Layer 2 Weekly Roundup #6

Welcome to the 6th 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

• The Ethereum foundation launches grants program to promote the research and development of Layer 2 applications

• @BinanceUS now supports ETH deposits/withdrawals directly on both the @arbitrum and @OptimismFND networks

• @latticexyz announce OP Craft - a new open-world game built on a custom Rollup

• @starkboard launch their updated V1 dashboard

• @EspressoSys has published a paper introducing Hyperplonk - a super fast proof system built for zkEVMs

• @TallyCash - a community owned web3 wallet, adds support for @arbitrum

• @Sentiment - a permissionless undercollateralized borrowing protocol is now live on @arbitrum

• @MetagatesOnline is an open-world MMO coming to Arbitrum Nova

• @NFTradeOfficial is now live on @Immutable

L2 Protocol Highlights

• @Optimism officially announce the OP Stack - the technical compliment to the Optimism vision

• @0xPolygon has published their Q3 quarterly update - covering updates regarding their zk Prover as well as their zkEVM public testnet

• Proposal to deploy @AaveAave V3 on the @zksync 2.0 testnet

• @loopringorg publishes their latest quarterly update

Media - Twitter Spaces & Podcasts

• @zksync host a Twitter spaces to discuss the path towards the protocols long awaited mainnet deployment

• @Immutable hosted a Twitter Space to discuss the future of Web3 gaming with @NFT_NYC

• @Immutable record the latest episode of Between 2 Layers - this week discussing their approach to shaping the future of Web3 gaming

• @Scroll_ZKP publish the recordings of their Devcon presentations

Events

• @zksync announce schedule for Lisbon Blockchain week 2022

• @ETHGlobal publish their Bogota recap and cover the finalists that participated in this years Hackathon

• @StarkWareLtd announce STARKSanFransisco - set to take place on November 3rd 2022

Interesting Articles

• @Swagtimus publishes their latest StarkNet weekly Roundup

• @blockworksres writes about the evolution of @zksync

• @GrantGriffith16 published a comprehensive guide for those with “zero Knowledge” on Rollups

• @OptimismFND publish the Rollup Recap, summarising their time in Bogota

• @zksync publishes their latest article outlining the role a “prover” plays in a zk-Rollup

Interesting Tweets

funnyking.eth zkHODLER 🦦🐛🦈 @PaoloRebuffo

Ether on @zksync are growing very fast. from: @l2beat

Darlington Nnam🐺 @0xdarlington

Whilst starting out with Cairo, i decided to document stuffs I learnt along the way, to assist other developers that might want to explore same path Writing a 12 part series titled "Journey through Cairo", which have been read over 1.5k times. Here's a compilation of the series:

StarkWare @StarkWareLtd

Weekly stats - txs settled on Ethereum: #StarkExStats: 🚀 11.8M Txs on Mainnet 263.4M Txs to date #StarkNetStats: ✨ Txs last week: 269K on Goerli / 60K on Mainnet Txs to date: 8.3M on Goerli / 503K on Mainnet Contracts deployed last week: 8.2K on Goerli / 7.9K on Mainnet

StarkWare @StarkWareLtd

Weekly stats - txs settled on Ethereum: #StarkExStats: 🚀 10M Txs on Mainnet 251.6M Txs to date #StarkNetStats: ✨ Txs last week: 260K on Goerli / 17K on Mainnet Txs to date: 8M on Goerli / 443K on Mainnet Contracts deployed last week: 2.6K on Goerli / 2.3K on Mainnet https://t.co/s2eAl0MOVj

David Engel @davidengel79

This is remarkable. Last week, @StarkWareLtd completed 1.6x as many transactions as Ethereum (12m vs 7.5m). As an L2, all these transactions are then 'rolled up' into a proof that's recorded on Ethereum, receiving the same security and immutability as all Ethereum transactions.

Dave🥑 @web3Dav3

I played a bit around with the pre-alpha release of @Scroll_ZKP! A ZKEVM, to be so early in development it was a good experience, no errors and fast transactions. I even deployed an ERC20 token and added some liquidity 🙃

Mihailo Bjelic @MihailoBjelic

1/2 Reddit NFTs are an amazing example and a huge win for the whole Web3! 🔥💜 - 3M wallets - 99% unique owners (few whales) - $100M market cap - Native Reddit community - Organic, no CT noise, price pumping etc - Fast, affordable, carbon-neutral minting Built on @0xPolygon. 💫

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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