rollups
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Starknet Floats Leaving Ethereum's Layer 2 Tier to Run Its Own Chain
The network said it is weighing a move from Ethereum rollup to standalone layer 1, pitching quantum resistance by 2027. Its token rose about 20 percent on the news, Decrypt reported.
Blast Shuts Down Its Layer 2 With $63.5m Still Sitting in the Bridge
The Ethereum layer 2 once held more than $2bn in assets. It is now winding down because running it costs more than it earns, and users have until 26 October to withdraw through the app.
Almost every tokenized-equity chain, Robinhood Chain included, runs behind a single ordering machine. Here is what that machine decides, what it cannot decide, and what your position looks like during an outage.
How Robinhood Chain Works, and What a Single Sequencer Means for You
An operator-run rollup settles to Ethereum but orders its own transactions. Here is the machinery, the tradeoffs it buys, and the specific failure modes worth knowing before you leave collateral on it.