Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #14
Welcome to the latest edition of the Layer 2 Weekly Roundup. Every week, this newsletter covers the latest and most important updates from across Ethereum’s Layer 2 ecosystem.
Catch up on the previous edition HERE
Ecosystem Highlights
@traderjoe_xyz - Is now live on the Arbitrum network, bringing the innovative and highly efficient concentrated liquidity AMM ‘Liquidity Book’ to the Arbitrum community.
@VelodromeFi - Announced that Velodrome 2.0 will be arriving in Q1, which will introduce a complete UI/UX redesign, auto compounder/vote optimized relay, and an overhauled streamlined codebase.
@CamelotDEX - Published their yearly recap along with their updated roadmap for 2023, with the aim of becoming the native DEX supporting the Arbitrum ecosystem.
@GammaStrategies - Have officially deployed on the Arbitrum network, bringing with them an array of new structured LP products for both risk tolerant, and risk adverse LPs.
@UniPassID - Recently deployed their very first production ready smart contract wallet on Scroll’s Pre-Alpha testnet, providing users with a non-custodial smart contract wallet that offers both a seedless and gasless UX.
@CamelotDEX - Have launched the first $LUSD opportunity on Arbitrum since their recent integration with Liquity Protocol.
L2 Protocol Highlights
@taikoxyz - Officially launched their Alpha-1 testnet, which is now open to both developers and users who would like to help battle-test Taiko’s zkEVM network.
@StarkWareLtd - Have achieved 100% opcode compatibility with the Kakarot zk-EVM, which is a new flavour of of zkEVM that is instead written in Cairo.
@arbitrum - Publish a thread recapping all of their most important developments over the last 12 months, including the Nitro performance upgrade, and the launch of Arbitrum Nova.
@secure3io - Have completed their official audit round of the zkSync 2.0 contract, and have confirmed that zkSync’s codebase has been updated accordingly since the previous OpenZeppelin audit.
Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts
@DelendumV - Daniel Lubarov and Jordi Baylina from Polygon recently hosted an online seminar to explore the various optimizations of zkEVM.
@arbitrum - Hosted a Twitter Space with Trader Joe to discuss their product as well as their recent migration from Avalanche to Arbitrum.
Layer 2 Focused Events
@StarkWareLtd - Have announced their initial list of speakers for the 2023 series of StarkNet Sessions, along with another wave of early bird tickets.
Interesting Articles
@pseudotheos - Published an article that aims to break down the technical differences between language compatibility and bytecode compatibility.
@LuozhuZhang - Published an article that outlines the remaining roadmap for Ethereum, including an in-depth overview of EIP-4844.
@PrivacyScaling - Highlighted the success of their “Learn & Share” series that aims to help explain various technical ZK based concepts.
@nethermindeth - Published an article that explores all of the upcoming features that will be added in the Cairo 1.0 upgrade.
@worldofethereum - Published an article that explores the “surge”, or EIP-4844, which is the next major scalability milestone in Ethereum’s roadmap.
@liamzebedee - Published an article that explains how Lens will be able to scale up to 50k users on the Polygon network.
Interesting Tweets
Industry Thought Leaders
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