USDY is backed by U.S. Treasuries and is now accessible across applications on the Arbitrum ecosystems.

EIP-7742 aims to streamline the relationship between the consensus layer and the execution layer by removing redundancies.

The SEC alleges that NFT assets on the marketplace are securities. In response, OpenSea committed $5 million to a fund that covers legal fees for NFT artists who also receive a letter.

The rebrand introduces an optional migration from DAI to a new stablecoin, USDS, and from MKR to a new governance token, SKY

Geth no longer holds over 2/3 market share as the supermajority client, improving client diversity on Ethereum.

A general-purpose L2 built on the OP Stack aiming to onboard mainstream users and applications to web3.

Optimistic rollups balance trade-offs between safety, decentralization, and promptness in their fraud proof system.

The Aave DAO plans to redistribute airdrops received from the ZKsync ecosystem to Aave users through liquidity mining incentives.

Offchain Labs, the team behind Arbitrum AnyTrust chains, released a technical roadmap outlining progress on decentralization, interoperability, scaling, and performance. Stylus, a programming environment for writing smart contracts using WASM, is set to go live on Arbitrum One on September 3rd. In Q3, Arbitrum will introduce fast withdrawals, allowing AnyTrust chains to settle to their parent chain within minutes. In Q4, Arbitrum will launch BoLD, a dispute resolution protocol, on the mainnet. Looking ahead to 2025, Offchain Labs plans to roll out multi-client support, dynamic gas pricing, and chain clusters, and potentially decentralize the Arbitrum sequencer. Offchain Labs is also researching the integration of ZK tech into Arbitrum.