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Feb. 29: Marathon Digital Holdings, a publicly-traded bitcoin mining agency, disclosed it has been incubating Anduro, a brand new programmable, multi-chain layer-2 community atop the Bitcoin blockchain. It is a “platform constructed on the Bitcoin community that permits for the creation of a number of sidechains,” in line with a press release. “Marathon is already creating the primary two sidechains on Anduro, Coordinate and Alys, which could be additional developed by open-source contributors. These chains show Anduro’s versatile programmability. Coordinate affords an economical UTXO stack for the Ordinals group, whereas Alys is an Ethereum-compatible chain for institutional asset tokenization. Anduro’s sidechains make the most of a course of referred to as merge-mining. Taking part miners, like Marathon, could possibly earn Bitcoin-denominated income from transactions that happen on Anduro’s sidechains whereas persevering with to mine bitcoin on the base-layer uninterruptedly.”