Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain Roundup (4th - 10th February) Edition #20

Biggest News Highlights: Polygon releases Type-1 upgrade to its zkEVM prover.

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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.

Rollups 

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum Foundation releases its 2023 transparency report.

   

2. Optimism

   Optimism announces that Frax Finance is joining its superchain vision through its chain “Fraxtal”.

   

   Optimism extends the grant council submission deadline.

   

3. Base

   Base sunset's Goerli.

   

4. Starknet

   Starknet hints at the launch of Cairo verifier.

   

   Starknet releases its 2024 roadmap.

   

   Starknet launches a new account “Starknet Events.

   

   Starknet announces partnership with Massa Labs.

   

   Starkware announces token minting proposal for Starknet.

   

5. Linea

   Linea sets a date for its Alpha v2 release.

   

6. Mantle

   Mantle announces rewards for $mETH holders.

   

7. Scroll

   Scroll announces results for top 10 finalist following its sticker contest.

   

8. Metis

   Metis introduces Liquid Staking BLITZ.

   

   Metis foundation releases its Governance Roadmap.

   

   Metis is now supported by Binance web3 wallet.

   

   Metis Season 2 of community testing is now live.

   

   Connext is now live on Metis.

   

9. Polygon

   Scribe, an oracle by Chronicle, is now live on Metis.

   

   Polygon zkEVM announces its Grandmaster NFT mint is now live on Intract.

   

   Polygon releases Type-1 upgrade to its zkEVM prover.

   

   Polygon announces its CDK and Lumoz RaaS to power Merlin Chain.

   

10. Taiko

    Taiko announces to commit 1% of its total supply to Protocol Guild Pledge.

    

    Taiko launches Discover, Challenge and Play on Taiko.

    

11. Manta Network

    Manta Network in partnership with Trust wallet and QuestN introduces Join the Dragon Collection Campaign.

    

12. Aevo

    Aevo launches $PIXEL on its Pre-Launch.

    

13. Zora

    Zora announces remixes with automatic onchain splits.

    

    Zora now supports Arbitrum

    

14. Mode

    Pyth has allocated 250,000 $PYTH tokens from its Retrospective Airdrop to Mode.

    

    Mode Sunrise Phase 2 is now live on Intract.

    

15. Paradex

    Paradex hints on its point program.

    

16. Kinto

    Phase III of Kinto is now live.

    

    Kinto announces to be part of the Arbitrum ecosystem.

    

17. Lyra

    Lyra announces rewards for V2 traders.

    

18. Morph

    Morph is hiring.

    

Validium

19. Immutable

    Sphere marketplace by Beam is now live on Immutable zkEVM.

    

    Immutable zkEVM announces the next phase of its mainnet.

    

20. ApeX

    ApeX Protocol announces ApeX Lunar Dragon Chase is now live.

    

    $MANTA is now live on ApeX protocol.

    

21. rhinofi

    rhino fi adds two new exclusive NFTs for zkSync bridgers.

    

22. Sorare

    Sorare announces Sorare Pro 2024.

    

23. tanX fi

    tanX fi is now live on Arbitrum.

VM

24. Movement

    Movement releases its Fractal Devnet update.

    

25. Fluent

    Fluent launches two key developments and introduces its private testnet v2.

    

Infra Provider 

26. Dymension

    Dymension is now live on Mainnet.

    

27. Caldera XYZ

    Caldera partners with Token Terminal to bring on-chain analytics to all Caldera chains.

    

    Caldera introduces Caldera Guides.

    

    Camelot partners with Caldera to support Arbitrum Orbit builders.

    

28. Gelato

    Astar zkEVM with Gelato support becomes the first Layer 2 to join the AggLayer.

    

29. AltLayer

    AltLayer announces to have added biconomy robust account abstraction tool to its SDK collection.

    

Data Availability 

30. Lightlink

    Lightlink testnet “Hummingbird” is now live on testnet with Celestia underneath.

    

31. Celestia

    Cias introduces the first Inscription project on Celestia.

    

    Celestia introduces Celestia Foundation Delegation program.

    

33. Avail

    Avail announces to be part of NodeOps Console.

    

    Avail announces Luganodes to be a participant in its Clash of Node Incentivized testnet.

    

    Zeeve integrates Avail DA

    

34. EigenLayer

    EigenLayer has paused LSTs Restaking in preparation for the Operator and Eigen DA mainnet launch.

    

    Shutter in partnership with EigenLayer is bringing Encrypted mempool to L2s.

    

35. NEAR

    Lava Network Incentivized public RPC endpoint is now live on for developers in the near ecosystem.

    

    Sequencing 

36. Espresso Systems

    AltLayer deploys “Kyoto” on the latest Espresso Systems testnet Gibraltar.

    

37. Fairblock

    Nibiru chain integrates Fairblock Network to bring Programmable Privacy into Nibiru ecosystem.

    

38. Radius

    Radius announces Open-Sourcing the Encrypted mempool for Madara Starknet.

    

Interoperability 

39. Hyperlane

    Stride expands to the Modular ecosystem with Hyperlane.

    

40. Axelar

    Axelar Interchain Token Service (ITS) is now available on Axelar Mainnet.

    

41. Omni Network

    Omni Network introduces open liquidity network Manifesto.

    

42. Polyhedra

    Polyhedra announces to join LayerZero as one of the 25 DVNs (Distributed Verifier Networks).

    

43. Lagrange

    Lagrange announces joining in securing LayerZero V2 as one of its DVN.

    

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