Hello zkSync Community!Welcome to the November Community Update, this has been a hectic month, full of product updates, ecosystem news, and events.Let's dive in:DevConnect was a blast!During an electrifying showcase of innovation and community engagement, over 40 team members of Matter Labs attended DevConnect in Istanbul. It was a buzzing hive of crypto talks with our team delivering 30+ engagements, connecting with numerous projects in the space. The spotlight was on the zkBazaar (YouTube), and zkCafe (YouTube), where attendees got hands-on with the Clave wallet (YouTube) and zkSync to improve the user experience on Ethereum (Mirror). Find other wallets using account abstraction on the ecosystem page (DappRadar) Additionally, the zkQuest was the talk of the town – a brain-teasing, skill-testing contest that plunged devs deep into the intricacies of zkSync Era (Twitter). With more than 90 devs participating, the competition was as fierce as it gets. Five brainy devs snagged a sleek MacBook Air, a hefty 5.345 ETH prize pool was distributed (Twitter).DevConnect, see you next year!ZK StackWe were excited to introduce a dedicated landing page for the ZK Stack – your go-to modular framework for crafting ZK-powered Hyperchains (Tweet). Rooted in the zkSync Era’s open source code, ZK Stack offers builders unparalleled sovereignty such as choosing data availability modes or decentralizing sequencers with your project's token (Tweet). Visit the new website.zkstack.io webpageOmar, Head of BD at Matter Labs, offered a sneak peek to the ZK Stack by deploying a validium (Definition) with a Google Cloud GPU requiring only 14GB of RAM. More exciting news on the ZK Stack is coming!Tweet from Omar, Head of BD, about ZK Stack in Validium modeTalksAlex Gluchowski, CEO of Matter Labs, and co-creator of zkSync, joined the Fundamentals podcast by Token Terminal to discuss zkSync’s core value proposition (YouTube)Alex chatted with Anna from ZeroKnowledge podcast, and dove into recent initiatives like the ZK Stack framework, Hyperchains, and the ZK Credo mission statement (ZeroKnowledge Website)Coogan, Head of Education at Matter Labs, presented a mental model for Layer 2 and zkRollups specifically (Tweet)Porter, Security Engineer at Matter Labs, discussed Security and ZK Circuit at the ZK Accelerate event (Tweet)Estevan, Community Manager at Matter Labs, sat with Weaving Web3 to discuss the evolving landscape of Layer 2 scaling technologies (YouTube)🧑🏻🤝🧑🏾 EcosystemStarting from next month, we will highlight more projects and provide updates in the 🤝│ecosystem channel on Discord.We initiated a vote to bring wstETH to zkSync Era, and it got accepted! (Snapshot). We also celebrated several noteworthy integrations with zkSync Era this month. Below are some of the applications that went live in November:Aragon plug-in (Twitter)DeBox (Twitter)Derivio Beta (Twitter)Fulcrum Finance (Twitter)Kepler (Twitter)Kraken (Twitter)Oku Analytics (Twitter)Soulme (Twitter)Tradable, ZK Stack (Twitter)Vest (Twitter)Zerion (Twitter)To remind everyone, the ecosystem portal for zkSync Era is managed by DappRadar. Developers are invited to enhance their project's exposure by submitting it to DappRadar’s Developer Dashboard (Link). 👨💻 CommunityThis month we saw several community initiatives emerge online and in real life:As usual, there are exciting gaming and quiz sessions in the SyncHive (Discord, 🎪│random channel) organized by medevj0nk, irinia2903, GameOver,FreDmann, Ernest_ctpc, CXirurg, IvanovDaniil (Schedule).Additionally, in the same channel, Poker Nights are hosted by voron23. We also witnessed Lawyey launch the zkRadio, an experimental AI Radio, in which they feature interviews with various community members (YouTube). Currently, there are over 12 episodes!Roy, managing the zkSync Indonesian Community, launched an educational initiative “ZKDUKASI” (Tweet).We also noticed zkSync_intern publishing a thread on how Zero-Knowledge Proofs work (Twitter)Finally, buchachos and orliha hosted an impressive meetup in Warsaw for the Ukrainian community with great swag, and food! Andrii, Product Designer at Matter Labs, and Estevan had the chance to attend the event. It was a blast, and we will see more meetups popping up around the globe!Devs zoneWe celebrated the end of the Digital Identity Hackathon, sponsored by Onyx by JP Morgan. Discover the innovative winners here. If you missed this one,we've teamed up with Ankr and Homeless Ventures for a hackathon and incubation program to foster developer creativity (Medium).For developers, an important notice: we've sunset the zkSync Era Blockscout explorer. Update to the new URL at zksync.blockscout.com/api. In network enhancements, we have welcomed NOWNodes (Twitter), and Blast (Announcement) as a new node provider. Furthermore, taetaehoho from 1kxnetwork analyzed the benefits of the Boojum upgrade's larger batch sizes and call-data compressions. Check out this insightful analysis here.Last but not least, in terms of tooling, our DevRel team released the v0.1.0-alpha.12 of the era-test-node (Tweet), and selected RewardMe (GitHub) as the project of the month (Tweet). You can check the submissions in the zkSync Community-Hub (Tweet).Remember: There is no token.Scams are on the rise. We’ve banned thousands of bots and scammers thanks to our Community Moderators and attentive Discord members. Be careful of scammers who will try to rush you into believing things. We won’t ever DM you first, and our official announcements are posted on Twitter.And that’s it for this month!We look forward to continuing to work with you to make zkSync Era an amazing network and community.Have suggestions for future community updates? Let us know on Discord. via /r/zkSync https://ift.tt/1DChBeH
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