Hey Mantle Devs, Welcome to your monthly dispatch from the Mantle Dev Team!

Each edition is packed with the latest updates, including new features, future hacks, insightful tutorials, and the newly cooked EVM-related developments. We're also spotlighting some of the most exciting projects our builders are working on.

Ready to dive in? Let's get started!

Welcome to Mantle Network Mainnet v2 Tectonic

Upgrade Complete 🚀

Mantle Network has successfully completed its Mainnet v2 Tectonic upgrade.

The upgrade, based on the OP Stack Bedrock, enhances Mantle Network's capacity to offer a cost-effective platform by providing some of the lowest gas fees among Ethereum layer-2 (L2) solutions while also making significant advancements in its interoperability with other EVM chains within the OP Stack ecosystem.

Read more: Mantle v2 Tectonic Upgrade

They Just Joined the Mantle Fam

Welcome to Quicknode, which just launched with Mantle on April 24. We are very happy to offer Mantle developers a partnership with one of the best infrastructure tools out there.

Check out this tutorial: How to create your meme coin on Mantle with QuickNode and list it on FusionX DEX?

Latest 🐞 fixes and upgrades

MetaMask team just made a PR regarding the estimated gas fee for Mantle v2 Tectonic. This is a huge improvement from a UX and DevX perspective from Mantle v1. If you wish to deep dive into the new estimated gas fee feature with Mantle v2 Tectonic, have a look here: Transactions Fee Doc

TL;DR Tech Stuff From the Community

• Dencun Upgrade: Dive into the latest advancements with the Dencun upgrade: Dencun upgrade
• Interesting takes on L2 gas Base fee
• The zk-bug-tracker repository is an excellent resource to learn about bugs and vulnerabilities in ZK components.
• Do you know the difference between Decentralized sequencing and Fair Sequencing? Our own Mantle researcher Franck spoke about this during the Ethereum meetup in Sydney. Check the video out here.

In contrast to decentralized sequencing, which is a choice of implementation (how the system is implemented), fair sequencing is a specification: It provides censorship resistance (cryptoeconomics security) and fairness (provably random ordering). Our proposal at Mantle is a light-weight solution in the sense that it does not rely on a consensus layer. It is modular and the three main modules, pool manager, sequencer and executor, can be further refined to integrate some fault-tolerance mechanisms.

It is worth noting that we achieve censorship and fairness resistance with a combination of first-come-first-serve (FCFS) policy and random ordering. FCFS allows us to fill in the batches, and each batch is randomly ordered. This prevents transactions from being indefinitely delayed or delayed by an unbounded (finite but arbitrarily large) amount of time.

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Show Time at Mantle

⚒️ Builder sessions: Twice a month we run "Builder Sessions" on Twitter. These are casual conversations with partners integrating with Mantle, hackathon winners or web3 builders making a change in the space. If you have any projects you would like to discuss, from a builder's perspective, please feel free to reach out to us in our Discord or TG group.

🌏 Mantle team will be around the globe in the upcoming weeks, so get in touch if you want to meet up :

• 🇦🇺 ETH Global Sydney 3-5th of May
• 🇦🇺 SOZU HAUS is back! We're heading Down Under from 7th-13th of May
• 🇻🇳 GM Vietnam
• 🇨🇿 ETH Prague

And if you would like to share anything with us, that could make our newsletter even better, please reach out. Discord TG Devs

Stay tuned for more updates and exciting announcements coming soon 👀

The Mantle Dev Rel Team