Soneium, a layer-2 (L2) blockchain network developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, said it has slashed its blockchain finality time by over 98%, as it aims to solve one of the biggest challenges in blockchain scalability.
Astar, a Japanese Web3 adoption collective bridging Astar Network and Soneium, announced a strategic partnership with AltLayer and EigenLayer to launch a “Fast Finality Layer” for Sony’s data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/a-beginners-guide-on-blockchain-layer-2-scaling-solutions” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>L2 blockchain.
In blockchain settlement, data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-is-finality-in-blockchain-and-why-does-it-matter” rel=”null” target=”null” text=”null” title=”null”>finality is the assurance that a transaction is irreversible, which happens after it is added to a…

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