Ethereum L2 Latest Here we report on the progress of the leading builders in the @ethereum L2 ecosystem, documenting recent significant releases, technical breakthroughs and general updates. ‍Featuring: @aztecnetwork, @KakarotZkEvm, @LineaBuild, @malda_xyz, @MantaNetwork, @0xPolygon, @Scroll_ZKP, @Starknet/@StarkWareLtd, @taikoxyz, @HelloTelos, @ZircuitL2, & @zksync. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Linea 🔹 Exponent 🔹 1/ @LineaBuild introduced Exponent, a three-month program that rewards the apps that attract the most verified user transactions: Rankings are based solely on onchain activity from wallets that pass Proof of Humanity checks through @sumsub, removing bots and spam. Top teams share a $250K prize pool and gain access to Consensys tools, audits, engineering support, and ecosystem visibility. The program also reinforces Linea’s economic model by increasing transaction-driven ETH and LINEA burn. 2/ Following the launch of Exponent, Linea rolled out Proof of Humanity v2 to strengthen the integrity of user activity across the network: The team reported that roughly 40% of wallets were removed from the recent airdrop as Sybils, underscoring the scale of the problem. PoH v2 now gives developers a simple way to verify real users and protect incentive systems. 🔹 Events 🔹 Linea took part in a series of high-profile events during Devconnect Buenos Aires, contributing to discussions on the future of L2s, ZK proving, privacy, and real-world crypto adoption. • ETH Day at Devcon: @DeclanFox14, Product Lead at Linea, outlined the three eras of L2 development - infrastructure, efficiency, and now the sovereign era - during ETH Day. His talk focused on what it takes for L2s to evolve into self-sustaining economies. • ZKonnect by @brevis_zk - co-hosted with @HouseofZK: Linea took part in multiple sessions, including: 1) Real-Time Proving Panel: @goinfrexeth, Engineering Lead at Linea, joined a panel moderated by @francescoswiss, DevRel of @Consensys & @MetaMask alongside speakers from @Scroll_ZKP, @ProjectZKM, and Brevis. The discussion centered on sub-10-second proofs, proving pipelines, hardware bottlenecks, and emerging shared proving layers. 2) ZK Across the Rollup Stack: @florian_huc from Consensys presented a technical deep dive on ZK validation, multi-prover architectures, and privacy-preserving execution, detailing how ZK shapes each layer of modern rollups. • DeFi Day del Sur by @aave: Declan represented Linea on a panel hosted by Aave, joining leaders from @privy, @Mastercard, @Optimism, @avax, and @Aptos. The session explored how crypto rails can power global commerce and the evolving role of L2s in real-world payment flows. • @LidoFinance Event: Goinfrex presented Linea’s Native Yield at the Lido Finance event, outlining the mechanism, opportunities for LPs, and its long-term impact on Linea’s users and ecosystem treasury. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Malda 🔹 Progress 🔹 @malda_xyz reports several key updates across its ongoing development and ecosystem work: • The co-founder @realbarnakiss attended @EFDevcon to advance discussions on unified liquidity and engage with teams focused on long-term coordination. • Malda Labs confirmed that its multi-chain sequencer will be released to the public. • Integration of @HypernativeLabs Firewall is complete, allowing the system to detect and block malicious contracts before they cause harm. • The team is finalizing sequencer testing, preparing the bug bounty program, and completing deployment checks ahead of launch. 🔹 Publications 🔹 1/ Malda published an article highlighting how its Unified Liquidity architecture makes funding-rate arbitrage on perp DEXs accessible to regular users: The post explains how funding rates work and outlines two delta-neutral approaches: perp-vs-spot and perp-vs-perp. It notes that fragmented liquidity and slow cross-chain movement limit most traders, while Malda’s global collateral pool, ZK messaging, unified rates, and yield-bearing assets enable faster adjustments and more consistent execution. 2/ Malda Co-founder Barna published 'The Ethereum Interop Solution', outlining why true interoperability requires permissionless, modular, and verifiable cross-chain execution without coordination between rollups: The article introduces Malda’s ZK-powered Multichain Sequencer, an application-specific sequencer operating across multiple chains using a fully zk-secured pipeline and custom zkVMs. It enables mainnet-grade security, minimal latency, and optional unified liquidity without shared sequencing, centralized bridges, or liquidity replication. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Polygon @0xPolygon introduced a set of new strategic collaborations that strengthen its position across payments and real-world asset infrastructure, including: • @Mastercard: partnered with Mastercard to support the expansion of Mastercard Crypto Credential to self-custody wallets, enabling verified, username-based transfers on Polygon. The collaboration introduced alias-based identities, portable verification, and soulbound credentials, with @Mercuryo_io onboarding verified users while Polygon provides fast, low-cost settlement for global-scale payments infrastructure: • @R25Official: partnered with R25 as the protocol launched its institutional-grade RWA platform on Polygon, bringing the yield-bearing rcUSD+ token to the network. The integration introduced an onchain asset backed by money-market funds and stable, low-risk instruments, giving Polygon users access to sustainable yield and providing developers and institutions with a transparent RWA primitive designed for scale: • @StableportX: partnered with Stableport to support its non-custodial B2B payments orchestration platform, which uses a “stablecoin sandwich” model for instant cross-border transfers. Leveraging Polygon PoS for high-speed, low-cost settlement, Stableport aims to enable rapid, scalable stablecoin flows between developed and emerging markets for global business payments: • @Revolut: integrated with Revolut as the neobank adopted Polygon for stablecoin transfers, payments, trading, and staking, processing over $690M in volume to date. The partnership enabled Revolut’s 65M+ users to send and receive stablecoins, pay with crypto cards, and trade or stake POL directly in-app, highlighting Polygon’s reliability as enterprise-grade payments infrastructure for everyday financial activity: • @CalastoneLtd: partnered with Calastone as the world’s largest global funds network launched tokenized fund share classes on Polygon, bringing onchain fund distribution to 4,500 institutions across 58 markets. The integration enabled asset managers to operate share classes directly over blockchain rails with faster settlement, lower costs, and programmable automation, leveraging Polygon’s scalability, sub-cent fees, and near-instant finality for institutional-grade tokenization: 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Scroll 🔹 Security Subsidy Program 🔹 @Scroll_ZKP introduces a subsidy program designed to make continuous security accessible to all builders following approval by the Scroll DAO: The initiative responds to the gap between audits and real resilience, offering subsidized reviews, fuzzing, formal verification, monitoring, and bug bounties through @areta_io and @immunefi. Projects gain a unified workflow, discounted services, and six months of free access to Magnus, with $500k allocated to support teams across their development lifecycle. 🔹 Events 🔹 Scroll joined @brevis_zk’s ZKonnect, co-hosted with @HouseofZK, where Co-founder @shenhaichen joined a panel on real-time proving. Alongside speakers from @LineaBuild, @ProjectZKM, and Brevis, he discussed the requirements for sub-10-second proofs, the impact of circuit design and hardware bandwidth, and the pressure to maintain decentralization. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Taiko 🔹 TaikoSwap 🔹 @taikoxyz introduced TaikoSwap, the native DEX built for the Taiko network to offer an @ethereum-like trading experience with lower fees: Developed on the open-source @Uniswap architecture, it combines Taiko’s based Type 1 rollup security with a modular design that will expand over time. The platform launches with ETH/USDC, TAIKO/USDC, and TAIKO/ETH pairs as the ecosystem grows. 🔹 Publications 🔹 Taiko published an article explaining how ULTRA TX and the Gwyneth execution stack enable synchronous composability across L1 and multiple L2s: The piece outlines how a single L1 transaction can bundle L1 account-abstracted transactions, L2 blocks, proofs, and cross-chain call outputs, allowing both layers to execute, interact, and commit atomically. It highlights the role of Gwyneth’s modified REVM in simulating and later enforcing identical state transitions onchain. 🔹 Events 🔹 @Pigi_Pal, Head of Ecosystem at Taiko, delivered a keynote at Verifying Intelligence 3.0 hosted by @HouseofZK and @brevis_zk during @EFDevcon. Timestamp - 00:41:35: 🔹 Integrations 🔹 1/ Taiko has integrated @chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine, making it one of three blockchains in the launch ecosystem and bringing modular compliance tools to a based rollup without introducing centralized control: The article outlines how ACE manages identity, policy enforcement and monitoring across jurisdictions, enabling compliant tokenization without relying on a sequencer. Taiko’s Ethereum-level neutrality allows issuers to meet regulatory requirements while preserving decentralized transaction ordering. 2/ @ensdomains selected the Taiko stack to launch Namechain, a dedicated ZK rollup for decentralized naming: Built with @Nethermind’s Surge framework, Namechain adopts a fully based architecture from day one, avoiding progressive decentralization. ENS chose Taiko after its mainnet demonstrated reliable preconfirmations, decentralized sequencing, and strong performance. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Taiko 🔹 TaikoSwap 🔹 @taikoxyz introduced TaikoSwap, the native DEX built for the Taiko network to offer an @ethereum-like trading experience with lower fees: Developed on the open-source @Uniswap architecture, it combines Taiko’s based Type 1 rollup security with a modular design that will expand over time. The platform launches with ETH/USDC, TAIKO/USDC, and TAIKO/ETH pairs as the ecosystem grows. 🔹 Publications 🔹 Taiko published an article explaining how ULTRA TX and the Gwyneth execution stack enable synchronous composability across L1 and multiple L2s: The piece outlines how a single L1 transaction can bundle L1 account-abstracted transactions, L2 blocks, proofs, and cross-chain call outputs, allowing both layers to execute, interact, and commit atomically. It highlights the role of Gwyneth’s modified REVM in simulating and later enforcing identical state transitions onchain. 🔹 Events 🔹 @Pigi_Pal, Head of Ecosystem at Taiko, delivered a keynote at Verifying Intelligence 3.0 hosted by @HouseofZK and @brevis_zk during @EFDevcon. Timestamp - 00:41:35: 🔹 Integrations 🔹 1/ Taiko has integrated @chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine, making it one of three blockchains in the launch ecosystem and bringing modular compliance tools to a based rollup without introducing centralized control: The article outlines how ACE manages identity, policy enforcement and monitoring across jurisdictions, enabling compliant tokenization without relying on a sequencer. Taiko’s Ethereum-level neutrality allows issuers to meet regulatory requirements while preserving decentralized transaction ordering. 2/ @ensdomains selected the Taiko stack to launch Namechain, a dedicated ZK rollup for decentralized naming: Built with @Nethermind’s Surge framework, Namechain adopts a fully based architecture from day one, avoiding progressive decentralization. ENS chose Taiko after its mainnet demonstrated reliable preconfirmations, decentralized sequencing, and strong performance. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹

Zircuit 🔹 Zircuit Finance 🔹 @ZircuitL2 introduces an onchain yield platform built for institutions that need clearer credit protections and stronger security after a year of significant industry losses: The service combines regulated asset managers, enforceable frameworks, transparent reporting, and safeguards extending from vault contracts to the sequencer. It offers up to 11% APY on USDC and USDT, with BTC and ETH vaults coming next, and works with partners including @monarq_mgmt, Forteus, @FalconXGlobal, @aave, and @Morpho. 🔹 Publications 🔹 Zircuit published an article covering how DeFi vaults automate yield management by replacing manual switching between protocols with a single compounding deposit: It explains how shares track underlying assets, why non-rebasing and liquid staking tokens improve efficiency, and how vaults optimize costs through automation. The article also outlines core strategies - lending, looping, LP positions, and delta-neutral structures - while emphasizing risk controls, collateral stability, and smart-contract safety. 🔹 Events 🔹 @jgorzny, Co-founder of Zircuit, joined a Verifying Intelligence 3.0 panel at @EFDevcon, organized by @HouseofZK and co-hosted by @brevis_zk: The discussion featured @alicelingl of HoZK, @GeoffTRichards of @OntologyNetwork, @NorbertVadas of @thezkcloud, and @o1coby of @o1_labs & @MinaProtocol. Speakers examined how AI influences governance, economics, identity, and personal autonomy, contrasting futures shaped by greater opportunity or increasing centralization. 🔹 Visit for more reports from across the industry 🔹