Posts tagged #layer 1

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August 31, 2026 · 4 min read

PulseChain RPC: Chain 369, a Full-State Eth Fork

PulseChain mainnet RPC endpoint and chain ID 369 — the EVM-compatible full-state fork of Ethereum. Gas in PLS, ~10-second blocks, what carries over from Ethereum, what doesn't, and live fee numbers.

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August 9, 2026 · 5 min read

Berachain RPC: EVM, With a Locked Reward Token

Berachain is an EVM-identical L1 (chain ID 80094) on a Proof-of-Liquidity consensus with a tri-token model: BERA for gas, HONEY as a native stablecoin, and BGT — a governance token you earn but cannot transfer. The RPC is standard eth_* (viem/ethers/foundry work), but treating BGT like a normal ERC-20 breaks. Here's the developer map.

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August 8, 2026 · 4 min read

Monad RPC: 10,000 TPS With Nothing to Relearn

Monad is a high-performance EVM Layer 1 (chain ID 143) that hits 10,000 TPS via parallel execution and pipelined MonadBFT consensus — while staying fully EVM bytecode-compatible, so viem/ethers/foundry work unchanged. The parallelism is under the hood and serial-equivalent, so the RPC is standard eth_*. Here's the developer map, including the two things that actually change.

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August 6, 2026 · 4 min read

Sonic RPC: Fantom's Successor, New Chain ID

Sonic is the high-performance L1 successor to Fantom Opera (chain ID 146, not 250) with sub-second finality and a 90%-fees-to-developers model. It's standard EVM (viem/ethers/foundry work), but if you're migrating from Fantom the new chain ID and S token are the first things to get right. Here's the developer map.

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