Ethereum scaling protocol Starknet anticipates increased throughput and reduced fees on its layer-2 rollup network by introducing parallel transaction functionality in 2024. The layer-2 rollup released an updated roadmap on March 20 following the successful implementation of Ethereum’s Dencun hard fork. The upgrade to the network introduced several Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), chief among them being EIP-4844….

The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, has released its final report on its digital krona pilot project. The report looks at the experience of end-users and focuses on offline functionality. There were mixed results. The Riksbank released its fourth and last report on the e-krona on March 20. It examined a different model for offline retail transactions from…

Ethereum developers have launched a new initiative in a bid to raise the blockchain network’s long-static gas limit, arguing that the change can be used to help scale Ethereum. On March 20, core Ethereum developer Eric Connor and former head of smart contracts at MakerDAO Mariano Conti unveiled a new website called ‘pump the gas’ to raise…