Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix

Optimism eyes an increase in adoption after the Merge upgrade triggers Ethereum's "Rollup-Centric Roadmap." The price of Optimism (OP) has been skyrocketing since the beginning of July due to its proximity to Ethereum.Notably, OP's price rallied by nearly 300% in over a month to reach $2.31, its second-highest level on record, on Aug. 4. The token received its bullish cues primarily from the euphoria surrounding Ethereum's potential transition to proof-of-stake in September via an upgrade called "the Merge."OP/USD four-hour price chart. Source: TradingViewWhy the "Optimism"To recap:....

The merger of L1 and L2 debt pools is just one of a number of upgrades slated for this week within the Synthetix ecosystem. Decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol Synthetix (SNX) has announced that the deployment of their Debt Pool Synthesis feature will occur on Thursday 9pm through 11pm UTC, expected to impact staking participants in two distinctive categories: SNX inflationary staking rewards and Debt Hedging.Currently, Synthetix operates debt pools across two chains, Ethereum mainnet and layer 2 Ethereum scaling solution Optimism, which have amassed an accumulative total-value-locked....

On August 17, the decentralized exchange (dex) aggregator 1inch announced the platform will leverage the Layer 2 solution called optimistic rollups provided by the project Optimism. The collaboration with Optimism aims to “substantially increase transaction speeds and lower gas fees for 1inch users.” 1inch to Use the L2 Solution Optimistic Rollups via Optimism Gateway Ever since the Ethereum network has been dealing with transaction congestion and much higher fees in 2021, innovations revolving around Layer 2 (L2) scaling solutions and sidechains have been pushed to the....

DeFi After a brutal past three to four weeks, DeFi coins are bouncing back. Synthetix Network Token (SNX), the native token of leading decentralized derivatives platform Synthetix, has gained 7.9% in the past 24 hours. The coin is now nearing $5 after spending some time under that pivotal price point. It seems that there are […]

A new scaling solution, zkEVM Rollups, could allow Ethereum to overcome Visa in terms of transaction throughput, says Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic. zkEVM Rollups, a new scaling solution for Ethereum, will allow the smart contract protocol to outpace Visa in terms of transaction throughput, said Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic in a recent interview with Cointelegraph. Polygon recently claimed to be the first to implement a zkEVM scaling solution, which aims at reducing Ethereum’s transaction costs and improving its throughput. This layer-2 protocol can bundle together several....