Modular Weekly Roundup Edition #59
Biggest News Highlights: RISC Zero introduces Kailua; hybrid architecture that gives OP chains 1-hour finality without the higher cost of constant ZK proving.
Below is a quick recap of all the top updates and alpha across the modular landscape map by, “The Rollup.”
Execution
Arbitrum
Arbitrum announces BlackRock launches a new BUIDL share classes across blockchains.
Arbitrum announces support for ERC-7683 Cross-Chain Intents Standard.
Optimism
Optimism announces Multichain claims are now live on the Superchain Faucet.
Optimism announces their partnership with BlackRock BUIDL has expanded across the Ethereum ecosystem, and today is live on OP Mainnet.
ZkSync
ZKsync announces its integration with Symbiosis as their native bridge allows users to move $BTC between chains by wrapping and unwrapping it through ZKsync Era.
ZKSync announces Zero Network; a ZK Chain by Zerion is now live on Mainnet.
Starknet
Starknet sets a date for STRK staking launch.
Polygon
Polygon announces BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), tokenized by Securitize, is now live on Polygon.
Polygon announces Okto wallet is now connecting to the AggLayer.
Polygon announces Agora has been selected to be the stablecoin of AggLayer.
Eclipse
Eclipse announces the first Dynamic NFT is now live on Eclipse.
Fuel
Fuel announces an update on its Points Program.
Movement Labs
Movement announces Bybit Web3 joins the Movement Program.
Order Flow Abstraction
Anoma
Anoma reveals its roadmap.
Vessel Finance
Vessel announce their integration with Particle Network, starting with their Wallet Abstraction solutions.
RaaS
Caldera
Caldera in partnership with RARI provides a special opportunity to participate in RARI's DeFi Days campaign and mint the 'Rollup Providoor' NFT on RariChain.
Caldera introduces Caldera Foundation.
Caldera introduces Vulcan; World's First Sovereignty-as-a-Service for Ethereum Rollups.
Caldera announces partnership with biconomy to bring Account Abstraction to Rollups.
Caldera announces ZERO Network: The first Zero-Gas ZK Stack Rollup is now live on Mainnet powered by Caldera.
Conduit
Conduit announces to have Kailua by RISC Zero on Conduit Marketplace which gives OP Stack rollups 1-hour finality – no more 7-day waiting period – and puts you on the path to full ZK.
Conduit announces to power Echos; which is an Ai agent app from Stride which runs on OP Stack, settling on Base with Celestia underneath.
Conduit announces to support GURU Network; an L3 on Base building on Conduit.
AltLayer
Alt Layer introduces Autonome; the 1st-of-its-kind platform to build, deploy, & distribute verifiable autonomous AI agents.
Gelato
Gelato announces Kailua by RISC Zero is now available on Gelato Rollup.
Gelato announces Fault Proof and Stage 1 is now live on ink.
Gelato announces Gelato Relay on RariChain.
Gelato announces the launch of LISK on Mainnet.
Gelato announces Espresso Cross-Chain composability is now live on Gelato Marketplace.
Gelato announces Arbitrum Stylus is now live on Gelato Rollups.
Lumoz
Lumoz announces Lumoz OG NFT event is now live.
Hybrid announces partnership with Lumoz to make AI model development more accessible and verifiable.
Rollup Framework
Stackr
Stackr releases update on Avail project unification cup at Devcon with the goal to remove the UI challenges for the end user, while keeping DevX as seamless as possible.
Data Availability
Celestia
Celestia announces Ginger Upgrade is now live on Mocha Testnet.
Avail
Avail announces Henez Finance has integrated Avail DA.
EigenLayer
EigenLayer announces Consensys and Infura Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN) is launching as an Actively Validated Service (AVS) on EigenLayer.
Eigen DA announces Powerloom Protocol to use EigenDA for its Mainnet.
0G Labs
0G Labs announces to have secured a total of $290M in funding to build the world first Decentralized AI Operating System.
Sequencing
Espresso Systems
Espresso Systems releases Inscribe for Espresso System.
Espresso Systems announces Espresso Network is now live on Mainnet.
Interoperability
LayerZero
LayerZero introduces IzRead, a new data primitive.
LayerZero announces PayPal USD has integrated LayerZero to connect across chains enabling a seamless experience between Ethereum and Solana.
LayerZero announces Mantle cmETH has adopted the OFT Standard.
Wormhole
Wormhole is now live on Ink testnet.
Hyperlane
Hyperlane extends its Superlane Expansion to Lisk.
Omni
Omni announces to have successfully completed its audit by Zellic.
Union
Union announces partnership with RISC Zero on Union cote V2.
Union releases its website upgrade.
Polymer Labs
Polymer Hub Mainnet is now live.
Orbs Network
Orbs announces Perps Hub is now supporting Base via IntentX.
Proving
Risc Zero
RISC Zero introduces Kailua; hybrid architecture that gives OP chains 1-hour finality without the higher cost of constant ZK proving.
RISC Zero announces Electron is the FIRST compatible aggregator for Boundless, slashing proof verification costs by 95%.
Succint Labs
Succinct announces Taiko has adopted SP1 to become one of the first multi-proof Rollups.
Bless Network
Bless announces Bless: The world’s first shared computer, powered by everyday devices and with the launch of its Incentivized testnet.
Oracle
Pyth Network
Pyth announces Pyth Price feed are now live on Morph.
Redstone
Redstone announces Redstone Oracles will be coming to Lens.
Supra
Supra announces Supra Starcade Update.
Liquidity
Stride
Stride introduces echos fun, an Ai agent to launch an Echo, deploy memecoins and trade them as Echo post on X, built with Conduit G2 with Celestia underneath.
Noble
Noble announces Noble’s Helium upgrade, which brings the latest release of cosmos SDK 50.
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