It’s June 22nd — here are the buzzworthy pools, news, and announcements for you to have on your radar this week, including new pool ratings.

Weekly Roundup – 6.22

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, where our team of experts selects buzzworthy pools, news, and announcements for you to have on your radar.

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BNB Chain’s layer 2 network goes live on testnet.

 BNB Chain has launched a new layer 2 network called opBNB on testnet. The network is based on Optimism’s OP Stack and uses optimistic rollups to scale transactions and lower fees. opBNB is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and can support over 4,000 transfer transactions per second with an average transaction cost lower than $0.005. The team is seeking feedback from validators and dApp developers.

Polygon’s main chain to become ZK compatible.

Polygon has released a pre-proposal to make its Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain compatible with zero knowledge (ZK) technology. The upgrade would turn the main chain into a zkEVM validium, an EVM-compatible layer 2 chain that uses an off-chain data availability model. Polygon also has a ZK rollup, which launched in March. The upgrade would enhance the security, scalability, and performance of the blockchain, according to Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic. The proposal is part of the Polygon 2.0 roadmap to build a unified multichain ecosystem of ZK-secured networks.

Curve expands collateral assets for crvUSD stablecoin.

Curve wants to expand the collateral assets for its crvUSD stablecoin beyond Ethereum liquid staking tokens. It has proposed to add wBTC as a collateral asset with a $200M debt ceiling and an 89% loan-to-value ratio. Voting ends on June 25. Curve also proposed to add native ETH as a collateral asset with a $200M debt limit on Sunday. Curve launched crvUSD in May and initially supported Frax’s sfrxETH as collateral. It added Lido’s stETH two weeks ago. crvUSD maintains its peg with over-collateralization, Stability Pools, and PegKeepers. Revisit our 

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