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ENS halts own layer 2 work, focuses on Ethereum mainnet
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) will operate its next-generation protocol, ENSv2, only on the Ethereum mainnet and has stopped development of Namechain, its own layer 2 solution prepared for more than two years, The Block reported. Co-founder Nick Johnson said Ethereum has scaled much faster than expected. ENS had planned to cut .eth registration and update costs using a ZK-rollup-based layer 2, but said lower gas fees and a higher gas limit improved mainnet economics.
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Mantle adopts Ethereum blobs, moves to Ethereum ZK rollup architecture
Mantle Network said on Jan. 23 it has adopted Ethereum blobs as its main data availability layer and will transition to an Ethereum ZK rollup architecture. Mantle said the shift strengthens its high-performance distribution-layer strategy connecting traditional finance, real-world assets and on-chain liquidity, while better aligning with Ethereum’s long-term scaling roadmap. It said the move gathered pace after Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade, which it views as a turning point for expanding blob throughput capacity by up to eight times in theory.
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Starknet mainnet hit by another outage, team probes cause
Starknet’s Ethereum-based ZK rollup mainnet suffered an outage, Cointelegraph reported on Jan. 5. Engineers were carrying out emergency recovery work, but the cause had not been identified. The downtime lasted more than two hours, the report said, reviving questions over Starknet’s reliability after multiple disruptions last year. Starknet aims to offer high throughput and low fees for smart contracts, DeFi and games by processing transactions off-chain and posting cryptographic proofs to Ethereum.