📢 BeWater Weekly Newsletter October 14 to October 21

🐟 Partnership Ecosystem Progress

🔹 The Meme.zkWASM() Hackathon, hosted by Delphinus Lab and co-organized by BeWater and SevenX Ventures, will hold a Meetup on October 27 (GMT+8) in Shenzhen, with registration now open.

🔹 The roundtable discussion series #16, hosted by PermaDAO and supported by BeWater, will cover topics including
@ArweaveEco/@aoTheComputer network data, AOS 2.0, WeaveDB, Permaswap, Astro Labs, etc.

🔹 The ICP × ABCDE × BeWater Accelerator Demo Day will take place on October 23 (GMT+8).

🔹 The online Starknet Hackathon 2024, co-hosted by BeWater as a platform partner and Openbuild x Starknet, will have its results postponed to be announced next week.

🔹 Registration for DMCC x Bybit Web3 Unleashed #2, in which BeWater participated as a platform partner, has closed, and the competition results will be announced soon.

🚀 Technical Developments Tracking

🎯 L2
🔸 Arbitrum Orbit L3 ApeChain has launched its mainnet.
Arbitrum announced on X that the Arbitrum Orbit L3 ApeChain has launched its mainnet, welcoming the Ape community to join the evolving Arbitrum ecosystem.
https://t.co/Kv6E7gYuL1

🎯 $BTC
🔸 Stacks plans to conduct the Nakamoto upgrade around October 29.
Stacks announced on the X platform that the Nakamoto upgrade will take place around October 29 (Bitcoin block height 867867), introducing Fast Blocks and Bitcoin finality. It is reported that Stacks core developers plan to launch sBTC this year, which can transfer Bitcoin from L1 to Stacks L2 and back.
https://t.co/Xu7NwaFk2y

🔸 The Bitcoin re-staking platform Echo completes its Pre-Seed funding round.
Investors include ABCDE Labs, The Spartan Group, Maelstromfund, Selini Capital, Presto Labs, Sats Ventures, Web3Port Labs, Aptos, Movement Labs, etc. Echo is a liquidity re-staking infrastructure layer for Bitcoin on MoveVM, aimed at introducing $BTC liquidity and re-staking solutions into the Move ecosystem.
https://t.co/LQSzHQiMbV

🎯 ZKP
🔸 ZKP acceleration project Cysic partners with Scroll.
The focus of this collaboration is to improve transaction efficiency and security on the Ethereum blockchain by integrating Cysic's zero-knowledge computing technology. Cysic is already developing two hardware products, ZK Air and ZK Pro, which are set to launch in 2025.
https://t.co/whNEBRj8ru

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