Tether launches on Hermez rollup as Ethereum starts falling behind
Tether (USDT) has now launched on Hermez Network, an Ethereum scalability solution based on the zk-rollup concept. Rollups provide a way of batching or “rolling up” transactions to lighten the load on the Ethereum network. The key to rollups is the concept of data availability, which means that the state data of the rollup is […]
Hermez Network launches zk-rollups on Ethereum mainnet to process cheap payments
Hermez Network has announced on Wednesday the launch of its zk-rollup mainnet release. This means that the network is now open for users, who can benefit from the rollup’s much lower transaction costs than Ethereum. Zk-rollups use zero knowledge proofs to verify the correctness of a large batch of transactions. An outside ecosystem executes these […]