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Scroll, a project focused on Ethereum scalability, has announced that the minting phase for its Scroll Origins NFTs, commemorating the early community of ecosystem builders, will close on March 29th, 2023, at 23:59 UTC. With over 850,000 NFTs minted, the project has expressed gratitude to its builder community for their support since the beginning. The soulbound NFTs will serve as a permanent commemoration of early contributions to the Scroll community. After the deadline, the #scroll-origins-support channel on Discord will be deprecated, and users with questions are advised to submit them before the deadline. Additionally, those who deployed a contract on Scroll mainnet prior to November 9th, 2023, and are still having trouble claiming, must submit their wallet addresses to the whitelist on the Scroll Discord by March 27th, 2023, at 23:59 UTC. Scroll has hinted at new initiatives and plans for the future, as the community continues to grow and advance its mission.

A proposal has been made to update Metamask to support separate fee structures for execution and data fees on Layer 2 blockchains like Scroll and Optimism. Currently, Metamask only supports this fee separation for Optimism and Base. The proposed update aims to systematically address this issue for multiple Layer 2 chains simultaneously, allowing transactions on these chains to benefit from reduced data fees introduced by Ethereum Improvement Proposal 4844.

Scroll ZKP, a prominent zero-knowledge proof protocol, has experienced a remarkable 358.6% month-over-month increase in gas consumption on the Ethereum Mainnet, currently ranking 13th among all contracts. This surge in usage comes on the heels of Scroll reaching new milestones, including 500,000 transactions in a single day, a steadily growing number of active addresses, and a rise in stablecoin market cap and total value locked.

The Ethereum Foundation is hosting a ZK Grants Round, with applications closing on March 18th. Researchers and developers working on advancing the adoption of zero-knowledge technology and open-source building are encouraged to apply for a grant.

The short film Delivery at Dawn highlights EIP-4844, core dev stewardship, and the importance of every Layer 2 solution in scaling Ethereum. The film emphasizes the collaborative effort required to scale Ethereum and encourages viewers to spot Scroll in the story. This film marks a significant moment in Ethereum's history.

Cosmos IBC has successfully integrated with Ethereum Layer 2, commencing with Scroll_ZKP, enabled by union_build's interoperability layer.

Scroll Studio is a startup acceleration program by @ThreeDAOspace and @Scroll_ZKP aiming to support Chinese entrepreneurs in the Ethereum ecosystem. It offers coaching sessions with industry experts to focus on cognitive progress, community building, and resource acquisition. The accelerator is divided into 5 studios focusing on ETH, BTC, SOL, RWA, and AI. Expressions of interest are now open.

A prediction about Ethereum 4844 suggests Blob will be cheaper than calldata on mainnet. Users urged to be cautious with L2 upgrades, conduct audits and have backup plans. Scroll has prepared for the upgrade to reduce fees, maintain security. Concern raised about projects launching without audits, testnets or proper security measures in the current bullish market.

The zk research team at Scroll is developing a new zk[E]VM with the potential to be highly performant for real-time proving. The project combines GKR parallelization, smaller field arithmetic, and pay-as-you-go model at the opcode level. While it is still in the early draft stage, the team is seeking contributors excited about GKR based proving systems.

Fees will decrease, encouraging continued building and innovation focused on meeting user needs.