Weekly Rollup #80
A Light Node Directly In Your Browser | Onchain Confidentiality With Celestia Underneath | Restake From Anywhere W/ Nuff Protocol | Transitioning OP Rollups to ZK | Week Ending Sep 13th
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This week’s issue covers:
New Celenium Upgrade Adds Celestia Light Node Directly In Your Browser
Fhenix: Onchain Confidentiality With Celestia Underneath
Introducing the Nuff Protocol: Restake From Anywhere
Osmosis Unveils Polaris, The Token Portal
Arbitrum Chains With EigenDA
Succinct OP: Transitioning Optimistic Rollups to ZK
Particle Network’s Universal Accounts Set To Go Live
More News & Announcements 🚨
Discourse & Education 📚
We’d like to thank two of our sponsors for today’s post, Particle Network and Everclear, two teams at the forefront of Chain Abstraction.
📣 News & Announcements
New Celenium Upgrade Adds Celestia Light Node Directly In Your Browser
Celestia-focused block explorer, Celenium, has embedded a light node directly in their platform, following their latest upgrade release.
This means there is a Celestia light node running in your browser every time you visit the block explorer, getting us closer to a truly, trust minimized block explorer.
Fhenix: Onchain Confidentiality With Celestia Underneath
Fhenix announces that they will be leveraging Celestia DA for their Ethereum L2. Fhenix is building a coprocessor that leverages FHE technology to enable developers to build confidentially-enabled apps on Ethereum.
Introducing the Nuff Protocol: Restake From Anywhere
Nuffle Labs unveils the Nuff Protocol, the first universal restaking protocol. This will extend EigenLayer’s restaking capabilities beyond Ethereum.
Osmosis Unveils Polaris, The Token Portal
Osmosis unveils Polaris, the Token Portal, which aims to enable users to access any token, from any chain, using one single interface. This will help solve the UX issue created by each chain building their own ecosystem of wallets and dapps for users to navigate.
We’ve talked a lot about chain abstraction over the past month - this is an example of a chain abstracted app, abstrcating wallets, bridges, and DEXs under a single interface.
Arbitrum Chains With EigenDA
EigenDA announces their Arbitrum Orbit stack integration, complete with fraud proofs.
Succinct OP: Transitioning Optimistic Rollups to ZK
Succinct unveils OP Succinct, enabling OP Stack chains to transition from an optimistic rollup to a ZK rollup. This will provides quicker finality, as this removes the need to wait through 7-day fraud proof window.
Particle Network’s Universal Accounts Set To Go Live
Particle Network’s universal accounts are set to go live on mainnet! This will be a two-phase launch:
Phase 1: Early Access Phase: Users can start signing up for early access.
Phase 2: Public Beta Phase: qualified users will be able to use these upgraded UAs
Check out the full post to learn all about the details.
Modular Events 🎭
Going to Token2049 this week? Here’s where you’ll be able to meet and interact with some of your favorite modular teams 👇
Sip some wine with Payy and Celestia
Want to catch the Avail team at 2049? Here’s everywhere they’ll be - Read
Join AltLayer and others for the “modularity” panel, taking place during their Rollup Day side event at 2049 - View
Catch the EigenLayer team at 2049 - View
Meet up with the Caldera team at 2049 - View
Meet with the Hyperlane team at 2049 - View
More News & Announcements
All chains fit on EigenDA: - View
Check out Kamigotchi: Onchain worlds with Celestia underneath - View
Artela, an L1 chain with parallel execution, now enables anyone to build their own “EVM++” rollup, allowing teams to take advantage of different libraries across different programming languages (Go, Rust, Solidity, etc.). These rollups will be launched using Rollkit’s sovereign rollup framework. - Read
Cloudlines waitlist is open for sign-ups. Cloudlist is developing a game as an autonomous artwork, and will be leveraging Celestia underneath - View
New project unveiled: O3 Layer claims to be an L3 chain on Bitcoin, using Arbitrum Orbit technology, while also leveraging Avail DA. - Read
EigenLayer unveils their security model, as they prepare for their protocol slashing release. Check out the full post to learn about the three foundational concepts shaping AVS security: Operator Sets, Total Stake, and Unique Stake. - Read
Morph co-founder officially introduces their Global Consumer Layer. Read the full post to learn why they started Morph in the first place, along with how they can help teams - Read
Keep your eyes on Risc Zero today - “Boundless”, incoming - View
Caldera (RaaS) has added a cool new dashboard feature for rollup teams, allowing them to track sequencer fees earned, fees paid, and net profit. - View
The Granite upgrade is live on Optimism and OP Stack chains. This upgrade fixed bigs that were recently found during a community audit - Read
Magic Account, by Socket Protocol and ZeroDev, is now live. Magic Account enables users to have a unified balance across all Ethereum L2 chains, allows users to spend on any chain without latency issues, and removes the need to use specific native gas tokens - just use USDC. A chain abstracted experience. - View Demo
Check out the rapidly growing Polygon agglayer ecosystem - View
Stackr has built Solana-ish, Bitcoin-ish, and Etheruem-ish storage structures. - Read
PlayFi will be leveraging Radius sequencer to enable the platform cross-rollup composability. PlayFi turns content into real-time data using AI agents - Read
Ternoa to leverage Radius sequencing for their security & privacy layer. According to the post, “Together, we'll be diving into Integrity Verified Services, a protocol built on Ternoa, which verifies off-chain services to block censorship and offer unparalleled protection for users.” - Read
Hyle is the latest chain to join Nodekit’s composable network - Read
Lisk integrates Hyperlane, enabling the network to interoperate with the rest of the modular ecosystem - Read
Ebisu Finance is now live on Omni’s Omega testnet. Ebisu allows users to use their Liquid Restaked Tokens as collateral to borrow against - Read
Bitcoin is now on Base L2, following the integration of cbBTC - View
PumpBTC, an LRT protocol on Babylon, will offer Bitcoin staking on Movement - Read
Inertia, an Initia rollup, will be launching the first LRT for remilked $TIA and $INIT. In other words, when you stake your TIA or INIT on MilkyWay, in exchange for milkTIA & milkINIT, you’ll be able to restake those restaked assets on Inertia - Read
📚 Discourse & Education
Blogs & Threads 📝
Conduit founder, Andrew Huang, explains why he believes Mgas/s is a better metric to sue for comparing chains, as opposed to the outdated TVL metric - Read
Rise Chain announces their based-rollup research collaboration with Radius, as they aim to solve two key issues: censorship & harmful MEV and sequencer cost. - Read
Learn how Kakarot will deliver real-time Ethereum-compatible block proving in Q1 2025 - Read
Arcana Network publishes the second article of their Abstracted Academy blog series. This article touches on Data Availability layers and their role in chain abstraction - Read
0xLouisT writes “The Deaf ETH L2 Debate: Why We're Missing the Real Issue”. Is everyone ignoring the root cause of all the current Ethereum L2 discourse? - Read
Irvin publishes Part 2 of his “Exploring SVM Rollups on Solana” series. This post touches on consensus protocols. - Read
Audio & Podcasts 🎤
Nick White joins The Rollup to discuss Celestia’s roadmap to 1GB blocks - Watch
Anoma hosts a discussion with Celestia all about cross-chain intents in the modular ecosystem - Listen
Omni Network & Ebisu Finance founders get together to talk Ebisu’s launch on Omni’s Omega testnet - Listen
Hexens talks cross-chain communication today and tomorrow - Listen
Elys Network and Union take a deep dive into the modular ZK interop layer - Watch
Arbitrum hosts a panel discussion about Yieldcoins, stablecoin alternatives for defi - Listen
Fairblock Network talks dark pools & the future of onchain confidentiality - Listen
We’d like to thank our other sponsors for today’s post, Arcana Network, and Nuffle Labs.
That's all for this week! Thanks for reading 🧱🎬