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Ethereum L1 transactions hit 2.2M a day; each costs about 17 cents

Ethereum L1 transactions hit 2.2M a day; each costs about 17 cents

The Ethereum mainnet clocked 2.2 million transactions in a single day in a new record this week, while fees have fallen to just 17 cents on average.The layer-1 blockchain recorded its new transaction milestone on Tuseday, according to block explorer Etherscan. Transaction fees have also dropped cons…

Gate (GT) - Stargate - 22 December 2025

Gate (GT) - Stargate - 22 December 2025

Stargate Finance has been deployed on Gate Layer, enabling native cross‑chain asset transfers into and out of the network, as announced by Gate Layer on X (source). The integration uses Stargate’s liquidity‑based bridging to move assets more efficiently between Gate Layer and other chains, which can…

Sonami Launches First Layer 2 Token on Solana to Ensure Transaction Efficiency and End Congestion Spikes

Sonami Launches First Layer 2 Token on Solana to Ensure Transaction Efficiency and End Congestion Spikes

New York, United States, December 8th, 2025, Chainwire$SNMI Pioneers Transaction Bundling Technology to Future-Proof Solana Ecosystem Against Peak DemandSonami ($SNMI), the first Layer 2 token built on the Solana blockchain, today announced its mission to dramatically enhance network reliability and…

Connection Between Zcash and Starknet Drives a Strong Case for STRK Price

Connection Between Zcash and Starknet Drives a Strong Case for STRK Price

Starknet’s native token, STRK, surged 35% on Monday, according to CoinGecko data, as analysts draw parallels between its trajectory and Zcash (ZEC).With Zcash and Starknet sharing links both through shared founders and a unified vision for programmable privacy, the recent Zcash frenzy drives a stron…

Minidoge (MINIDOGE) - X Layer - 15 Oct 2025

Minidoge (MINIDOGE) - X Layer - 15 Oct 2025

MiniDoge is now live on X Layer, a move that means the token can be used on more chains with stronger liquidity and faster performance. This event shows growth for the project and could bring new users or traders. Expanding to other networks sometimes leads to higher demand and price increases, as m…

Cathie Wood Says She Prefers Bitcoin Over Ethereum

Cathie Wood Says She Prefers Bitcoin Over Ethereum

During a recent appearance on "The Master Investor Podcast" with veteran business reporter Wilfred Frost, Ark Invest Cathie Wood stated that she favors Bitcoin over Ethereum. According to Wood, Bitcoin is "the global monetary system," which is alone "a very big idea." The famed stock picker is also …

Vitalik Buterin Says Coinbase’s Base Is “Doing Things the Right Way” for L2s

Vitalik Buterin Says Coinbase’s Base Is “Doing Things the Right Way” for L2s

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has entered the growing debate over Layer-2 scaling solutions, praising Coinbase’s Base network as a prime example of balancing user experience with Ethereum’s decentralized security guarantees. His remarks come as skepticism rises around whether Layer-2 networks …

Ethereum researcher pitches ‘Lean’ network for quantum era

Ethereum researcher pitches ‘Lean’ network for quantum era

Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed “Lean Ethereum,” a plan to make the layer-1 smart contract network quantum-secure, while also simplifying Ethereum’s tech stack, which includes the consensus layer, data layer and execution layer. The researcher proposed zero-knowledge powered…

EF’s Justin Drake shares 10-year ‘lean Ethereum’ vision: 10k TPS, 100% uptime, EVM 2.0, and more

EF’s Justin Drake shares 10-year ‘lean Ethereum’ vision: 10k TPS, 100% uptime, EVM 2.0, and more

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) shared a vision for the next 10 years of protocol development on Thursday, and it has a name: "lean Ethereum."The lean Ethereum vision, unveiled in a blog post from longtime EF senior researcher Justin Drake, presents a gung-ho vision for how to scale Ethereum's capacity…

 Ether price stable near $2.4K as crypto investors bet on long-term growth

Ether price stable near $2.4K as crypto investors bet on long-term growth

Key takeaways:ETH holds $2,400 in support despite a 15% price drop and $277 million in liquidations.Layer-2 network growth and spot ETH ETF inflows sustain investors’ confidence in Ether.Ether (ETH) failed to sustain the bullish momentum that peaked at $2,880 on Wednesday, though it also showed resi…

 Ethereum Foundation highlights UX, social layer as security ‘challenges’

Ethereum Foundation highlights UX, social layer as security ‘challenges’

The Ethereum Foundation has highlighted six security challenge areas for its ecosystem’s future in a Tuesday report, including issues with user experience and the social layer. The analysis, generated through inputs from Ethereum stakeholders like users and developers, notes that user experience, or…

 Ethereum’s ‘Pectra’ network upgrade goes live: What to expect

Ethereum’s ‘Pectra’ network upgrade goes live: What to expect

Ethereum — the network that unleashed smart contracts on the world — moves on to the next chapter with today’s Pectra upgrade, but what does it mean?Pectra went live on the Ethereum mainnet at the start of epoch 364032, May 7, 2025, at about 10:00 am UTC. The three main Ethereum improvement proposal…