ETHBEAT 💗 (prev L2BEAT)

L2BEAT is now ETHBEAT.

5+ years of keeping L2s accountable, now extended to privacy, interop, staking and beyond. One goal: transparency on the guarantees users get on Ethereum.

Thank you to the community that got us here. The next chapter starts today! x.com/i/article/2117…

What would a Michelin Guide for onchain protocols look like?

At @EFDevcon, @donnoh_eth introduced The CROPS guide and showed how we review projects against the four principles: censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security.

The full talk walks through the research behind the guide and introduces its first selection of projects.

If you missed it, you can watch it here:
youtube.com/watch?v=AJH9Tp…

Last week, zkLink Nova lost ~$0.8M. No proof was broken: the Ethereum escrow never checked one (by design). zkLink Nova has no trust-minimized bridge - the escrow trusted zkLink’s own relay contract instead, and that contract had a bug that let anyone use it.

x.com/zkLink_Officia…

Base Denim is live!

Users now get 200ms blocks directly in the protocol, with the same guarantees as the old 2s blocks.

On the downside, the sequencer can now lag the L1 by 6 hours (instead of 30 minutes) before it must include L1 deposits, with the 12-hour hard limit unchanged.

Also in Denim, B20 issuers can force transfers through a designated transfer agent.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Mumbai to celebrate our transition to ETHBEAT 💗

It meant a lot to share this moment with so many friends, and we’re excited to keep working with all of you on whatever the future brings!