Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.
The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to “all of the liquidity and value on Ethereum itself,” Polygon said.
The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale’s GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings yesterday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, hold more of the crypto than MicroStrategy (MSTR), whose total stood at 190,000 as of the end of January.
A practical, unbiased, and proven approach could classify bitcoin as another building block in institutional investors’ portfolios.
Bitcoin targets $48,000 in the short term fueled by a strong historic track record around the Chinese New Year, 10X Research’s Markus Thielen said.
Bitcoin broke through the $45,000 mark on Thursday, as on-chain data shows miner selling pressure is beginning to ease off.
Company launches service that allows people to signup for crypto-related platforms and all they have to provide is a selfie and tax ID number.
Ethereum’s upgrade Dencun is scheduled for activation at slot 8626176, estimated for March 13 at around 8:55 am ET.
Developed by Herodotus and StarkWare, the Cairo verifier will enable the verification of proofs directly on Starnet for the first time.
Liquid staking service Sanctum, NFT collateralization platform Sharky and cross-chain protocol deBridge were put forward as candidates.
