Over the past few years, Solana has been both lauded and criticized in equal measure—praised for its lightning-fast throughput and low fees, but scrutinized for recurring network outages that have undermined user confidence. Now, a long-anticipated solution is on the horizon: Firedancer, a new validator client developed by Jump Crypto, is entering final testing stages. …
In the ever-evolving world of blockchain scalability, zero-knowledge rollups (zk-rollups) have emerged as one of the most promising solutions to Ethereum's well-known congestion and fee problems. But as the first generation of zk-rollups focused on scalability and basic functionality, the next iteration—zkEVMs (Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines)—is now ushering in a transformative wave for Layer 2 …