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“Arbitrum Foundation, a supporter of the Ethereum Layer 2 network, is partnering with Fracton Ventures to tap into the Japanese market. The alliance will focus on ecosystem construction and furnish community education, promoting Arbitrum’s adoption by Japanese developers and investors.”

Coinbase’s open-source, permissionless Ethereum layer-2 protocol, Base, is focusing on decentralization and interoperability among varied blockchain chains. The company has designed unique “Base Neutrality Principles” to protect against excessive influence and maintain the merits of decentralization. These principles include not controlling bridged crypto, avoiding transaction favouritism, and not using private data for marketing.

“Lamina1, a blockchain dedicated to the metaverse, has revealed its betanet platform for developers and creators. Supported by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson and crypto investor Peter Vessenes, Lamina1 aims for a digital-physical fusion, yet faces skepticism over its user-friendly, secure onboarding process. Their ultimate goal is to advance high-quality content creation, user experience, and carbon-negative infrastructure.”

“The latest updates from the Wormhole Foundation allow for a seamless interaction between more than 20 disparate blockchains with any application-specific chain within the Cosmos ecosystem. This gateway simplifies migration of tokens onto any Cosmos chain, ultimately aiming to accelerate growth.”

The NEAR Foundation has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to facilitate the growth of Web 3 in Asia and the Middle East. This collaboration offers access to Alibaba Cloud’s developer ecosystem, enables launching new NEAR validators, and provides remote procedure calls and multi-chain indexing, fostering adoption and scalability.

GameStop has announced a strategic partnership with The Telos Foundation to boost its Web3 gaming offerings by integrating Web3 games built on Telos’ robust blockchain network with its upcoming game launchpad, Playr. This collaboration aims to eliminate barriers, making it more accessible for Web2 players to explore Web3 gaming while attracting new users to the emerging ecosystem.

Chinese autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai has expanded its driverless robotaxi services with a newly introduced service in Shenzhen. Backed by Toyota Motor and NIO Capital, Pony.ai faces competition from Baidu and Didi Chuxing in the fast-paced Chinese market. The government aims for vehicles with partial self-driving technology to account for 50% of all new-auto sales by 2025.

The Ethereum blockchain will undergo the Bedrock hard fork on June 6 as Optimism, a layer 2 scaling solution, introduces a major upgrade for improved modularity, simplicity, and Ethereum equivalence. This is expected to increase performance and functionality, while fueling positive market sentiment for Optimism’s Layer 2 network.

The Aptos Foundation pledges over $3.5M to 50 project teams dedicated to scaling Aptos blockchain and fostering innovation within the Web3 ecosystem. Grants focus on public good services, infrastructure, and open-source development, covering categories like Developer Tooling, Infrastructure, Education, and Ecosystem initiatives.

Etonec partners with Mina Foundation to develop a zero-knowledge proof-powered regulatory compliance tool for the DeFi and Web3 markets. This solution will maintain user privacy while addressing KYC and AML regulations, potentially attracting more institutional investors and providing unprecedented data control for users.

Consensus 2023 showcased growing interest in Web3 technology adoption among large companies like Mastercard and Google Cloud. The event focused on essential Web3 strategies, innovations, and privacy, but could benefit from a stronger international presence to understand global opportunities.

The Stellar Development Foundation and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have launched a financial inclusion framework to assess the effectiveness of blockchain projects in emerging markets. They found that blockchain-based payments enhance accessibility, reduce transaction costs, and increase transaction speed, notably in financially underserved areas. However, they stress on the importance of responsible design principles and robust governance to mitigate potential challenges and criticism.

The CryptoNight mining algorithm, a feature of the CryptoNote protocol, aims to prevent the centralization of mining power by allowing CPUs and GPUs to mine blocks. Despite criticisms and ASICs adapting, it remains a successful tool advocating privacy and fairness in mining.

Australia’s big four bank, ANZ, has successfully conducted a test transaction with Web3 services platform, Chainlink, marking a significant move towards embracing tokenized assets. Utilizing Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), ANZ simulates the purchase of a tokenized asset adopting a ‘test-and-learn’ approach.

A pivotal upgrade known as the Merge transitioned Ethereum from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake (PoS), causing a net supply decrease of 299,922.50 ether. The PoS mechanism needs users to hold ether to validate transactions and earn rewards. This eliminated much miner supply and made Ethereum more eco-friendly. However, despite these changes, ether’s market values have stagnated.

“SSV.network, in partnership with the Ethereum Foundation, recently launched its mainnet aiming to decentralize Ethereum staking pools. Leveraging Distributed Validator Technology, it aims to increase validator resilience, enhance private key security, and minimize the risks of validator downtime.”