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Arbitrum Nitro: An overview

Off-chain Labs’ Arbitrum One is a layer 2 (L2) scaling solution for Ethereum that was introduced in 2021. Arbitrum aims to lower transaction fees and increase its ability to process thousands of transactions per second, like any scaling solution.

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Bastian Simpertigue
November 17, 2022

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zkEVM and zkRollups Explained

zkEVMs are an attempt to overcome the complexity of implementing an EVM-compatible zk-rollup to ease the integration with current EVM tools and opcodes along with the knowledge derived from it.

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Bastian Simpertigue
November 3, 2022

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Querying full and archive Ethereum nodes with Python

Whenever we need to query data from the blockchain, we fetch it from a node. An archive node differs from a full node since the first holds the entire history of network transactions. Thus, some queries for older block transactions cannot be fetched easily on a full node. In this tutorial, we will programmatically fetch data from the blockchain, switching between full and archive nodes when necessary.

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Bastian Simpertigue
September 22, 2022