Celer (CELR) gains 400% after traders embrace its multi-chain ‘cBridge 2.0’ s...

Celer (CELR) gains 400% after traders embrace its multi-chain ‘cBridge 2.0’ s...

CELR soars to a new all-time high following the launch of its cross-chain bridge that allows traders to jump back and forth between various layer-1 and layer-2 platforms. High transaction costs have been a thorn in the side of investors and developers for more than a decade and the issue became worse in 2021 after the emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFT) led to record-high levels of activity across the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Since the completion of Ethereum's London hard fork, cross-chain bridges and layer-2 solutions have been revised as options for....


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