Ethereum Layer 2 News Roundup - Week 48

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Starknet Confirms Leaked Airdrop Portal

• Wormhole Secures $225 Million in Funding Round

• Bridged USDC Standard Contracts Are Live on Polygon zkEVM

• Mantle Moonshot: Win 19K CoM NFT Traits & Protocol Tokens

ECOSYSTEM UPDATES

Starknet Confirms Leaked Airdrop Portal

Starknet airdrop confirmed, but don't hold your breath just yet. Leaked screenshots of an airdrop portal on the Starknet Foundation website have been verified as genuine, but the Foundation emphasizes it's still under construction. While the STRK token is indeed slated for distribution to certain users and contributors based on their past involvement, the exact date for claiming your piece of the pie remains a mystery.

The good news: the Foundation has confirmed that a snapshot capturing user activity has already been taken, so no last-minute scrambling will change your eligibility. The not-so-good news: you'll have to wait for further updates on the actual token distribution timeline.

Wormhole Secures $225 Million in Funding Round

Wormhole has just achieved a major milestone, securing a whopping $225 million in funding, propelling its valuation to a staggering $2.5 billion. Prominent investors in Wormhole include Brevan Howard, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital, Jump Trading, ParaFi, Dialectic, Borderless Capital, Arrington Capital, and more. 

Wormhole is doubling down on its commitment to interoperability by unveiling Wormhole Labs. This powerhouse team will focus on building cutting-edge tools and products that fuel the fire of cross-chain activity and development.

Bridged USDC Standard Contracts Are Live on Polygon zkEVM

Polygon zkEVM now supports the Bridged USDC Standard, which is designed to make it easier for Layer 2 blockchains to transition to native USDC in the future.

The Bridged USDC Standard was created by Circle to help newer EVM chains and rollups deal with the "cold start" issue of needing bridged stablecoins to bootstrap activity until native tokens are warranted. Supporting this standard on Polygon zkEVM will help prevent fragmentation of liquidity in the future, in case Circle enables native USDC minting on the network.

Mantle Moonshot: Win 19K CoM NFT Traits & Protocol Tokens

Mantle Moonshot is a 4-week event, featuring 8 projects in the Mantle ecosystem. Users have the opportunity to win mystery boxes where access to a total of 19,000 Citizens of Mantle NFT add-on traits and eight exciting protocol token reward pools.

Every week, Mantle will introduce two protocols and reveal their set tasks for the week, hosted on Galxe. For a full guide for Mantle Moonshot Week 1, please visit here.

Additional Notable Events

• Comparing new accounts between top Layer 2 in November

• Layer Zero has been integrated into Caldera

• Layer Zero is now live on the Public Goods Network

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