ChainCatcher news, Metis officially announced the launch of the DSEQ Restart Plan, which is an important upgrade for the Metis ecosystem aimed at providing stronger support and more opportunities for users and project parties. The core of this plan is to promote close interaction among ecosystem participants, drive the joint development of technology and community, and create a sustainable, decentralized prosperous network.This restart focuses on "innovation and optimization," further incentivizing active participation from the community and ecological partners through a brand new performance-based reward mechanism. The DSEQ Restart Plan will offer multiple rewards, including node rewards (up to 5,000 METIS per month), node and LST protocol rewards (an additional up to 10,000 METIS per month), as well as special rewards in the form of tokens from ecological cooperation projects. At the same time, Metis will also support project growth and deepen collaboration with the ecosystem through technical support, marketing subsidies, and resource integration.

ChainCatcher news, Omni Network stated on social media that its open-source Octane framework will provide decentralized sequencers for Polygon CDK, allowing developers to utilize a decentralized sequencer set and immediately launch fully decentralized Rollup or Validium architectures.

ChainCatcher news, Layer 2 scaling solution Metis announced that the second phase of its decentralized sequencer upgrade has officially gone live through a hard fork at block height 16500000. This upgrade mainly introduces new features such as multiple transactions within a block, a transaction pool, and sequencer mining.In this upgrade, Metis has increased the number of transactions that a single block can contain from 1 to multiple, and has fixed the transaction confirmation time to 2 seconds. A transaction pool has also been introduced to cache pending transactions. These two improvements will significantly enhance network throughput and reduce block production costs.Additionally, this upgrade introduces a sequencer mining mechanism aimed at better coordinating the incentives of all participants in the network. Sequencer nodes will receive METIS token rewards for sorting, packaging, and submitting transactions to the Ethereum mainnet. Users can stake METIS tokens to receive liquid staking tokens as a receipt, which can be used in other DeFi protocols.Currently, the Metis community has selected Artemis Finance and Enki Protocol as the two liquid staking service providers for the Alpha phase through the CEG mechanism. Users can now participate in staking mining through Artemis, and Enki will also launch on the mainnet soon.In the coming year, sequencer nodes will receive 20% of the mining rewards, and related DeFi products such as DEX liquidity pools and lending pools are expected to provide deeper use cases for METIS staking token holders. Metis will also establish strategic partnerships with several crypto institutions to ensure the full decentralization and high participation of its decentralized sequencer.

Chain Catcher news, at the 8th Blockchain Global Summit hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Lab, Zhang Ye, co-founder of Scroll, delivered a keynote speech titled "The Design and Architecture of Scroll." Scroll is building an EVM-equivalent ZK Rollup, with design decisions following security, efficiency, EVM equivalence, and decentralization. Its architecture consists of three parts: Scroll nodes, on-chain smart contracts, and a decentralized prover network.Zhang Ye stated that Scroll has currently completed the pre-Alpha testnet. The next phase will invite developers to deploy some smart contracts based on its network and develop additional applications; the third phase will initiate the outsourcing of layer two proofs, inviting the community to participate as proof nodes; the fourth phase will reach the zkEVM mainnet stage, which will be deployed and launched after rigorous code audits and performance enhancements; the fifth phase will deploy a decentralized sequencer, making zkEVM more efficient.