According to the weekly review of Layer 2 ecosystem in the 84th issue of the Layer 2 Roundup forwarded by Ethereum officials, it covers the latest progress of multiple Ethereum Layer 2 projects:
Starknet: STARK staking has entered its second phase, expected to begin in Q2 2025, with validators taking on the responsibility of block authentication and officially joining the consensus by the end of the year.
Scroll: Chainlink's low latency market data has been launched, supporting higher throughput DeFi markets.
Uniswap v4: Multiple chains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrarum, OP Mainnet, Base, BNB Chain have been launched, and LP can provide liquidity through the Uniswap web application.
Taiko: Upgraded the client to 0.43.1 on Hekla testnet at 10:00 on February 1st (Beijing time).
ZkSync: Switzerland's largest bank, America, is testing digital gold PoC on zkSync Validium.
Fuel: Phase 2 Genesis Drop is enabled and can be applied for and pledged until March 2nd.
Ecological highlights
The Abstract mainnet is officially launched, based on zkSync technology.
Kraken launches Ink Bridge, providing free on chain redemption.
Euler Finance launches Swellchain to support the LRT loan market.
GenLayer launches GenLayer Chain based on zkSync.
Bunni v2 has been launched on the Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrarum mainnets, providing programmable liquidity functionality.
Securitize adopts Wormhole as a cross chain interoperability solution.
Cryptex completes all on chain market data indexing and opens access permissions.
Upcoming events
Starknet will hold a community meeting in Porto, Portugal on February 4th.
During ETH Denver 2025, multiple ZK related events will be held from February 28th to March 1st, including House of ZK and Elastic House.
