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Tech

Boundless Launches Mainnet on Base, Ushering in Universal Zero-Knowledge Compute

The milestone builds on the network’s incentivized testnet, which went live in July and stress-tested Boundless’ architecture under real-world conditions.

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Finance

Worldcoin Rival Humanity Protocol Debuts $1.1B Mainnet for Privacy-First Web2 to Web3 Identity

Humanity Protocol’s $1.1B-valued mainnet uses zkTLS to link Web2 credentials with Web3 services while keeping user data private.

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Tech

Plume Launches Genesis Mainnet to Bring Real-World Assets to DeFi

The launch according to the Plume team marks the "next generation" of asset-backed DeFi.

Plume co-founders Eugene Shen, Chris Yin and Teddy Pornprinya (Plume)

Tech

Espresso, Project for Composability Between Blockchains, Pushes Main Product Live

According to the team, the new "confirmation layer" will be a critical piece of infrastructure for composability among layer-2 rollups, allowing two networks to read and trust each other's blocks of transaction data.

CEO of Espresso Systems Ben Fisch (Espresso Systems)

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Tech

Bitcoin Staking Platform Babylon to Start Phased Mainnet Launch This Week

Babylon's attempts to introduce BTC staking is one of many developments in recent months that are aiming to introduce greater utility to Bitcoin

David Tse, co-founder of Babylon (Bradley Keoun, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Router Launches Mainnet, as More Projects 'Abstract' Away Blockchains

Router Chain is supposed to reduce the complexities of cross-chain interactions and make the development of dapps easier to use.

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Finance

Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'

Celestia has released its mainnet beta after issuing tokens to 580,000 users.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Tech

Scroll Confirms Mainnet Live, as Co-Founder Predicts Speed Gains Over Ethereum

Blockchain data showed that Scroll’s smart contract was deployed on Oct. 8, but the team held off making its official announcement until this week.

Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)

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Scroll zkEVM Launches, Blockchain Data Shows, Competing With Polygon, Matter Labs

The new Ethereum layer-2 network's debut adds to the competition among rival providers of so-called "zkEVMs," including Polygon and Matter Labs.

Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng (Bradley Keoun)

Markets

Ether Trading at 27% Discount to Fair Value, New Research Shows

Research firm RxR's blended Metcalfe law-centric valuation model, incorporating active user adoption of layer 2 scaling networks, suggests ether should trade at a market value of $275 billion.

Ether (CoinDesk/Highcharts.com)

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