Overview of Scroll's ecological landscape: looking for the "vanguard" of zkEVM

By: Babywhale, Foresight News

The Ethereum Layer 2 network Scroll based on ZK Rollup has received high attention from the industry since last year. Scroll announced in April 2022 and March this year that it has completed a US$30 million Series A financing led by Polychain Capital and US$50 million in investment from Polychain Capital, Sequoia China, IOSG Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners and OKX Ventures. financing.

In April of this year, at the "FORESIGHT 2023" annual summit co-hosted by Foresight Ventures and Foresight News, Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng said that Scroll will launch the mainnet in the next three to four months. The author confirmed to the project team that Scroll will not launch the main network this month, and then Scroll also officially announced the launch of the Beta test network on the Sepolia test network. The mainnet that everyone has been waiting for may still be a while away.

The Pre-Alpha and Alpha testnets previously opened by Scroll have attracted a large number of projects and users to participate. This article will take stock of the ecological projects listed on Scroll’s official website for users, and these projects will also be the “vanguard” after the launch of Scroll’s mainnet.

Note from the author: Some audit companies listed on the official website of Scroll are not included in the ecological projects.

infrastructure

The infrastructure-related projects of the Scroll ecosystem include Ankr, a Web3 infrastructure provider, OKLink, a Web3 data analysis platform under Okey Cloud Chain, and The Graph, a decentralized index protocol, etc., as well as:

Wallet / digital asset management platform

The Scroll ecological wallet/digital asset management platform includes Safe, OKX Wallet, Bitget Wallet, MathWallet, UniPass, Safeheron, Blocto, and hardware wallets OneKey, Keystone and other wallets or digital asset management platforms that have been mentioned more. Others include:

Versa

Versa is a one-stop account abstraction wallet that uses the ERC-4337 standard and supports on-chain account recovery. In March of this year, STEPN developer Find Satoshi Lab announced that it had committed to strategically lead the seed round financing of Versa, an encrypted smart contract wallet. Folius Ventures and some angel investors participated in the investment. The investment amount was undisclosed.

FoxWallet

FoxWallet is a multi-chain wallet that supports networks including Ethereum, Aptos, Filecoin, zkSync, Solana, BNB, Arbitrum, Polygon, Gnosis, KCC, OKC, Syscoin, etc., and supports users to use legal tender to purchase cryptocurrencies directly in the wallet.

Fluvi Wallet

Fluvi Wallet is a non-custodial multi-chain smart contract wallet that uses the ERC-4337 standard and supports recovery without mnemonic words, one-key wallet synchronization, gas-free transactions, 2 FA, etc.

Holding station

Holdstation is a self-hosted smart contract wallet that supports EVM-compatible Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchains, and users can directly conduct DeFi transactions in the wallet App.

Sender

Sender was originally positioned as a NEAR ecological wallet, and later expanded to multiple chains. It currently supports blockchains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Aurora, Arbitrum, Optimism, NEAR, and Ton. Sender announced in April 2022 that it had completed a seed round led by Binance Labs, followed five months later by a $4.5 million round led by Pantera Capital.

Soul Wallet

Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet that supports ERC-4337, enabling users to create, use and execute the social account recovery function of smart contract wallets through browser plug-ins and mobile applications. Soul Wallet announced the completion of a $3 million seed round in March and said it plans to launch in the third or fourth quarter of this year.

OpenBlock

OpenBlock is a multi-party computing wallet, incubated by Bixin Group. No mnemonic phrase is required to use this wallet.

security audit

Code 4 rena

Code 4 rena, a community-driven auditing platform, received $6 million in funding from Paradigm in March.

STEP

HAPI is a set of network security tools designed to prevent hacker attacks.

Salus Labs

Salus Labs is a web security platform for Web3 protocols that provides monitoring, alerting, and more.

Gotham 3

Gotham 3 is a Web3 security protocol built on Scroll, and its products include plugins to protect against dangerous websites.

Developer Community / Tools

Atlas

Atlas is an artificial intelligence-driven smart contract integrated development environment (IDE) that helps developers write, test and deploy contracts.

DoraHacks

DoraHacks, a decentralized open source developer community, announced last May that it had completed a $20 million funding round co-led by FTX Ventures and Liberty City Ventures.

Etherspot

Etherspot is an account abstraction SDK that helps projects improve user experience.

Covalent

Covalent provides API services that support data from over 100 blockchains.

Hamster

Hamster is a one-stop toolkit and middleware platform for Web3 developers.

Particle Network

Particle Network is a Web3 middleware platform. In March this year, it announced that it had completed a financing of 7 million US dollars participated by GSR Ventures and HashKey.

Bitbyte.Finance

Bitbyte.Finance provides SaaS services for developers in the Web 3 field, including DeFi and NFT applications, mining pools, communities, etc.

BlockVision

BlockVision is a multi-chain node, Mempool, FT, NFT and DeFi API provider and real-time data retrieval portal for developers.

BlockPI

BlockPI is a distributed multi-chain acceleration layer. Web3 developers provide efficient, reliable, and high-performance global distributed API services.

Unifra Network

Unifra Network is an infrastructure platform focused on Layer 2 networks, providing services such as nodes and APIs.

Zcaptcha

Zkaptcha is a project that uses zero-knowledge proofs to create bot-proof smart contracts.

DB 3 Network

DB 3 Network is a lightweight, permanently decentralized Web3 database.

Cross-chain

The cross-chain infrastructure listed on Scroll's official website includes the well-known Celer Network, Stargate, Orbiter Finance, Hop Protocol, LI.FI, Connext, etc. In addition, it also includes the cross-chain liquidity protocol Synapse Protocol, Owlto Finance focusing on Layer 2 networks, Ethereum Layer 1 and Layer 2 cross-chain bridges Pheasant Network, Symbiosis, Catalyst, etc.

Oracle

The oracle projects of the Scroll ecosystem include Pyth Network, Redstone, Witnet, Pragma, Price, etc. Also included is Scry, the oracle infrastructure.

privacy

espresso s

Espressos, a Web3 application extension and privacy system, completed a $32 million financing led by Greylock Partners and Electric Capital in March last year. The Configurable Asset Privacy for Ethereum (CAPE) smart contract application developed by Espresso s aims to provide transaction creators with customizable privacy regarding the addresses and transaction amounts of both parties.

Own Network

Eigen Network is a private transaction layer developed for EVM compatible chains.

zCloak

zCloak is a zero-knowledge proof privacy DID project. In June last year, it announced the completion of the $5.8 million Pre-A round of financing participated by Coinbase Ventures and others.

zkPass

zkPass is a composable identity protocol developed based on multi-party computation (MPC) and zero-knowledge proof (ZKP).

zkMe

zkMe is a decentralized Web3 credential network that utilizes ZKP for secure and private credential issuance and verification.

Work

Hana is a privacy-focused Layer 0 protocol and is the fifth season of Binance Labs Incubation Project.

other

Bware Labs

Bware Labs, a decentralized API infrastructure platform, completed its Series A financing of US$6 million at a valuation of US$50 million in February last year. In March of the same year, Bware Labs announced the launch of the flagship product Blast on the main network, allowing node owners to join Blast as a node provider in a permissionless manner.

Subsquid

Subsquid is a decentralized index protocol that provides support for DApps and data analysis. Subsquid supports over 100 blockchain protocols.

Ceres

Ceres is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform that provides soul-bound tokens (SBT), oracle protocols, decentralized credit systems, and more.

blobscan

Blobscan is a blockchain browser developed for EIP-4844 blob transactions.

Tally

Tally is an on-chain governance tool that has supported over 500 on-chain DAOs and helped manage over $10 billion in assets.

Carrot

Carrot allows users to create community-driven programmable incentives that distribute rewards when set criteria are met.

CallNodes

LlamaNodes is an RPC infrastructure service launched by Llama Corp.

0x KYC

0x KYC is a KYC/AML verification system that generates interoperable proofs.

NodeReal

NodeReal is a one-stop blockchain infrastructure and service provider, providing services including Web3 API, customized application chain development and so on.

zkLink

zkLink is a multi-chain transaction infrastructure based on zero-knowledge proofs. In May this year, it announced the completion of $10 million in financing from Coinbase Ventures and others.

InfStones

InfStones is a PaaS infrastructure provider that provides API, pledge and node management services for multiple protocols as validators.

Pocket Network

Pocket Network, a decentralized RPC protocol, announced last January that it had completed a $10 million funding round led by Republic Capital, RockTree Capital, Arrington Capital, and C² Ventures.

Transpose

Transpose, a provider of Web3 data visualization solutions, completed a $3 million financing led by MaC Venture Capital in May last year, and announced its acquisition by Chainalysis in May this year.

Intmax

Intmax is a Layer 2 zkRollup network that uses a stateless architecture to provide efficient, secure and scalable solutions for blockchain applications. Intmax also provides interoperability with other L2 and blockchains. Intmax announced in April this year that it had completed a seed round of financing of approximately US$4.87 million with participation from HashKey, Scroll, etc.

Chainbase

Chainbase is an all-in-one Web3 data infrastructure for indexing, transforming and utilizing on-chain data at scale.

Chainsight

Chainsight is an on-chain data scaling layer that synchronizes, processes and ingests historical data into any blockchain.

DeFi

There are many DeFi projects that have been mentioned more in the Scroll ecosystem, including the lending agreement Aave, the multi-chain DEX aggregator DODO, DEX SushiSwap, the DEX aggregator OpenOcean, the multi-chain DeFi protocol iZUMi Finance, DEX Syncswap, and the DeFi yield agreement Pendle Finance, lending protocol dForce, leveraged transaction aggregator MUX Protocol, etc. The author will briefly introduce other DeFi projects in the Scroll ecology besides the above.

NEST Protocol

NEST Protocol is a decentralized oracle protocol, and also has a trading product NESTFi, which provides futures and spot transactions.

SynFutures Protocol

SynFutures Protocol is a decentralized derivatives protocol that supports token futures, perpetual contracts and NFT perpetual contract transactions.

OpenLeverage

OpenLeverage, a permissionless lending and margin trading protocol, is one of 14 projects in the Binance Labs Incubation Program Season 4. In June 2022, Binance Labs announced a strategic investment in OpenLeverage.

rhino.fi

The multi-chain DeFi aggregator rhino.fi was previously named DeversiFi. After the transformation, rhino.fi itself is a Layer 2 network developed based on StarkEx, providing functions such as token trading, income through pledge, etc., and cross-chain. According to L2 BEAT data, the TVL on rhino.fi exceeds $16 million at the time of writing.

MES Protocol

MES Protocol is a cross-Rollup order book DEX, and the supported mainnets include Ethereum, zkSync Era, Arbitrum, Optimism, Linea, and Base. Currently only ETH/USDC and USDT/USDC transactions are supported.

Zenlink

Zenlink was originally the DEX of the Polkadot ecosystem, supporting Moonbeam and Bifrost, and later expanded to Arbitrum and Base.

Satori Finance

Satori Finance is a zkEVM ecological perpetual contract agreement, which currently supports Polygon zkEVM and zkSync. Satori announced in May last year that it had completed a $10 million financing led by Polychain and Blockchain. At that time, the project was positioned as a derivatives protocol for the Polkadot ecosystem.

Mufex

Mufex is a multi-chain perpetual contract protocol that supports Arbitrum and Polygon. Users need to recharge USDT to the designated address before they can trade.

Rubydex

Rubydex is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol, currently supported mainnets include Ethereum, Arbitrum, BNB Chain and zkSync Era.

Pool shark

The decentralized trading platform Poolshark () provides a variety of ways to add liquidity. In addition to the way Uniswap v3 provides liquidity within a certain range, Poolshark also supports user-specific buying and selling strategies to provide liquidity within a specific range way to provide diversified trading options while improving liquidity.

Panner Finance

Panner Finance is a leveraged exotic options trading platform that currently supports the zkSync testnet.

Vaporwave Finance

Vaporwave Finance is a liquidity management platform that currently supports Arbitrum, Polygon and Aurora. Vaporwave Finance allows users to directly add liquidity to the supported DeFi protocols on its platform to obtain income, and perform liquidity management directly on the platform.

Zada Finance

Zada Finance is a cross-rollup order book DEX built on Scroll.

JOJO Exchange

JOJO Exchange is a decentralized perpetual contract agreement, which uses the order book mode of off-chain matching and on-chain execution to match transactions.

Cog Finance

Cog Finance is a lending agreement that allows users to create independent lending pools and set parameters (similar to Maple Finance), and users who borrow can match the best borrowing scheme among all pools through the routing of the agreement. In addition, Cog has liquidity through the agreement to prevent giant whales from manipulating interest rates.

ZKEX.com

ZKEX.com is a full-chain self-hosted order book DEX developed based on zkLink. It is currently in the testnet stage and will support Ethereum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Polygon, zkSync, Starknet, Linea, Scroll, Arbitrum, Optimism, Manta, Network including Taiko.

Loanshark

Loanshark is a loan aggregator that will find the best loan plan based on the user's loan position. In addition, users can also deposit funds in Loanshark's Vault after the loan is completed, and Loanshark can provide liquidation protection for their borrowing positions. Loanshark was incubated by the Polygon X HyperNest DeFi accelerator.

Tradable

Tradable is a full-chain order book perpetual contract trading platform developed based on LayerZero, which integrates the liquidity of multiple chains and allows users to access the liquidity of multiple chains without manually crossing chains. Tradable’s order book matching happens off-chain.

Rockly

Rockly is a fork protocol of Solidly on Scroll. The Twitter of the project currently has no information, nor does it have an official website. It is doubtful whether it is still in operation.

zkSynth

zkSynth is a synthetic asset protocol built on Scroll, which will support the trading of legal currency, stocks, commodities and other assets on zkSynth.

RollDex

RollDex is a DEX aggregator built on Scroll, providing leveraged trading functions.

Splatter

Splatter is a DEX built on Scroll and fully controlled by on-chain governance.

voy

vooi is a Layer 2 ecological stablecoin transaction protocol, currently only supports Taiko and Scroll testnets, and supports transactions between USDT, USDC, BUSD and DAI.

Meson

Meson is a cross-chain stablecoin transaction protocol that supports 19 public chains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Polygon. In August 2022, Meson announced the completion of a $4 million financing round led by GSRV.

Router Protocol

Router Protocol was originally a DEX project, and later transformed into a Layer 1 blockchain developed based on Tendermint, focusing on cross-chain liquidity and integrating multi-chain DEX.

Velocore

Velocore is a DEX that adopts the ve(3, 3) model, and currently supports the zkSync Era and Linea mainnets.

SpaceFi

SpaceFi is a DeFi Hub focused on the zk Rollup network.

NFT

Dego Finance

Dego Finance is a cross-chain NFT + DeFi protocol and infrastructure facility, aiming to explore the functional and financial implementation of NFT, including the creation, mining, trading, auction and DeFi applications of NFT. Dego Finance launched Binance Launchpad in early 2021.

AlienSwap

AlienSwap is an NFT market. It announced in June 2022 the completion of a seed round of financing led by OKX Blockdream Ventures, and announced the completion of a $12 million financing led by NEXT Leader Capital and C² Ventures in early May this year.

Zonic

Zonic is a Layer 2-focused NFT trading market launched by the Apetimism team, which currently supports Optimism and Arbitrum.

Creco

Creco aims to enable NFT to store metadata on the chain to release more potential of NFT. In addition, Creco will also use Hop's information transfer protocol to develop a Rollup-to-Rollup NFT cross-chain bridge.

NFTs 2 Me

NFTs 2 Me is an NFT management tool that helps users create, deploy and manage NFT and NFT minting without code.

Innovaz

Innovaz is a platform that helps users create NFT marketplaces, and also helps users create NFT series and casting pages.

Omnisea

Omnisea is a full-chain NFT marketplace based on LayerZero.

zkMarkets

zkMarkets is an NFT trading platform that also provides functions such as NFT casting.

original universe

SecondLive

SecondLive is an open metaverse project driven by AI. In November 2021, it announced that it had completed a seed round of financing participated by Binance Labs at a valuation of US$30 million.

MudAi

MudAi is a metaverse developed using blockchain, artificial intelligence and 3D CG. MudAi said that it effectively reduces the consumption of disposable time and makes these time be used more meaningfully.

game

Galaxy Blitz

Galaxy Blitz is a space-themed massively multiplayer online war strategy game designed by the people behind the Clash of Clans mobile game developed by Finnish game company Supercell. Galaxy Blitz announced in January last year that it had raised over $10 million in financing.

CARV

CARV is a decentralized identity start-up project for gamers. In November last year, it announced the completion of a US$4 million financing led by Vertex Ventures, a venture capital firm under Temasek.

Cubic Games

Cubic Games is a game infrastructure and a community-driven game platform that provides game SDKs and AI-based tools as well as game and asset interfaces.

SAKABA

SAKABA is a loyalty platform for Web3 game projects, providing goal-based interoperable IDs for Web3 gamers in the EVM ecosystem.

OmniKingdoms

OmniKingdoms is a full-chain massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which will be launched simultaneously when the Scroll mainnet is launched.

EtherWar

EtherWar is a full-chain war game built on Scroll.

DeGame

DeGame is a blockchain game distribution platform, which announced in May this year that it completed a US$6.5 million financing round led by Folius Ventures, Kenetic Capital, and A&T Capital.

social contact

Atem Network

Atem Network is a multi-chain Web3 social protocol. It launched the content publishing platform AtemReview in August last year. Creators can publish their Web3 native graphic notes on this platform, and allow users to collect content NFT and creator NFT. , to establish an on-chain relationship with fans.

Atem announced in February last year that it completed a US$3 million seed round of financing led by INCE Capital and participated by Foresight Ventures and others.

other

In addition to the above-mentioned projects, other projects in the Scroll ecosystem include QuestN, a Web3 task platform, EthSign, an electronic agreement signing platform invested by Sequoia Capital, Sequoia China and Sequoia India, and:

ReadON

ReadON is a decentralized content distribution platform. In August last year, it announced the completion of a US$2 million financing round led by SevenX Ventures and participated by HashKey Capital and Foresight Ventures.

Pythia

Pythia is a Web3 platform that allows content creators to verify and tokenize their reputation.

Zero Protocol

Zeron Protocol is a decentralized company management protocol that allows users to use cryptocurrencies for salary payments through smart contracts.

TaskOn

TaskOn is a Web3 task collaboration platform. Project parties can publish tasks on the platform and give rewards to users who complete the tasks.

Bounce Finance

Bounce Finance, a decentralized auction platform, launched an auction-as-a-service (AaaS) protocol to simplify the token issuance process for projects. The AaaS protocol includes decentralized on-chain auction functionality, seamless token creation functionality, LP liquidity management solutions, and Telegram bot services.

Questbook

Questbook is a cryptocurrency donation platform that helps Ethereum Foundation, Polygon, etc. to provide donations to its ecological developers. Questbook announced last May that it closed an $8.3 million Series A round led by Lemniscap.

ScrollNS

Scroll Name Service (ScrollNS) is a domain name service launched by Star Protocol, a full-chain domain name service provider, on Scroll.