ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the modular computing layer and ZK-RaaS platform Lumoz (formerly Opside) has completed a $6 million pre-A round financing at a valuation of $120 million, with participation from OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital, KuCoin Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, Kronos Ventures, Kernel Ventures, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal.It is reported that Lumoz also plans to launch the mainnet of its computing layer in July, with the token generation event expected to take place in August. Last month, Lumoz was conducting a points program, where all points could be converted into future tokens, but the conversion ratio has not yet been determined.

According to ChainCatcher news, OKX Ventures has announced an investment in Lumoz. Lumoz is a decentralized ZK-RaaS platform that allows any user to generate customized zkEVM application chains without coding through its no-code ZK-Rollup Launchbase. At the same time, Lumoz provides underlying computing power for general ZKP calculations through a Decentralized Prover Network.Dora, the founder of OKX Ventures, stated that Lumoz's positioning combines ZK-RaaS and DePIN, offering low-cost and convenient ZK-Rollup deployment capabilities. OKX Ventures sees its advancements in the ZK-RaaS field and Prover technology, and this investment will help Lumoz accelerate the development and technological innovation of its modular computing layer and ZK-RaaS platform.

ChainCatcher news, March 27, the ZK-RaaS platform and modular computing layer Lumoz announced a strategic partnership with the Layer3 protocol Camelot Protocol, providing it with ZK-RaaS solutions. Camelot will launch a re-staking feature on March 28 based on the Lumoz ZK-RaaS solution. In the future, Camelot Protocol will also assist Lumoz's ecological development in all aspects, including brand building and community promotion. Lumoz will leverage its own advantages to support Camelot in further optimizing product experience, thereby enriching users' on-chain interaction experience.Camelot Protocol is a Layer3 protocol based on Merlin specifically designed for DePIN, dedicated to creating the world's largest AI mobile device ecosystem based on DePIN.Lumoz is a DePIN computing network and ZK-RaaS platform that employs a PoW mining mechanism to provide ZKP computing power for ZK-Rollup. It has launched the ETH L2 product ZKFair and the BTC L2 product Merlin Chain. Currently, Lumoz is serving an increasing number of projects and developers with RaaS needs.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Lumoz announced the launch of Fair-L2 LaunchBase following ZKFair, supporting more high-quality ZK-L2 projects with fair launches. Currently, over 20 project teams have submitted applications for Fair-L2 launch, including BTC L2, gaming platform chains, DePIN chains, social application chains, and other tracks.It is reported that ZKFair is the first community-driven ZK-L2 project, with a TVL currently reaching 123 million USD. ZKFair adopts a fair launch token model, with 100% of the tokens airdropped to community users. As the first zkEVM to issue tokens, ZKFair utilizes the Polygon ZK and Celestial DA architecture, supported by Lumoz's technical expertise (Edited).

ChainCatcher news, the second-layer programmable privacy platform Ola has reached a strategic partnership with the ZK-RaaS (ZK-Rollup as a Service) platform Lumoz. OLA will be integrated into Lumoz's ZK-Rollup LaunchBase, allowing developers to generate ZK-Rollups with privacy attributes without code.OLA is a privacy-focused zkvm rollup that features programmable privacy and high scalability, supporting developers in creating private DApps and public DApps according to their needs. OLA will launch its Public Dev Testnet by the end of this year and a fully functional testnet (Permissionless Testnet) in Q1 of next year. At that time, it will be integrated into Lumoz as the first Rollup to support privacy attributes. Currently, OLA has opened the whitelist application for the Dev Testnet.At present, the types of ZK-Rollups supported by Lumoz include zkSync, Scroll, and Polygon zkEVM. Currently, Lumoz's testnet has dozens of different types of ZK-Rollups running stably, with a decentralized prover network providing ZKP computing power through CPU/GPU mining. In the future, Lumoz will also support more types of ZK-Rollups, including OLA, Linea, Taiko, and StarkNet.

According to ChainCatcher news, the decentralized ZK-RaaS platform Opside has officially announced its brand upgrade to Lumoz, embarking on a new journey for ZK-RaaS & Decentralized Prover Network. The project's new official website has been updated to lumoz.org. This comprehensive brand upgrade aims to help global users better understand and apply ZK-Rollup technology, enabling application chains based on zkEVM to be implemented on a large scale.Lumoz was born in 2022 and launched its testnet in May 2023, consistently adhering to the mission of making it easier for users to understand and use ZK-Rollup technology. Through its no-code ZK-Rollup Launchbase, any user can generate customized zkEVM application chains without coding.Currently, the supported zkEVM types include Polygon zkEVM and zkSync, with plans to support Scroll, StarkNet, and others in Q4. At the same time, Lumoz provides underlying computing power for general ZKP calculations through the Decentralized Prover Network. So far, the Lumoz testnet has been running smoothly for 5 months, with over 200,000 independent users, and more than 15 projects have generated personalized zkEVM application chains on its platform. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized ZK-RaaS network Opside officially announced that its Alpha incentive testnet activity has officially launched this morning and is expected to end on December 31, 2023. Developers, miners, validator nodes, and users can participate and earn points, which will be exchanged for mainnet tokens after the Opside mainnet goes live.It is reported that Opside is a ZK-RaaS platform that provides developers with the ability to generate zkEVM application chains with one click. During the Alpha testnet period, Opside will continue to improve its Rollup modular and customizable features, offer more zkEVM types (such as zkSync, Polygon zkEVM, etc.) for developers to choose from, and integrate more third-party DA and Sequencer core components. At the same time, Opside has launched a decentralized prover network, including a GPU version of ZK-PoW mining, allowing miners to participate without permission.It is reported that after this round of testnet, Opside is expected to launch the mainnet in the first half of next year.

ChainCatcher news, Opside officials stated that they will strongly support the promotion of zkEVM, including the recently announced ZK Stack from zkSync. Currently, the Opside testnet has integrated Polygon zkEVM (Hermez), allowing users to issue their own zkEVM chain on L1 public chains such as ETH, BSC, and Polygon with one click.According to the roadmap, the Opside testnet is expected to integrate zkSync's ZK Stack in August. In the future, zkEVM solutions such as Scroll and Linea will also be provided. Opside's multi-chain ZK-PoW algorithm will provide massive computational power support for ZK-Rollups on various public chains.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized ZK-RaaS platform Opside has publicly unveiled its tokenomics for the first time, with 33% allocated to PoS and PoW rewards. Opside provides a unified ZKP computing power market for numerous ZK-Rollup/zkEVM to incentivize miners to participate in ZKP computation. The article also explains the economic model of the PoS&PoW hybrid consensus.It is reported that Opside will launch a Pre-Alpha incentivized testnet in May, and the pre-application for validator nodes on the Pre-Alpha testnet officially started on May 2. It will gradually support one-click deployment and fully managed hardware services for zkEVM open-source solutions such as Polygon zkEVM, Scroll, zkSync, and Taiko. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, at the 2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival "Web3 Technology Infrastructure: Layer 2 Networks" forum, NanFeng, co-founder and CEO of the decentralized ZK-RaaS platform Opside, delivered a speech titled "Opportunities and Challenges of RaaS."NanFeng stated that the development of public chains has currently transitioned from the multi-chain era to the multi-Rollup era. Opside has completed a seed round of financing of 4 million USD and is currently advancing in an orderly manner according to the latest technical roadmap. Opside will launch its Pre-Alpha testnet in Q2 of this year, while continuously completing the preliminary construction of the three-layer architecture and ecological projects, with plans to officially launch the mainnet next year.As a platform focused on ZK-Rollup as a service (ZK-RaaS), Opside has designed a three-layer architecture based on base chain + based rollup + decentralized prover to address challenges such as Rollup still being limited by underlying L1, lack of sovereignty in applications, data availability layers, lack of security and decentralization, and the need for project parties to build their own ZKP computing capabilities. Additionally, it has innovatively introduced a hybrid consensus mechanism of PoS + PoW.

ChainCatcher news, the first session of the "Zhen" series of events hosted by ChainCatcher was held today in Hong Kong, with the theme of "Chinese builders" and a new aesthetic perspective. Liu Sheng, co-founder and CEO of the three-layer architecture ZK-RaaS platform Opside, delivered a speech titled "The Evolution from Multi-Chain to Multi-Rollup Era."Liu Sheng stated that the development of public chains has now entered the multi-Rollup era alongside the multi-chain era. Rollups can better inherit the security and decentralization of layer one public chains, offering higher performance, lower gas fees, and compatibility with various platform types such as zkEVM, zkWasm, and App-specific.As a platform focused on its ZK-RaaS, Opside has designed a three-layer architecture based on base chain + based rollup + decentralized prover to address challenges such as Rollups being limited by underlying L1, applications lacking sovereignty, the data availability layer lacking security and decentralization, and projects needing to build their own ZKP computing capabilities. They have also innovated a hybrid consensus mechanism of PoS + PoW.In addition, Liu Sheng announced Opside's latest technical roadmap: Opside will launch a Pre-Alpha testnet before the end of the second quarter of this year, complete the preliminary construction of the three-layer architecture and ecological projects, and initiate testnet activities. Alpha and final version testnets will be successively launched in the third and fourth quarters, with plans to officially launch the mainnet next year. (Event Image Live Stream)

ChainCatcher news, the three-layer architecture ZK-RaaS platform Opside announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing, led by Web3.com Ventures. The funds from this round will be used to accelerate the development of Opside, expand the team, and scale operations.Opside will focus on innovations in its ZK-RaaS & PoS+PoW hybrid consensus mechanism to fill the existing market gap in ZK-RaaS solutions. Opside will also soon launch a new round of Pre-alpha Testnet testing, completing the preliminary setup of the three-layer architecture and ecological projects, and starting testnet activities.Opside is a three-layer architecture ZK-RaaS (zkRollup-as-a-Service) platform that provides general & customized ZK-Rollups SDK (Software Development Kit) to meet developers' needs for deploying dApps on Opside Layer3 without the need to maintain any infrastructure (such as computing power, etc.). (Source link)