Rollup platform Radius completed a $7 million seed round of financing, led by Pantera Capital.
Ethereum Rollup deployment platform Caldera announced the strategic acquisition of Hook, the development team behind the Hook Odyssey protocol, a perpetual futures Rollup focused on memecoins and NFTs. It is reported that the addition of the Hook team will bring Caldera's workforce to 20, mainly in the Americas, Europe and Asia.
The Rollup deployment platform Conduit has partnered with ZeroDev, a chain abstraction smart wallet, to launch an account abstraction service that provides a complete AA stack. Its account abstraction consists of two components that work together: Conduit Bundler, which handles ERC-4337 user actions, and ZeroDev smart accounts, which provide gas fee payment, session keys, and mnemonic-free logins.
On November 1st, EVM-compatible ZK Rollup Zircuit tweeted that Zircuit Fairdrop is open to Eigenlayer holders and staking holders. This event will distribute 2% of the total supply of ZRC tokens, and all eligible wallet addresses will receive the same reward (regardless of the size of the staking amount). In addition, the official said that ZRC tokens will be airdropped to EIGEN holders of the trading platform in the future.
Bitcoin Rollup project Citrea said it has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, with angel investors Erik Voorhees and Balaji Srinivasan also participating. Citrea, which raised $2.70 million in seed funding in February in a round led by Galaxy, uses the BitVM computing paradigm designed to allow the use of Ethereum-style smart contracts on Bitcoin.
On October 28th, Sovereign Rollup project DeFund will airdrop native token D to Celestia pledged users. In addition, users who provide liquidity to specific TIA liquidity pools on Osmosis will also be eligible.
On October 28th, according to Kaito AI data cited by Andy, the host of the crypto show The Rollup, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum in the "wartime state", topped the list with a 1.69% "opinion leader mind share" in the past seven days, followed by Mert Mum, CEO of Helius Labs.
On October 24th, Aztec, a privacy and scalability solution based on ZK Rollup, tweeted that it has opened applications for the Sequencer and Prover testnets. The testnet is designed to solve problems with the Sequencer selection protocol, the coordination mechanism between Sequencer and Prover, and the governance (upgrade) mechanism.