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Locked Value on zkSync Era Climbs Past $100M
Ether and USD coin dominate locked tokens on the upstart network.
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Bitcoin Layer 2 Stacks' Token a Top Performer in March
STX has gained 23% for the month and is up 350% over the past year.
CDCROP: Concept of Growth Rising Arrow (Francesco Carta/Getty Images)

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ConsenSys Launches zkEVM Public Testnet, Renames It ‘Linea’
The release comes in the days after competitors, Polygon and Matter Labs, came out with their own zkEVMs.
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Matter Labs Opens zkSync Era to Users, Claiming First in ‘Zero Knowledge’ Tech on Ethereum
After zkSync Era was launched only for developers last month, the project took the additional step Friday of opening to general users. The latest push comes just days ahead of the rival Polygon system’s planned rollout Monday of its own “zero knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine.”
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Polygon Partners With Salesforce for NFT-Based Loyalty Program
Salesforce partnership with the blockchain platform marks another major company’s investment into customer engagement initiatives using Web3 technologies.
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OpenZeppelin Reveals Top 10 Blockchain Hacking Techniques in 2022
The first and second place bugs involved layer 2 scaling system Optimism and vanity address generator Profanity.
CDCROP: A Computer System Hacked Warning (Getty Images)

Coinbase's Base blockchain booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Coinbase Is Adding DeFi Apps Uniswap and Aave to Its Base Blockchain: Source
A person familiar with the process said Uniswap would probably appear on Base in a couple of months.
Coinbase's Base blockchain booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Zero-Knowledge Technology Has Great Potential: FS Insight
The technology has a wide range of use cases in areas such as privacy, security, scalability, interoperability and sovereign identity, the report said.
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Chainlink Price Feeds Go Live on Base, Coinbase’s Layer 2 Testnet
Base also joins the Web3 services platform's Scale program, allowing developers to construct smart contracts that can react to external information at a subsidized cost.
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