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Vitalik’s proposed rollup milestones to maturity.
Arbitrum’s roadmap to scale Ethereum with Steven Goldfeder and Raul Jordan: In this episode of Empire, Santi is joined by Steven Goldfeder and Raul Jordan to discuss the Prsymatic Labs acquisition and the future of Arbitrum. They cover Arbitrum’s approach to state growth, AnyTrust chains, developer usability, ZK tech, and more. How Aribtrum Is Helping Ethereum Scale. Arbitrum dapps are now live on DappRadar. Twitter Spaces: Parallel Finance x Arbitrum AMA, WOO Network x Arbitrum AMA, Diamond Protocol x Arbitrum AMA, Chainstack x Arbitrum AMA.
Introducing the OP Stack: The OP Stack is a modular, open-source blueprint for highly scalable, highly interoperable blockchains of all kinds. Not just rollup. Not just optimistic. OP Labs released Pragmatism: a Figma library and design system for, created by, and to be used for the Optimism Collective. Because big dreams like building a scalable and sustainable future for Ethereum require a pragmatic approach Weekly recap. Twitter Space: OP Radio #7: Motorheadz Nostalgic NFT Collection Binance US users can now on and off-ramp ETH directly to/from Optimism.
Unveiling Metis Africa: MetisDAO Foundation unveiled Metis Africa, an Africa-centered Metis expansion that will accelerate adoption, innovation, education, and talent development across the African Continent. Tech Thursday — Locker Contracts: To lock tokens means they can’t be traded for a specific time. Locking tokens can help projects maintain the more stable long-term value of assets, and users usually receive rewards when they contribute their tokens to a locker. Builder Mining and Verifier Node rewards for October have been distributed. Just one week away from our big Andromeda Anniversary Celebration week. Twitter space: HermesOmnichain x Metis.
Boba Network & BNB Chain: Boba BNB L2 is live. Boba Network is bringing the first L2 solution to the powerful BNB Chain & connecting it with Hybrid Compute. Banxa is now integrated with Boba as the first fiat on-ramp provider. Boba Network is slowly saying “Bye” to Rinkeby & “Hi” to Goerli testnet: read more about the upcoming Rinkeby shutdown. Boba Network is now integrated with Push Protocol. Covalent is now integrated with Boba. Boba is nominated for the AIBC Blockhcain of the Year 2022 Award. Twitter space: Boba x ICHI AMA.
zkSync Baby Alpha is here. The team has begun the march to Fair Onboarding Alpha and Full Launch Alpha. Five updates from zkSync fast-growing ecosystem. The team has released new SDKs in Java, Python and Go. Open-sourced Liquidity with Aave: Aave is coming to zkSync 2.0. A Toolkit For DeFi Flexibility With Sushi: Sushi is coming to zkSync 2.0. Twitter space: AMA with Steve Newcomb and Ramon Canales.
ImmutableX announces the powering of GameStop’s NFT marketplace, which is live and offering access to millions of NFTs. Furthermore, GameStop and Immutable announce trading rewards and staking. ImmutableX unveils tool to enforce NFT royalties on Ethereum.
Aztec Community Call 5 will happen on Friday, Nov 11th, 2PM UTC (9AM ET / 2PM UK). The team will talk about: Aztec Connect SDK mainnet, Noir tooling upgrades, Aztec’s plans for a fully private smart contract platform. Aztec’s DeFi aggregator zk.money just got bigger with not one, not two, but three new bridges this quarter: Euler finance, Yearn finance, $ETH-$DAI dollar cost averaging. Melo Vault, built in part with Aztec’s Noir, is an ETHGlobal ETHSF finalist. Read on to find out how Noir can help underpin anonymous governance for your NFT community. The second wave of the Aztec Grants Program has been announced.
Last week, Loopring was the target of a coordinated DDoS attack. While funds were never at risk, services were down for 11 hours. Loopring Smart Wallet is going international. 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.
‘Plonky2: A Deep Dive’ is out. India takes center stage in Polygon’s Web3. Aera taps Polygon to bring the power of DeFi to DAO treasury management. ‘ZK Research: Bignum Arithmetic for Zero-Knowledge Proofs’. FIS Subsidiary Worldpay to Enable USDC Settlements on Polygon. Chatting with Polygon about their zkEVM! (part 1). Twitter spaces: VRJAM x Polygon AMA, Polygon Presents: MaticX Vaults with Polysynth x Stader. Messari recently published “State of Polygon Q3” in which they take a deep dive into the Polygon ecosystem. Interview: The Path into ZK with grjte. PolygonInsights — WEEK43.
Polynomial commitment schemes are critical to Ethereum’s scaling solutions. These schemes will be used in Danksharding, as well as in the proof systems behind Scroll. What are polynomial commitment schemes? And how will they help scale Ethereum? Online Workshops: Dive In Deep On Scroll Infrastructure, Layer 2 101 — Scaling Ethereum With Rollups And Zero-Knowledge Proofs. redstone.defi have completed their official integration with the Scroll Pre-Alpha testnet.
StarkNet Community Call #26: MetaMask, Infura, Truffle and Diligence with Consensys. Starkscan just added an Age filter. A new version of starknet-hardhat-plugin (v0.6.8) has been released. The Braavosian‘s Talks #4: StarkNet performance and road map. Recording video of all interventions on the main stage of StarkNet CC. A universal bridge for ERC-20 to StarkNet — ZKX announces building a bridge allowing all ERC-20 tokens to migrate to StarkNet — video replay here. StarkNet Roundup #40. London StarkNet Enthusiasts Premium Meet-Up, the 9th of November. StarkEx powers 58% of all Ethereum L2 transactions.
ZKSwap V2 mainnet (ETH, BSC) plans to cease operations, users are advised to migrate assets to ZKSpace. ZKSea launches an NFT-based prediction game for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. ZKSpace Monthly Dev & Operation Report for October 2022 is out.
A Take on the dYdX DAO’s Near Future: dYdX Foundation is providing a potential short-term roadmap for the dYdX DAO. The 16th edition of dYdX Epoch Review, presenting updates from the dYdX community and ecosystem. Updated Tick Sizes for ATOM, CRV, & MATIC: The dYdX team has reduced tick sizes by a factor of 10 for the ATOM, CRV, and MATIC markets.
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