Modular Roundup Edition (4th - 10th August). #46

Below is a quick recap of all the top updates and alpha across the modular landscape map by “The Rollup.”

Biggest News Highlights: Succinct SP1 zkVM is live and ready for production use.

𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝐸𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑀𝑎𝑝 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 The Rollup

Execution 

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum announces Arbitrum Orbit can now use USDC as a custom gas token.

• Arbitrum welcomes DuckChain to become the Arbitrum first Non-Ethereum Orbit chain on Ton.

2. Optimism

   Optimism introduces its SuperFest VIP NFT wristband.

3. Starknet

   Starknet announces Parallel Execution and Block Packing are now live on Starknet Testnet.

• Starknet announces its integration in Dune Analytics.

4. Initia

   Initia announces to have acquired Celatone Explorer and Alles Labs.

5. Movement Labs

   Play AI announces its integration to Movement which will allow creators to deploy AI agents + models in games.

RaaS

6. Caldera

   Caldera announces to have powered Abyss Protocol.

• Caldera announces Caldera Chains on Arbitrum Orbit can now choose USDC as their custom gas.

• Caldera announces to be partnering with OKLink to enable all Caldera chains to benefit from simple, cost-effective, and powerful chain analytics.

7. Conduit

   Conduit announces to have transferred ownership of upgrade for L1 contracts of three OP Stack Chains deployed on Conduit to the decentralized Optimism Security Council.

• Conduit announces Arbitrum Orbit chains can now use USDC as a custom gas token on its RaaS platform.

8. Gelato

   Gelato announces Arbitrum Orbit chains can now use USDC as a custom gas token on its RaaS platform.

• Alt Layer announces partnership with OKLink to integrate its Explorer-as-a-Service (EaaS).

9. Lumoz

   Lumoz announces partnership with Nubit to enable all Rollups on Lumoz have a decentralized and secured data availability powered by Bitcoin.

Data Availability

10. Celestia

    Celestia announces its upcoming first upgrade “Lemongrass” which will include 1-click Tia interactions with other IBC chains, Interchain accounts, and a new upgrade mechanism.

11. Avail

    HENRY announces partnership with Avail to bring Data Availability to the Henry Strata Appchain.

Sequencing 

12. Radius

    Radius announces partnership with Nuffle to enable Rollups using Radius and Nuffle AVS tap from Radius Decentralized Sequencing and Nuffle Fast Finality.

Interoperability

13. Hyperlane

    Hyperlane introduces Hyperlane Foundation and its token “HYPE”.

Hyperlane extends its Modular Expansion to Zora.

14. Polyhedra Network

    Polyhedra Network announces the launch of Proof Cloud service in partnership with Google Cloud.

15. Union

    Union announces its new quest on Arbitrum.

Proving

16. Lagrange

    Lagrange announces Lagrange Expedition.

17. Succint Labs

    Succinct SP1 zkVM is live and ready for production use.

18. RiscZero

    RiscZero announces partnership with Aragon on Optimism mission request for cross-chain voting to bring trustless scalability to the Superchain.

19. Nebra

    Nebra announces to have open sourced Nebra UPA.

Privacy

20. Aztec

    Aztec introduces ProverNet.

Oracles

21. Pyth Network

    Pyth Network announces Pyth Data is coming to Cronos zkEVM.

22. Redstone

    Redstone announces its support for Monad testnet.

Liquidity 

23. Noble

    Noble announces partnership with THORchain + SwapKit to bring reliable and UX optimized stablecoins to the THORchain AppLayer.

24. Stride

    Stride announces stDYM airdrop claiming begins today.

Thanks for reading, and if you like it, leave a feedback and forward it to your Friends. There is love in Sharing, and see you next time.

DeFi Saint

Founder, Layer 2 M.