Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #36

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

• Base - Native USDC is now live on Base. Users can access native USDC from

  and transfer to any EVM-compatible wallet.

• Kyber Network - Have integrated with Base, bringing enhanced liqudity, yield farming options and aggregation capabilities to L2’s.

• Across Protocol - Have integrated with Base, bringing the newest crosschain destination route to L2’s.

• Llama Nodes - Have ascended to L2 with support for Arbitrum.

• Base - Have joined the Tokenised Asset Coalition to help drive adoption of tokenised real-world assets through education, advocacy and innovation.

• Arbitrum - swETH, Swell’s liquid staking token, has landed on Arbitrum. Users can now bridge via Stargate to provide liquidity on Arbitrum based DEXs.

• Unifra - Have launched on the new zkSync Era block explorer on L2 Scan.

• Fuel - The first ever app on Fuel is available on AppStore and GooglePay.

Protocol Updates

• Base - Is now supported in Ledger Live on Android & Desktop.

• zkSync - Completed the Mainnet upgrade for block.timestamp, block.number, and blockhash. This important change allows protocols to leverage faster updates to block info and brings consistency to on-chain & RPC data.

• Fuel - Beta-4 Testnet has arrived. This public testnet introduces many new features and upgrades, including public P2P access and multi-token support, enabling native-level NFTs, multi-asset pools, and more.

Media - Twitter Spaces and Podcasts

• Polygon - Hosted a Twitter Space with guests from Ledger and Stader Labs to discuss their recent collaboration, the evolution of DeFi, thoughts on adoption and liquid staking.

• Polygon - Co-founder Sandeep joined the Empire Pod to discuss Polygon 2.0.

• Fenbushi Capital - Hosted a Zoom Webinar with speakers from Matter Labs, Aztec Network, Scroll, Polygon and more to discuss zero knowledge, cryptography and more.

• Optimism - Hosted the latest episode of OP Radio with the team from Nouns Builder to discuss No Code DAO creator tool.

• zkSync - @gluk64 from zkSync joined the Epicenter Podcast to discuss hyperchains architecture and the importance of sharing ZKP circuits.

Articles & Threads

• Taiko - Have released an article on why multi-prover matters. In the article they explore how multi-prover and SGX work and how they can benefit from each other.

• Badcode - Has released an article on “How Stateless Account Abstraction works on Fuel”.

Events

• Scroll - Will be hosting a number of workshops, presentations and panel discussions during the next week at Permissionless, ETH Singapore, Token 2049 and Dappcon Berlin.

• Base - Are hosting a number of meetups across the globe at Permissionless in Austin and in Berlin for blockchain week.

• Fuel - Will be in attendance at ETH Singapore and Token 2049, particiapting in a number of side events, presentations and panels throughout the week.

• Polygon - Will be headed to Singapore where you can catch them at a number of events throughout the week.

• Arbitrum - Catch the team at ETH New York from September 22nd to 24th.

• Starknet - Registrations are now open for Starknet India Basecamp.

• StarkWare - Will be hosting a meetup in Berlin on the 17th of September.

• Taiko - Will be in attendance at ETH Singapore and will be participating in a number of side events throughout the event.

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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