Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain Roundup (17th - 23rd December)

Biggest News Highlights: Avail in partnership with Starkware is bringing its DA to Starknet appchains.

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ICYMI: The Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain Roundup covers every important update and announcement in the Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain space.

Lists from L2BEAT and Messari

Rollups

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum announces ArbOS version 11 proposed for on-chain voting.

   

   Arbitrum releases detailed info following the Sequencer outage.

   

   Arbitrum Orbit integrates Near DA.

   

   Arbitrum announces collaboration with Horizen Labs and Offchain Labs to build ApeChain.

   

2. Optimism

   Decent in partnership with Optimism roundups up the year with a Superchain mint.

   

   OPLabs announces its journey towards stage 2 decentralization.

   

   OPLabs announces OP Goerli upgrades to Delta.

   

   Optimism welcomes Lisk to the Superchain ecosystem.

   

3. Starknet

   Starknet Sepoli support now offered by Braavos.

   

   Starknet lifts its TVL limit on all StarkGate Contacts.

   

4. Base

   Base announces rolling a few more builders grants before the end of the year.

   

   Base rebrands its handle to @Base.

   

5. Scroll

   Scroll announces its NFTs are now live to claim.

   

6. Manta Network

   Manta Network in partnership with Space ID launches Manta Domain name.

   

   Manta Network releases Manta Takeover raffle.

   

   Manta Pacific announces its major integration with Celestia to be the first L2 to use Celestia modular DA.

   

7. Mantle

   Mantle releases $mETH double dose drive.55.

   

8. Linea

   Linea Goerli is now using Besu as its sequencer.

   

9. Metis

   Metis hints at its point system for community testing of its decentralized sequencer.

   

10. Zora

    Zora introduces Splits.

    

11. Taiko

    Taiko announces the grand finale of their Holidays Quest for Knowledge.

    

    Taiko announces the deadline for its Taiko Grants cycle 2.

    

12. Kroma

    Kroma Quest Phase 4 “Wemix on Kroma is now live”.

    

13. Mode

    Mode announces the closure of its Hackathon submission.

    

14. Kinto

    Kinto goes modular integrating Celestia and Arbitrum Orbit.

    

15. Lyra

    Lyra releases a post on maximizing points in Lyra BTCETFPVP.

    

16. ZKM

    ZKM releases an update on its contributor program.

    

Validium 

17. Immutable

    Immutable announces its passport is live in playable games and marketplaces.

    

18. ApeX Protocol

    ApeX revamps its Tokenomics.

    

19. rhino.fi

    rhino. fi introduces rhino wrapped.

    

20. Brine

    Brine rebrands to tanx.

    

RaaS

21. Dymension

    Dymension announces its liquidity coming soon.

    

22. AltLayer

    AltLayer introduces Restaked Rollups with EigenLayer.

    

22. Gelato

    Gelato announces its support for the launch of Lisk L2 leveraging OP stack.

    

    Gelato announces the launch of it RaaS platform.

    

Data Availability

23. EigenLayer

    EigenLayer reaches a new milestone crossing $1B.

    

24. Avail

    Avail in partnership with Starkware is bringing its DA to Starknet appchains.

    

    Avail releases New Clash of Nodes challenge for validators.

    

Sequencing

25. Espresso

    Espresso Systems announces its concept of BFT pre-confirmations.

    

    Espresso Systems in partnership with Offchain Labs introduces a decentralized timeboost to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

    

26. Astria

    Astria introduces RaaS.

    

    Astria paused its Rollups deployment contract.

    

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