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A platform offering detailed analytics and research on Ethereum L2 scaling solutions, focused on transparency, comparison, and community education through monitoring, governance participation, and organizing conferences.

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 like Liveness, Finality and DA tabs as well as countless QoL updates.
  • 🆕 Adding support for new L2 and L3 projects such as Blast, Mode or Xai as soon as they hit the mainnet
  • ⚙️ Developing and maintaining essential transparency tools like the StarkEx Explorer with many more coming soon
  • 🗳️ Actively and responsibly participating in the governance of projects like Arbitrum, Optimism, Starknet, Hop, Uniswap and Connext while also participating in discussions on online events and in stationary meetups
  • 🛠 Releasing open-source products such as Earl or BYOR to support the broader developer community and encourage developer inflow into the Ethereum ecosystem
  • 🎓 Organizing numerous high-quality conferences like L2AMSTERDAM, L2WARSAW, L2DAYS to educate and grow the Ethereum community
  • 🔍 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 or Tracking time to finality blogpost

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 us, you support our ongoing efforts to provide education, transparency, and valuable resources to the L2 space. Let's ensure that Ethereum is scaled securely!

We greatly appreciate your support. Thank you! 💗

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