Modular Weekly Roundup Edition #61

Biggest News Highlights: Aligned Layer announces its Mainnet Beta is now live.

Layer 2 M

Dec 03, 2024

Sponsored by DIA

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

Execution

Arbitrum
Arbitrum announces Trailblazer; a $1M initiative supporting visionary innovators on Arbitrum chains to develop cutting-edge AI agents, frameworks, and applications.

Arbitrum welcomes Capx AI; An Ethereum L2 built using the arbitrum Orbit stack.

Optimism
Optimism announces the Superchain has Joined the Chainlink Scale.

Base
Base announces to support ERC-7683 Cross-Chain Intents.

Phantom is now live on Base.

ZKsync
ZKsync introduces a governance proposal to reduce the execution delay for all ZK chains from 21 hours - 3 hours.

Starknet
Starknet announces its v0.13.3 is now live on Mainnet.

Eclipse
Eclipse announces Aura from Metaplex is now live on Beta which will announces apps on Eclipse to access performant digital asset reads in a decentralized manner.

Initia
Initia announces Echelon; a debt-driven Move appchain built on Initia's Interwoven Stack with Celestia underneath.

Saga
Saga announces its holiday campaign is now live.

Cartesi
Cartesi announces Wave 2 of its Grant program.

Fuel
Fuel announces Fluid; an overcollateralized decentralized borrowing platform, is now live on Fuel Ignition.

Movement Labs
Movement announces MoveDrop.

Movement announces its vision with Celestia underneath.

Talus
Talus announces to have raised $6M led by Polychain to become the leading platform for for decentralized AI agents.

DIA launches Lasernet on Testnet; The world's first layer 2 rollup specifically built for Oracle Infrastructure. It combines trustless execution and permissionless access.

DIA is built in collaboration with the most innovative teams scaling Ethereum: Optimsm’s OP Stack (rollup framework), Conduit (rollup deployment), Hyperlane (interoperability protocol) and Celestia (Data Availability Layer).

Legacy Oracle models are limited in capabilities due to their reliance on external data providers: small support of data feeds, permissioned access, and transparent data processing.

News models like DIA have reimagined oracle infrastructure to address these challenges and future-proof oracles.

This is DIA’s vision:

DIA’s Lumina is a completely redesigned Oracle infrastructure built to operate as an open and permissionless network. This network allows it to gather data from any source and deliver it to any destination chain.

It consists of three main components: (data) Feeders, Lasernet (an L2 network), and a message-passing layer. The combination of these allows it to achieve completely decentralized and modular oracles to meet any data needs for dApps.

The core features of DIA Oracles embodies:

Permissionlessness – for data access but also data sourcing
Trustless processing – via immutable, aggregator oracle smart contracts
Distributed data sourcing – via a decentralized network of nodes that source and publish data on-chain, to the DIA Lasernet

Notable Details on DIA Oracle:

Testnet is now live on Ethereum Sepolia.

Push and Pull Oracle models are available to test
Lasernet Mainnet is expected to launch in Q1 2025.

Infra Provider

Conduit
Conduit announces to support DIA Lasernet.

Conduit announces to support USDC payments onchain.

AltLayer
Alt Layer introduces BLITZ; a fast-finality network for Arbitrum Orbit chains, designed to solve slow finality in optimistic rollups using Babylon BTC-backed security.

Gelato
Gelato introduces Native Yield on Gelato Rollup.

Gelato welcomes GR1D to the Gelato ecosystem to be its RaaS provider for their vision on mass gaming and consumer app.

Gelato announces its marketplace now supports ABC Stack.

Alchemy
Alchemy announces their $10M ecosystem grant for Arbitrum Orbit Chains.

Data Availability

Avail
Avail announces its Token has gone multichain with Wormhole NTT underneath.

Eigen DA
EigenDA announces Abstract to use its DA Layer for its consumer based blockchain.

Sequencing

Espresso Systems
Espresso Systems welcomes EtherScale and rollups they support to the Espresso Systems which will benefit from Espresso confirmations for improved decentralization, enhanced efficiency, and better cross-chain composability.

Nodekit
Nodekit adds WarpGate to its Composability Layer.

Interoperability

LayerZero
LayerZero announces Ondo has integrated LayerZero to enable the transfer of its tokenized US Treasuries products, starting with USDY, across Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Mantle.

Hyperlane
Hyperlane extends its expansion to Abundance.

Hyperlane extends its expansion to Skip Go fast.

Polyhedra ZK
Polyhedra announces partnership with Coinbase Institutional to enhance the security of ZKJ tokens.

Polyhedra Network announces partnership with Cysic to build a real-time ZK hardware prover, combining multiple acceleration approaches.

Union
Union announces its partnership with Rome to bring decentralized and trustless interoperability to Solana.

Mitosis
Mitosis introduces Game of MITO.

Skip Protocol
Skip introduces Skip: Fast — the fastest way to bridge any asset, from anywhere to anywhere.

Proving

Aligned Layer
Aligned Layer announces its Mainnet Beta is now live.

RiscZero
Risc Zero announces partnership with Fiamma to bring native ZK verification to Bitcoin with the first trust-minimized BitVM2 bridge, powered by RISC Zero's zkVM.

Oracles

DIA
DIA unveils Lasernet; the world’s first Layer-2 rollup purpose-built for oracle infrastructure built with Conduit RaaS, OP Stack, Hyperlane and Celestia underneath.