Weekly Rollup #81
Weekly Rollup #81
First Clearing Layer Is Live | Prism: Secure & Verifiable Communication | Risc Zero Unveils Boundless | Lens x Avail | Permissionless Dymension RollApps | Week Ending Sep 20th
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This week’s issue covers:
The First Clearing Layer is Live on Mainnet
Prism: Secure and Verifiable Communication Without Intermediaries
Lemongrass: Celestia’s First Major Upgrade Hits Mainnet
Risc Zero Unveils Boundless
Lens Network Chooses AvailDA
Dymension’s 3D Update Is Live: Permissionless Rollups
Leap Integrates Forma Chain + Synchronous Composability
Parallel Unveils New Shooter Game on Celestia
Bullet: A New Solana L2
Particle Network Launches Early Access for Universal Accounts
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
First Clearing Layer is Live on Mainnet
Everclear has officially launched on mainnet, introducing the first web3 clearing layer as part of the Chain Abstraction stack. By optimizing netting and clearing processes for dApps and solvers, Everclear reduces the cost of settlements by up to 10x. Everclear aggregates transactions across multiple parties before final settlement, significantly lowering gas fees and improving efficiency.
Full article breakdown of “Clearing”, coming soon!
Prism: Secure and Verifiable Communication Without Intermediaries
Ryan, who used to be an engineer at Celestia, has unveiled Prism, a “verifiable authentication standard for private messaging and beyond”.
Prism allows users to verify the authenticity of their encrypted messages. Unlike current encrypted messaging platforms, which still depend on centralized servers to confirm users' identities, Prism enables direct, real-time verification, ensuring the parties communicating are exactly who they claim to be.
Prism leverages validity proofs to post cryptographic evidence to Celestia. This enables users to instantly verify the identity of the person they are communicating with using light nodes embedded in their devices. By removing the need for centralized servers to act as gatekeepers, Prism eliminates the weak points found in traditional E2EE systems, where users cannot be sure they're talking to the right person unless they physically verify identities.
Traditional encryption methods provide privacy but fall short of guaranteeing the identity of communication partners. Prism closes that gap, turning privacy into something verifiable rather than assumed.
Lemongrass: Celestia’s First Major Upgrade Hits Mainnet
Celestia’s first major upgrade, Lemongrass, has hit mainnet!
Lemongrass consists of 5️⃣ total Celestia Improvement Proposals (CIPs). We broke down Lemongrass, along with each of these five CIPs, in a recent article, here.
Risc Zero Unveils Boundless
Risc Zero unveils Boundless, “the verifiable compute layer”. Execute offchain. Verify onchain, using any chain.
Because execution is moved offchain, the typical limitations of onchain computation, such as transaction and block limitations, are abstracted away—hence, “boundless” execution.
Lens Network Chooses AvailDA
Lens chooses Avail as their preferred DA layer for their, soon-to-launch, Hyperchain. Avail will help Lens scale to the millions of users they envision obtaining, as they continue on their mission to build a decentralized social network protocol.
Dymension’s 3D Update Is Live: Permissionless Rollups
Dymension’s much anticipated 3D update is live!
As a reminder, Dymension first introduced their 4-phase mainnet roadmap back in February.
Phase 1 introduced staking, IBC, and governance to the Dymension network
Phase 2 allowed DYM stakers to vote for which RollApp they want to see become amongst the first to go live on mainnet, through the “RollApp Draft”.
Phase 3: Now that a few selected teams from the Rollup Draft have launched on mainnet, it’s time for permissionless rollup deployment. This phase will also introduce incentive streams (rewards) to top RollApps based on TVL.
Leap Integrates Forma Chain + Synchronous Composability
Forma Chain is now live on Leap, becoming Leap’s first native EVM chain integration. This means seamless bridging to and from Forma, across Celestia, Stargaze, Stride, and other modular chains. Soon users will be able to view their Forma NFTs directly from their Leap wallet too.
Soon after, Leap announced their integration of Nodekit, enabling Leap’s wide user base to leverage synchronous composability directly from their wallets.
Parallel Unveils New Shooter Game on Celestia
Parallel has unveiled their new upcoming first-person shooter game, Tau Ceti, which will be built as its own rollup with Celestia underneath.
For those new to Parallel, this is the same team behind the sci-fi trading card game.
Bullet: A New Solana L2
Another Solana L2 coming to market soon—introducing Bullet.
Bullet will aim to exceed performance capabilities of the Solana L1, while utilizing the L1 for settlement and DA.
The first dapp that will launch on Bullet will be a perpetuals CLOB, which is something the development team of Bulelt, Zeta, has had experience with in the past.
Bullet will be leveraging Sovereign SDK to build their L2.
Particle Network Launches Early Access for Universal Accounts
Particle Network has released its early access support for its Universal Accounts, with public access expected to go live very soon!
More News & Announcements
The Highlight platform now supports Forma Chain, meaning users of the platform can start buying, selling, or minting NFTs from Forma, a sovereign network for onchain creations (NFTs). - Read
Rollups built & deployed using Layer Labs, a new (what seems like) RaaS solution, will leverage Avail’s trinity of products: AvailDA, Nexus, & Fusion. - Read
EigenLayer announces programmatic incentives, bringing weekly EIGEN emissions and rewards for stakers & operators: For those who have been staking on EigenLayer since August 15th, to an operator actively registered to at least one AVS, you may have some tokens waiting for you. Starting in October, rewards will be claimable each week for qualified participants. You can check the full post to learn EIGEN distribution percentage and more - Read
More EIGEN claims: Season 2 of EigenLayer’s EIGEN claims are now live from now until March 2025. Stakers, operators, ecosystem partners, and community all eligible. - Read
$1M bug bounty live on Babylon: Find a bug, get rewarded - Read
Trestle Chain mainnet is live, via AltLayer (RaaS): Trestle is building an Arbitrum rollup with Celestia underneath, as they look to build a defi ecosystem for TIA holders. - Read
DataHive is now live: Described as an AI Data Asset L2 chain, this team is looking to protect user data, providing real time compliance, identity ownership and more. This will be an OP Stack chain leveraging 0G Labs DA - Read
Anime Chain will be built using Conduit (RaaS): AnimeChain will be home to the Azuki NFT community. The chain just launched on testnet last week, but the cool thing about this is that it showcases some of the powerful tech we’ve been talking about for the past month, enabling a truly chain abstracted experience for users. - Read
SphereOne is now live on testnet: This is a Base L3 chain, that aims to enable the creation and operation of autonomous AI agents and services across multiple blockchains - Read
Caldera adds Venn to their RaaS stack: Venn is building a decentralized validation network, allowing rollups to ensure their transactions are safe, so long as Venn remains free of bugs and decentralized itself - Read
Caldera also adds Dill’s DA layer to its RaaS stack - Read
Ankr RaaS now supports custom gas tokens for Arbitrum Orbit rollups - Read
Noam Cohen presents HALO, a new product idea for the Cosmos Hub: “an ATOM-powered Shared Sequencer & Settlement Layer” - Read
Espresso will be sunsetting its Capuccino testnet - Read
Fuse Network joins the Radius ecosystem: - Read
Hyperlane adds SVM support - Read
LogX Network is now live: Trade perps on this Arbitrum based rollup - Read
📚 Discourse & Education
Blogs & Threads 📝
Caldera publishes a post about the “Vending Machine Era”: Devs can now build modular chains, as of they were selecting components from a vending machine - Read
Offchain Labs (Arbitrum), and Espresso have shared the “first iteration of timeboost with a decentralized sequencer and autonomous auctioneer” - Read
“Research Engineer from Movement Labs, @apenzk, explains how DAG-based BFT consensus protocols can level up sequencing” - Read
Audio & Podcasts 🎤
Hear about the latest developments and updates, as Swell gears up for their upcoming L2 launch, with members from Swell, Polygon, AltLayer, and Ankr - 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 🧱🎬