The global trend of digital fragmentation seems unstoppable. Barring intervention by the Supreme Court, a law banning TikTok in the U.S. will go into effect later this month, despite investing ...

Espresso Systems tackles Rollup fragmentation and centralized sequencing with HotShot consensus, enabling cross-chain composability.

New research models how crosschain price gaps and capital friction are eroding efficiency as tokenized markets scale across blockchains. Fragmentation across blockchain networks is already imposing a ...

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For years, the payments industry has been on a seemingly unstoppable path toward global harmonisation, integration and alignment. The most recent poster child of this trend was the shift to the ISO ...

Discover how institutions navigate complexities caused by fragmentation in the crypto markets. Market fragmentation in crypto is a paradox. In contrast to consolidated markets, where traders compete ...

The Ethereum ecosystem stands at a pivotal moment. Over the past four years, scaling challenges have been addressed through Layer-2 (L2) solutions, rollups, and technological breakthroughs, expanding ...

Starting with just a handful of pioneers a few years ago led by Arbitrum and Optimism, there's been a rapid multiplication of layer-2 networks atop Ethereum, designed to provide an alternate venue for ...