Matter Labs raises $50M to build EVM-compatible zk-rollups
The funding will be used to further develop zkSync v2, which is currently live on testnet. Matter Labs has announced a major new funding round to further develop the second version of its Ethereum-based rollups, zkSync.On Nov. 9, Matter Labs announced it had secured $50 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz and included participation from existing investors Placeholder and Dragonfly Capital. The new round follows Matter Labs’ $6 million Series A in February, and saw participation from many new investors including Crypto.com, ConsenSys, and OKEx.The new cash injection will....
Related News
Per an official press release from its developer Matter Labs, Ethereum’s second-layer scalability solution Zero-Knowledge (zk) Sync on its second iteration has been deployed on this network testnet. The first EVM-compatible ZK Rollup to enter this phase, zkSync 2.0 will: (…) allow developers to build and deploy decentralized applications in a low-fee, highly scalable layer-2 […]
Crypto is currently languishing like the internet did in 1996 with slow speeds and few practical use cases, says Steve Newcomb, chief product officer of Matter Labs. But a major increase in bandwidth and security soon after saw the internet become a crucial part of daily life across the globe and were right on the cusp of that happening for crypto in the next few months. “Nobody trusted their credit card on it and everybody thought it was a fad and there weren’t any use cases for it,” Newcomb explains. “And then we had 10x moments in bandwidth and then SSL came, and HTPS where you got that....
Pantera and Lemniscap co-lead a bet on stability in DeFi without the U.S. dollar.
The author of the Ethereum whitepaper, Vitalik Buterin, believes rollups will solve Ethereum’s scaling woes until the introduction of Eth2 sharding. Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, believes the network is on the verge of scaling by a factor of 100, predicting the Optimism will release its layer-two solution in the coming weeks.Speaking on the Tim Ferriss podcast, Buterin noted Eth2’s developer are focused on working toward the chain merge with Ethereum, and are confident that layer-two solutions can support the network until sharding is developed. “Rollups are coming very soon,” he....
On August 31, 2021, Offchain Labs announced the official launch of Arbitrum One mainnet and further detailed that the company has raised $120 million in funding. The Series B financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners gives the firm a $1.2 billion valuation. Arbitrum One Mainnet Is Now Live, Offchain Labs Raises $120 Million in Funding The highly anticipated Arbitrum One mainnet launch has been revealed by the firm Offchain Labs and the startup also detailed the company has raised $120 million in financing. Bitcoin.com News has written about the Arbitrum One Layer-2 scaling solution on a....