Weekly Modular Roundup (17th - 23rd March) Edition #26

Biggest News Highlights: Gelato announces Raspberry, the first public Celestia testnet built on Gelato RaaS with all necessary Infrastructure that will allow Developers to build whatever.

Good morning Saints,

I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.

If you’re reading this, you’re always one of the chosen saints and special.

This is the first Roundup following “The Rollup” Modular Map Landscape.

Catch all the alpha you’ve missed below.

Execution 

1. Optimism

   Optimism collective introduces the Superchain Developer Console.

   

   Optimism announces it has open source its fault proof system and is now live on Sepolia Testnet.

2. Polygon

   Libre, a tokenization-specific ZK L2 chain built using Polygon CDK is now live.

   

   Polygon has announced that Wilder World is building its gaming metaverse using its CDK, with Celestia Org underneath.

   

3. Starknet

   Starknet releases its Roadmap.

   

4. Fluent

   Fluent announces its road to Mainnet.

   

   Fluent is hiring.

   

5. Layer N

   Layer N unveils its Testnet Phases.

   

6. Dymension

   Dymension unveils Dymension Fraud Proofs with DRS standards.

   

7. Saga

   Saga introduces Saga Origins.

   

   Saga announces its Date for Mainnet launch.

   

8. Movement

   Movement announces Thala Labs, the biggest Move DeFI platform on Aptos is going Modular and using M2.

   

9. Lumio

   Pontem Lumio announces teaming up with LYNC to allow developers to construct and launch Web3 games within the Move ecosystem.

   

10. Talus

    Talus community program is now live.

    

Order Flow Abstraction 

11. Particle Network

    Particle Network unveils its Modular L1 powering Chain Abstraction.

    

Infra Provider (RaaS)

12. Caldera

    Caldera announces partnership with Hook protocol to power its Infrastructure.

    

13. Gelato

    Gelato introduces Playnance which is the first ZERO-GAS Layer 3 gaming chain by Arbitrum Orbit built on Gelato RaaS.

    

    Gelato announces Raspberry, the first public Celestia testnet built on Gelato RaaS with all necessary Infrastructure that will allow Developers to build whatever.

    

14. Karnot

    Karnot announces to be hosting, deploying and managing Madara Starknet latest testnet: Sharingan.

    

    Karnot announces partnership with Espresso Systems to expand its offering to decentralized sequencer.

    

    Karnot announces partnership with Gevulot to bring next level security, flexibility and low costs to app chains.

    

15. Lumoz

    Lumoz unveils its new backers.

    

16. Gateway

    Gateway FM announces its partnership with GPT protocol to enable deployment of custom blockchain.

    

Data Availability 

17. Celestia

    Celestia announces its first global online Hackathon.

    

Sequencing 

18. Espresso Systems

    Espresso Systems announces to have raised $28M series B round led by a16z.

    

19. Astria

    Astria announces Stride is joining its network.

    

Interoperability 

20. Hyperlane

    Hyperlane announces its partnership with Plume network to serve as the Interop Layer for their RWA vision.

    

    Hyperlane introduces Yield Routes.

    

21. Omni Network

    Omni Introduces “Omni Omega” the first AVS on EigenLayer which is now live.

    

    Omni announces the role of its token $OMNI in preparation of its Mainnet launch.

    

22. Polyhedra Network

    Polyhedra Network announces developing a novel method for verifying ZK proofs directly on Bitcoin Blockchain.

    

23. Union

    Union announces to bring Sovereign Interoperability Expansion to Canto.

    

24. Polymer Labs

    Polymer Labs annoying Polyverse challenge 3 is live.

    

25. Orbs

    Orbs announces QuickSwap AMM on Polygon zkEVM has integrated with its liquidity hub.

    

26. Mitosis

    Mitosis concludes its expedition testnet.

    

27. Skip Protocol

    Skip Protocol announces its hiring.

    

28. Neutron

    Neutron announces its support for Stride stDYM airdrop.

    

Proving

29. Lagrange

    Lagrange announces partnership with Alt Layer to bring the first ZK coprocessor to the restaked rollup ecosystem, through Lagrange’s parallel prover. 

    

    Lagrange announces $500M announce a restaking commitment of $500M in ETH from ether_fi to secure Lagrange’s Parallel ZK Coprocessor.

    

30. Succint

    Succinct announces to have raised $55M led by Paradigm to make Zero Knowledge Proofs accessible to any Developer.

    

31. Nebra

    Nebra announces Nebra UPA, the first Universal Proof Aggregation Protocol in production.

    

Privacy

32. Supra

    Supra announces Supra's DORA feed is now live on Celo.

    

Liquidity

32. Noble announces it will post data to Celestia as rollchains to complement their vision for permissionless interoperability of native assets.

    

33. Stride

    Stride announces stTIA is coming to Karak.

    

34. Catalyst

    Catalyst announces “Tiger Testnet” , its final testnet before Mainnet launch.

    

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DeFI Saint

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