𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝟐 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐩 (𝟑𝐫𝐝 - 𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫)

Biggest News Highlights: zkSync's ZK stack is live.

Good morning Saints,

I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.

If you’re reading this, you’re always one of the chosen saints and special.

ICYMI: The Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain Roundup covers every important update and announcement in the Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain space.

Lists from L2BEAT and Messari.

Rollups

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum announces the submission of Apecoin DAO proposal to deploy Apechain on Arbitrum and use $APE as gas.

   

   A recap of Arbitrum Virtual Day.

   

   Arbitrum releases update on its two recently concluded AIPs. 

   

2. Optimism

   Optimism announces a new submission deadline for we love the art.

   

   Circle Developers launches $USDC and $EURC faucet for Devs on OP Goerli and Base Goerli.

   

   OPLabs announces the date for Canyon on Mainnet.

   

   Kraken announces deposits and withdrawals are now live on Optimism Mainnet.

   

   OPLabs releases an update on the OP stack fault proof.

   

   OP Sepolia is now available on Alchemy.

   

3. zkSync

   ZK Stack is now live.

   

   zkSync announces its migration to Sepolia.

   

4. Starknet

   Starknet announces its distribution allocation for $STRK token.

   

   Nethermind Starknet releases Juno v0.8.0.

   

5. Linea

   Linea DeFI Voyage wave 7 is now live.

   

   POH is now live on Linea.

   

   Protofire. io in partnership with Linea introduces Linea Safe.

   

6. Mantle

   Mantle launches its LSD “Mantle LSP”.

   

   Mantle's proposal to recognize $wstETH token bridging endpoint as canonical is now live.

   

   Mantle LSP bug bounty is now live.

   

7. Taiko

   Taiko grant 2 cycle is now live.

   

   Taiko launches a new community education quest on Galxe.

   

   Taiko Introduces BCR (Based Contenstable Rollups).

   

8. dYdX

   dYdX open sources the dYdX design system.

   

   dYdX announces launches dYdX chain launch incentives program.

   

9. Metis

   Metis quest is live on Layer3.

   

   Metis announces an allocation of 4000 $METIS each month to support Metis ecosystem builders.

   

10. Manta Pacific

    Manta Pacific announces its integration with Celestia.

    

11. Aevo

    Aevo launches $aeUSD.

    

11. Mode

    Mode Network announces its DeFI Degen Hackathon.

    

     

12. Fuel

    Fuel announces its blog migration to mirror.

    

13. Kinto

    Kinto teases the final wave of its Launch Program.

    

14. Morphism

    Morphism announces its rebranding to Morph and its vision.

    

Validium

15. Immutable

    Immutable zkEVM announces its second learn-to-earn campaign.

    

    Immutable announces its partnership with Merit circle to unlock Beam which will launch on Immutable zkEVM.

    

16. Sorare

    Sorare launches its second collection event.

    

17. rhinofi

    rhinofi announces zkSync takeover campaign.

    

    rhinofi launches its new NFT minting tool.

    

18. Myria

    Myria releases an update on its Node pricing.

    

    Myria announces its learn and earn campaign.

    

19. Dymension

    Dymension teases its Mainnet launch.

    

20. Caldera

    Caldera add support for custom precompiles.

    

21. Altlayer

    AltLayer announces its support towards Asmatch on building the first social layer on MantaNetwork leveraging Polygon CDK.

    

22. Gelato

    Gelato enables Gasless Circle's CCTP. 

    

Data Availability

23. Celestia

    Celestia node RAM usage has been reduced by 10x.

    

24. EigenLayer

    EigenLayer announces its LST expansion.

    

    EigenDA announces the EigenDA launch partner program.

    

25. Avail

    Avail introduces contributor reward program for Developers.

    

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    DeFI Saint

    Founder, The Saints Creed.