Quick Take

• Aave deploys V3 on ZKsync Era.

• Optimism announces the SUNNYs Awards.

• Remix Project releases v0.53.0.

• Basenames surpass 10k registrations.

Aave Deploys V3 On ZKsync Era

Aave deployed Aave V3 on the zkSync Era mainnet, extending its liquidity and lending services to the Layer 2 network. The deployment follows a governance vote with unanimous approval from AAVE token holders. The initial markets will offer lending and borrowing for USDC, USDT, WETH, wstETH, and ZK. The integration utilizes Chainlink for the price feeds. It also includes the expansion of Aave's native stablecoin, GHO, to the zkSync Era. The Aave DAO plans to redistribute airdrops received from the zkSync ecosystem to Aave users through liquidity mining incentives. Although the execution payload has been deployed, the markets are not live on Aave's front end at the time of writing.

Optimism Introduces The SUNNYs

Optimism announced The SUNNYs, an awards ceremony celebrating creators and applications across the Superchain, offering 540,000 OP in prizes to the winners. Builders who have deployed mainnet contracts on any of the 15 OP Stack chains within the Superchain are eligible to nominate their projects for an award. Instead of a voting system, the winners will be selected using a framework developed by Opensource Observer, which evaluates onchain data. The SUNNYs will provide over 20 awards across Creator, Social, DeFi, Utility, and Farcaster tracks. The winners will be announced during a live event on September 18th.

Remix v0.53.0 Release

Remix Project, a web-based IDE for Ethereum development, released version 0.53.0, introducing new keyboard shortcuts for file management, updates to the Circom Plugin, and the ability to publish multiple files to Gist. The Circom Plugin now offers a step-by-step interface for proof generation, updated templates, Plonk as a proving scheme, and options for selecting constraints, exporting verifier contracts, and advanced configurations. Remix is a toolset for developing, testing, deploying, and debugging Ethereum smart contracts.

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