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Scroll's upcoming protocol upgrade will lower bridging costs from Ethereum to Scroll by up to 50%. The upgrade is specific to Scroll's smart contracts, ensuring backward compatibility and no impact on sequencer or follower nodes. The upgrade will be initiated on Feb 7th with a two-week timelock, followed by execution on Feb 21st on Scroll Mainnet. The Scroll engineering team is also working on further improvements to enhance speed and cost-efficiency.

The second workshop with @developer_dao has been rescheduled to take place on Tuesday, Feb 6th, at 2:00am UTC due to scheduling issues.

The submission period for Scroll's Sticker Contest is closed and the top finalists will be decided through an internal vote. There were discussions on Ethereum's liquid staking ecosystem and Scroll's technology. The readiness of various L2 teams for implementing support for EIP-4844 data blobs was also discussed. The Co-Founder of Scroll will be speaking at EthereumDenver to talk about recent technological advancements and future plans. Last week's recap includes the unveiling of Scroll's Multi-Prover system, a writers competition, and updates on wallet integrations and community-built frontends.

Rollup teams gathered to discuss the progress in adding support for EIP-4844 data blobs, an integral part of Ethereum's rollup-centric roadmap. The goal is to reduce the cost of storing data on the Ethereum blockchain. Optimistic rollups are ahead in integration, while ZK rollups will take longer due to additional complexities. Some issues were highlighted, such as the lack of tooling for data blobs and API difficulties. Long-term, full Danksharding will resolve these issues. Rollup teams will support both blobs and calldata, using the most cost-efficient option. Additionally, ensuring the availability of rollup historical data will be the responsibility of rollup teams or potentially centralized providers.

The Circuit Breaker Hackathon, organized by @Scroll_ZKP, is accepting applications with a $10,000 prize pool. The hackathon consists of two tracks: Best ZK usage for privacy on Scroll and Best ZK usage for scalability on Scroll. The privacy track aims to build privacy-enabled applications within the Scroll ecosystem, while the scalability track seeks innovations to make decentralized applications more accessible. The deadline for project submissions is Feb 18th, 2024, at 12:00 PM EST.

Scroll announces a new Office Hours session with Co-Founder @shenhaichen, who will be discussing @Scroll_ZKP's Multi-Prover implementation. The session will take place on 26 Jan at 11:00AM ET.

Scroll has revealed the architecture for its new multi-proof system, developed in collaboration with Automata Network. The system includes a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) prover, which runs specific software in a secure area of a processor to ensure data and memory are inaccessible to other components. The TEE prover adds a layer of redundancy for proofs, enhancing security on Scroll. A production-ready multi-prover network is expected to be implemented soon.

Members of the Scroll_ZKP team attended the monthly RollCall, a coordination call for L2 teams to collaborate on ideas and industry standards. The need for standardization in the rapidly evolving Rollup protocols was discussed. Two major topics were covered: EIP-7587, which proposes reserving an address range for RIP precompiles, and RIP-7212, the first finalized RIP proposal that designates an address for the r1 curve precompile. The next RollCall session will be held in mid-February.

Scroll announced the winding down of the Scroll Alpha testnet (Goerli) as part of the transition to Scroll Sepolia. They hosted a Twitter Space with guests from Uniswap to discuss the deployment of Uniswap V3 on Scroll's Mainnet. They also had a live coding session and a conversation on cybersecurity trends. Additionally, they published their latest ecosystem highlight and expressed interest in filling critical roles.

Scroll will be deprecating the Scroll Alpha (Goerli) testnet on January 25th as part of their move to Scroll Sepolia. Users are encouraged to withdraw their GoerliETH testnet funds if they still need them for other purposes.