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Analytics and research platform providing comparisons and insights on Ethereum L2 scaling solutions, offering transparency tools, educational content, and contributing to L2 development and governance.

About Us

L2BEAT is a dedicated analytics and research platform for L2 scaling solutions. With an unwavering commitment to transparency, we strive to offer a thorough comparison of diverse Ethereum L2 systems, aiming to enlighten and empower the community with unbiased insights.

We present various non-trivial metrics and have thoroughly analyzed each L2 project to understand its technology's inner workings and associated risks. As an impartial watchdog, we actively monitor and contribute to the development of the L2 space.

Our Work

Our ongoing initiatives include:

  • 🌐 Constantly updating and adding new features to l2beat.com
  • 🛠 Releasing open-source products such as Earl or BYOR to support the broader developer community and encourage developer inflow into the Ethereum ecosystem
  • ⚙️ Developing essential transparency tools like the StarkEx Explorer for the L2 ecosystem
  • 🎓 Organizing numerous high-quality conferences like L2AMSTERDAM, L2WARSAW, L2DAYS, and coordinating university workshops to educate and grow the Ethereum community
  • 🗳️ Actively and responsibly participating in the governance of projects like Arbitrum, Optimism, Hop, and Uniswap, while also participating in discussions on online events and in stationary meetups
  • 🔍 Actively identifying and reporting security flaws to safeguard the L2 space through our Discovery Discord tool
  • 📜 Sharing insightful publications, such as our Upgradeability of Ethereum L2s report

As always, we have very ambitious plans for the future, including introducing more metrics, enhancing our risk framework, automating monitoring, and building specialized instruments for various L2s and other projects within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Donate

💡 By donating to this grant, you support our ongoing efforts to provide education, transparency, and valuable resources to the L2 space.

We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you! 💗

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