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The State of Layer 2 Scaling and What the Future May Hold

The State of Layer 2 Scaling and What the Future May Hold

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

November 16, 2023

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This year has been a significant one for Ethereum’s Layer 2 ecosystem, with new developments emerging at a rapid pace. The number of Layer 2 projects has exploded, with dozens...

Ankr Launches Rollup as a Service In Partnership With Optimism

Ankr Launches Rollup as a Service In Partnership With Optimism

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

November 14, 2023

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Today, we are extremely excited to announce that Ankr has launched its first Rollup as a Service in collaboration with Optimism! Now, businesses and developers can quickly customize and deploy...

Core Blockchain: Ankr’s Newest RPC Connection

Core Blockchain: Ankr’s Newest RPC Connection

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

November 13, 2023

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Ankr is excited to announce we have made an essential addition to our RPC service by integrating the Core Blockchain. This is excellent news for developers looking to get the...

Ethereum’s Testnets Explained [2024] Holešky, Goerli, Sepolia, and More

Ethereum’s Testnets Explained [2024] Holešky, Goerli, Sepolia, and More

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

November 9, 2023

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Ethereum has made big strides in driving the network forward this year as the foundation, core developers, and contributors worked to keep momentum from the Merge to Proof-of-Stake. As a...

Ankr’s Plans for Devconnect Istanbul and L2 Days!

Ankr’s Plans for Devconnect Istanbul and L2 Days!

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

November 6, 2023

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The Ankr team is on the way to Istanbul for Devconnect, and we couldn’t be more excited to meet everyone who plans on going! Devconnect will bring together Ethereum's most...

How AI and Blockchain Work Together: Use Cases for Complementary Technologies

How AI and Blockchain Work Together: Use Cases for Complementary Technologies

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

October 31, 2023

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Early this year, the hype around artificial intelligence became an unstoppable force as mysterious new projects like Open AI made headline after headline. The immediate promise of the new technology...

Ankr Adds XDC Network RPC Connection In Support of XDC Developer Ecosystem

Ankr Adds XDC Network RPC Connection In Support of XDC Developer Ecosystem

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

October 12, 2023

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Ankr is thrilled to announce we will soon make an essential addition to our RPC service with the XDC Network. This is excellent news for developers looking to get the...

Rollup as a Service: What is, Types, ZK vs Optimistic Rollups - much more!

Rollup as a Service: What is, Types, ZK vs Optimistic Rollups - much more!

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

October 11, 2023

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What if every decentralized application, enterprise, or crypto use case had the opportunity to operate on its own layer-2 blockchain? This is the question that Rollup-as-a-Service (RaaS) providers are seeking...

The Future of Social Media on Web3

The Future of Social Media on Web3

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

October 3, 2023

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In many ways, social media opened the world’s eyes to what the internet could do. Early social platforms like MySpace allowed anyone to instantly share media in their own streamlined...

Using Account Abstraction To Enhance the Web3 Experience

Using Account Abstraction To Enhance the Web3 Experience

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

September 22, 2023

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Account abstraction, which got its start with ERC-4337, is a relatively new concept to Web3. However, it’s been a key narrative of 2023 because it has the potential to...

Restaking: The Future of Liquid Staking

Restaking: The Future of Liquid Staking

Diogo Costa

Diogo Costa

September 15, 2023

Liquid staking has been a raging utility in the blockchain sphere for quite some time now, and rightfully so. Users are flocking to liquid staking services due to the benefits...

Ankr and Tencent Cloud Partnership Launches To Provide Blockchain RPC for Developers

Ankr and Tencent Cloud Partnership Launches To Provide Blockchain RPC for Developers

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

September 12, 2023

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We are thrilled to announce that Tencent Cloud has joined forces with Ankr to launch its first Web3-native product, Tencent Cloud Blockchain RPC, for organizations...

Tokenization’s Emergence In 2023 and Enterprise Use Cases

Tokenization’s Emergence In 2023 and Enterprise Use Cases

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

September 8, 2023

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In March of this year, the CEO of BlackRock (the world's largest asset manager with over $9T) made a bold statement: “The next generation for markets, the next generation for...

Sei: Ankr’s Newest RPC Connection

Sei: Ankr’s Newest RPC Connection

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

September 6, 2023

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Ankr is thrilled to announce that we will soon release an essential addition to our RPC service with the Sei blockchain. This is excellent news for developers looking to get...

The Modularity Revolution, DNA, and Blockchain’s Future

The Modularity Revolution, DNA, and Blockchain’s Future

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer

August 31, 2023

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The longer you study technology, the more patterns you begin to see – many inspired by the natural world. You want to build a machine that flies? Look at a...