According to official news, BwareLabs has pledged 400,000 MANTA and become a Manta Network Collator node to provide users with Stake staking services.

Bitget announced that it will launch Manta Network (MANTA) in Layer 2 area. The deposit channel is now open, and the trading channel will be opened at 18:00 today (UTC+8).

According to the official announcement, Bithumb announced that it will launch the Manta Network (MANTA) Korean won trading pair and will support the Manta Pacific main network. Recharge through other networks will not be supported for the time being. MANTA deposits will be opened at 17:00 local time on January 18th, and transactions/withdrawals will be opened at 19:00 on January 18th.

Manta Network has reached a cooperation with LayerZero. Manta Pacific will use LayerZero as the basic cross-chain interoperability layer to provide trust-minimized cross-chain liquidity for Manta Pacific ecological applications. With the help of LayerZero, it can realize data, Seamless transmission of assets and information. In addition, MantaFest Odyssey will also launch LayerZero limited-time activities, where you can complete tasks to earn points. Manta Pacific is a modular Ethereum Layer 2 designed specifically for ZK applications. It has raised more than US$60 million and is valued at US$500 million. Supporters include Polychain, ParaFi, Binance Labs, SevenX Ventures, Longhash, CMS, Qiming Venture Partners, and AllianceDAO. etc.

SPACE ID posted on the X platform that Manta Network will soon launch ".manta" domain name services, supported by SPACE ID 3.0 infrastructure.

Odaily Planet Daily News LayerZero announced the launch of opBNB. Developers building on BNB Chain can now extend their applications to opBNB and more than 40 other chains with LayerZero endpoints.

Odaily Planet Daily News The zero-knowledge proof ZK protocol Manta Network has reached a cooperation with the Web3 interoperability infrastructure provider Polyhedra Network. Its strategic partnership will provide interoperability for the Manta Network ecosystem by using zkBridge, enabling fast finality between Manta Pacific and other blockchain networks, and providing cross-chain interoperability for zkSBT.

Odaily Planet Daily News Manta Network Chinese community tweeted that Polygon Labs stated that zkSync used their code without declaring the source, but in fact, this code was originally created by Brandon at Manta Network. According to previous reports, Polygon Zero issued an article stating that Matter Labs, the developer of zkSync, recently released a proof system called Boojum, which contains a large number of source codes copied and pasted from the performance-critical components of the Plonky2 library. Polygon Zero believes that copy-pasting source code without attribution and making misleading claims about original works violates the spirit of open source and damages the ecosystem. Matter Labs has denied the allegations, saying a line at the top of one of the related documents is "clearly attributable." A Matter Labs spokesperson stated that Polygon’s article contained “untrue claims” that “the new Boojum high-performance proof system utilizes 5% of Plonky2,” which is clearly indicated in the first line of our module.

LayerZero, a cross-chain interoperability protocol, announced that it has launched on the Linea mainnet, the ConsenSys L2 network.