Far from making zero-knowledge rollups obsolete, the Beam Chain would make them work better, says Polygon.

Namechain, as the layer-2 blockcain is called, will use a zero-knowledge rollup for scaling and is likely to go live around the end of 2025.

The goal of allowing greater utility on the Bitcoin blockchain is one of almost existential importance, according to Citrea

A longtime regular on the crypto scene, Sovryn and BitcoinOS founder Edan Yago learned the importance of financial sovereignty at an early age.

The crypto-adjacent tech is meant to give the Argentine capital's 3.6 million residents greater control over their personal data.

This month may well be remembered as an inflection point in the acceleration toward real-time proving of transaction validity for blockchains.

The purchase is part of a deal with hardware maker Fabric, that is also producing custom zero-knowledge chips for Polygon's AggLayer.