Protocol revenue expanded roughly 27 times during 2025. The network captured about 62 percent of total layer-2 revenue by year-end. Annualized protocol fees reached approximately $75 million.

How do rollup networks act as middleware between Layer 1 and Web3 applications? Learn how they bundle transactions to boost scalability, lower fees, and ensure security.

This guide will provide an overview of Base, one of the leading Layer 2 chains, which is compatible with the Ethereum ecosystem. The network uses the Optimistic Rollups technology, which bundles ...

Ethereum is exploring proof-based verification at the base layer as research progress brings advanced cryptography into active development plans.

Base led all other L2 chains in terms of chain fees and app revenues. The L2 economy shrank since October 10, 2025, but chains are attempting to recover their activity through the most widely used ...

Base is an Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by Coinbase that uses optimistic rollups to execute transactions off-chain while settling and securing them on Ethereum. As Ethereum activity increasingly ...