Weekly Rollup #83
Encrypted & Verifiable Payments, With Payy | Automota Launches Chain | Deploy ZK-Rollups Along The Superchain | Gelato x SX Network | Hyperlane’s Starknet Expansion | Week Ending Oct 4th
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This week’s issue covers:
Encrypted & Verifiable Payments, With Payy
Automota Launches OP Stack Chain
EigenDA Rollups In 1-Click With Caldera
CryptoEconomic DVN Framework
Deploy ZK-Rollups Along The Superchain
New Gelato Chain: SX Network
Hyperlane’s Starknet Expansion
More News & Announcements
Discourse & Education
📣 News & Announcements
Encrypted & Verifiable Payments, With Payy
Payy, a stablecoins payments system, is upgrading to run Celestia underneath. This move follows Celestia's recently announced roadmap to scale to 1 GB blocks, which aligns with Payy's mission to offer scalable and efficient payments.
With Payy, users don’t need to worry about a public wallet address. Instead, Payy generates a link or QR code, and anyone with access to that link or QR can access the intended token transfer.
For those interested, you can download the Payy app and start experimenting with test transactions,
Automota Launches OP Stack Chain
Automota, a machine attestation layer, has launched its own OP Stack chain along the Superchain.
EigenDA Rollups In 1-Click With Caldera
Anyone can now deploy an EigenDA rollup in one click, using Caldera’s rollup as a service platform
Here’s the first two rollups to deploy:
Edgeless Network: building a crypto ecosystem without charging any fess to users
Rivalz AI: an AI intel layer that had previously launched its own testnet on Dymension.
Both chains will be leveraging Arbitrum’s tech stack, along with EigenDA.
CryptoEconomic DVN Framework
EigenLayer and LayerZero have unveiled a framework for building “CryptoEconomic DVNs” (Decentralized Verifier Networks), using any token. In other words, customized security, allowing teams to choose any token, or set of, to verify the authenticity of omnichain messages.
Deploy ZK-Rollups Along The Superchain
Teams can now easily deploy their own zk-rollup along the Optimism Superchain, thanks to Conduit’s integration of OP Succinct.
There are three core advantages of this for teams:
Fast Finality: withdraw to Ethereum in minutes, not the typical 7-days
Type-1 EVM Equivalence: don’t need to make any huge changes to your code to redeploy as a zk-rollup
Lower fees: “No out-of-pocket proving costs for teams”
New Gelato Chain: SX Network
SX Network, an onchain sports betting app, will be deploying their own chain using Gelato’s RaaS.
Hyperlane’s Starknet Expansion
Hyperlane will be adding support for Starknet, connecting the Cairo ecosystem to the rest of the modular ecosystem.
This is now the third community built Hyperlane altVM implementation, following the SVM, and CosmWasm.
More News & Announcements
Airchains integrates Celestia into its rollup framework stack: Airchains is a rollup framework that allows teams to effortlessly deploy privacy-based rollups using their preferred VM, including EVM, SVM, or CosmWasm - Read
EIGEN token has finally unlocked, it can now be traded, transferred, or staked - Read
Babylon to increase its BTC staking capacity from 0.5 BTC to 500 BTC, although the team still devices to stake with caution - Read - this is part of Babylon’s upcoming “Phase-1, Cap-2” upgrade, expected to take place on the 9th - Read
Babylon launches its own points program: earn points for staking your BTC, which will go towards helping secure other PoS networks - Read
AltLayer & EigenLayer will be hosting a hackathon: Participants will have one month to build an AVS project using AltLayer’s AVS-as-a-Service platform - Read
Manta Network will be splitting 50% of their gas profits with their top 400 users—the more you use the chain, the more points you accrue. Aside from this, they’ll be distributing 10M MANTA tokens to those who use the chain - Read
Introducing Ungali, a new game publishing chain that will be deploying its own rollup using Caldera’s RaaS - Read
Nebra integrates Succinct - Read
Union’s trusted ceremony kicks-off! - Read
Fermah, a proof generation protocol, will be leveraging Aligned’s verification network - Read
Omni’s Security Review Competition: Earn up to $1M for finding bugs on Omni - Read
📚 Discourse & Education
2077 Research Breaks Down Starknet’s Bolt Upgrade
The latest research by 2077 provides an in-depth analysis of Starknet’s Bolt upgrade, focusing on Parallel Execution and Block Packing. It includes benchmarks comparing multi-threaded execution with sequential processing, highlighting the improvements in efficiency and scalability that the Bolt upgrade brings to Starknet.
Here’s the link to the full report!
Blogs & Threads 📝
Avail publishes its September recap: Read about their recent milestones & partnerships - Read
Conduit launches its own newsletter to help its community keep track of its latest milestones & partnerships - Read the first issue
Here’s a case study on Zora, the go to chain for NFT minting in the Superchain - Read
Key takeaways from Variant Funds recent research day covering the future of cross-chain - Read
Audio & Podcasts 🎤
Initia founder joins Nick White from Celestia to unpack the interwoven ecosystem - Watch
Members from Prism and Celestia join the Expansion podcast to talk about “The Hidden Flaw in Encrypted Messaging” - Watch
Mustafa & Ismail join the Epicenter Podcast to break down the Celestia roadmap - Watch
Nick White joins The Rollup to break down the Celestia roadmap - Watch
New Avail Hot Takes episode: Onchain social for users & devs on Lens - Watch
Vanishree from Fermah joins Nader to talk about “building a marketplace for ZK proof generation” - Watch
Ishaan from the Eigen Foundation joins Nader to talk “intelligent defi” - Watch
That's all for this week! Thanks for reading 🧱🎬