Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #3
Welcome to the 3rd 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.
Catch up on the previous edition HERE.
Ecosystem Highlights
Michael Silberling creates new dashboard to track Opensea activity on Optimism
Specular (Optimistic Rollup) breaks down the importance of the EVM-native approach
Starkscan announce a next-generation block explorer powered by StarkWare technology!
Introducing zkBridge - a trustless, permissionless, extensible and efficient cross-chain bridge
CANVAS Connect will soon be coming to StarkNet to bring gasless DeFi to Ethereum applications
Braavos (StarkNet wallet) publish transcript from recent community AMA
L2 Protocol Highlights
@eniwhere_ creates a new interface command line tool for StarkNet
@Kautukkundan introduces Stackr Network - an SDK for building application specific Rollups
Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts
zkHack host another episode of Whiteboard Sessions to discuss zkEVMs with Jordi Baylina from Polygon Hermez
The Bean Podcast have released a new episode featuring Toghrul Maharramov from Scroll to talk about Scroll as well as the overall ZK landscape
Celestia record a new episode of their protocol deep dive series to discuss the inner workings of Scroll’s zkEVM with Toghrul Maharramov
@stevenewcomb from zkSync is joined by Decrypt Media to discuss ZK scaling and the importance of EVM-Compatibility
StarkWare are hosting a Twitter Space to discuss L2s, and Proto-Danksharding (EIP-4844)
The Ethereum Foundation have published the latest EIP-4844 community call
Infura & StarkNet talk about enabling DApps to scale using zk-Rollups
Events
Arbitrum’s Devcon Hackathon now has a prize pool of approximately $140,000 - be sure to register before next week!
Register for the next ETH Global Hackathon taking place in San Francisco this November
Interesting Articles
@norswap publish an article outlining the differences between Arbitrum Nitro and Optimism Bedrock
@apolynya discusses why Rollups can offer higher throughput than L1 execution
@Ingo_zk publishes a new paper on ZK-friendly hash functions
Diamond Protocol break down the recent Arbitrum Nitro upgrade
Interesting Tweets
![Twitter avatar for @Orbiter_Finance](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/Orbiter_Finance.jpg)
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![Twitter avatar for @Orbiter_Finance](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/Orbiter_Finance.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @StarkWareLtd](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/StarkWareLtd.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @StarkWareLtd](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_40/StarkWareLtd.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @VitalikButerin](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/VitalikButerin.jpg)
![Twitter avatar for @apolynya](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/apolynya.jpg)
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Who to Follow
This newsletter is for educational purposes only, and should never in any way be considered as financial or investment advice.
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