Matter Labs has announced a major new funding round to further develop the second version of its Ethereum-based rollups, zkSync.
On Nov. 9, Matter Labs announced it had secured $50 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz and included participation from existing investors Placeholder and Dragonfly Capital. The new round follows Matter Labs’ $6 million Series A in February, and saw participation from many new investors including Crypto.com, ConsenSys, and OKEx.
The new cash injection will be channeled into further developing zkSync v2, the firm’s second-layer rollups solution for Ethereum that is currently focussed on facilitating low-cost payments.
Rollups are a second-layer scaling solution that “rolls up” transactions data in batches for more efficient processing on Ethereum’s layer-one. Matter’s zkSync solution uses zero-knowledge proofs to minimize the data held in these bundled transactions and thus reduce the computing and storage resources required to validate blocks
zkSync v2 will build on the current iteration by supporting Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) composable smart contracts. Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, explained:
“zkSync will enable Ethereum transactions at a much higher rate and lower gas fees than mainnet. The math used by Matter Labs is really quite beautiful, and it is remarkable to see this coming to fruition at a massive scale so soon.”
The first version of zkSync v2 is currently live on testnet with a port of Uniswap v2 dubbed “UniSync” that users can experiment with. The platform has processed more than 2 million transactions since launching in June.
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Matter Labs was an early proponent of rollups, having launched the first-ever public zk-rollup prototype in early 2019.
Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, is confident that layer two solutions such as zkSync will solve the network’s scaling issues until sharding is rolled out sometime in late 2022.
In a blog post in January, Buterin predicted that zk-rollups will emerge as Ethereum’s dominant scaling solution over “the medium to long term in all use cases.”
The world’s most popular decentralized exchange, Uniswap, is seeing layer-two volumes surge as Ethereum transaction fees surge once again.
On Tuesday, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams tweeted that daily volume across v3 deployments of the decentralized exchange on layer-two networks has pushed into record levels. Adams estimated that Uniswap v3 processed an unprecedented $115 million in combined daily volume across the Arbitrum and Optimism networks without providing a source.
Uniswap v3 on layer 2 (arb + OE) doing an all time-time high of $115m volume!!
2⃣ L2 season is here 🙂
— hayden.eth (@haydenzadams) October 18, 2021
While Adams’ post was published amid peak United States trading hours, data sourced from analytics provider Nomics at the time of writing (3:00 am UTC) suggests that Uniswap v3 drove $80 million in volume on Arbitrum and roughly $14 million on Optimism over the past 24 hours, respectively.
However, Uniswap’s v3 combined layer-two volumes are still tiny compared to its mainnet deployment, which currently represents $1.3 billion in daily activity, according to CoinGecko.
Related: Ethereum layer twos reportedly processing more transactions than Bitcoin
Despite the Ethereum Foundation and crypto venture giant Andressen Horowitz backing Optimism, Arbitrum appears to have emerged as the decentralized finance community’s second-layer rollups solution of choice.
According to layer-two data aggregator L2beat, Aribtrum represents 60% of the total value locked (TVL) across layer-two networks combined since its mainnet launch in early September. Arbitrum’s TVL currently sits at $2.29 billion after increasing by 14% over the past week.
Decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX ranks second behind Arbitrum with $838 million or 22% of value locked in the sector. Comparatively, Optimism has attracted just $269 million in locked capital, ranking as the third-largest layer two with a 7% share of TVL.
The combined TVL of layer-two networks tagged a record-high $3.8 billion on Sunday.
Layer two protocols have seen monumental growth this year and one of them has briefly surpassed the network it is a scaling solution for, in terms of active addresses.
The number of daily active unique addresses on layer two aggregator Polygon has surpassed those on the high fee layer one Ethereum according to protocol co-founder Mihailo Bjelic.
According to his stats, Polygon had 351,000 daily active addresses on Sept. 27 whereas Ethereum had 326,000.
Another huge milestone for @0xPolygon!
We eclipsed Ethereum L1 in daily active addresses for the first time!
This is just the beginning. We are working round the clock to improve our tech, strengthen our ecosystem and increase adoption.
Let’s bring the world to Ethereum! pic.twitter.com/K4sAF1y3LT
— Mihailo Bjelic (@MihailoBjelic) September 29, 2021
According to Polygonscan, the number of active addresses skyrocketed on Sept. 20, hitting a peak of 426,586 on the 27th before falling back slightly to 385,740.
Etherscan is reporting that Ethereum’s daily active address count was 457,402 on Sept. 29 so the two are pretty evenly matched at the moment.
The number of active addresses on Polygon has surged 330% over the past 3 months whereas Ethereum’s have actually declined by 12% for the same metric over the same period.
In terms of cumulative unique addresses, Ethereum is way ahead with 170.8 million as of Sept. 29 according to Etherscan, while Polygon had 89 million total district addresses yesterday. However, Matic only rebranded to Polygon and launched in February so its growth has occurred over a shorter period of time.
Polygon has a greater number of transactions at present according to Polygonscan with 5.7 million total transactions recorded for Sept. 29 compared to 1.1 million on Ethereum layer one. This can largely be attributed to Ethereum’s high fees which have increased again recently.
DeFiLlama currently reports that the total value locked of all protocols on Polygon is $4.81 billion, however it has more than halved since its mid-June all-time high of $10.54 billion. The most popular protocol on the network is flash loan platform Aave which has $1.77 billion TVL, or 37% of the total.
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Polygon received a massive endorsement in May when billionaire investor Mark Cuban added it to his portfolio. Its native token, which is still called MATIC, has gained 5.2% over the past 24 hours to reach $1.14 according to CoinGecko.
Ethereum transaction fees have skyrocketed again in recent days which has contributed to the surge in activity on layer two protocols. According to Bitinfocharts, the average transaction price on the Ethereum network is currently around $23. More complex operations such as DEX token swapping or smart contract interactions can cost as much as $66 in gas according to Etherscan.
The Solana Foundation reported that the high-throughput blockchain was experiencing “intermittent instability” earlier today. Meanwhile, the Ethereum Layer Two solution Arbitrum is also down.
Solana, Arbitrum Face Network Issues
Solana and Arbitrum are down.
Solana Status, a Twitter page run by the Solana Foundation, posted an update reporting that the issue had been ongoing for 45 minutes at 12:38 UTC Tuesday. It read:
“Solana mainnet-beta is experiencing intermittent instability. This began approximately 45 minutes ago, and engineers are investigating the issue.”
The team added that resource exhaustion had caused a denial of service and that engineers were looking for a resolution. “Validators are preparing for a potential restart if necessary,” the announcement read.
Data from SolScan, a popular block explorer for Solana, indicates that the last block on the network was processed roughly three hours ago. Many users have also reported that their funds are stuck as a result of the incident.
Phantom, a popular Solana-based wallet, confirmed that it was “having trouble connecting” along with other applications.
Solana, which bills itself as a high-throughput blockchain, has faced other performance issues in recent weeks. On Sep. 2, Solana Status posted a similar message that the network was experiencing “intermittent instability,” which was the result of performance degradation. The issue reduced throughput on the network and reportedly lasted for about 62 minutes.
Solana’s SOL token took a dip around the time the issues started, hitting a low of $156.36. It’s slightly recovered since, trading at $162.41 at press time.
Following Solana’s update, the Ethereum Layer Two solution Arbitrum reported that its Arbitrum One mainnet had suffered an outage. A tweet read:
“We are currently experiencing an outage on Arbitrum One. Our team is working on it and we will post updates here.”
Arbitrum launched on Aug. 31 and has since welcomed many of Ethereum’s leading DeFi projects. On Monday, Curve Finance went live on the network, while the total value locked on the network soared to over $2 billion. Arbitrum aims to help Ethereum scale by leveraging Optimistic Rollups to increase transaction fees and lower fees. The root cause of the issue is currently unclear.
Editor’s note: This is a developing story. We’ll post further updates as we receive more information.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this feature owned ETH, ETH2X-FLI, CRV, and several other cryptocurrencies.
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Solana and Arbitrum are down.
Solana Status, a Twitter page run by the Solana Foundation, posted an update reporting that the issue had been ongoing for 45 minutes at 12:38 UTC Tuesday. It read:
“Solana mainnet-beta is experiencing intermittent instability. This began approximately 45 minutes ago, and engineers are investigating the issue.”
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Data from SolScan, a popular block explorer for Solana, indicates that the last block on the network was processed roughly three hours ago. Many users have also reported that their funds are stuck as a result of the incident.
Phantom, a popular Solana-based wallet, confirmed that it was “having trouble connecting” along with other applications.
Solana, which bills itself as a high-throughput blockchain, has faced other performance issues in recent weeks. On Sep. 2, Solana Status posted a similar message that the network was experiencing “intermittent instability,” which was the result of performance degradation. The issue reduced throughput on the network and reportedly lasted for about 62 minutes.
Solana’s SOL token took a dip around the time the issues started, hitting a low of $156.36. It’s slightly recovered since, trading at $162.41 at press time.
Following Solana’s update, the Ethereum Layer Two solution Arbitrum reported that its Arbitrum One mainnet had suffered an outage. A tweet read:
“We are currently experiencing an outage on Arbitrum One. Our team is working on it and we will post updates here.”
Arbitrum launched on Aug. 31 and has since welcomed many of Ethereum’s leading DeFi projects. On Monday, Curve Finance went live on the network, while the total value locked on the network soared to over $2 billion. Arbitrum aims to help Ethereum scale by leveraging Optimistic Rollups to increase transaction fees and lower fees. The root cause of the issue is currently unclear.
Editor’s note: This is a developing story. We’ll post further updates as we receive more information.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this feature owned ETH, ETH2X-FLI, CRV, and several other cryptocurrencies.
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Almost 29,000 unique addresses made transactions on the network Sunday.
Arbitrum’s skyrocketing growth in total value locked was triggered by the launch of a yield farm called ArbiNYAN.
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Arbitrum Gains Momentum
Following its launch on Aug. 31, Arbitrum has topped the charts for the total value locked across all of Ethereum’s Layer 2 solutions.
According to data from L2Beat, the Optimistic Rollup solution’s mainnet beta, dubbed Arbitrum One, has secured more than $2.2 billion in total value locked. The amount locked has significantly increased in the last few days, jumping from around 37,000 ETH Friday to 654,000 Sunday.
Arbitrum was developed by Offchain Labs. The project leverages Optimistic Rollups to process transactions at a higher speed and lower cost than Ethereum mainnet while benefiting from the security of the base chain. It works by carrying data off-chain and sending batches of transactions to Ethereum mainnet as calldata. Arbitrum’s closest competitor, Optimism, also uses Optimistic Rollups, though delays in launching have led to Arbitrum stealing the Layer 2 spotlight so far.
Arbitrum has seen an exponential upswing in the number of unique addresses bridging to the network. According to the block explorer Arbiscan, 28,930 unique addresses made transactions on the network Sunday.
Arbitrum’s skyrocketing growth in total value locked was largely triggered by the launch of a yield farm called ArbiNYAN. Currently, the project contains 439,262.5 ETH worth about $1.4 billion. A new farming protocol on Arbitrum, Carbon Finance, has also managed to attract more than $60 million in a few days. A new project called Arbitrum Ape also launched on the network, though it’s been labeled a scam due to a suspected smart contract function that set a fee for withdrawing funds from the pool to 100% of the deposit.
Besides the yield farms, some of the most notable decentralized applications in DeFi, including Balancer, SushiSwap, Uniswap, and InstaDapp, have launched on Arbitrum. Other projects like Aave and MakerDao are planning to expand to the network soon.
The increasing popularity of Ethereum mainnet due to the boom in DeFi and NFTs has caused gas prices to surge on many occasions in the last year. Arbitrum is one of the projects that’s aiming to help Ethereum scale without compromising on security. Other EVM-compatible chains like Fantom and Avalanche have gained popularity in recent weeks. Still, unlike Layer 2 solutions, they operate their own consensus mechanisms, which means they do not directly adopt the security of Ethereum mainnet.
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Ethereum layer-two rollup network Arbitrum One is beginning to see significant growth, with its total value locked (TVL) surging by roughly 2,300% this past week.
According to L2beat, an analysis platform comparing layer-two protocols, Arbitrum’s TVL tagged an all-time high of $1.5 billion on Sept. 11 as DeFi degens rushed to invest in early farming DApps launching on the network.
Off-chain Labs launched Arbitrum to mainnet following a $120 million funding round on Aug. 31. Since then, Ethereum transaction fees have surged to their near-record levels, driving a migration of liquidity to layer-two scaling solutions and rival layer-ones.
Arbitrum currently holds 65.7% of all capital locked on layer-two networks, followed by the second-layer decentralized exchange dYdX with 14.6%.
Much of Arbitrum’s growth can be attributed to the ArbiNYAN yield farm, which lured investors with multi-thousand percentage returns for staking its native token.
However, bullish sentiment surrounding ArbiNYAN appears to have been short-lived, with its native token shedding more than 90% of its value in less than 12 hours. At the time of writing, NYAN was trading at just roughly $0.60 after sinking as low as $0.45, with current prices down 92% from its Sept. 12 peak of $7.85 according to Defined.
ArbiNYAN/USD
Despite hype for ArbiNYAN appearing to have fizzled out fast, the rapid migration of liquidity onto Arbitrum impacted the wider DeFi ecosystem.
One savvy DeFi farmer noted that the sudden withdrawal of roughly 200,000 Ether (worth $660 million) from Curve’s stETH pool since ArbiNYAN’s launch had created an arbitrage opportunity through slippage.
A significant share of the capital flowing to Arbitrum also appears to have come from so-called ‘Ethereum killers’.
Dune Analytics data shared to social media on Sept. 12 indicated that while Arbitrum’s TVL grew by roughly 2,300%, the TVL of bridges to Solana, Fantom, and Harmony had shrunk by 58%. 36%, and 62% respectively that same week.
The Arbitrum bridge TVL absorbed the Solana bridge TVL
Arbitrum (Ethereum Layer 2) is the Solana killer pic.twitter.com/SpP8bpOrR8
— James Spediacci ⟠ (@JamesSpediacci) September 12, 2021
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Funds withdrawn from Arbitrum back to the Ethereum mainnet take seven days to process.
All of Ether deposited will remain on Arbitrum for the seven-day period until it is available for withdrawal. At the time of writing, DefiLama
“Open interest for Ethereum futures has just hit a new all-time high! The market is mega bullish right now and going long in a serious way.”
ETH’s perpetual swaps open interest topped $8 billion in August as the second-largest cryptocurrency witnessed more transactions days after the London Hardfork or EIP 1559 upgrade went live.
This improvement made Ethereum deflationary, given that scarcity was introduced every time Ether was burnt after being used in transactions. As a result, inflationary tendencies were eliminated because a base fee was set for every transaction.
Total value locked in Ethereum layer two surges to $1 billion
According to L2BEAT, an analytic and research platform, Ethereum layer 2 (L2) is booming because $1 billion has been invested in scaling protocols.
Ethereum L2 is a scaling solution created to mitigate congestion on the network. As a result, decentralized applications (dapps) can avoid network congestion by utilizing various technologies.
The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract, which went live in December 2020, is expected to boost scalability by offering a transition to a proof of stake (POS) consensus mechanism from the current proof of work (POW) framework.
Meanwhile, decentralized finance (DeFi) has become a billion-dollar industry valued at more than $80 billion. This sector took the world by storm in 2020 after it witnessed a 14x growth.
DeFi is founded on blockchain-based smart contracts that fulfil certain financial functions based on the underlying code.
The United States took the lion share in DeFi adoption, followed by Vietnam, Thailand, China, and the United Kingdom, according to a recent report from blockchain analytic firm Chainalysis.
Layer-two scaling protocols for Ethereum have surged in adoption in recent months as gas prices climb again, and the L2 ecosystem is now processing more daily transactions than the Bitcoin network according to recent findings.
According to CoinMetrics data collated by industry analyst and Week In Ethereum News founder Evan Van Ness, there were more transactions on Ethereum layer-two than on the Bitcoin network on Sept. 6. Layer-two protocols processed around 250,000 transactions for the day whereas there were around 210,000 on BTC.
Fun fact:
There are already more daily transactions on Ethereum’s layer2 (~250k) than on Bitcoin (~210k yesterday per @coinmetrics) $ETH layer2 is just getting started
— Evan Van Ness (@evan_van_ness) September 6, 2021
The analyst revealed that StarkWare processed the most for the period with around 143,000 transactions across a number of DeFi platforms such as the dYdX exchange, and the L2 NFT platform Immutable X.
Arbitrum, which launched to mainnet on Sept. 1, had around 56,000 transactions. Its newly launched Arbitrum One platform is already attracting big names in DeFi including Aave, Chainlink, and Uniswap which is exploring several layer two options.
Optimistic Ethereum had around 28,000 transactions for the day according to the researcher. Uniswap deployed its v3 protocol on Optimism in July, it also powers a L2 version of the Synthetix/Kwenta DeFi trading platform.
Van Ness reported that there were a few others th comprising the rest with decentralized exchange Loopring taking the lion’s share.
Bitcoiners pointed out that Van Ness has made a comparison of ETH layer-twos with BTC’s layer-one and provided no information on Bitcoin’s layer-two Lightning Network. Van Ness responded that, “my impression, given the low amount locked, is that Lightning has very little traction but I’m happy if someone shows me data to the contrary.”
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Strategy lead at Ethereum layer-two technology aggregator Polygon, “Sanket”, broke down some of the statistics for the network revealing that smaller transactions were dominant. In a tweet on Sept. 7, he stated “45% of all addresses, across all of their transactions that day, were less than $1.45.”
According to L2fees, Loopring remains the most cost-effective platform for transferring Ethereum costing just $0.40 at the time of writing. Matter Labs’ zkSync was around double the cost at $0.83 while Arbitrum One cost $2.75, and Optimism was $5.83 to send ETH on their respective platforms.
Ethereum itself costs almost $11 for a simple ETH transfer, however, Bitinfocharts reported the average gas cost for all transaction types at around $40 yesterday.
Layer 2 scaling solution Arbitrum has gone live on the Ethereum mainnet.
Arbitrum is launching with integration from more than 73 projects, including many of DeFi’s leading “blue chips.”
Arbitrum will leverage Optimistic Rollups to process transactions at a higher speed and lower cost than Ethereum mainnet.
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Arbitrum launched on Ethereum mainnet today. Arbitrum is a Layer 2 protocol that seeks to scale and lower the gas fees on Ethereum by carrying transactions off-chain.
Arbitrum Launches With DeFi Integrated
The highly anticipated Optimistic Rollup scaling solution Arbitrum has launched on mainnet.
Offchain Labs is the developer behind Arbitrum. It launched its mainnet, known as Arbitrum One, today. According to the Arbitrum One Portal, the Layer 2 project is going live with a fully-fledged ecosystem of decentralized applications integrated. The list features many of Ethereum’s leading DeFi projects, including Aave, SushiSwap, Uniswap, Balancer, Curve, and more.
Users will now be able to use these protocols on Arbitrum to trade, lend, provide liquidity, and yield farm with negligent fees and nearly instantaneous transaction speeds.
Commenting on the launch in a press release, Balancer Labs CEO and co-founder Fernando Martinelli said:
“Arbitrum is a leading Layer 2 solution. Its distinctive features in scalability, especially compatibility with Ethereum, lead this industry to recognize that it will optimize the user experience and enhance growth. Layer 2s show the promise of reducing ETH fees and network congestion, and we are excited Arbitrum is available to the Balancer ecosystem.”
In addition to the mainnet launch, Offchain Labs has also announced that it has successfully closed a $120 million funding round. The raise was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, while other participants included Polychain Capital, Ribbit Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Pantera Capital, Alameda Research, and Mark Cuban.
Arbitrum Is One of Ethereum’s Top Scaling Solutions
Alongside Optimism, which is yet to launch after several delays, Arbitrum is one of the most anticipated Layer 2 scaling solutions on Ethereum. It uses Optimistic Rollups—a Layer 2 scaling solution that bundles thousands of sidechain transactions together into a single transaction verified and settled on Ethereum. The technology allows decentralized applications to easily port their smart contracts on Arbitrum with very minimal changes.
Moving a large portion of the transactions off-chain is Ethereum’s scaling method of choice for the near and mid-term future. Expounding on the subject, in an Oct. 2020 blog post, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin wrote:
“The Ethereum ecosystem is likely to be all-in on rollups (plus some plasma and channels) as a scaling strategy for the near and mid-term future.”
Arbitrum’s rollup solution should be one of the main contributors to helping Ethereum scale. The leading smart contract blockchain is currently capable of processing around 15 transactions per second on its base layer. By contrast, off-chain solutions like Arbitrum could increase the throughput to 2,000 to 4,000 transactions per second.
Crucially, it is expected to bring significant reductions to gas fees and increase transaction speeds, two factors that would vastly improve the user experience.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this feature owned ETH.
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