Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain Roundup (7th - 13th January) Edition #16

Biggest News Highlights: Optimism RetroPGF Round 3 results are live, Starknet announces 300 $STRK tokens to reward public good development and more.

Rollups 

1. Arbitrum

   Arbitrum Developers announces a deadline for its Node upgrade.

   

   Hyptopia chain, an L2 chain is migrating to Arbitrum to build Hychain using Arbitrum Anytrust tech.

   

   Offchain Labs releases an update on its new version of Arbitrum Stylus SDK which will make deploying complex load more cheaper.

   

2. Optimism

   Optimism RetroPGF Round 3 results are live.

   

   Optimism announces its entries are closed for we love the art.

   

3. zkSync

   zkSync explorer is now live on Etherscan.

   

   zkSync Era is now live on Gitcoin Grant Stack.

   

4. Starknet

   Starknet announces 300 $STRK tokens to reward public good development.

   

   Starknet releases 2 important pages to check out.

   

   Starknet announces an upgrade to v0.13.0.

   

   Starknet announces Cairo which is coming to Code4rena.

   

5. Metis

   Metis sets a date for its decentralized sequencer community testing.

   

6. Scroll

   Scroll announces to deprecate Scroll Alpha (Goerli) testnet on 25th January.

   

7. Linea

   Linea announces its 6 months anniversary of Mainnet launch with important updates.

   

   Linea gives an update on the people's alliance Inscription on its chain.

   

8. Taiko

   Taiko gives an update on its grant 2 cycle which is closing next week.

   

9. Base

   Base announces its vision for 2024 with its roadmap.

   

   Base releases an update on its migration from Goerli to Sepolia.

   

10. Mantle

    Mantle announces surpassing its 200k $ETH mark on Mantle LSP.

    

11. Polygon zkEVM

    Polygon zkEVM introduces zkBuilder Decentralized Grants.

    

    Polygon announces a new L2 chain Libre, being built using its CDK.

    

12. Manta Network

    Manta Network introduces zkApp accelerator.

    

    Manta Pacific updates its block explorer.

    

    Manta launches a new Galxe campaign featuring Owlto Finance.

    

13. Boba Network

    Boba 2023 review.

    

14. Aevo

    Aevo Pre-launches $MANTA futures.

    

15. Mode

    Mode introduces Sequencer Fee Sharing (SFS).

    

16. Kroma

    Kroma Quest with Galxe is now live.

    

    Kroma Phase 8 Quest is now live.

    

    Supra Oracle is now live on Kroma.

    

17. Kinto

    Kinto announces partnership with Polytrade finance.

    

18. Lyra

    ETH options and perps are now live on Lyra V2.

    

19. ZKM

    ZKM announces its citizen enrollment.

    

Validium 

20. Immutable

    Immutable zkEVM welcomes Revomon.

    

    Immutable zkEVM welcomes Space Mavericks.

    

    Immutable zkEVM welcomes Second world games.

    

21. rhinofi

    rhino fi announces new Starknet Quest.

    

22. tanX.fi

    tanX.fi is now live on Optimism.

    

Infrastructure Provider (RaaS)

23. Saga

    Saga unveils its stress test challenge.

    

24. Caldera

    Caldera updates its website.

    

28. Conduit

    Conduit welcomes Hypr Network to its RaaS platform.

    

    Conduit welcomes Parallel Network to its RaaS.

    

29. AltLayer

    AltLayer welcomes Allo to its RaaS platform.

    

    AltLayer in partnership with Arbitrum and Orbit announces Nitrogen testnet.

    

30. Gelato

    Gelato proposal to power the infrastructure for Apechain is now live.

    

31. Karnot

    Karnot releases its new website.

    

32. Lumoz

    Lumoz welcomes Ola to its RaaS Platform.

    

33. Cartesi

    Cartesi introduces its two block explorer.

    

34. Sovereign Labs

    Sovereign introduces “Nearly Optimal State Merklization" a new state commitment design. 

    

Data Availability 

35. Celestia

    Celestia welcomes Ancient8, a gaming L2 chain leveraging OP stack with Celestia underneath.

    

    Ojo oracle is coming to Celestia.

    

36. Avail

    Avail in partnership with Spheron makes spinning up nodes easier.

    

    Avail is now on Telegram.

    

    The first official Inscription is now live on Avail.

    

37. EigenLayer

    EigenLayer 2023 Recap.

    

    EigenLayer highlights endless opportunities with Cosmos and Ethereum.

    

    Sequencing 

38. Espresso

    Espresso announces its upcoming Integration with Cartesi.

    

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DeFI Saint

Founder, The Saints Creed