TL;DR
On April 6th, 2022 The Arbitrum Nitro Devnet built on Ethereum’s Görli testnet went live. Arbitrum Nitro is the most advanced rollup stack ever built, and it enables massively higher throughput and lower fees.
The Optimism Collective has been introduced: The Optimism Collective is a large-scale experiment in digital democratic governance, built to drive rapid and sustainable growth of a decentralized ecosystem, and stewarded by the newly formed Optimism Foundation. The Collective is a band of communities, companies, and citizens united by a mutually beneficial pact to adhere to the axiom of impact=profit. This is outlined in depth in the Optimistic Vision. OP governance token with the first airdrop in Q2.
Boba Network’s WAGMIv3 is here. WAGMI is the enhanced liquidity mining program, where the team rewards those who contribute to the sustained growth of the Boba ecosystem: their users and developers. Boba as a fee token is here.
In collaboration with ImpactScope, the Metis team presented their Metis Earth Day Hackathon. The team has selected 55 applicants out of over 800 applications to be Metis Global Ambassadors.
Polygon Supernets have been introduced, dedicated, scalable blockchains that aim to ignite mass adoption of Polygon and Web3. To support this ambitious product and goal, the team announced a $100M support fund. Meta is making a major foray into Web3, and Polygon will be powering it.
The first version of StarkNet Bridge, StarkGate Alpha, StarkGate Alpha is live on mainnet.
Maker announced the StarkNet Dai Bridge launch.
As Loopring L2 continues to get a big influx of new users each week, please be sure to check out their knowledge base for all things Loopring L2. New video tutorial added to Loopring University. New community (wearable) NFT airdrops are coming. Make sure you have your Loopring L2 wallets activated.
ZKSpace Mobile App for Android and iOS is here, bringing ZKSpace Layer 2 DEX, payment and NFT features to your fingertips. You can now use the Mobile App to perform almost all of the activities that are possible on the ZKSpace Web App (Eco Deposit and Fast Withdraw will be included in future versions).
dYdX iOS app is now available to the public. This makes dYdX one of the first DeFi protocols to launch a dedicated mobile app and puts our user experience even more on par with centralized exchanges. CELO-USD, RUNE-USD, and ICP are now live.
Earlier this year, GameStop announced it was building its first NFT marketplace on Ethereum, and Immutable X has been chosen to integrate its Ethereum L2 protocol marketplace to bring the next-gen of gaming NFT projects to GameStop customers. Also, the Immutable X Developer Launch Rewards program is back with bigger prizes. This program celebrates early-stage NFT collectibles in their journey on Ethereum, powered by Immutable X.
The DeversiFi team launched a bug bounty scheme, offering rewards of $30,000+ for finding security issues on their app, website, API, or Discord.
The state of the Layer 2 ecosystem by L2BEAT.
Optimistic rollup price differences due to data compression.
Potential future hybrid ZK/Optimistic rollup.
Disaggregated blockchain layers.
And more!
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