L2 report vol. 2 A biweekly update on Layer 2 protocols,

12th May - 26th May

TL;DR
—The Arbitrum Odyssey will officially be going live in mid-June. The space engineers and teams involved are hard at work making sure all systems are in check before launch.
—Optimism Bedrock source is now available, MIT license. Optimism introduces Warp Speed bridge: Depositing small (≤ 0.5) amounts of ETH to Optimism became ~5x cheaper and ~15x faster. Ben Jones, cofounder and chief scientist at Optimism Foundation and Kain Warwick of Synthetix discussed the current state of Ethereum Layer 2s. Binance now supports Optimism.
—Metis rollup structure reclassified. Airdrop & Community Development Funds will be bridged from Mainnet to Andromeda.
—Boba is taking on WEF. The team also attended Permissionless 2022. Boba Network and DoraHacks hosted the Boba Network Global Hackathon. Boba Royale social media contest took place. Check out Boba's April Recap.
—The countdown to Aztec Connect’s mainnet launch has officially begun. It is planned for June 9th, 2022. Ethereum users are about to access the full spectrum of Ethereum DeFi applications with Aztec’s ironclad privacy guarantees, starting with our launch integrations: liquid stake ETH on Lido and get fixed yields on Element with full privacy protection. The team released Aztec Connect’s codebase — and rewards totaling $2 million+ via the Aztec Bug Bounty.
—The GameStop Wallet is here and it's integrated directly with Loopring L2, giving users another way to onboard directly to Layer 2 seamlessly from your browser.
—Polygon Nightfall mainnet has been introduced. Polygon Nightfall is a blockchain solution that leverages cutting-edge Optimistic-Zero Knowledge technology to give businesses an accessible blockchain network with the iron-clad privacy they need. Also, Polygon launches ‘uncapped’ fund to help Terra projects migrate to its blockchain. A deep dive into Polygon Hermez 2.0. has been published. Furthermore, Polygon unveils a new developer fellowship to help bridge web3 talent gap.
—Immutable will be supporting multiple zk-rollups to allow all Ethereum games to have access to our platform. In addition to its existing application-specific rollup, it will be adding support for StarkNet, StarkWare’s new smart-contract-capable rollup. Immutable to power Rarible mission to expand its open-source protocol on Ethereum w/ gasless minting/trading & 100% carbon neutral NFTs. Kongregate and Immutable X launch $40M blockchain game dev fund.
—StarkWare quadruples valuation to $8B in 6 months, closing round in choppy market. StarkNet Alpha was launched on Mainnet without a transaction fee. In version 0.8.0, fees are included but not enforced. Starting with version 0.9.0, fees will be enforced. 0.9.0 getting ready to ship. A new version of StarkNet. py v0.2.3 has been released.
—dYdX mobile app is now live. XTZ now live. TRX now live.
—DeversiFi status update: AMMs, incentives, and more. Coinbase Wallet now live on DeversiFi. DeversiFi co-founder, Will Harborne, will be personally donating USDT to all affected aUST users on the platform.
—Layer 2 Scaling Debate.
—Summary of L2Beat’s upcoming Bridges Risk Framework.
—Censorship-resistant bridges.
—L2 stats. Check out how much does it cost to use Layer-2?
—And more!

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