Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #1

Welcome to the very first edition of the Layer 2 weekly roundup. Every week, this newsletter covers the latest and most important updates from within Ethereum’s Layer 2 ecosystem.

Ecosystem Highlights

• The Increment Beta v2 is now live on the zkSync 2.0 testnet

• Swipe enable direct bank account on/off ramp support for Arbitrum

• Polygon announce support for the Starbucks Odyssey campaign

• Shell v2 is now live on Arbitrum One

• Lido will soon enable wstETH bridging to Arbitrum and Optimism after a successful governance proposal

• Rarible is now live on Immutable X

L2 Protocol Highlights

• OP Labs announce Optimism’s Bedrock Alpha testnet

• StarkWare unveil Cairo 1.0 - Introducing Sierra

• Arbitrum release Nitro node v2.0.5

Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts

• ZKHack host members of the Polygon Miden team to discuss the intersection of privacy and computation in zk systems

• Arbitrum host Twitter spaces with Sentiment to discuss undercollateralized borrowing

• Arbitrum are joined by the team from Defi Llama to host a collaborative AMA

• Galxe and Optimism host a Twitter Space to discuss Optimism’s new “Optimism Quests’ campaign

• Optimism and Forta host a Twitter Space to discuss on-chain security and threat detection

• Aztec publish community call #4 recap

Events

• Arbitrum announce first ever Hackathon for ETH Bogota

• STARK Vietnam have announced the first StarkNet developer conference, set for September 25th 2022

• Scroll, Aztec, Optimism, and Polygon are all offering $20,000 prize pools as official partners for this year’s ETH Global Hackathon at ETH Bogota

Interesting Tweets

• Chris from Scroll publishes a technical deep dive breaking down the technical properties of Scroll’s Pre-Alpha

• Polynya rambles about Fractal Scaling

• Dankrad discusses how to optimize KZG commitments in proofs

Who to Follow

• Swagtimus.eth

• Nurstar.eth

• pseudotheos

• polynya

• Crypto-Gucci.eth

• Toghrul Maharramov

This newsletter is for educational purposes only, and should never in any way be considered as financial or investment advise.

Thanks for reading.