Modular Weekly Roundup Edition #51

Biggest News Highlights: Celestia Lemongrass is now live; Lemongrass is set to introduce 1-click integrations over IBC, interchain accounts and more.

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

Execution

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum announces the first Stylus powered prediction market is here with 9Lives which is built by Superposition.

2. Optimism

   Optimism announces Retroactive Funding 6.

3. Polygon

   Polygon announces its AggLayer now connects IoTEX blockchain 2.0 vision to a multichain world.

4. Starknet

   Starknet announces Stone v3 is now open source.

• Starknet Foundation announces its Growth Grants.

5. Eclipse

   Eclipse announces to have launched its bug bounty program in preparation for its Mainnet.

6. Dymension

   Dymension announces its 3D Playground testnet is live on Testnet.

Order Flow Abstraction

7. Particle Network

   Particle Network announces its early access for Universal Accounts.

Infra Provider

8. Caldera

   Caldera announces RARI Chain has joined its MetaLayer and its quest is now live on Layer 3.

Caldera announces Kinto has Joined its MetaLayer.

• Venn announces partnership with Caldera to help build secure rollups.

• Caldera announces Manta Network has joined its MetaLayer.

9. ANKR

   Ankr announces its Asphere now supports custom gas token on Arbitrum Orbit.

10. AltLayer

    Alt Layer announces to support Trestle as they build Trestle Chain with Celestia underneath.

• Alt Layer announces the 1st AI Data Asset Layer 2 is now live on Alt Layer powered by OP Stack and OG Labs DA Layer.

Conduit

11. Conduit announces Lemongrass Upgrade is now live on its RaaS platform for new and existing rollups.

• Conduit announces partnership with AnimeCoin to build Animechain in which its testnet is already live.

12. Gelato

    Everclear is now live on Mainnet Beta on Arbitrum Orbit with Gelato RaaS underneath.

Data Availability

13. Celestia

    Celestia Lemongrass is now live; Lemongrass is set to introduce 1-click integrations over IBC, interchain accounts and more.

14. Avail

    Layer Labs announces partnership with Avail DA to accelerate the path to a unified Ethereum.

• Avail announces Lens to utilize its DA to ensure high throughput and seamless UX for their Decentralized social app.

15. EigenLayer

    EigenLayer introduces Programmatic Incentives V1.

• Eigen Foundation announces Eigen Season 2 Stakedrop claims are now open.

Sequencing

16. Espresso Systems

    Espresso Systems releases the specifications of its Decentralized Timeboost in partnership with Offchain Labs.

17. Radius

    Radius announces partnership with Fuse Network as it joins the Radius ecosystem to tap from its blockspace network and open new and profit opportunities for Fuse Network.

18. NodeKit

    Nodekit adds Leap Cosmos to its Composability Layer.

Interoperability

19. Hyperlane

    Hyperlane is now live on Eclipse as it extends its expansion to SVM.

20. LayerZero

    LayerZero Foundation launches Introducing lzCatalyst, a program dedicated to connecting the best builders with the best venture capital firms in crypto.

21. Wormhole

    Wormhole announces Era's Upgrade is now live.

• Wormhole announces partnership with Google Cloud as they're joining the Guardian Network, Wormhole's security system, to validate cross-chain messages and enhance decentralization.

22. Polyhedra Network

    Polyhedra Network announces partnership with Nexus to integrate Expander into the Nexus zkVM.

23. Mitosis

    Mitosis announces to have allocated 25% of the MITO supply to Mitosis Evolve; which is Mitosis Builders program for Mitosis L1.

Proving

24. RiscZero

    RiscZero introduces Boundless; The verifiable Compute Layer.

• RiscZero announces partnership with Automata Network.

• Neon announces Neon EVM is now powering Risc Zero's zkVM on Solana.

• Risc Zero announces partnership with Mendi Finance to utilize its zkVM to improve cross-chain security and sidestep the limits of on-chain execution.

• Nebra announces partnership with Risc Zero Boundless to aggregate proofs from the Verifiable Computer Layer.

Privacy

25. Oasis Protocol

    Oasis announces 2nd edition of the Privacy4Web3Hackathon.

Oracles

26. Redstone

    Redstone Oracles announces its price feed is now live on Hemi Network.

• Redstone Oracles announces its Integration of the first Orcale price feed on TON.

27. Pyth Network

    Pyth Introduces Oracle Integrity Staking (OIS) which is an upgrade to Pyth bringing enhanced data source accountability for a more secure DeFi ecosystem.

Liquidity

28. Noble

    Noble announces partnership with Monerium to bring the first fully regulated, authorized & collateralized Euro stablecoin to the ever expanding network of IBC blockchains.

• Noble announces partnership with Agoric to make USDC cross-chain transfer fast and seamless leveraging their orchestration tech.

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DeFi Saint

Founder, Layer 2 M.