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Matter Labs draws backlash for comparisons made to its multichain architecture.

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Blockstream‘s Lisa Neigut speaks at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas, last week. (CoinDesk)

Vertex Protocol co-founder Darius Tabatabai (Vertex)

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ARB is trading at $1.78, up 9.9 on the day and 44 in the past week.

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Masa Finance announced that it’s bringing its Soulbound Token Protocol to Base soon.

As a layer 2 integration, there are a lot less security risks to consider.

The wallet address managed to farm almost 1 million ARB tokens via 630 wallets.

After zkSync Era was launched for developers-only last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening to general users. The latest push by Matter Labs comes just days ahead of the rival Polygon system’s planned rollout Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”

Salesforce partnership with the blockchain platform marks another major company’s investment into customer engagement initiatives using Web3 technologies.

The first and second place bugs involved layer 2 scaling solution Optimism and vanity address generator Profanity.

They’re the overflow rooms for the bustling Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.

Base also joins the data provider‘s Scale program, allowing developers to construct smart contracts that can react to external information at a subsidized cost.

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for March 1, 2023.

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Coinbase said Thursday that it is leveraging Optimism‘s technology to launch an Ethereum layer 2 scaling product, Base.

The much-anticipated protocol struggled to process user transactions, then became the target of some Twitter shade for changing some terms of a contribution pledge on the fly.

The U.S. exchange, which has long looked for ways to diversify its revenues, will compete in and contribute to the crowded rollup sector.