Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain Roundup (28th Jan - 3rd Feb) Edition #19

Biggest News Highlight: Immutable zkEVM Mainnet early access is live.

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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

   Offchain announces ArbOS version 20 is now live on Snapshot.

   

   Attestations are now available on Arbitrum Nova.

   

   Arbitrum announces its USDC grant award protocols.

   

2. Optimism

   Optimism Grants council home page is live.

   

   Optimism announces the transfer of 30M OP to dedicated RetroPGF wallets.

   

   Supra Oracles is now live on OP Mainnet.

   

3. Starknet

   Celestia Blobstream is coming to Starknet.

   

4. Manta Pacific

   Manta Pacific releases new features in its bridge and explorer.

   

   Manta Network announces reward distribution for $TIA bridgers via Hyperlane.

   

   Manta Network announces $MANTA airdrop for QuickSwap family.

   

5. Scroll

   Scroll announces its sticker contest is now closed.

   

   Scroll Quills and Scribe competition is live.

   

6. Taiko

   Taiko Deciphering “BCR” campaign is now live on Galxe.

   

7. Metis

   Metis releases week 2 summary community testing for its decentralized sequencer.

   

8. Linea

   Supra Oracles is now live on Linea.

   

9. Mantle

   Mantle announces the distribution of the 15M $MNT rewards.

   

   Mantle commits $10M to provide security for Lagrange State committee.

   

10. Polygon

    LRTs ($rsETH) is now live on Polygon zkEVM.

    

    Polygon CDK welcomes OEV Network developed by API3DAO.

    

11. dYdX

    dYdX chain is now available on iOS.

    

    dYdX announces season 2 of dYdX chain incentives via Chaos Labs.

    

    dYdX introduces a new market widget.

    

12. Mode

    Mode Sunrise, Mainnet and Airdrop 1 are now live.

    

    Mode Sunrise campaign is live on Layer 3.

    

    Mode Name Service is now live.

    

13. Aevo

    Aevo lists $ZETA.

    

    Aevo announces its first farming program and Airdrop.

    

14. Zora

    Zora announces Gas free claiming rewards for first time creators.

    

    Zora releases a new blog post on AI.

    

15. Owlto

    Owlto Finance adds Kroma Network to its daily check-in rewards.

    

16. Lyra

    Lyra chain adds cross-asset collateral and portfolio margin.

    

17. Morph

    Morph Testnet is now live.

    

    Morph announces its limited edition commemorative badge.

    

18. ZKM

    ZKM announces hosting its first hacker house during ETH Denver.

    

Validium 

19. Immutable X

    Immutable zkEVM Mainnet early access is live.

    

20. rhinofi

    rhino fi integrates Zeta chain.

    

    rhino fi introduces “Rhino Run” a 6 weeks adventure quest.

    

21. tanX

    tanX fi introduces stop limit order.

    

22. Myria

    Myria node metrics are now live.

    

VM

23. Movement

    Movement introduces M2: The first ZK Move EVM L2 on Ethereum.

    

    Movement joins Omni Network open liquidity network to bring Move across Ethereum.

    

Infra Provider (RaaS)

24. Dymension

    Wormhole integrates Dymension.

    

25. Caldera

    Celestia DA is now live on Caldera, Rollups can now be deployed with Celestia underneath.

    

    Caldera deploys “Milan” an Arbitrum Rollup on the Espresso Sequencer.

    

26. AltLayer

    AltLayer announces airdrop for Celestia stakers.

    

    AltLayer announces partnership with Camelot to bring native DEX support to Arbitrum Orbit chains.

    

    B² Network announces to launch their Rollup with AltLayer support.

    

    AltLayer in partnership with Babylon presents new research for decentralized verification Layer that leverages Bitcoin staking for security.

    

27. Gelato

    Gelato announces LayerZero v2 is coming to its RaaS users.

    

28. Cartesi

    Cartesi Grants program wave 1 is now live.

    

Data Availability 

29. EigenLayer

    EigenDA is now available on Arbitrum Orbit which is made possible via AltLayer.

    

    Nodekit partners with EigenLayer to enable rollups integrated into SEQ to use EigenDA.

    

    Renzo partners with EigenLayer and Connext to bring cross-chain restaking to Arbitrum.

    

30. Avail

    Avail announces “Circuit Breaker” a ZK focused virtual Hackathon.

    

Sequencing

31. Espresso Systems

    Espresso Systems declares interest in Node operator partners for its upcoming fifth testnet “Cappuccino”.

    

Interoperability

32. Hyperlane

    Hyperlane is now integrated on Merkly.

    

33. Axelar

    Axelar introduces Axelarator program. 

    

    Squid router by Axelarcore has raised $4m in a strategic funding.

    

34. Omni

    Plume Network joins Omni open liquidity Network.

    

    Omni announces Mantle expansion through its open liquidity network.

    

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DeFI Saint

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