Scalability News

PancakeSwap now offers one-click crosschain swaps with Across Protocol, aiming to reduce bridge risk and improve DeFi user experience across Arbitrum, Base and BNB Chain.

ETH holds on to the bulk of its weekly gains, while BTC and altcoins sell off.

StarkWare’s new Stark Two (S-two) prover lets users generate cryptographic proofs directly on their devices.

FIFA is migrating its NFT marketplace and collection to a new Avalanche-powered layer-1 blockchain built for digital fan experiences.

Edgechains provide an answer to the blockchain scalability problem, offering modular execution layers that preserve Bitcoin’s security while enabling a new wave of high-performance DApps.

Avalanche, Helix and Faculty Group launch Fusion, a $100 million initiative to build modular, sector-specific blockchain networks.

Maelstrom has awarded Bitcoin developer Ben Allen a $100,000 grant to improve Payjoin, a privacy-focused transaction method that could boost Bitcoin scalability.

Buterin warns of the risks of centralized RPC providers and proposes a new node design to ensure trustless, censorship-resistant access to Ethereum as the network scales.

Ethereum price could hit new all-time highs if AI adoption, spot ETH ETF inflows and the improvements of the Pectra upgrade move in the right direction.

Anatoly Yakovenko proposed a data availability layer to connect crosschain data across leading networks, boosting blockchain interoperability.

Without programmable infrastructure, DeFi risks becoming the next frontier for unchecked automation and financial exploitation. DeFi faces vulnerabilities that could hinder its evolution.

Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade made some much-needed improvements. Will ETH price respond by rallying in the near future?

Crypto asset manager Bitwise has thrown NEAR into the crypto ETF ring following an S-1 filing with the SEC.

As Ethereum continues to evolve, key upgrades like Pectra, Fusaka and Glamsterdam are driving improvements in global usability, layer-2 synergy and long-term resilience.

Vitalik Buterin outlined his 2025 Ethereum development priorities, including single-slot finality, statelessness, enhanced privacy and decentralized infrastructure.