Tether launches on Hermez rollup as Ethereum starts falling behind
Ethereum is starting to lose ground to its competitors for USDT usage, and Hermez may help to fix that. Tether (USDT) has now launched on Hermez Network, an Ethereum scalability solution based on the zk-rollup concept. Rollups provide a way of batching or “rolling up” transactions to lighten the load on the Ethereum network.The key to rollups is the concept of data availability, which means that the state data of the rollup is always fully available on-chain. In practice, this means that the Ethereum network knows the token balances of all user accounts on the Hermez rollup after every....
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Hermez users will be able to transact with ETH, USDT, WBTC on a scalable layer-two network. Hermez Network has announced on Wednesday the launch of its zk-rollup mainnet release. This means that the network is now open for users, who can benefit from the rollup’s much lower transaction costs than Ethereum.Zk-rollups use zero knowledge proofs to verify the correctness of a large batch of transactions. An outside ecosystem executes these transactions and generates proofs for them, which are then posted directly on the Ethereum blockchain. The result is a saving of over 10x in terms of block....
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the Hermez Network Token (HEZ) under the pair USDT/HEZ on Mar 29 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. Hermez is a zk-rollup that allows for scaling payments and token transfers on top of the Ethereum public blockchain. Hermez uses the Ethereum public blockchain for data storage instead of computation. In addition, utilizing zero-knowledge proofs attaches an easily verifiable on-chain proof that the off-chain computations have been carried out....
Hermez, an Ethereum scaling solution, has partnered with Tether to offer cheaper Tether transactions via zero-knowledge rollups. Popular stablecoin Tether (USDT) is the first token to go live on the Hermez layer-two network, the company announced on Monday.As part of the collaboration, batched USDT transactions will be possible once the Hermez network officially launches in early 2021. David Schwartz, project lead at Hermez told Cointelegraph:“Hermez network is run by permissionless coordinators who will decide the transactions included in each batch, based on incentives (fees).”Back in....
Hermez Network sets out to provide faster and cheaper transactions on Ethereum.
“We believe this is in a way a historical moment since this will be (to the best of our knowledge) the first full-blown merger of two blockchain networks,” said Polygon. Layer-two protocol Polygon will be merging ZK-rollup project Hermez Network into its ecosystem for $250 million worth of MATIC tokens.In a Friday announcement, Polygon said Hermez would become a part of the network’s suite of solutions under the name Polygon Hermez. The 26 people in the Hermez team as well as its tech and solutions — including work on an Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible solution — will join the....