Hey everyone 👋, we want to update you on the progress we’ve made since our last community update.

• Deployed a Grafana dashboard to monitor our own testnet nodes / services.

• Deployed HIVE for the L2 nodes / services integration tests.

• Published the initial tokenomics proposal (in review), which can be viewed at the latest whitepaper.

• Reduced commitBlock gas cost (in review).

• Made progress on the bridge relayer and bridge UI.

• Moved stack from React to Svelte + Tailwind + daisyUI.

• Improved bridge documentation.

• Miscellaneous contributions to the community ZK-EVM project such as a RETURENDATACOPY opcode implementation and circuit benchmarks.

• Ongoing investigation into newer proving systems (HyperPlonk, FRI based solutions) and circuit optimizations (non-native field arithmetic).

• Open sourced taiko-mono with contributing guide.

• Added code coverage calculations and badges for our projects.

• Fleshed out requirements and design for the testnet launch.

• Published the Taiko jobs page.

• Updated all link handles to point to taikoxyz instead of taikochain.

Talked about Layer 2 Finality at the IOSG conference in Lisbon.

Added a new moderator, welcome ex_sxcr!

• Updated taiko.xyz with some good ‘getting started’ materials and a Talks section.

• Moved all presentations from Google slides to HackMD, and added them to Talks.

• Published an internal presentation from Daniel to new engineers at Taiko, explaining the Taiko protocol — this can be viewed on our new YouTube channel.

• Published a blog post on The Type 1 ZK-EVM.

• Progress on GitPOAP for contributors has been made, you can look forward to that soon!

• Added contributors section to the taiko-mono README.

• Added issue templates so you can now easily report bugs and request features (will be recognized on our README and eligible for a GitPOAP).

As a decentralized and open source project, we’d like to thank those who have helped out in our community to improve Taiko.

• HV for creating a blog post: What is Taiko? For Beginners

• ex_sxcr for joining as a moderator and helping answer questions + provide clarity.

• qukuaizhao for the good vibes in Discord ❤️.

• Everyone else on the Discord helping to answer questions and promote learning about Ethereum and Taiko.