April 11: QED Protocol, the world’s first zk-native blockchain protocol, along with StarkWare, zkLink, Mina Protocol, O(1) Labs, introduced the launch of the L2O Consortium, a bunch of tasks and protocols dedicated to bringing Bitcoin’s native safety, web scale, and interoperability to purposes and Layer 2 options. Based on a press launch: “The consortium is creating reference implementations, instruments, and assets for builders seeking to construct DApps or deploy Layer 2s on prime of Bitcoin and allow trustless interoperability between purposes by coordinating requirements throughout options, leveraging ordinals and zero-knowledge proofs to bridge the technical gaps that beforehand hampered sensible contract-like performance on Bitcoin.” The reference implementations are right here within the undertaking documentation.