VCs bet big on layer-two as StarkWare raises a staggering $75 million

VCs bet big on layer-two as StarkWare raises a staggering $75 million

As Ethereum gas fees soar and the demand for scalability reaches fever pitch, layer-two scaling solution has announced today a $75 million Series B funding round led by Paradigm, Three Arrows, Alameda Research, Pantera Capital, and Sequoia, among others. 

The team announced the raise in a Tweet:

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StarkWare, which previously raised $30 million in 2018, offers zero-knowledge rollup technology allowing for offchain computation, beefed up transactional throughput, and claims to offer mainnet-coparable security guarantees. CEO Uri Kolodny has cast shade in the past at Ethereum’s native scaling efforts, headlined by the forthcoming ETH 2.0 upgrade. Starkware has formed deals with decentralized exchange projects DiversiFi and dYdX, and more recently announced a NFT-focused offering allowing for highly cost-effective mass minting:

So far, however, rival EVM chains and complimentary “sidechains” have absorbed the majority of the refugees fleeing Ethereum fees. Binance Smart Chain is now home to implementations of many top projects (both official and dozens of unofficial “forked” versions), and Polygon-nee-Matic has attracted a number of NFT projects like Aavegotchi. 

Starkware isn’t the only project to cash in on growing demand for scaling solutions as well, as the growing traffic has been a boon for scaling solution tokens.

Multiple projects are also investigating using optimistic rollups, a similar solution to StarkWare’s zero-knowledge rollups, to scale. MakerDAO is planning a “game-changing” DAI optimism bridge, and Ethereum co-founder and figurehead Vitalik Buterin has crowned optimistic rollups as a potential “100x” improvement to Ethereum throughput that could be implemented in a matter of “weeks.”

Given both the range of possible products — not to mention the eye-popping funding numbers flowing into them — it seems like a solution to scaling will come sooner rather than later.

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