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Ethereum (ETH) is undergoing a fundamental scaling shift that threatens to make generic Layer 2 tokens obsolete, as Vitalik Buterin's recent acknowledgment that the original rollup-centric roadmap needs revision has triggered a reassessment of the entire L2 investment thesis among cryptocurrency mar

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the original vision of layer-2 networks as Ethereum's primary scaling engine "no longer makes sense" in a Wednesday post. Major L2 builders responded within hours, broadly agreeing rollups must evolve beyond cheaper Ethereum. Buterin argued many L2s fai

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin declared the original vision for Layer 2 rollups "no longer makes sense" in an X post Tuesday. Buterin cited two factors: L2s progressed "far slower" toward decentralization than expected while Ethereum's base layer scaled independently. The comments represe

Ethereum Layer-2 network RISE repositioned itself as the foundation for global on-chain markets Thursday with the launch of RISEx and RISE MarketCore, marking a strategic shift toward becoming the infrastructure backbone for decentralized trading. The announcement accompanied RISE's acquisition of B

Presearch on Thursday launched its 3.0 platform, becoming the first Web3-native search engine to operate fully on Base, the Layer 2 blockchain incubated by Coinbase. The upgrade completes the project’s transition from Web2 to Web3 and introduces a decentralized infrastructure where users retain full