L2BEAT is now ETHBEAT

L2BEAT is renaming itself ETHBEAT, with a broader mandate to assess whether applications built on Ethereum deliver the chain's guarantees to their users, beyond its original focus on Layer 2 networks. The organization says its earlier work covered L2 dashboards, smart contract source code reviews, the Stages Framework, and governance participation in several L2 DAOs, and that it now also covers privacy, interop, tokens, and blob usage. It lists Layer 2s, Privacy, and upcoming Liquid Staking as core domains, and introduces a CROPS guide of projects that meet the CROPS principles. The stated mandate is to help people reduce their dependence on intermediaries and to fund the work without paid assessments.