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ForkLog 75 29.09.2025

Firedancer Developers Advocate Removing Solana’s Compute Unit Limit

The team behind the high-performance Solana client Firedancer has proposed lifting the cap on compute units (CU) in blocks following the Alpenglow update.

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ForkLog 52 17.06.2025

Experts Highlight MEV as a Barrier to Blockchain Scaling

Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) has emerged as a “dominant constraint on blockchain scaling,” according to a report by the Flashbots research group. Experts have discovered that spam transactions generated by arbitrage bots consume block space faster than even high-performance networks can expand it. “This is not a theoretical or isolated issue. We can observe it […]

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ForkLog 41 19.05.2025

Fusaka upgrade: what it means for Ethereum’s future

The second-largest cryptocurrency has finally stirred after a prolonged slump, particularly visible in the ETH/BTC pair. Despite a recent outperformance rally, ether still trades nearly 50% below its all-time high of ~$4900 set in November 2021. Rising competition from DeFi ecosystems on Solana, BNB Chain and, paradoxically, Ethereum’s own layer-2 (L2) solutions is taking its […]

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ForkLog 73 20.04.2025

Uniswap CEO Advocates for Prioritizing L2 in Ethereum Scaling

Ethereum’s blockchain lags behind Solana in terms of building DeFi, prompting developers to focus on second-layer (L2) solutions. This perspective was shared by Uniswap’s CEO, Hayden Adams, during a discussion with Bankless co-founder David Hoffman. Solana has a better roadmap, team, and and approach if the plan is to do defi on L1 /vertical scaling […]

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ForkLog 24 14.04.2025

Ethereum Unveils Streamlined Development Plan Focused on Scalability

The simplified Ethereum roadmap emphasizes the scaling of BLOB objects and enhancing L1 performance, as revealed by Ethereum Foundation co-executive Tomasz Stańczak. yes, mostly this based on loads of convos other things are secondary mostly (not because less important but should naturally happen as the result of the above — existing culture and values in […]

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ForkLog 30 11.03.2025

Flashblocks, appchains and smart wallets: how Base takes on Solana

Launched in 2023 with backing from Coinbase, the Base platform has rapidly gained popularity. Despite lacking a native token, the ecosystem outperforms many L2 solutions by TVL and transaction activity.

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ForkLog 85 14.02.2025

Vitalik Buterin Advocates for Increasing Ethereum’s Gas Limit

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has articulated arguments in a new essay for further expanding transaction space in the network’s first-layer block. Reasons to have higher L1 gas limits even in an L2-heavy Ethereumhttps://t.co/BMFhzoO8bE — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) February 14, 2025 In early February, Ethereum validators supported increasing the gas limit from 30 million to 36 million, […]

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ForkLog 11 24.01.2025

Vitalik Buterin Confirms Ethereum’s Focus on L2 Scaling Solutions

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has stated in a new article that the ecosystem will primarily scale through L2 solutions. Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyondhttps://t.co/T36dnaEYXj — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 24, 2025 According to him, the main obstacles in this direction are: insufficient space for BLOB objects, which “meets the needs of existing […]

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ForkLog 36 07.01.2025

Solayer, a Solana restaking project, unveils high-performance InfiniSVM blockchain

The team behind the Solayer restaking protocol in the Solana ecosystem said it is building InfiniSVM — a SVM blockchain with hardware acceleration.

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ForkLog 31 05.12.2024

Botanix Labs Launches Testnet for Bitcoin-Based L2 Solution Spiderchain

Botanix Labs has unveiled the Aragog test network for its EVM-compatible Layer 2 solution, Spiderchain, designed for the ecosystem of the first cryptocurrency. A decentralized Bitcoin L2, fully EVM equivalent, purpose-built for Bitcoin-native DeFi. Botanix’s final testnet is now live: — Botanix Labs ? (@BotanixLabs) December 4, 2024 According to the statement, Aragog will be […]

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ForkLog 9 04.12.2024

Safe to Launch Cryptocurrency Payment System

Developers of the digital asset management platform Safe have announced the launch of a cross-chain transaction processing system, Safenet. ? Safenet is coming in 2025. The waitlist is open!? https://t.co/WkBM6O26hN pic.twitter.com/6jwgOWE0QL — Safe (@safe) December 3, 2024 According to the project’s website, this is a transaction processing system on the Ethereum blockchain, based on the […]

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ForkLog 31 21.11.2024

Liquidity Shift to Bitcoin Layer 2 Solutions Forecasted by 2030

By the end of the decade, over $47 billion in liquidity could transition to Layer 2 solutions on Bitcoin. This estimate was shared by analysts from Galaxy Digital in their Bitcoin L2s report. The study considers the market share of all wrapped bitcoins in DeFi, native BTC in L2 networks, and BTC locked in staking […]

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