PANews, September 5 - Vitalik Buterin tweeted that low-cost transactions of stablecoins are still a major source of value in the encryption space. As a new L2 participant, Codex has emphasized its synergy with Ethereum L1 since its launch.

Gate News bot news, according to the announcement from Gate platform on August 29, 2025: Gate will launch Mitosis ( and MITO) spot trading on August 29, 2025, at 19:00 UTC+8 (. This token was previously launched on the Gate Alpha section on August 28. Mitosis is a liquidity protocol focused on the modular era, with its core function being to redefine cross-chain liquidity through innovative mechanisms. The protocol allows users to obtain derivative tokens that are exchanged 1:1 with locked assets, which can be used in DeFi applications on Ethereum L1 and L2 Rollups, achieving additional yields on cross-chain assets. The MITO token contract address is 0x8e1e6bf7e13c400269987b65ab2b5724b016caef.

PANews, August 26 - According to official news from Eclipse Labs, the team announced a strategic adjustment after the token generation event (TGE), shifting its focus towards developing groundbreaking applications based on its L2 infrastructure. At the same time, Sydney will take over as CEO, while the former CEO Litquidity has resigned voluntarily. In addition, to align with the new strategy, Eclipse has laid off 65% of its staff to enhance execution flexibility.

Foresight News reports that Linea tweeted that Status will build an L2 through Linea, becoming one of the first teams to directly contribute to the Linea codebase. The L2 chain they create will have gas-free transactions, with 100% of net profits returned to the community and made open source to the public. Founded in 2017, Status is one of the founding members of the Linea Alliance, responsible for managing 75% of the Linea Token supply.

Gate News Bot news, on August 20, according to CoinMarketCap, as of the time of writing, KERNEL (KernelDAO) is currently priced at $0.22, having risen 11.15% in the last 24 hours, with a high of $0.23 and a low of $0.19. The current market capitalization is approximately $49.3 million, an increase of $4.95 million from yesterday, currently ranked 577th. KernelDAO is an ecosystem aimed at providing yields for cryptocurrencies such as ETH, BTC, and BNB. It offers three main products: Kelp, Gain, and Kernel. Kelp allows users to re-stake ETH across more than 10 L2 networks; Gain provides yield opportunities with no lock-up period; Kernel supports re-staking of assets like BNB and BTC. KERNEL token is the core of the entire ecosystem.

According to ChainCatcher news, Forbes reports that the tokenization scale of real-world assets (RWA) in non-financial categories will rise by 240% year-on-year in 2024, significantly surpassing traditional RWA categories. Key advancements focus on three major areas: domain name assets, intellectual property, and carbon credits. In terms of intellectual property, platforms like Oasys have established blockchain IP storage systems to reduce the risk of rights confirmation fraud, and the fractional trading model of music copyrights has been expanded to the creative industry. According to reports, Oasys is a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for gaming. Through its EVM L1 and private L2 aggregation, Oasys creates an attractive solution for both large and independent game studios to deploy their games and intellectual property on-chain.

Odaily News According to L2 Beat data, after a large-scale burn of OKB, the on-chain assets of the X Layer network built by OKX have risen 103% in the past 7 days, reaching a historical high of 84.89 million USD; meanwhile, on August 16, the number of transactions for X Layer reached 2.05 million, surpassing Ethereum for the first time in history; in addition, in the past day, the user operations per second (UOPS) reached 19.23, an increase of over 1.

The total Lock-up Position of Ethereum Layer 2 has reached $45.19 billion, rising by 4.04% over the last 7 days. Among them, ArbitrumOne and Base performed outstandingly, with Lock-up Positions of $19.92 billion and $16 billion respectively, while OPMainnet and Unichain experienced a fall.

Golden Finance reports that The Ether Machine stated on the X platform that JPMorgan believes stablecoins will experience exponential rise, and Ethereum adapts to this trend, being the most direct way to access stablecoins, as the Ethereum network, either as L1 or through certain L2, hosts most stablecoin assets.

PANews August 14 news, according to Puffer Finance announcement, the UniFi V2 Testnet is now officially online, supporting rollup technology based on Ethereum, providing sub-second confirmations, atomic L2→L1 withdrawals, EIP-7702 smart wallet standard, optional governance, customizable fee markets, and KYC gated or fully open chains. The upgrade introduces multi-TEE real-time proofs, MEV and priority fee sharing, and EigenLayer-based AVS mechanisms, with all upgrades being compatible and gradually deployed, with core metrics shifting towards volume and speed.

PANews, August 6th news, the Espresso Foundation, which focuses on building Rollup native infrastructure, announced that its community Token public sale on the KaitoAI platform has ended, with subscription demand far exceeding the supply of $ESP Tokens of 4 million dollars. Due to oversubscription, actual allocation is based on factors such as subscription time, holding Composables NFT, and influence in the L2 field. To give back to our supporters, Espresso will additionally airdrop tokens, including a fixed amount of 25,000 $ESP, 33% of the subscription amount, and an additional 10% for Composables NFT holders. These tokens will be fully unlocked at the launch of the project. According to previous news, the crypto infrastructure company Espresso Systems has completed a $28 million Series B financing, a16z.

BlockBeats news, on August 6, Blur and Blast co-founder Pac-man responded to a netizen's question on the X platform, stating, "Thank you very much for your praise, your ultimate victory is well-deserved. We look forward to showing you the products we will be launching next." It is reported that the official Twitter of Ethereum L2 Blast has not published any posts since May 13, which was about 3 months ago, raising concerns in the community.

BlockBeats reports that Linea will integrate Lido V3 stVault infrastructure to create a sustainable non-custodial Decentralized Finance engine, automatically obtaining stake rewards for bridging ETH, providing customized services to ensure trustless access and withdrawals.

Gate News bot message, according to the official Gate announcement on August 5, 2025. Gate will launch the TOWNS( spot trading on August 5, 2025, at 22:30 UTC+8. The TOWNS/USDT trading pair will be opened. Towns is a decentralized real-time messaging protocol built on an EVM-compatible L2 layer, providing smart contract support on the Base network. The protocol promotes the development of ownable and revenue-generating "spaces" through on-chain membership, encrypted messaging, and a programmable reputation mechanism. The TOWNS token contract is deployed on the Base network, and the contract address is 0x00000000a22c618fd6b4d7e9a335c4b96b189a38.

PANews, August 4th - Curve community member phil00Llama recently proposed to "stop all subsequent Layer 2 development." The proposal suggests that the deployed L2 can be retained but recommends terminating further development. He believes that L2 chains require maintenance efforts on par with the Ethereum Mainnet, but the returns are meager (currently, the total daily earnings of all L2s amount to about $1,500); L2 technology iterates very quickly and has a short-lived nature, leading to significant operational pressure; development teams could focus their efforts on more valuable areas. Currently, there is only one comment from a community member regarding this proposal: "This proposal is so radical that it should be elaborated more thoroughly."

Gate News Bot news, on July 31, according to CoinMarketCap data, QKC (QuarkChain) is currently priced at 0.01 USD, having risen 35.64% in the last 24 hours, with a peak of 0.01 USD and a low of 0.01 USD. The current market capitalization is approximately 70.1 million USD, an increase of 1.84 million USD compared to yesterday. QuarkChain is a project dedicated to building a "super world computer," aiming to provide a highly scalable, secure, and fully decentralized L2 solution with on-chain verifiable storage, serving as the ultimate infrastructure for AI and decentralized applications. QKC enables mass adoption through the Soul Gas Token, allowing users to pay transaction fees with non-transferable gas tokens, providing a seamless Web2-style experience for new users. The project also promotes...

Gate News bot message, according to the official announcement from Gate on July 18, 2025. Gate has launched a new ERA 7-day fixed-term financial product on its Yubi Bao platform, offering an annualized yield of 500%. The total quota is 1.4 million ERA, and it will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The ERA token project Caldera is an internet platform focused on Rollups, aimed at providing fast and low-cost cross-chain asset transfer and trading services. It is reported that the Caldera ecosystem currently secures over $400 million in total value, processes over 850 million transactions, and has more than 25 million trading addresses, surpassing major L2 systems like Scroll and ZKSync in terms of unique address count.

Golden Finance reported that the Ethereum L2 network Mantle disclosed its Ethereum reserve data in a post on the X platform. As of now, the Holdings of ETH and mETH stand at 101,867 coins, valued at approximately $388 million. Mantle claims it is currently the Web3 entity with the largest open interest in the ETH treasury, supporting the promotion of Decentralization and on-chain financial currency layers.

ChainCatcher news, the modular L2 Manta Network tweeted that Manta Atlantic experienced issues communicating with the RPC endpoint for a short period, which have now been resolved. Network activity was not interrupted, and user Wallets or funds were not affected.

According to BlockBeats news on July 23, the official announcement states that the Ethereum L2 network Taiko has achieved integration with Dune, and Taiko's on-chain data can now be viewed in real-time on Dune. Through this integration, Taiko network data will be presented to developers and the community in a more transparent, open, and convenient manner.

Gyroscope announced that its dynamic liquidity pool has surpassed $50 million in volume and generated over $140,000 in fees within a month, with an APR of up to 170%. The pool has performed exceptionally well on Ethereum and multiple L2 chains, with Markouts PnL significantly higher than industry mainstream, providing sustainable profits for liquidity providers.

According to the Gate News bot message, the official announcement from Gate on July 17, 2025: Gate will launch the Caldera( ERA) spot and contract trading on July 17, 2025. At the same time, the platform will introduce a series of ERA-related activities, including a CandyDrop airdrop event with a total of 571,429 ERA, an Alpha trading reward with a total of 142,857 ERA, and a BountyDrop event with 142,857 ERA. Gate Yu Bi Bao will launch the ERA 7-day fixed investment product on July 18, offering an annualized return rate of 500%, with a total quota of 1,400,000 ERA. In addition, the platform will hold a VIP exclusive trading competition, with a prize pool including 40,000 USDT and ERA tokens. Caldera is a blockchain interconnection platform focused on Rollups technology, dedicated to providing fast and low-cost cross-chain asset transfers and trading services. Currently, its ecosystem secures over $400 million in total value, processes over 850 million transactions, and has more than 25 million trading addresses, surpassing leading L2 systems such as Scroll and ZKSync in terms of unique address count.

Gate News bot message, according to the official announcement from Gate on July 17, 2025: Gate will launch CALDERA( and ERA) spot trading on July 17, 2025, at 23:30 UTC+8, with the trading pair ERA/USDT. Caldera is a blockchain internet platform focused on Rollups technology, aimed at providing faster and lower-cost cross-chain asset transfer and interaction services. The project's ecosystem has currently locked a total value of over 400 million USD, cumulatively processed over 850 million transactions, and has more than 25 million transaction addresses, surpassing well-known L2 projects like Scroll and ZKSync in terms of unique address count. The contract address of the ERA token is: 0xE2AD0BF751834f2fbdC62A41014f84d67cA1de2A.

Gate News bot message, according to the official announcement from Gate on July 17, 2025. Gate has launched a 7-day fixed investment product for ES tokens, offering an annualized return of 500%. The total quota is 780,000 ES tokens, and it adopts a first-come, first-served subscription mechanism. The ES token is the native token of the Eclipse project. Eclipse is a pioneering L2 solution on Ethereum that integrates the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), featuring a modular architecture that combines Ethereum's transaction settlement, SVM's efficient execution, and Celestia's data availability guarantee.

Gate News Bot news, on July 16, according to CoinMarketCap, as of the time of writing, AEVO (Aevo) is currently priced at 0.13 USD, with a rise of 22.47% in the last 24 hours, peaking at 0.14 USD and dropping to a low of 0.08 USD. The current market capitalization is approximately 115 million USD, an increase of 21.1 million USD compared to yesterday. Aevo is a decentralized trading platform that supports options, perpetual contracts, and various products trading within a single margin account. The platform combines off-chain matching and on-chain settlement to provide traders with excellent performance and low latency while inheriting the security of Ethereum. Aevo is built on a customized L2 based on the OP stack, achieving high throughput and performance while maintaining the security of Ethereum. Since its establishment in 2020, Aevo has processed over $10 billion in options trading volume.

Gate News bot news, according to the official announcement from Gate on July 15, 2025: Gate will launch the Ethereum ecosystem project Eclipse (ES) token. Eclipse is the first Solana virtual machine (SVM) L2 solution on Ethereum, combining Ethereum's transaction settlement, SVM's efficient execution, and Celestia's data availability guarantee. The platform will launch the HODLer Airdrop event on July 16, 2025, at 16:00 ( UTC+8, with a total of 60,000 ES tokens to be airdropped. The ES/USDT trading pair will officially start trading on the same day at 18:00 ) UTC+8. The Eclipse token adopts the ERC-20 standard, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. The contract address is 0x6055dc6ff1077eebe5e6d2ba1a1f53d7ef8430de. The token distribution plan includes: contributors 19%, investors 31%, airdrop and liquidity 15%, ecosystem and development 35%.

Ethereum founder Vitalik pointed out in a post that the best way to build L2 is to fully leverage the security and other capabilities of L1, simplifying the logic to sorters and provers to achieve minimal trust and efficiency. This goal is realized through Ethereum's L2 solutions, and some successful cases indicate that L1 can effectively protect the rights and interests of L2 users.

The thriving development of the Ethereum ecosystem is attributed to its diverse participants, including client teams, researchers, Layer 2 (L2) teams, application developers, local community organizations, and more. Each of them harbors a vision for the future of Ethereum, collectively driving the progress of this vast network. However, this model of decentralization and collaboration also presents a core challenge: how to ensure that all these independent projects can collaboratively construct a unified Ethereum ecosystem, rather than 138 incompatible small kingdoms? To address this challenge, many within the Ethereum ecosystem have proposed the concept of "Ethereum alignment."

As of July 13, the total Lock-up Position of Ethereum Layer 2 reached $36.39 billion, rising 10.1% in the past seven days. The top five Lock-up Positions are Arbitrum One, Base, OP Mainnet, Unichain, and ZKsync Era.

The total Lock-up Position of Ethereum Layer 2 has rebounded to 33.08 billion USD, with a 7-day rise of 2.16%. The top five Lock-up Positions are Arbitrum One, Base, OP Mainnet, Unichain, and ZKsync Era.

The Ethereum scaling battle is intensifying, with the two major Layer 2 giants, Arbitrum and Optimism, leading the charge. They are no longer experimental chains but ecosystems worth billions of dollars, becoming the pillars of modern DeFi and incubators for next-generation Web3 infrastructure. However, they have chosen vastly different paths: one pursuing modular unity and the other emphasizing sovereign flexibility.

The recovery of the Crypto Assets market has sparked investors' risk appetite for meme coins and Layer 2 (L2) alts. Meme coins based on Solana, such as Pudgy Penguins (Pengu) and Fartcoin (FARTCOIN), as well as the altcoin Walrus (WAL) based on SUI, have all outperformed the market in the past 24 hours. The technical outlook remains bullish, supported by key resistance levels or pattern breakouts.

According to the Gate News bot announcement on July 1, 2025, Gate will launch the Move ecosystem project Echo (ECHO) Token and initiate the HODLer Airdrop event. The total amount of the airdrop is 1,000,000 ECHO, and participating users must hold at least 1 GT. The Echo protocol is a Bitcoin staking and liquidity infrastructure based on Move, providing re-staking solutions for BTC L2/LRT asset holders and institutions, while offering income opportunities from BTC ecosystem assets for individual users. The total supply of the project token is 1 billion, issued on the Aptos chain. According to reports, the ECHO/USDT trading pair will open for trading on July 2, 2025, at 20:00:00 1928374656574839201 UTC+8, and the airdrop activity will end on the same day at 18:00:00 1928374656574839201 UTC+8. Users can participate in the airdrop distribution based on their GT holdings proportion, with a limit of 1000 GT per user.

Gate News bot news, according to Jin10 report, Ant Group officially opens its four self-developed technologies to the Hong Kong market, including L2 network, large model development tools, "Blockchain+IoT" trusted architecture, and institutional-level Web3 wallet technology. This move aims to provide full-stack technical services for building a global digital asset innovation center in Hong Kong.

Gate News bot message, Robinhood is assembling a team to develop the infrastructure for tokenizing US stocks. According to the team's recruitment information, the project is positioned as a universal underlying infrastructure that supports not only internal applications but also allows other project parties to connect and use it, belonging to the L2 track product. Robinhood's US stock tokenization

Odaily News Arbitrum announced on the X platform that Robinhood will launch tokenized stocks on Arbitrum One, with L2 built on the Orbit stack. Robinhood will issue over 200 U.S. stocks and ETF tokens on Arbitrum One for EU customers to use directly in their Robinhood app.

Gate News bot news, on June 30, the Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain (L2) token Arbitrum (ARB) surged 17% that day, as market speculation suggested that the network would announce a partnership with the US trading platform Robinhood Markets Inc. on Monday. Robinhood announced on Sunday that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik But

Gate News bot news, Starknet announced on X that the new version v0.13.6 is about to be released: > Launch of the Testnet on June 30 (next week) > Launch of the Mainnet on July 8 This version is part of the roadmap to integrate StarkWare's next-generation STARK prover S-Two into the Starknet Mainnet. S-Two will reduce the proof time for 2B L2 gas Blocks from 24 minutes to under 3 minutes, while dropping the proof cost by at least 2 times. This is just the MVP version, and further optimization work is underway.

According to Gate News bot, the activity of Optimism superchain Layer 2 Ink has surged ahead of its token launch. Last week, the Ink Foundation announced the issuance of 1 billion INK tokens and community airdrop through the liquidity pool on Aave.

Gate News bot reported by Coindoo that despite the rise of competing L1 and L2 chains (such as Solana, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Base), Ethereum's market dominance has declined since 2020, but the whale activity on Ethereum (ETH) still shows a strong correlation with the overall price trend of Bitcoin.

Gate News bot message, the non-profit organization Ink Foundation supporting the Ethereum Layer-2 network Ink has officially announced the upcoming launch and Airdrop of INK Token. This development poses potential competition to Coinbase's Base network, which has consistently rejected plans to launch a native token.

ChainCatcher message, the Bitcoin native ZK Rollup project GOAT Network has released an economic brown paper on Bitcoin ZK Rollup, proposing an economic model landing plan for Bitcoin native zkRollup. This scheme systematically addresses the issues of incentive imbalance, concentrated role costs, and low verification efficiency currently present in the BTC L2 system through the "Universal Operator Role Rotation Mechanism" and "Multi-Round Challenge Mechanism".

ChainCatcher News, Bitcoin-native ZK Rollup project GOAT Network released an economic beige book on Bitcoin ZK Rollup, proposing a plan for the implementation of the economic model of Bitcoin-native zkRollup. This plan systematically addresses issues such as incentive imbalance, concentration of role costs, and low verification efficiency in the current BTC L2 system through the "Universal Operator Role Rotation Mechanism" and "Multi-Round Challenge Mechanism".

ChainCatcher news, the Decentralized Finance platform Synthetix announced that it will gradually discontinue all Layer-2 deployments on the Base network on July 7, 2025, refocusing on the Ethereum Mainnet, and will deactivate Base trading and close the LP vault. The plan will be implemented in phases. Synthetix stated that the decision to gradually phase out its L2 deployment stems from ongoing infrastructure instability and liquidity fragmentation.