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I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately: Bitcoin Layer 2 foundations need to start holding bitcoin in their treasuries. It makes too much sense for them not to. And apparently I’m not the only one.

According to data from L2 Beat, there are 118 layer-2 scaling solutions listed for the Ethereum network as of December 2024. As the Ethereum layer-2 (L2) ecosystem continues to expand and encompasses ...

Starknet, a layer-2 on top of Ethereum, is getting its first application-chain that settles on the network. The layer-3 app-chain, called Nums, is built off of the “SN Stack,” a customizable toolkit ...

The Celo blockchain's long-awaited plan of becoming an Ethereum layer-2 chain has been completed, ending an almost two-year process, the main organizations behind the network said Wednesday. The ...

The introduction of Ethereum R1 deviates from traditional layer-2 developments that have come to characterize Ethereum's scaling networks. A group of developers within the Ethereum ecosystem, ...

The second article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series. This article covers Statechains, originally designed by Ruben Somsen, and implemented by CommerceBlock. Statechains are an original second layer ...

Wed, November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM UTC Ethereum's (CRYPTO: ETH) price story in 2025 has been shaped by Layer 2 networks. These scaling solutions made transactions faster and cheaper, but they've also ...