L2BEAT rebrands as ETHBEAT, expanding its scope from Ethereum Layer 2 to the entire ecosystem

L2BEAT has rebranded as ETHBEAT, expanding its research scope from Ethereum Layer 2 to the broader Ethereum ecosystem while continuing to monitor L2s. The organization said it will deepen work on privacy, interoperability, tokens, zero-knowledge proofs and native rollups, and later extend into liquid staking. ETHBEAT is shifting its focus toward assessing whether ecosystem projects inherit Ethereum's core security properties—censorship resistance, open source, privacy and safety—and which intermediaries users must actually trust. It also launched a CROPS guide listing projects that meet those principles, alongside continued technical research, risk assessments, open-source tooling and industry standards. The rename signals a reframing of Ethereum scaling research as the base protocol addresses capacity directly and L2s specialize into app-specific chains. What to watch next is how ETHBEAT's CROPS criteria and intermediary-risk framework get adopted as reference standards across the ecosystem.