Announcing Scroll's Largest Rewards Program to Date 🥁

We’re excited to share the next phase of Scroll’s growth as we continue to reward builders and innovators in our ecosystem.

A lot has happened since we introduced Scroll Sessions back in April.

Here’s what’s next 🧵

🔗: scroll.io/blog/announcin… With Scroll Sessions 2, we’re revamping the Marks system to make it easier for users to earn rewards.

Contributions to the ecosystem, like providing DeFi liquidity and participating in key protocols, will all count towards earning Marks.

🎲 Trustless Randomness Now Deployable on All EVM Chains! 🎲

drand VRF is now available for ALL EVM chains, made a public good by Scroll!

This means:
• Free, verifiable randomness (just cover gas)
• Open-source implementation
• Instant availability for developers

Discover what this means for you ⬇️🧵 VRF (Verifiable Random Function) = Fair + Provable randomness

Imagine a transparent, unbreakable dice:
• Anyone can roll it (Accessible)
• Nobody can predict the outcome (Random)
• Everyone can verify the roll (Trustless)

This is the power of VRF, now at your fingertips! 👨‍💻

Our name comes from a mission that we are “𝐒𝐂aling with a 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋up” = Scroll 📜

We’re building something unique with a smooth end-user experience that brings the world onchain.

We're excited to share our journey so far, our vision, and what's next.

🔗:

👇 🧵scroll.io/blog/scroll-ev… At Scroll, we believe math and cryptographic proofs create trust and consensus in a world where trust is tough to build and easy to destroy.

Put simply, Scroll is an open-source community and platform built upon those principles.

Scroll is embarking on its first step towards decentralization.

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 $𝐒𝐂𝐑 𝐭𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧.

Our vision is to provide everyone, everywhere, access to a global distributed network of applications and services. To double down on our global mission, $SCR will soon be available on @Binance Launchpool and via our upcoming airdrop.

🔗: scroll.io/blog/scr-token

1/8 🧵 𝐒𝐂𝐑 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

We have thoughtfully designed our token distribution to maximize impact for our community and enlarge our global distribution of applications and services.

2/8

.@ether_fi and Scroll have partnered to make Scroll the settlement layer of real world transactions for Cash.

Cash will offer the highest cash back of any credit card globally!

Take a look at what's coming ⬇️🧵 ether.fi
ether.fi
What can you expect?

🔹 Get up to 8% Cash Back on all transactions, no exceptions. The highest rate on the market for every purchase.

🔹 Pre-order your @ether_fi Cash and earn an additional $50 cash back on the first $1,000 spent.

Unveiling Scroll’s Darwin Upgrade: Proof Recursion is Coming! 🥁

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Darwin upgrade, scheduled for August 21st, 2024!

This highly anticipated upgrade will lower the gas fees by 34%.

More details below 👇 🧵 Why does this upgrade matter?

Reducing gas fees has always been our top priority. Darwin upgrade is aimed at decreasing the gas fees on Scroll.

This is achieved by using a single aggregated proof for multiple batches, eliminating the need to finalize each batch individually.

Unveiling Scroll Canvas 🎨

A place for you to collect and display your achievements, status, and onchain credentials obtained throughout the @Scroll_ZKP ecosystem.

🧵👇

scroll.io/canvas
Canvas is the gateway to building out your onchain personality and reputation.

By interacting with various projects throughout the Scroll ecosystem, you will be able to collect certain achievements in the form of "badges."

𝙴𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛: 𝚂𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕 𝚂𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙾𝚗𝚎 📜

Welcome to yet another unique opportunity to make your *mark* on our community and web3 ✍️

scroll.io/blog/session-o…
As a reminder, we introduced Scroll Sessions this April as a fun way for users to participate in the Scroll ecosystem.

Sessions allow you to receive 'Marks' that keep track of your onchain activity in the Scroll ecosystem.

scroll.io/blog/introduci…

The Blobs are here! .oO

Introducing Scroll's Bernoulli Upgrade 🚀

Our latest protocol enhancement includes added support for EIP-4844, decreasing the cost of @Scroll_ZKP transactions by up to 10x.

scroll.io/blog/blobs-are… Ethereum's most recent upgrade, Dencun, introduced the eagerly anticipated EIP-4844, a feature designed to reduce the cost of posting rollup data to the Ethereum network.

gm Scrollers 📜

It's time for our end of week update, where we provide an overview of everything that's been happening across the
@Scroll_ZKP ecosystem.

Let's dive into this week's news 👇 For anyone heading to @EthereumDenver, we published our full itinerary so that you know where to find us at anytime throughout the event ⛰️🦬

As always, we'll be participating in numerous presentations, panel discussions, and workshops!

https://twitter.com/Scroll_ZKP/status/1760962373106782328

Calling all Creators, Creatives, and Collaborators 🎨

Collaboration is important to us, and we are extending an invitation to our community to join us in shaping Scroll’s visual identity.

Join us for a chance to have your creation embedded in Scroll's identity! For our first contest, you are tasked with designing one or more characters that represent and embody Scroll's values and brand image.

You have the freedom to create, experiment, and collaborate on different styles and designs that represent your vision of Scroll's identity.

gm Scrollers

It's been an exciting week, and once again, we are back with another weekly update to get you up to speed with everything that's been happening across the Scroll ecosystem.

Let's dive in 🧵 First up, we celebrated the launch of our Sepolia testnet, our final phase of testing before we deploy Scroll on Ethereum mainnet.

For an in-depth overview of what's included, we published a blog post that outlines all of our latest feature improvements.

https://twitter.com/Scroll_ZKP/status/1692194581918745066

gm Scrollers, we have some exciting news to share today!

We are pleased to announce that @AaveAave, one of the leading foundational pillars in DeFi is now live on our Alpha testnet!

Dive in to learn how you can get started using Aave on Scroll.

📜 🤝 👻 Since 2017, @AaveAave has been a force for good in pioneering the DeFi space while continuing to innovate and push the boundaries of what's possible on Ethereum.

Aave's strong commitment to decentralization goes hand-in-hand with our core values.

We've been busy!

It's the end of the week, so here's the weekly recap: This week has been full of stress testing. Scroll Alpha has been settling ~300,000 transactions per day!

We pushed a lot of stability improvements to our Alpha testnet this week to support the higher load.

ETHDenver was a blast! We had 55 fantastic submissions compete for $16,000 in bounties.

Here are the winners: Our "Applied ZK, with a side of Scroll" category was for dApps that leveraged ZK in interesting ways.

We had two winners, grabbing $1500 each:

An update: To accelerate plans for developing our zkEVM, pursue cutting-edge research, and continue building with a broader community, we've raised capital from a global set of participants. We are humbled to have had substantial interest in our progress. Scroll is, and always will be, a scaling solution and ecosystem built for the global Ethereum community.

For nearly two years, we've built our zkEVM in the open alongside @PrivacyScaling and other contributors, and today, we're taking the next step to Goerli, the final stage before mainnet.

Our testnet on Goerli is 100% permissionless.

Here are the details: ZK is an essential component for the future of blockchains.

Just a few years ago, zkEVMs were entirely theoretical, but an incredibly talented community of researchers and builders have combined efforts to make it a reality.

It's that time of the week again!

Here's the weekly update: We're at @EthereumDenver! If you want to find out what we're up to, we've compiled a handy page with the details: ethdenver.scroll.systems

This will be frequently updated with hackathon details, links to Scroll-related talks, and info on various side events we're a part of!

The end of the week calls for another weekly update 📰

Let's dive in: We're hard at work laying the foundations for our next testnet on Goerli. Our Alpha Testnet is on the way!

We've set up new multi-VM infrastructure, rolled out an improved load balancer, and continue to work on stability improvements.

For nearly two years, we've been heads-down building a bytecode-compatible zkEVM in public.

Today, we're increasing that transparency even further by introducing regular weekly updates.

Here's what we were up to this week: Systems are being set up and prepped for future deployment on Goerli. More details Soon™

We've also made progress on an improved v2 bridge design which should result in a smoother experience!

Our most recent testnet upgrade included a huge performance boost: batching.

Here's how it works: Previously, our testnet generated a proof individually for every L2 block, regardless of the number of transactions within it.

With our new batching system, instead of proving blocks individually, blocks are now aggregated into batches.