Conduit Newsletter: November 21, 2024

1-hour finality from RISC Zero, GURU launch, rollup ecosystem metrics, and more.

Conduit Newsletter: November 21, 2024

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This week in Conduit

RISC Zero Launches Kailua zkEVM for fast finality: Get it on Conduit Marketplace

Conduit rollups have a new option for ZK proofs with Kailua from RISC Zero! Kailua lets OP Stack rollups ditch the 7-day withdrawal waiting period and achieve 1-hour finality. Kailua is also uniquely cost-effective, as ZK proofs are only required in cases of disputes — in other words, rollups get the benefits of ZK at the costs of an optimistic approach. Integrate now on Conduit Marketplace.

Rollup Metrics from the Conduit ecosystem

As the biggest rollup platform in the Ethereum ecosystem, Conduit has a bird’s eye view of the latest rollup trends.

In this blog post, we break those trends down and look at what rollups powered by Conduit are using for key parts of their tech stack: Rollup framework, data availability, settlement layer, and more.

GURU Network launches on Conduit

GURU Network became the latest Conduit mainnet to launch this week! GURU’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to take advantage of onchain automations and AI agents. 

More from around the ecosystem

  • Forta Firewall has launched and is coming to Conduit Marketplace soon. Forta is at the forefront of DeFi security, and its Firewall system does real-time threat detection, stopping malicious transactions before they happen.
  • Mode launched the AI Agent App Store — a central hub where you can access a market of onchain agents purpose-built for specific DeFi use cases. Check it out here!
  • It turns out that bull markets are good for options DEX chains. Our partners at Derive announced a record-breaking month with over 2,300 active users — and it’s only the 21st!

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