I am in this space to promote building transparent, self-custodial systems. Here's one. Learn from its design 👇

fwiw, in the agglayer terminology, migrating to “pessimistic proofs” means removing state validation and only leaving minimal accounting proofs not to rug other chains that use the shared bridge. without anything else this should be considered a downgrade, not an upgrade

Mt. Gox. FTX. Celsius. Voyager. BlockFi. Different names, same story. If you don’t want to wait 10 years for your own money - use Ethereum (no downtime ever) or a real L2 (guaranteed withdrawals, always) trading platforms like @Lighter_xyz. Simple.

we just finished reviewing the project, so here's a short thread on @Lighter_xyz 🧵

5/ As always, any feedback is appreciated, and you can expect more information on upgradeability in the near future!

4/ How we do it ⚙️ Behind the scenes, our monitoring tools constantly scan onchain data to detect new proxy upgrades and other changes to the contracts, so we can review these as soon as possible. 💪

3/ Why it matters? Most systems use proxy contracts, allowing teams to upgrade logic without redeploying new contracts. That’s powerful, but it can also hide changes unless someone keeps watch 👀 Upgrades can change permissions or security assumptions. At L2BEAT, we review each

2/ Go to any project → Smart contracts → “View past upgrades” for a specific contract You’ll find: 🔹 Every implementation change 🔹 Date & tx hashes 🔹 Count of upgrades and the avg. upgrade interval 🔹 A link to our diffing tool where you can see exactly what changed between

🧵 Did you know that L2BEAT tracks every upgrade to the smart contracts of the L2s, L3s and the bridges we support? Now you can see it yourself👇

🔥 ¡Nuevo EPISODIO del KYB en Español! Hoy hablamos con @EFDevcon sobre la edición que llega a Buenos Aires 🇦🇷. Charlamos sobre Devconnect, la comunidad y 👀 ¡algunos anuncios que no te querrás perder!

Exciting news for the ZK Stack builders! We’re looking forward to seeing Atlas on mainnets ⚡️ Soon after, Airbender will make its way to the ZK Catalog!

9/ ✨ That’s a wrap for September! You can find all Monthly Updates on our brand new Publications page 👉 https://t.co/gYxviixJpw See you next month for more ecosystem highlights!

8/ @cartesiproject Cartesi joined our Supporter Tier, strengthened its fraud-proof system, revamped dev docs, challenged NI ZK fraud proofs in new research, and kept up momentum with tooling & education. Read more here:

7/ @NethermindEth The team rolled out a lighter v1.33.1 client with real-time UI, advanced its ZK-ready roadmap, formally proved @zksync's verifier, and audited @LidoFinance's ZK oracle - pushing infra security forward. Read more here:

6/ @eigenlayer & @eigen_da EigenDA v2 hit ~100MB/s throughput, @openranknetwork introduced verifiable reputation, a new Devkit sped up AVS launches, and EigenCloud announced a partnership with Google - among other advances. Read more here:

5/ @0xPolygon & the @Agglayer September brought a Cypher Capital deal to expand institutional POL access, the Rio upgrade on testnet, Forknet mainnet launch, and even national budget pilots with the Philippines. Read more here:

4/ @Optimism & the Superchain From Flashblocks cutting block times to 250ms, to @Ronin_Network migrating to OP Stack, plus new chains like Silent Data and Giwa entering the fold - Superchain momentum is only growing. Read more here:

3/ @zksync & The Elastic Network @0xSANDchain joined to power a $250B creator economy, @grvt_io raised $19M, and governance proposals from ZIP-13 to the Prividium Prize signal a busy month across the Elastic Network. Read more here:

2/ @arbitrum & the Orbit ecosystem September saw the bridge become embed- and onramp-ready, the launch of $40M in DRIP incentives, ArbOS 50 “Dia” moving toward on-chain voting, and more developments shaping governance and ecosystem growth. Read more here:

1/ 📢 New on L2BEAT - Monthly Updates! Each month we’ll publish a roundup spotlighting our partner ecosystems & projects - covering TVS, activity, and the major news that shaped the scaling landscape. Here’s what defined the ecosystem in September 👇