Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #15
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.
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Ecosystem Highlights
@Clique2046 - Announced an official partnership with Optimism following their recent integration with the Attestation Station, which introduces an on-chain attestor contract that hosts custom identity information about users.
@bebop_dex - Has deployed on the Arbitrum network to bring efficient token trading, speedy execution, and the best-in-class user experience to the Arbitrum community.
@caskprotocol - Has integrated their non-custodial automation protocol with the Arbitrum network, which includes a number of money flow features such as auto-buys for crypto on DEX’s.
@CamelotDEX - Has announced a strategic partnership with Factor DAO, to help bring a modular framework for decentralized asset management on Arbitrum.
@opensea - Has now added support for Arbitrum Nova, while also adding to the strength of the Nova ecosystem by joining their Data Availability Committee to help provide access to on-chain data.
@Nansen_ai - Released their latest report on zkSync, which covers a number of topics including zkSync’s alignment with Ethereum’s philosophy and values.
@CursedFund - Is a social experiment spun out of Galleon DAO which enables DBL holders to participate by voting on their current sentiment of ETH, which gets aggregated to calculate a small fund allocation.
@defi_mochi - Has created four Dune Analytics dashboards to track the performance of the top four DEX’s from across the Arbitrum ecosystem.
L2 Protocol Highlights
@StarkWareLtd - Have deployed Cairo 1.0, which introduces a number of new game changing features that enable developers to start writing, compiling, and testing Cairo 1.0 programs.
@Scroll-ZKP - Will be performing a scheduled testnet reset on January 9th, with the goal of adding a number of new performance optimizations to their Pre-Alpha testnet.
@0xPolygonZK - Will be deprecating their initial zkEVM testnet on January 12th, which means developers and users will need to migrate to the latest version as soon as possible.
@zksync - Introduced a new Hardhat plugin that supports smart contract verification, which is set to improve the existing developer experience on zkSync 2.0.
@OptimismGov - Announced that the third season of Optimism’s Governance Fund Grants will begin on January 26th, which will introduce both the builders, and growth and experience committees.
@Scroll_ZKP - Have published their year in review, covering everything from the launch of their Pre-Alpha testnet, to hosting the first ever Rollup Day.
Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts
@zksync - Hosted a Twitter Space with Anthony Rose and Raman Canales to discuss zkSync’s updated roadmap for 2023.
@jbaylina - From Polygon Hermez talks about the importance of EVM-Equivalence as opposed to EVM-Compatibility.
@0xPolygon - Hosted the latest episode of the PolygonPod to dive into all things ZK with David Schwartz and Brendan Farmer from the Polygon team.
@optimismFND - Recently hosted the latest episode of OP Radio in collaboration with the OptiChads team to discuss their product and community.
@ryskfinance - Hosted a collaborative Twitter Space with Arbitrum to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of DeFi throughout 2022.
Interesting Articles
@Newmancapitalvc - Published an introductory article for the purpose of exploring the zkEVM landscape, while also taking a deeper look into Scroll’s cutting edge bytecode compatible zkEVM.
@zksync - Head of engineering, Anthony Rose, recently sat down with the Cryptonomist to discuss zksync and the importance of zk-Rollups.
@ArbitrumDevs - Publish their first blog of the “Ethereum Unravelled” series which focuses on the technical inner-workings of Ethereum.
@ThunderbyFuel - Published a blog post that gives a glimpse of what the Fuel community can expect in 2023 from the first native NFT marketplace built on Fuel.
@TomGur - Has published a technical paper that discusses how zero-knowledge proofs can be constructed in the setting of various new data streams.
Interesting Tweets
Industry Thought Leaders
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