LAYER 1 and LAYER 2 PROTOCOLS
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"To compete with legacy systems of payment processing, blockchain networks must become highly scalable — capable of accommodating an exponentially growing number of users, transactions, and data."
Layer-1 and Layer-2 Blockchain Scaling Solutions, Cryptopedia (Mar 2022).
" ... main questions we asked industry leaders who are building, researching, and growing layer 2s.
What L222 Means For The Ethereum Ecosystem, Megan Dias and Dominik Schmid Consensys Blog. (Feb 2022).
THIRD GENERATION CHAINS
N.B.: 00:00 - 04:10 is optional
ETHEREUM MERGE
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"That move will shift the network from mining—where people run powerful computers for the chance to earn ETH—to staking, in which Ethereum holders can deposit their ETH in exchange for rewards."
Ethereum Merge Coming in August 'If Everything Goes to Plan': Core Dev, Jeff Benson Decrypt (May 2022).
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