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Unlocking Bitcoin’s Potential: Introducing Merlin Chain, a Native L2 Solution

NewYork, United States, January 31st, 2024, Chainwire This week, the much-anticipated Bitcoin L2 solution Merlin Chain went live on its testnet, while its mainnet is scheduled to be launching within a month as well. Bitcoin’s Network Congestion Dilemma and Scaling Solutions The evolution of Ordinals over the past year has brought the attention back to the Bitcoin ecosystem after a long period. While enhancing the excitement of the bitcoin ecosystem, it has also increased the exhaustion of network resources. The increasingly high cost of transactions, coupled with the rising price of Bitcoin itself, has added further congestion to the network

Sui Blasts into DeFi Top 10 as TVL Surges Above $430M

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands, January 30th, 2024, Chainwire In the past four months, Sui TVL has jumped by more than 1000%, vaulting the network past Base, Cardano, and Bitcoin in its meteoric DeFi rise Sui, a leading Layer 1 blockchain that was created by the team that led Meta’s Diem crypto project, continued its blistering DeFi growth, surpassing $430M in Total Value Locked (TVL) and moving into the top 10 blockchains by that metric. Alongside this torrid ascent of TVL, on-chain activity has exploded as well. Weekly DeFi volume is up more than 1200% since October demonstrating the growth in

App-Specific Rollup Cartesi Announces A $1 Million Ecosystem Grants Initiative

New York City, United States, January 30th, 2024, Chainwire Developers can receive up to $50,000 USDC per project, plus dedicated tech support, introduction to accelerators and investors, marketing support and project consulting.  Cartesi (CTSI), an app-specific rollup protocol with a virtual machine that runs Linux distributions, announced today an allocation for $1 million to the Cartesi Grants Program. The program is dedicated to fostering developer talent and enriching the Cartesi ecosystem by supporting new ideas & dApps, research & integrations, developer tooling and gaming. Independent developers, founding teams, DAOs, communities and collectives can apply starting today, Tuesday, January 30th and

The revolutionary Massa ecosystem is launching now

Paris, France, January 30th, 2024, Chainwire With a 150k-strong community, thousands of nodes around the world, a custom consensus technology, and its native MAS token, the award-winning Massa blockchain is launching with unique features such as Autonomous Smart Contracts, enabling decentralization and resilience. Massa’s vision is to allow apps to be deployed on thousands of computers around the world and operate autonomously forever without relying on any external infrastructure, while being resistant to censorship and hacking. After a successful mainnet bootstrap on January 15th, 2024, millions of blocks and close to 100,000 transactions have already been settled by the high-throughput

XSOLLA Founder Shurick Agapitov Releases New Book Once Upon Tomorrow, A Visionary Take on The Metaverse and Its Impact on Global Creativity

Sherman Oaks, United States, January 30th, 2024, Chainwire Shurick Agapitov, a visionary author and the Founder of Xsolla unveiled his groundbreaking new book, “Once Upon Tomorrow,” today. This pioneering work offers a transformative and aspirational vision of the Metaverse, contrasting markedly with mainstream narratives. Agapitov’s book is a thought-provoking journey into the possibilities and potential of the Metaverse, providing a unique perspective diverging from the views often presented at industry conferences and by technology CEOs. “In ‘Once Upon Tomorrow,’ I present a vision of the Metaverse as a vast, inclusive, and transformative space. It’s not just a digital frontier but