Modular Weekly Roundup Edition #54

Biggest News Highlights: Optimism announces to welcome Unichain; a DeFi-native Ethereum L2, purposefully built by Uniswap to the Superchain ecosystem.

Below is a quick recap of all the top updates and alpha across the modular landscape map by therollupco.

Execution

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum announces to welcome Pretzel; the first L2 on berachain built with and made possible by Arbitrum Orbit.

• Arbitrum announces to welcome O3 Layer; the first-ever modular Layer 3 protocol on Bitcoin to the Orbit ecosystem.

2. Optimism

   Optimism announces to welcome Unichain; a DeFi-native Ethereum L2, purposefully built by Uniswap to the Superchain ecosystem.

• Optimism unveils Airdrop 5.

3. Starknet

   Starknet announces STRK staking is now live on Sepolia.

• Starknet announces Kakarot zkEVM has moved its testnet to Starknet Sepolia.

4. Linea

   Linea announces Chainlink CCIP is now live on its Linea.

5. Scroll

   Scroll announces the launch of $SCR token.

• Scroll announces its  integration with Chainlink CCIP to unlock cross-chain capabilities.

• Scroll highlights its journey and vision.

6. Initia

   Initia introduces Zaar; the fun network, which is an EVM Rollup for degens.

7. Dymension

   Dymension announces DYM Sponsorships; Onchain permissionless incentives for RollApps.

8. Movement Labs

   Movement announces partnership with LayerZero to make Movement more accessible and Interoperable.

9. Talus Network

   Talus announces partnership with assisterr to bring community-owned Small Language Models (SLMs) to the Nexus framework.

RaaS

10. Caldera

    Caldera adds EigenLayer to its MetaLayer.

• Caldera announces OP Succinct is now available on Caldera in partnership with Succinct.

• Caldera adds Celestia to its MetaLayer.

• Caldera announces to power Ungaii chain, which its testnet is now live on Arbitrum Orbit.

• Caldera announces support for ZK Stack and its Elastic Chain on its RaaS provider.

11. AltLayer

    Alt Layer announces partnership with Succinct to bring “OP Succinct” to developers.

• Alt Layer announces its AVSthon.

12. Zeeve

    Zeeve announces partnership with RuneVM as its RaaS provider to help build a DeFI focused ZK Stack L2 solution.

Rollup Framework

13. Cosmos SDK

    Cosmos SDK introduces V2.

Data Availability

14. Celestia

    Kamigotchi announces its Testnet 2 on Initia Interwoven Stack with Celestia underneath.

• Hashflow introduces Exchange OS (XOS) which leverages RiscZero's ZK prover with Celestia underneath to prove off-chain transactions on-chain.

15. Avail

    Native announces a strategic partnership with Avail and Nuffle to power BLISS.

16. OG Labs

    0G announces partnership with Yona Network to support their real-time SVM-based BTC L2 with 0G's dAIOS.

Sequencing

17. Nodekit

    Nodekit adds Mantis to its Composability Layer.

• Nodekit introduces the Composable Cult to allow anyone write, create, build, develop, and grow alongside NodeKit!

Interoperability

18. LayerZero

    LayerZero announces its Integration with ZOTH to bring RWA-backed stablecoins Omnichain.

• LayerZero is now live on Unichain testnet.

• LayerZero announces to power Sonic Labs as its Interoperability provider for Sonic.

• LayerZero is now on Peaq; the Layer 1 blockchain for DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks).

• LayerZero announces to be the official Interoperability protocol for Abstract.

19. Wormhole

    Wormhole announces Layer3 token $L3 is now natively multichain on Solana with Wormhole's NTT Framework.

• Wormhole announces Infinex has chosen Wormhole as its primary Interoperability solution.

20. Hyperlane

    Hyperlane is now live on Ithaca testnet.

• Hyperlane is now live on Unichain testnet.

21. Omnichain

    Omni announces to have commenced the Uluwatu upgrade on Omega.

22. Polyhedra ZK

    Polyhedra Network announces partnership with WSPN to bring ZK technology to WUSD for the future of digital payments.

23. Union

    Union announces its updated roadmap to Mainnet.

Proving

24. RiscZero

    RiscZero announces to power Hibachi first provable exchange, built by hashflow xOS using RISC Zero's zkVM with Celestia underneath.

25. Succint Labs

    Succinct announces its OP Succinct is now live on Alchemy marketplace.

Privacy

26. Aztec

    Aztec releases its product roadmap.

Oracles

27. Supra

    Supra introduces Supra containers.

28. Pyth

    Pyth announces to bring real-time data to unichain.

• Pyth announces to bring its price feed to Hemi Network.

29. Redstone

    Redstone introduces Bitcoin Staking Oracles.

• Redstone announces to be the official oracle for Unichain.

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DeFi Saint

Founder, Layer 2 M.