Weekly Layer 2 and Modular Blockchain (19th - 24th February)

Biggest News Highlights: Fuel unveils Rollup OS.

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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 announces ArbOs 20, "Atlas", which will support ETH Dencun upgrade on Arbitrum Sepolia on Feb 29, 2024.

   

   Uniswap V2 is live on Arbitrum. 

   

   Arbitrum announces partnership with OpenZeppelin to provide a secure environment for builders in the Arbitrum ecosystem.

   

2. Optimism

   Optimism announces airdrop #4, allocates 10M+ to over 22k addresses. 

   

3. Base

   Base celebrates one year of launch with a single blue dot. 

   

   Uniswap V2 is now live on Base. 

   

4. dYdX

   dYdX integrates OKX wallet.

   

   $EOS is now listed on dYdX.

   

   dYdX announces its referral program.

   

   $JTO is live on dYdX.

   

   $ORDI is now live on dYdX.

   

5. Starknet

   Starknet announces Its Hacker House event.

   

   Starkgate v2.0 is live on mainnet. 

   

   DeFi spring is live on Starknet.

   

   Token claiming is live on Starknet. 

   

6. Linea

   Linea introduces Linea park with week 1 which is now live.  

   

   Linea celebrates its 1M followers, launches Builders club for Dev. 

   

   Linea announces its partnership with Gauntlet to provide economic risk monitoring across the Linea ecosystem.

   

7. Mantle

   Mantle Moonshot rewards are ready for claim. 

   

8. Metis

   Metis announces project ZKM testnet is coming on Metis. 

   

   Metis joins L3 summit. 

   

   Metis sets the stage for ecosystem development funds by allocating 65.4% for sequencer mining incentives. 

   

9. Polygon

   Polygon announces aggregation day.

   

   Polygon announces partnership with Arianne which will leverage Polygon CDK to unlock the full potential of digital passport products (DPPs) and engagement tokens at large scale. 

   

   Polygon announces partnership with Starkware to introduce “Circle Stark”, a fast proving system to be incorporated into Plonky3.

   

   Polygon announces transition to Polygon portal for Polygon wallet.

   

10. Scroll

    Scroll first ever protocol upgrade is live as bridging cost reduction slashes by 50%.

    

11. Manta Network

    Manta announces end of New Paradigm rewards claim. 

    

12. Aevo

    $PORTAL trading is live on Aevo. 

    

13. Taiko

    Taiko announces $150k contribution To Zk grants.

    

14. Mode

    Mode introduces Mode DevDrop 1. 

    

    Optimism Delta Upgrade is live on Mode. 

    

    Layerbank integrates with Mode. 

    

    Mode introduces Mode Flare L3s. 

    

15. Paradex

    Paradex open Beta is live on mainnet. 

    

    $STRK is live on Paradex.

    

16. Kroma

    Eternis Game is live on Kroma. 

    

    rhino fi is now live on Kroma. 

    

17. Fuel

    Fuel unveils Rollup OS.

    

18. Kakarot zkEVM

    Kakarot joins L3 Summit. 

    

19. Kinto

    Kinto announces partnership with Hinkal to enable private transactions on dApps.

    

20. Morph

    Morph announces its testnet and mainnet will feature EIP-4844 Integration.

    

21. ZKM

    ZKM announces the launch of its zkVM Alpha Testnet.

    

Validium

22. Immutable

    Blast Royale is coming to Immutable zkEVM.

    

    Immutable announces Zero gas fees for games and marketplaces on Immutable zkEVM until September 2024.

    

23. rhinofi

    Rhino Run week 4 is now live.

    

24. ApeX Protocol

    ApeX announces integrating Mantle support for staking and vesting on ApeX.

    

25. tanX.fi

    tanX.fi announces deposits and withdrawals are now live on Linea.

    

VM

26. Movement

    Movement announces partnership with Covalent to bring high-performance real-time indexing tools to Move and M2 builders.

    

    $USDe by Ethena is coming to Move M2.

    

    Movement announces GAIMIN in partnership with BNB Chain are building GAIMIN blockchain leveraging its Move Stack framework.

    

27. Eclipse

    Eclipse announces hiring for a growth engineer.

    

28. Berachain

    Particle Network WaaS is now live on Berachain.

    

29. Fluent

    Fluent integrates EigenLayer AVS.

    

    Fluent announces to use EigenDA to power the next gen VMs.

    

    Fluent announces to use EigenLayer for native yield bridging.

    

Infra Provider 

30. Dymension

    Dymension liquidity Layer is now live.

    

31. Caldera

    Caldera integrates NearDA.

    

32. Conduit

    Conduit has support for deploying L3s on Base, Zora and Mode with Celestia underneath.

    

33. Gelato

    Gelato announces opportunities for open roles.

    

34. AltLayer

    Alt Layer airdrop claim for Celestia stakers is now live.

    

    Alt Layer announces its RaaS will power Darwinia Network's OP stack based rollup alongside Avail as its DA.

    

    Alt Layer has secured $14.4M in strategic funding.

    

    Social network announces to use Alt Layer on Arbitrum Orbit Stack to build its Bitcoin L2 chain.

    

36. Cartesi

    Cartesi highlights its grant program (Wave 1).

    

Data Availability

37. EigenLayer

    EigenLayer has announced raising $100M from a16z.

    

    EigenLayer announced Aethos is building the first policy engine using its AVS.

    

    Coinbase Cloud announces support as one of EigenLayer operators.

    

    EigenLayer announces Ritual to use its AVS.

    

Interoperability 

38. Zeeve

    Zeeve io integrates Axelar Network.

    

39. Omni Network

    Sei Joins Omni Network to develop EIP-7611.

    

    Omni Network announces Metis is joining its Open liquidity network.

    

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