygon co founder Sandeep Nailwal discusses the zk EVM technology and how the company is pushing for mainstream adoption of Web 3 [...]
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ConsenSys Launches zkEVM Public Testnet, Renames It ‘Linea’
The release comes in the days after competitors, Polygon and Matter Labs, came out with their own zkEVMs.
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Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Polygon zkEVM Mainnet Beta Goes Live; Ethereum’s Buterin Sends First Transaction
The release of Polygon’s zkEVM comes just days after competitor Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era.
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Matter Labs Has No Plans for zkSync Era Airdrop, But Crypto Twitter Is Speculating
Based on the precedent set by many crypto projects, the speculation over a possible zkSync airdrop isn’t totally unfounded.
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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.”
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ConsenSys to Launch zkEVM Public Testnet March 28
Consen Sys a top software firm working on the Ethereum blockchain is rolling out a zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine zk EVM public testnet on March 28 intensifying the race among top crypto firms to be first to go fully live with the fast emerging technology The Hash panel discusses what this means for the [...]
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