# EthCC 2023 | Recap 🇫🇷

By [CrypZee](https://paragraph.com/@crypzee) · 2023-07-30

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What's all this craze about EthCC? EthCC is known as the largest annual European Ethereum event, heavily emphasizing technology and community interaction. It provides attendees with three days of conferences, networking events, and educational opportunities.

With all the major launches and the projects shilling away their achievements, we have recapped all of them just for our community.

1\. Lens Protocol launches V2
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Lens Protocol released its V2, a groundbreaking upgrade to the web3 product that promises to redefine the decentralized social networking ecosystem. This new iteration comes packed with exciting features that will transform web3 experiences into social ones, bringing the power back to the users and creating an internet that benefits all.

2\. Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol
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Chainlink launched its eagerly anticipated Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on the mainnet. With initial support for Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon, and Avalanche, the CCIP is already gaining traction and has been adopted by DeFi giants like Aave and Synthetix.

3\. Reddit's vision to onboard millions of users
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Reddit's senior engineer manager for collectible avatars, Mirela Spasova, indicated that the platform's major objective is attracting millions of users to engage with digital collectibles, just like last year.

4\. Linea Mainnet
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Consensys has officially launched Linea's alpha mainnet version. Over 5.5 million wallets carried out more than 46 million transactions on Ethereum's Goerli testnet after a successful three-month testing phase for Linea. Linea is becoming one of the testnet's most active projects because of this exceptional engagement.

5\. Mantle Mainnet
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Mantle Network formally introduces its alpha mainnet. The network has already handled an amazing 14 million transactions on-chain after six months of intense development and testing, demonstrating its scalability and potential for global adoption.

6\. UniswapX
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Uniswap has introduced UniswapX, which delivers cutting-edge features that aim to address frequent pain points of on-chain trading and self-custody swapping. It is designed to revolutionize trading across automated market makers (AMMs) and multiple liquidity sources.

7\. Starknet "Appchains"
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Starknet has released "Appchains," an innovative architecture that enables developers to build application-specific blockchains within the Starknet ecosystem.

Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and Arbitrum are a few examples of cutting-edge initiatives that align with the growing trend of modular networks in the Layer 2 ecosystem.

8\. Gnosis Card
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Gnosis Pay, takes the front stage as it enables web3 developers to easily integrate established payment systems like Visa into their platforms inside a decentralized framework. With the aid of this ground-breaking approach, traditional and blockchain-based transactions may be combined seamlessly to create safe payments.

9\. Solana's Solang
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With the release of Solang, a Solidity compiler that enables developers to create smart contracts on Solana using the native programming language of Ethereum, Solana Labs has made great progress toward growing its ecosystem. This action aims to open up Solana to Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) developers and increase the diversity of developers joining the ecosystem.

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