Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #5

Welcome to the 5th 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

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Ecosystem Highlights

• @OffchainLabs have announced the acquisition of @prylabs

• @zapper_fi integrate NFTs on @Arbitrum

• @qx_app introduce NFT bridge for @optimismFND

• @Dolomite_io announces new DEX on Loopring

• @TheCommercium launches fully on-chain DEX aggregator on StarkNet

L2 Protocol Highlights

• @Scroll_ZKP announce upgraded version of their Pre-Alpha testnet

• 0xPolygon announce public zkEVM testnet

• @zksync announce L3 Pathfinder campaign

• @ConsenSys R&D announce the specification for their updated and extended EVM-Equivalent zkEVM

Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts

• Learn to write contracts on StarkNet using @StarkWareLtd Byte Sized tutorials

• @Blockworks_ host zkSync to discuss Layer 3s, and Ethereum scalability

• @arbitrum hosts a Twitter Space to discuss the acquisition of Prysmatic Labs

• Episode #3 of Shill me Your Fundamentals is out now!

Devcon Recordings

• @Scroll_ZKP host the very first Rollup Day as part of Devcon week

• ZK Application Design Patterns

• Vampire, a Novel, Cheap to Verify zkSNARK

• Are Your Zero-Knowledge Proofs Correct?

• ZK Proof Performance and Security Metrics

• Private Exchange on ZKOPRU

• Scroll zkEVM testnet Demo

• Proving EVM Bytecode Execution in the zkEVM

• Rollups, Shards, and Fractals

• ZKPs and “Programmable Cryptography”

• Scaling Privacy with Nightfall and Starlight

Interesting Articles

• Cointelegraph publish Attack of the zkEVMs!

• @fuellabs_ publish The Case For Modular Execution

• @pseudotheos publishes an article on PBS

• @Blockpour publish a new article covering the origin of @Arbitrum

• @BlockdaemonHQ publish guide on how to spin up an @OptimismFND node

Interesting Tweets

Toghrul Maharramov📜 🇺🇦 @toghrulmaharram

The terms "optimistic rollups" and "zero-knowledge rollups" can be split into two parts: 1. Rollup - the data availability model used (i.e. minimum viable data required to reconstruct the latest finalized state published to the underlying base layer) and 2. Optimistic/ /1

Orbiter Finance 🛸 @Orbiter_Finance

🛸 #L2Data #DappsData 🚩The TOP 10 dapps ranked by 'All Users': This thread shows: 1. On Arbitrum 2. On Optimism 3. On zkSync 4. On Arbitrum Nova 5. On StarkNet (It shows all dapps if less than 10) The Data Source: orbiter.finance/data

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Ryan Berckmans - ryanb.eth🦇🔊🌊 @ryanberckmans

The L2 competitive landscape is reaching a boiling point. Hard to see a world where web3 doesn't grow to global ubiquity. Hard to see a world where L2s aren't v competitive with alt L1s/app chains. Hard to see a world where thriving L2s don't accrue significant value to ETH.

mhonkasalo @mhonkasalo

Arbitrum & Optimism both have grown to the same DeFi TVL as Solana (also 70% of Avalanche). Alt L1s will have to do a really good job to compete with L2s.

mhonkasalo @mhonkasalo

Activity on @arbitrum & @optimismFND trending up. At ~500k daily txs, closing on 50% of Ethereum mainnet. Will take a bit more time, but there'll be an inflection point with app parity to L1 where most users are on L2.

Who to Follow

• Swagtimus.eth (Ecosystem/Technical)

• Nurstar.eth (StarkNet/Ecosystem/News)

• pseudotheos (Technical Research)

• polynya (Technical Research)

• Crypto-Gucci.eth (Ecosystem/News)

• Toghrul Maharramov (Technical Research)

• Sassal.eth (Ecosystem/Educator)

• Luozhu (Technical Research)

• Haym (Education/Research/History)

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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