ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, UBS Group, the Swiss banking giant managing $5.7 trillion in assets, has been testing its UBS Key4 Gold product on the Ethereum Layer-2 network ZKSync to explore scalability and privacy solutions.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Ethereum Layer2 network Corn has raised $8.3 million in a round of community financing. This round of financing was raised through a compliant token sale platform called Legion, involving 675 investors and venture capital firms such as Polychain, Amber, GSR, Presto, and Laser Digital. Corn noted that the participation conditions for venture capital firms and community investors are the same.Although it is not yet fully operational, Corn aims to deepen the integration of Bitcoin with the DeFi ecosystem by using Bitcoin as a Gas token through a new hybrid tokenized version called BTCN. BTCN will be Corn's tokenized Bitcoin, backed 1:1 by native Bitcoin, and will not be limited by a single custodian or bridging solution. Corn will launch its own native token CORN to incentivize users and developers.

ChainCatcher news, Sony Blockchain Solutions Lab (Sony BSL) has launched the Ethereum L2 blockchain Soneium mainnet.Soneium is a public blockchain developed using OP Stack and Superchain. Soneium states that its mainnet already hosts over 50 different applications, covering use cases such as entertainment, gaming, consumer, social, NFT, and DeFi.

ChainCatcher news, according to Ethereum Daily data, Base has over 1.3 million unique addresses, ranking first among Ethereum L2s. Arbitrum and Manta rank second and third with 468,000 and 206,000 respectively.

ChainCatcher news, according to L2BEAT data, the current total locked value (TVL) of Ethereum Layer 2 has rebounded to $36.13 billion, with a 7-day increase of 2.87%. The top five locked values are:Arbitrum One ($13.94 billion, 7-day increase of 1.62%);Base ($6.59 billion, 7-day increase of 3.56%);OP Mainnet ($6.12 billion, 7-day increase of 4.38%);Blast ($1.55 billion, 7-day increase of 3.81%);Mantle ($1.25 billion, 7-day increase of 5.75%).

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance Labs has announced an investment in Corn to simplify the use of Bitcoin in decentralized finance. Corn is an Ethereum L2 network focused on establishing a decentralized finance (DeFi) hub for Bitcoin.Previous news, Polychain Capital announced a $6.7 million investment in the Bitcoin-centric yield network Corn.

ChainCatcher news, the total number of transactions processed in the Ethereum L2 ecosystem on August 12 reached a historic high of 12.42 million.This growth is mainly attributed to the memecoin craze based on the Coinbase L2 blockchain, where the trading volume surged to a peak of over 4 million at the end of July.The number of stablecoins currently on L2 is greater than the combined total of Solana and BSC. The report indicates that the number of stablecoins on L2 is 150% more than that on Solana and 94% more than that on BSC. Meanwhile, according to Etherscan data, the daily transaction volume on the Ethereum mainnet has remained relatively stable, hovering around 1.1 million for most of this year.

ChainCatcher news, according to L2BEAT data, the current total value locked (TVL) in Ethereum Layer 2 has dropped to $34.75 billion, with a 7-day decline of 16.23%. The top three in terms of TVL are:Arbitrum One ($14.12 billion, 7-day decline of 15.17%);Base ($6.08 billion, 7-day decline of 13.26%);OP Mainnet ($5.32 billion, 7-day decline of 14.81%).

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated at the ETHCC summit in Brussels, Belgium, that the Layer 2 network Starknet will open staking on its ecosystem by the end of 2024.Ben-Sasson submitted a Starknet Improvement Proposal to the community, suggesting that users can choose whether to become stakers, with rewards proportional to the amount of staked STRK tokens. If the proposal is approved by the community, a staking testnet on Starknet will be launched soon, and it will enter the mainnet in the last quarter of 2024.

ChainCatcher news, according to L2BEAT data, the current total locked value (TVL) of Ethereum Layer 2 has plummeted to $37.94 billion, with a 7-day decline of 11.55%. The top five in locked value are:Arbitrum One ($15.18 billion, 7-day decline of 10.74%);Base ($6.53 billion, 7-day decline of 9.88%);OP Mainnet ($5.48 billion, 7-day decline of 15.12%);Blast ($2.46 billion, 7-day decline of 14.69%);ZKsync Era ($1.12 billion, 7-day decline of 11.50%).