State of Stake vol. 44
Tags: Staking, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Proof Of Stake, State Of Stake

TL;DR

Ethereum passes 100,000 proof of stake validators

The Stargate upgrade was executed smoothly

IRISnet Mainnet 1.0 is live now

Kava 5 Mainnet launch today

The Mary hard fork ushered in the beginning of a new era for Cardano

The Graph is adding support to Polkadot, NEAR, Solana, and Celo

An introduction to governance-allocated parachain slots

StaFi officially announces rDOT liquidity solution for Polkadot staking

Injective is integrating with Avalanche

The Secret Binance Smart Chain Bridge announced

Secret Network integrates Band Protocol to secure privacy-preserving DeFi ecosystem

COTI Staking 3.0 is now live

The Mina Community Leaderboard is here

The Elrond DeFi 2.0 module is about to come live

Tezos Community Update — March

Mapping out Solana’s ecosystem

And more!

Global Market Overview

The current Staking Market Cap (valuation of all projects that have a staking mechanism) is now about $402.7 billion while two weeks ago it was $364.2 billion USD.

Over the last two weeks, POS Dominance increased from 61.6% to 64.5%.

Now, the leading projects by locked in staking are Cardano(!),Polkadot, Avalanche, Algorand, Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana (!), and Tezos.

Current Value in Staking by Asset

Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates

Ethereum 2.0 is up and running smoothly! With more than 100,000 active validators and thousands more queued up and waiting to join the network, the Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain is looking as healthy as ever.

Check out our recently-published ‘Defi in Ether’ — biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.25 full of news from the ecosystem: Balancer partners with Aave, dYdX layer 2 enters alpha, Compound announces Gateway, RenBridge 2 releases, 1inch Network expands to Binance Smart Chain, Meet Alchemix Finance, RAI now live, Enzyme’s next release & roadmap, and more!

A few days ago, the Mary hard fork ushered in the beginning of a new era for Cardano. If you are wondering why hard forks are important or required, find more insights in the Mary hard fork FAQ here.

The Daedalus Cardano wallet has been upgraded to 3.3.0.

Latest ‘Today in Cosmos’:

Check out our latest biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 42 covering the following topics: The Internet of Blockchains is here, Demystifying Ethermint, Althea testnet #1 launched, SecretSwap is live, CRO mainnet on Mar 25, KIRA and BSC integration, Injective is integrating with Avalanche, IRISnet mainnet 1.0 upgrade in 2 days, and more!

IRISnet has become the first Cosmos chain to connect with the Cosmos hub via IBC.

Solana Mainnet Beta is currently experiencing performance degradations — please follow @SolanaStatus for updates as the community works to resolve this.

Mapping out Solana’s ecosystem:

xDai Weekly Recap — 26/02/2021 focuses on New Projects and Project Updates on xDai with news, stats and more.

xDai Chain — cheap, fast, scalable, and secure peer-to-peer payments: Igor Barinov, the founder of POA Network, told DeFi Prime backstory of xDAI and shared his thoughts on blockchain interoperability, regulation, and the future of DeFi.

-62% of the circulating supply remains staked vs. 54.8% at the June 2019. It is also important to note that this increased significantly from 57% from just 2 weeks ago, which is largely due to new staking services launched on Binance.com, Bithumb, and ICONFi.

-New ICX Balance Wallets continues to outpace New ICX Supply at roughly 1% vs. 0.1%.

-Bithumb Exchange announced ICX Staking Services along with SRT token airdrop.

-Contribution Proposal System (CPS) officially goes LIVE

-ICON Foundation announces 500,000 ICX Security Audit Fund to safeguard the ICON Network and Community.

-Gemini Exchange selects ICON project into its Cryptopedia launch.

-Balanced Network announces AIRDRIP Program for the ICON Community.

-ICONFi states that it’ll support Token Swap in real-time in March 2021.

-DanalPay announces BTC, ETH, and ICX integration to Paycoin App.

The Mina Community Leaderboard is live.

Mina Protocol has teamed up with the Ethereum Foundation to announce a joint request for proposals (RFP) to enable recursive SNARK applications on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator Demo Day:

The Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, powered by Tachyon, hosted a Demo Day to showcase 13 startups building more interoperable, open, and programmable tools, applications, and infrastructure for the decentralized web. 33 founders from 11 countries participated in an immersive 12-week program bridging the IPFS, Filecoin and Ethereum communities.

Check out our brand new report on the IPFS ecosystem. Vol.3 covers: New on IPFS desktop, Go-ipfs 0.8.0 & remote pinning is here, IPFS and libp2p in 2020, ETHDenver highlights, The roadmap for BAT 2.0, The Beta for the Space web app is live, The Graph is adding support for additional blockchains, February community meetup, Take a look at the startups from ‘Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator Demo Day’, and more!

Upcoming Events

Mar 5 — Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop

Mar 23th-24th, 2021 — TOKEN2049

Apr 9 — May 14 — ETHGlobal’s Scaling Ethereum hackathon

May 14 — papers due for WoSCA 2021

Jul 20–22 — EthCC4 (Paris)

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