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Discover the news of the week [View in Browser]( [logo] [YouHodler,]( a European crypto fintech lending platform, has joined Ledger Live App’s Discover Section, enabling you to access seamless lending services and convenient crypto loan features. Thanks to this launch you [can benefit from]( • A loan-to-value ratio (LTV) of up to 90%. • Using the top 45 cryptos as collateral. • Loans in stablecoins, as well as four fiat currencies. • Competitive loan fees. • Advanced features to manage your loan conditions and react to the market. Learn more in our [blog](. [Get Crypto Loans With YouHodler →](  [Yuga Labs introduces 300 limited edition Bitcoin NFTs.]( The creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club launched their generative art project “TwelveFold”, featuring bubbly designs with “highly-rendered 3D elements as well as hand-drawn features which serve as an homage to the ordinal inscriptions currently done by hand”, the company said in a post. [Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade pushed to April, opening the possibility to withdraw staked ETH and rewards.]( Ethereum core developer and project coordinator Tim Beiko said, “For mainnet, we usually want to give people at least two weeks after the announcement (...) I think the earliest that puts us is like the first week of April.” [Amid uncertainty, Visa keeps its crypto project going.]( The company denied Reuters allegations and affirmed to continue to invest in the crypto space: “Our view has not changed that fiat-backed digital currencies running on public blockchains have the potential to play an important role in the payments ecosystem” says Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa. [Vitalik Buterin says that “more needs to be done” to implement Ethereum as a method of payment.]( co-founder of Ethereum has shared that there must be improvements around crypto UX. “We need in-person payment systems to have some functionality” so customers are allowed to “transfer their transaction data directly to the merchant if that's the best way to get it broadcasted”, says Buterin. [Solana addresses concerns after a 20-hour freeze on its on-chain activity.]( After the episode, Solana said it wants to give priority to discovering the root of the issue “and will continue to do so with a focus on stability”, assured Anatoly Yakovenko, founder and CEO of Solana Labs. The cause of the outage is still unknown. [US Congressman says that Biden’s CBDC would threaten Americans' “privacy and security."]( “Any digital version of the dollar must uphold our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness,” Emmer, the Republican representative said. “Anything less opens the door to the development of a dangerous surveillance tool.”  On The Future Of Ethereum NFT Paris, Generative Art, Ledger Collection & The Future Of Creativity By Charles Guillemet, CTO at Ledger With The Merge now behind us and the Shanghai upgrade on the horizon, it’s time to reflect [on the future of Ethereum](. How can this protocol become more scalable? How can it achieve mainstream adoption? As the world’s 2nd crypto, increased usage & DApps have triggered slower, expensive transactions on Ethereum. This limitation is known as the “[blockchain trilemma]( the complexity of simultaneously balancing decentralization, security & scalability. To make crypto accessible to billions of users, Ethereum and the Blockchain ecosystem must solve this trilemma, that is, to process millions of transactions while safeguarding security & decentralization. [Several solutions]( have been suggested to scale Ethereum. Among them are bigger blocks, blocks per second, and side chains to reduce load. But they come with downsides: increased centralization & heightened security risks. That’s not the way to go. What if “sharding” was the right solution? This ingenious technique involves splitting the network into smaller sub-networks called shards, enabling parallel transaction processing & fewer transactions to manage. Sounds perfect, right? Well… think again. Sharding has its drawbacks, too. This scaling method makes it more challenging to define the overall consensus, more complex to implement cross-shard communication, and increases the probability of hacks. Rollups To The Rescue And what about rollups? They compress multiple transactions into one, enabling off-chain execution while safeguarding Eth’s security. Two main Rollups exist: Optimistic Rollups for users to issue fraud proofs in case of dispute, and ZK-Rollups where Layer 2s issue validity proofs. These Rollups will be vital in shaping the future of Ethereum, as they promise to enable trustless, permissionless and secure transactions at scale while safeguarding the “blockchain trilemma.” The recent shift in Ethereum's roadmap to support rollups at the protocol level is a testament to the credibility of this scaling technique. In the future, Ethereum & others Blockchains could see Layer-1s become settlement platforms & Layer-2s scalable protocols for DApps. This architecture will make Ethereum & Blockchains infinitely more scalable and put crypto in the hands of billions of people. Read the [full blog here](. [title] Happy BuyDay at Ledger! 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