Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #24

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

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Ecosystem Highlights

• @LimeLabsHQ have launched Wisp, a protocol for secure data transfer between rollups based on cryptogrophy.

• @Immutable announce the launch of ‘Passport’, an instant wallet to support onboarding web3 gamers

• @PirateNationNFT will be launching on Arbitrum Nova.

• @Carbonable_io announce $1.2M raise to support their project to track carbon contributors and help prevent greenwashing.

• @blowfishxyz launches on @arbitrum to help protect users on Arbitrum from theft and fraud

• @CryptexFinance launches on @arbitrum. Cryptex Finance is a Decentralized Perpetual Market where the users can long or short the entire crypto market cap.

• @l2beat introduce ‘Risk Rosette’, a user-friendly presentation of risks associated with L2 solutions.

L2 Protocol Highlights

• @zksync Mainnet Alpha is now open for all users.

• @taikoxyz launch their alpha-2 testnet.

• @Starknet announce alpha v0.11.0 is live on testnet, launching Cairo 1.0 contracts and boosting computation force.

• @Immutable announced their zkEVM and have partnered with @0xPolygonZK to create the new home of gaming on Ethereum.

• @fuel_network announce Beta-3 testnet is now live. The testnet allows users to run synchronizing full nodes.

• @taikoxyz released the first edition of their bi-weekly newsletter: ZK-Roller-Coaster.

• @StarknetFndn appoint five new committees to their foundation.

• @0xPolygonZK released a report of the security features implemented with their upcoming Mainnet Beta.

• @Immutable announce token utility upgrade for $IMX holders.

• @aztecnetwork offer zero fee withdrawals from their network.

• @arbitrum launch token and open token delegation

Info for Developers

• @StarkWareLtd released a list of useful developer tools.

Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts

• @StarkWareLtd - launch first episode of STARK- Struck podcast with Rohit from JediSwap.

• @Scroll_ZKP - Mason Liang, Scroll’s ZK Circuit Engineer, hosted a workshop to discuss “Building and Testing Circuits with halo2-ce”.

• @aztecnetwork - interviewed Mach34 from Battlezips to dicuss the topic of zero knowledge development in gaming.

• @coingecko - hosted their 22nd Virtual Meetup with special guests from Polygon, Starknet and Scroll to discuss zero-knowledge rollups.

• @BanklessHQ - hosted Sandeep from Polygon and Robbie from Immutable to discuss their zkEVM partnership

• @jessepollak - gave a talk at Layer 2 Day to discuss Build on Base and what the next generation of L2s will look like.

• @StarknetHouse - released the recording of the STARKDenver panel where the panel discussed Novel User & Dev Experience on StarkNet.

Interesting Articles

• @apolynya - Published an article exploring the scalability needs for blockchain apps.

Events

• @0xPolygonZK - announce Polygon ZK Day 2.0 that will be held on 27th of March to celebrate the mainnet launch of their zkEVM

• @toghrulmaharram - presented a talk at ETHDubai where he discussed “Rollups through the Prism of Validating Bridges”

• @StarkWareLtd - announce their 4th Starknet meetup in Belgium on the 29th of March

Interesting Tweets

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Ethereum hit an ATH of the percentage of L1 gas used by L2s. Was <1% a year ago.

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This is @arbitrum governance in one picture (from their documentation). Confused ? Overwhelmed ? Let me simplify /1

Robbie Ferguson 🅧 | Immutable @0xferg

Cross-rollup liquidity + hundreds of zkEVMs = hundreds of thousands of TPS, fully secured by ethereum, with very few tradeoffs. This is how we can scale web3 gaming to 3.1 billion players.

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

Thanks for reading!

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