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People + Drive = Thrive. Every business and organisation is…
By: Jo Mcdowall, The Mindful Leader
Tags: Digital, Engagement, Leading Change, Change Leadership, People Development

The Key Formula For Business Success

Every business is unique

However every business relies on its people to drive results

So, if every business relies on its people for success, why aren’t all organisations developing more innovators and creative thinkers?

The phenomenal pace of change through the availability of new technologies continues to disrupt the competitive landscape

Slowly, more and more companies are recognising that, if they are to survive in today’s rapidly changing environment, they must nurture their greatest asset (their people) and create agile cultures accepting of new ways of thinking and digital solutions

Without an engaged and effective workforce who are capable of driving change, suboptimal results will continue

Companies must act fast if they are to avoid being usurped by agile newbies

For those organisations slow to respond (or worse, languish in inertia) they will inevitably fail at some point in the future, swallowed up or left behind by the growth of smaller, more tech savvy competitors, who have at their core empowered individuals capitalising on the latest market changing technologies

Employees must be equipped with the tools to bring change to life effectively, to collaborate with ease and seize opportunities at speed

Sustained growth does not happen by accident

Exceptional results do not happen by accident

Collaboration toward a common vision does not happen by accident

These are the outputs of great teams who have learned and implemented the vital skills needed to succeed in today’s evolving business world

Just imagine an organisation where individuals understand how to interact effectively with their virtual and non-virtual peers, confidently harnessing the power of new technologies and embracing each step change

Where each team member is clear on goals and expectations, and how their contribution impacts the delivery of the overall vision

The organisations who invest time, money and energy in developing cohesive and high performing teams who support the development of new ideas and automation will always outperform their competition

Creativity, effective collaboration and the relentless pursuit for better ways of working set great organisations apart from the mediocre

People — Drive = Survive

People + Drive = Thrive
Shocking Reason Behind Liam Breaking off Engagement With Maya Henry
By: Sairatna Gubhaju
Tags: Liam Payne, Engagement, Breakups

Liam recently appeared in a podcast, The Diary of CEO, where he tells a lot of things about his life and what he has gone through all these years. When the host Steven Bartlett asks him about his relationship status, he answers that he is single. Payne says that he is disappointed in himself and that he is not very good at relationships.

He also says the breakup happened during the lockdown. He further explains that he needs to work on himself before putting himself on someone else and that the pattern of his relationship is not good at all.

Liam says that he didn’t give the better version of himself to his partner in the relationship, and he did feel bad, but it happened anyway. When Bartlett asks Him about what he has been doing to work out the things in the relationships, he says that people have been pushing him to go to therapy, but he is one who refuses. He also goes on to say how people have been controlling his life and he doesn’t have his own one.

Although Maya Henry’s………

Read More on: https://jovialhub.com/liam-and-maya-break-up-engagement/
Sharmin and Ercan’s Brooklyn NY Engagement Photos
By: Enchanted Celebrations
Tags: Engagement Photography, Brooklyn, Engagement

Congratulations to Sharmin and Ercan on their Engagement! Their Brooklyn NY Engagement Photos were taken by our amazing wedding photographers on March 12, 2021.

The photos were taken in a park that was filled with trees with beautiful pink flowers. It was a sunny spring afternoon. The Brooklyn NY Engagement Photos feature the couple embracing and staring into each other’s loving eyes. Sharmin was wearing a pink flowy knee life dress while Ercan was sporting a navy blue suit. The photos also captured Sharmin and Ercan happily walking the streets of Brooklyn.

Sharmin and Ercan met at work and after a year Ercan finally asked his bride to be out. Sharmin was hesitant at first because no one would hang out with the newbies. Although, thankfully she gave Ercan a shot, not knowing he would become the love of her life. Their first date was at Shake Shack in January 2020 when the pandemic was only in a Chinese province.

Within a few weeks, Ercan knew he wanted to marry Sharmin, however, she was unsure since they were dating in the middle of a pandemic. However, Ercan loved her so much he would not give up. He asked her to marry him multiple times first over Whatsapp Video, next in a Stop N Shop parking lot, and then in Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Sharmin finally said yes in January 2021. Sharmin was holding Ercan in her arms having a simple conversation and he asked again. She finally said yes, knowing she was saying yes to the smartest and sweetest guy on the planet. Sharmin knew she was the luckiest gal in the world.

Sharmin and Ercan are so excited about their wedding to come! The couple is having their wedding at Westbury Manor on June 10, 2021. Sharmin and Ercan want their wedding to be old-world style and to express their Turkish and Bangladeshi heritages.

Stay tuned for their wedding to come! Our photographers can’t wait to take wedding photos and add to the collection with the Brooklyn NY Engagement Photos.

Check us out here for photos: https://www.enchantedcelebrations.com/eventcards/sharmin-and-ercans-brooklyn-ny-engagement-photos/
Kava Swap Testnet Tips
By: Adam Turman
Tags: Testnet, Bitcoin, Community, Cosmos, Defi

Kava Swap Testnet Tips

Kava Labs is thrilled to a have a record number of users registered to test out Kava Swap before its scheduled launch on August 30th, 2021. Here is a preview of what to expect when Kava Swap Testnet begins July 28th @ 17:00PST (July 29th @ 00:00 UTC) as over 35,000 registrants compete for $120,000 in prizes!

Before the testnet starts:

Users can check this list to confirm their address is registered.

Make sure your TrustWallet or Ledger is ready for connecting to the testnet.

If you are using a ledger for the first time, please complete this configuration.

How to access the testnet:

Visit app.swap-testnet.kava.io (coming soon) and connect your TrustWallet or ledger.

When the testnet launches on July 28th @ 17:00PST, all users will already have the same starting balance. Unlike past testnets, there is no need to get coins from a faucet

All users will start with an equal amount of coins, totaling ~10k USD. Users will receive a combination of all available coins on Kava platform ( KAVA, HARD, USDX, BUSD, BTCB, BNB, and XRPB)

Swap Between Different Coins

Add Liqudity to an Existing Pool

Create a New Pool and Set the Initial Prices

What to watch for when the testnet starts:

Initially, there will be no pools, so pools will be created by contestants after the launch. Any user can create a pool (must be quick to act), or wait for them to appear in the web app.

Users will be able to swap between coins, add/remove liquidity from an existing pool, or create a new pool.

Be vigilant for arbitrage opportunities when pools are created — these could be a great opportunity to increase the USD value of testnet funds. Frequently check asset prices on testnet to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.

At launch, all pools will have the same SWP rewards. After launch, Kava Labs alter the APYs at random intervals, so check the web app to maximize your SWP reward earnings.

Post launch, Kava Labs will also cause price dislocations in the pools. This will lead to profitable arbitrage opportunities for those who are watching closely.

USDX minting will be included in the testnet — that is another option to consider in attempt to maximize SWP rewards.

Payouts 🏆

Tier 1 — top 1% of participants are entered in random drawing for one of five 10,000 USD prizes

Tier 2 — top 5% of participants get entered in random drawing for one of twenty 2,500 USD prizes

Bonus Prize Pool — top 200 users will be each receive $100

Payouts will be priced 14 days (12:00UTC) after successful Kava Swap mainnet launch and distributed the following business day.

Details

Competition Period

Important URLs

Competition Details

Tips to Win

Any questions? Hop into Kava SWAP Telegram group and get them answered! https://t.me/KavaSwap
The easiest way to stake Akash
By: Altcoin Psycho
Tags: Cosmos Network, Staking, Akash Network, Akash, Cosmos

Lets get started:

Step 1) First we need to install the Keplr wallet extension from the google chrome store.

Click here to do so: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keplr/dmkamcknogkgcdfhhbddcghachkejeap

Then click “Add to chrome”

Step 2) Go to your google chrome extensions and click the Keplr icon.

It should take you to a screeen that looks like this:

Now click “Create new account”

Step 3) Select the 24 word Mnemonic seed option.

This is your private seed for your Akash Wallet, so make sure to write these 24 words down and keep them somewhere safe offline.

Name your account and create a password

Hit “Next” when you’re complete.

From there, you’ll just need to confirm your 24 word phrase in the correct order.

This is what the confirmation page looks like when you’re done:

Step 4) It’s time to send your $AKT To your Keplr wallet.

Click the Keplr wallet google chrome extension.

It should look like this when you click it:

Notice the red circle in the above image, click the dropdown and make sure to select “Akash”.

Now click “Deposit”.

The address shown is your $AKT deposit address. If you click the wallet address, it should automatically copy the address.

This is the address you should paste in to your exchange.

Now that we have this, it’s time to send the $AKT you have sitting on an exchange to your Keplr wallet. Just simply withdraw from your exchange to this address that we have copied.

You can confirm if it has arrived by clicking the Keplr chrome extension icon (as it will display your Akash balance).

Step 5) Once the $AKT arrives to your Keplr wallet, click here to visit the Keplr dashboard.

Below is an image of what the dashboard should look like.
Tutorial I: Creating a Bluzelle BNT Wallet
Tags: Bluzelle, Wallet, Staking, Blockchain, Cosmos

Bluzelle wallet is now ready to be tested. It is where users store BNT tokens, the Bluzelle internal token to be used in all transactions on the Bluzelle chain. Users need to convert their BLZ tokens to BNT in order to use the BluzelleDB or stake BNT to run a validator node.

This tutorial will walk you through how to create your Bluzelle wallet. Currently this is still connected to our testnet. The whole process will take you less than 5 minutes to complete. Before you start, make sure you have the following prepared:

You are using a browser with Metamask extension installed. e.g. Chrome, Firefox & Brave. (Check out installation guide)

(Check out installation guide) Import your Ethereum BLZ account into Metamask (Check out guide)

Step by Step Guide

Step 1:

Visit this link using a Metamask supported browser such as Chrome. On the main page, click “Login”.

Step 2:

You will need to login to Metamask (if you haven’t done so) and allow Bluzelle Staking to connect to your wallet. If you have logged in before, you can directly go to step 3.

Login to your Metamask

Click “Connect” to allow Bluzelle Staking to connect to your wallet

Step 3:

You will be shown a 12-word seed phase for your wallet. Click “copy” and save them into a safe place.

p.s. Please do not share it to others or lose it, otherwise you risk losing your wallet and tokens forever (even the Bluzelle team wouldn’t have access). Click “continue” if you have saved it.

Step 4:

You will be prompted a Metamask window where you will need to sign the transaction. This would allow your Bluzelle BNT wallet to be mapped to your Ethereum BLZ account. Click “sign”.

Now you have successfully created a Bluzelle wallet. Going forward, you don’t need the mnemonics phrase to login again. Your Bluzelle BNT wallet will be connected to your BLZ account.

Congratulations!

You are now part of the Bluzelle ecosystem and you are one step closer to staking and delegation! Coming next, we will publish Tutorial II on how to convert your BLZ to BNT. Stay tuned!

Meanwhile, you can join our discord channel where we will share information about BluzelleNet, Staking, validators and more.
Influence of Astronomy in the world
By: Abhinav Kashyap
Tags: Astronomy, Astronomical, Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos

In this small article, I will tell about what “Astronomy and Astrophysics” (also Astrology) has taught me, other than that of Cosmos. How “Astronomy and Astrophysics” has contributed to Science and humanity in general. Impact of Astronomy in the world.

“Astronomy and Astrophysics” has contributed a lot to Science and humanity in general. An “Astronomical clock” is one of the most important and early contributions of “Astronomy”.

Above image: Astronomical clock in Prague, Czech Republic

An astronomical clock, horologium, or orloj is a clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the sun, moon, zodiacal constellations, and sometimes major planets.

Now we know how much is the importance of time in our daily lives. We depend on clock to determine the time and do our daily tasks based on the time. A clock is essentially nothing but measurement of time which is based on the Astronomical positions of different Celestial bodies like Planets, Sun and Moon. Through clock we are able to measure or determine the day and night.

It is due to time, that we have a structured and disciplined way of life.

“Astronomy and Astrophysics” has benefitted us as follows, this is my own point of view and I believe that everyone believes in it.

For me, “Astronomy and Astrophysics” has taught me a lot, other than about the “Cosmos”.

“Astronomy and Astrophysics” has taught me:

Time management (Astronomical clock) Broad-minded thinking (the Cosmos is very vast) Discipline minded and optimistic (Cosmic ordering by Bärbel Mohr) Sense of order or uniformity (Plato’s idea of Cosmos) Concentration and patience (Astronomical observations—although I don’t have a Telescope, but I have just gazed stars for some minutes observing them simply where you require concentration and patience) Sense of purpose (our purpose in this Cosmos)

This is my view which I believe that everyone agrees with me.
Cosmic Bonding
By: Dr Shaun Conway
Tags: Token Engineering, Tokenization, Blockchain, Cosmos, Defi

Cosmic Bonding enables developers to build any application that needs to use algorithmically-determined token pricing to mint, burn or swap tokens on any Cosmos network implementing our SDK module.

Engineering token bonding curves

Algorithmic pricing functions (aka token bonding curves) have many potential use-case applications. The design space has been well described in a recent article by Paul Kohlhaas.

This is a vibrant and rapidly-evolving focus of crypto-economic engineering, with many potential Defiant use cases, such as automated market-makers (like Uniswap), decentralised exchanges (like Bancor), curation markets (like Relevant), development Impact Bonds (like ixo alpha-Bonds) and continuous organisations (like Moloch DAO).

A variety of parametric functions (algorithms) can be implemented for token bonding curves. These include: exponential, logarithmic, negative exponential, constant product, positive initial price, quasi-polynomial, and reserved Supply (Augmented bonding curves).

The Cosmic Bonding module

With the Cosmic Bonding module, it is possible to add any conceivable pricing function to a library that will be called on by an application, to trustlessly execute the algorithm. The first library we have developed is for a generic highly versatile polynomial equation.

The design separates logic from transactions (state transitions). Invariant parameters for each token bonding curve are pre-defined when initialising a Cosmic Bond. This is a simple transaction (see how on Github). It rather elegantly sets up a bonding curve for any application :-) We hope this will encourage experimentation, using this crypto-economic primitive in innovative ways, with the idea that “…prices are an instrument of communication and guidance which embody more information than we directly have”. (F.H. Hayek)

The Cosmic Bonding function is called by an application sending a signed message to the Cosmic Bonding module. This message includes variables such as the order quantity and maximum price per token that the user is willing to pay. The module dynamically outputs an integral price based on these parameters. If the order is confirmed, this passes outputs to the Cosmos SDK Bank module for the transaction to be completed. Balances, fees and accounts are automatically updated in the ledger. That’s it!

We built a protoype of the Cosmic Bonding module at the Cosmos HackAtom in Berlin, where our team Simply ixo was selected as one of the 7 hackathon winners. This will be further developed into a production-ready module that can be extended with additional features, such as batched order processing to prevent front-runnning.

We plan to include a Suggested Price feature that will calculate a risk-adjusted price for any given bonding curve, using an alpha coefficient (read more about this in our article about Alpha Bonds).

Acknowledgements

Miguel Dingli and Francesco Cremona from Simply VC who coded the module.

Alessio Treglia and billy rennekamp who proided support from the Cosmos team.
When Crypto Encounter Canna
Tags: Bitcanna, Ibc, Testnet, Crypto, Cosmos

First of all, I am a cosmos fan. Thank you Bitcanna for giving me the opportunity to participate in an early Internal Testnet.

I like cosmos very much, more than polkadot. This is an important reason why I discovered and paid attention to Bitcanna. I think the startup and governance of cosmos is simple and beautiful, and at the same time very decentralized.

Lower gas,faster payments, and Cosmos’ modern coding infrastructure allows for plenty of customization possibilities and faster development. On the other hand, the existence of IBC makes the entire cosmos ecosystem decentralized but not discrete, and it can be easily interacted with other chains.

There is no doubt that Bitcanna’s choice of Cosmos is inevitable. This is a strong combination. Cosmos gives bitcanna better blockchain capabilities, and bitcanna adds a bright color to the Cosmos universe. BTW, I think it should be Bitcanna Green :)

On the other hand, bitcanna itself is also very attractive. Canna has been gradually valued in the medical field. Canna should not be banned for fear of possible harms, but make it controllable after being aware of the possible harms, and then used by humans.

Any drug has side effects, and canna is no exception. Reasonable control and use, rather than simple prohibition, I think bitcanna is changing the world and moving in the right direction.

Finally, let’s talk back to the Bitcanna testnet. Since I am not participating in the cosmos testnet for the first time, I have some references.

The tutorials and tasks provided by bitcanna are very, very complete, and there are almost no task errors and omissions.All you need to do is start a ubuntu or other linux system, and then follow the steps.

In this regard, I won’t go into details. It mainly involves node operation and validator. I want to talk about the other operations of validators. These are not explained in the current tutorials and tasks, but I am sure they will be there in future.

The most common operations I think are to check the balance, withdraw and delegate. Like these:

Check balance: bcnad query bank balances <bcna1…> Withdraw-all-rewards: bcnad tx distribution withdraw-all-rewards --from <ValidatorMoniker> --chain-id bitcanna-testnet-2 --gas-prices 0.01ubcna --yes Delegate: bcnad tx staking delegate <bcnavaloper...> 10000000ubcna --from <WalletMoniker> --chain-id bitcanna-testnet-2 --gas-prices 0.01ubcna --yes

Through these three instructions, you can easily write an automatic withdrawal-delegate script to help you get more rewards and voting rights faster.

Of course, if you study the documentation in depth, or just use the bcnad — help command, you can find more interesting ways to play.

Is it fun and simple? There is also a customizable blockchain browser and dashboard waiting for you.

Soon, the next testnet Phase 2: Public Testnet will begin. It will be open to the public, you are welcome to join and enjoy it.

So just stay focused on Bitcana, and don’t look away
What is the functionality of ATOM? What are the Tokenomics? What does IBC do?
Tags: Cosmos Network, Ibc, Atom, Internet Of Blockchains, Cosmos

What is the functionality of ATOM? What are the Tokenomics? What does IBC do? TicoJohnny Apr 27·7 min read

What is the functionality of ATOM? What are the Tokenomics? What does IBC do?

When talking about Cosmos, these questions are asked a lot, but the answers are always changing because ATOM continues to evolve. I went ahead and did my own little rabbit hole of research and tried to answer them below, as concisely as possible to avoid confusion and also to show the purpose of each aspect of ATOM’s functionality, atleast as much as I could gather. I am not a financial advisor and none of this is advice, it’s just little windows of research into a bigger space, so, as always, please do your own research.

Inflation?

First, many people wonder about inflation. What is the point of it? Inflation is important to give incentive to staking. Why? Because in a POS (Proof of Stake) model, staking secures the network. So, by implementing inflation, new tokens are created and distributed to the network participants who participate by securing the network and voting on new governance. Keep in mind, inflation is very useful in the early stages of a network’s growth, and as alternative incentives to staking arise, inflation can be slowly phased down after the network is healthy and robust. For now, ATOM employs the following model:

The inflation has a floor of 7% and a ceiling of 20%. The target percentage of total supply coins staked is 66%. The network uses an algorithm to maintain this level. When the staked percentage of total supply is above 66%, the inflation heads down to the floor of 7%. When the staked rate is below 66%, the inflation starts heading up towards the ceiling, 20%.

The rate at which the inflation changes is proportional to how far you are away from 66%. The further the staked ATOM percentage is away from the target of 66%, the faster the inflation changes to help encourage the amount of ATOMs staked to go back above the target by rewarding extra atoms for staking.

Supply Cap?

As mentioned above, some inflation is always necessary in order to create an additional, non-transaction reward for validators and to maintain strong security. With the Proof of Stake model, there can be potential consensus instability issues if the entire reward for validators is based on transaction rewards and not the overall block reward. Because of this, Proof of Stake is generally not designed to have a maximum supply, which necessitates inflation eventually going to zero once that supply is reached.

Burn?

This doesn’t exist yet, however, ATOM is a heavily weighted governance functionality token, it is very possible to change parameters on the hub through governance proposals, but even small changes will be heavily scrutinized and debated by the voting community.
Register Now for Gravity DEX Testnet Competition
Tags: Amm, Dex, Gravitydex, Atom, Cosmos

Calling all traders! Registrations are now open for the Gravity DEX testnet competition with over $200,000 prize pool on the line. Swap, pool, and arb with the best, and help bring interchain DeFi one step closer to Cosmos. Signup now.



Gravity is the most advanced interchain DEX in the world. It uses the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, by enabling swaps and pools of digital assets between any two blockchains within the Cosmos ecosystem or beyond. Gravity also achieves superior efficiency compared to other AMMs due to its groundbreaking Equivalent Swap Price Model.

The testnet competition is a way for traders to familiarize themselves with the platform while also stress-testing Gravity under near-market conditions prior to its mainnet launch.

The competition runs from May 4 to May 11 with prizes awarded by May 18. Each participant will receive testnet tokens totalling 10,000 USD in ATOMs and 10,000 USD each in 3 randomly selected assets from our Cosmos sponsors and other Ethereum tokens.

During the competition, participants can:

Deposit tokens into pools to earn rewards

Trade tokens with the aim of maximizing their return

Participants are scored on both their activity and simulated earnings. A leaderboard will rank participants throughout the competition, and at the end, the top 1/3rd of participants will be awarded prizes proportional to their final ranking. The $200,000 prize pool includes 4,000 ATOMs plus $10,000 USD each in 12 sponsored assets from the Cosmos ecosystem, including:

REGEN NETWORK (REGEN)

BITSONG (BTSG)

SENTINEL (DVPN)

PERSISTENCE (XPRT)

AKASH (AKT)

TERRA (LUNA)

E-MONEY (NGM)

CYBER (GCYB)

IRIS (IRIS)

AGORIC (RUN)

DESMOS (DSM)

COMMERCIO NETWORK (COM)

There are an additional 1,000 ATOMs available for bug bounties and economic exploitation bounties. Prizes will be awarded based on an assessment of each report.

To register, participants will need to provide their Cosmos testnet address for trading activities, and their Cosmos Hub mainnet address to receive prizes.

Sponsored prizes will be distributed to each winner’s address on their native network created by the same mnemonic (private key) used for Cosmos Hub mainnet address for ATOM prize distribution. So, please keep your mnemonic (private key) safe!

Join the future of DeFi and register by April 30 in order to participate in the Gravity DEX testnet competition. Signup now.

Gravity DEX, brought to you by Tendermint.
An Overview Of The Chains Connecting to Cosmos Hub
Tags: Cosmos Network, Cosmos, Cosmos Sdk, Interoperability, Defi

An Overview Of The Chains Connecting to Cosmos Hub TicoJohnny Apr 10·24 min read

I hope I did each chain some justice with this post and tried to source and edit all the information I could into a readable format from the official websites of each chain to give a fair, albeit small, voice to each in the ecosystem. Each chain has their official website listed as a source. Note: I only covered chains that had some information that they will be available around the time of DeX launch.

With the release of IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol) and the upcoming native “Gravity” DeX coming soon to a specific Cosmos Hub near you, as well as Althea’s up and coming “Gravity” Ethereum bridge, I wanted to highlight what it means to be in the Cosmos Network ecosystem and how it is very much like a nation-state economy where each piece of the puzzle produces a product to export its value to other chains. As a whole, it benefits the Cosmos Ecosystem to have brilliant and innovative products to offer to other “nation states”, so I want to cover the “exports” and “imports” that will be possible with the DeX, on the figurative dock to Cosmos Hubs’ port city.

Here is a list of pieces of information covering all the block chains that I could find information on that are intending or confirmed to connect to the Cosmos Hub via IBC in the coming year. The purpose of this is to have an easy access point to understanding each chains’ real world utility all in one place, it is simply an overview to get to know them, please do your own research.

Cosmos - $ATOM - cosmos.network

Cosmos is an ever-expanding ecosystem of interconnected apps and services, built for a decentralized future. “The Internet of Blockchains.”

Serving as the economic center of Cosmos, the Cosmos Hub is the first-of-its-kind blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK and powered by Tendermint BFT Consensus that provides vital services to the interchain. Cosmos apps and services connect using IBC, the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol. This innovation enables you to freely exchange assets and data across sovereign, decentralized blockchains and changes the way we all see blockchain.

The Cosmos Hub will function as a marketplace, or a “port-city” set to operate a next-gen decentralized exchange in the next month, swapping digital assets from across the Interchain, with very low fees and instant transaction confirmation. With Shared Security in the very near future, ATOM will soon be securing many chains, in exchange for additional staking rewards. With the core mission of the Hub being to connect chains together and by establishing IBC connections with compatible chains and operating decentralized bridges with chains like Ethereum and Bitcoin, it will become the port-city it was envisioned to be.
Yang Maha Kecil
By: Farraz Akbar
Tags: Islam, Cosmos

Dua tahun sebelum saya lahir, Carl Sagan pernah menulis sebuah renungan indah yang terilhami oleh sebuah foto kabur yang diambil dari jarak 6.4 milyar kilometer dari tempat kita tinggal. Satu Titik Biru Pucat judulnya. Sesuai namanya, ia memaknai sebuah foto yang menampakkan mungilnya planet bumi di tengah semesta. Bumi hampir tidak terlihat, sekalipun terlihat ia hanya satu titik biru pucat yang samar. Berikut cuplikan renungan Carl Sagan yang berjudul A Pale Blue Dot.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
Register Now for Gravity DEX Testnet Competition
Tags: Gravitidex, Amm, Atom, Cosmos, Defi

Register Now for Gravity DEX Testnet Competition B-Harvest Follow Apr 21 · 2 min read

Calling all traders! Registrations are now open for the Gravity DEX testnet competition with a $200,000 prize pool on the line. Swap, pool, and arb with the best, and help bring interchain DeFi one step closer to Cosmos. Signup now.



Gravity is the most advanced interchain DEX in the world. It uses the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, by enabling swaps and pools of digital assets between any two blockchains within the Cosmos ecosystem or beyond. Gravity also achieves superior efficiency compared to other AMMs due to its groundbreaking Equivalent Swap Price Model.

The testnet competition is a way for traders to familiarize themselves with the platform while also stress-testing Gravity under near-market conditions prior to its mainnet launch.

The competition runs from May 4 to May 11 with prizes awarded by May 18. Each participant will receive testnet tokens totalling 10,000 USD in ATOMs and 10,000 USD each in 3 randomly selected assets from our Cosmos sponsors and other Ethereum tokens.

During the competition, participants can:

Deposit tokens into pools to earn rewards

Trade tokens with the aim of maximizing their return

Participants are scored on both their activity and simulated earnings. A leaderboard will rank participants throughout the competition, and at the end, the top 1/3rd of participants will be awarded prizes proportional to their final ranking. The $200,000 prize pool includes 4,000 ATOMs plus $10,000 USD each in 10 sponsored assets from the Cosmos ecosystem, including:

REGEN NETWORK (REGEN)

BITSONG (BTSG)

SENTINEL (DVPN)

PERSISTENCE (XPRT)

AKASH (AKT)

TERRA (LUNA)

E-MONEY (NGM)

CYBER (GCYB)

IRIS (IRIS)

AGORIC (RUN)

There are an additional 1,000 ATOMs available for bug bounties and economic exploitation bounties. Prizes will be awarded based on an assessment of each report.

To register, participants will need to provide their Cosmos testnet address for trading activities, and their Cosmos Hub mainnet address to receive prizes.

Sponsored prizes will be distributed to each winner’s address on their native network created by the same mnemonic (private key) used for Cosmos Hub mainnet address for ATOM prize distribution. So, please keep your mnemonic (private key) safe!

Join the future of DeFi and register by April 30 in order to participate in the Gravity DEX testnet competition. Signup now.

Gravity DEX, brought to you by Tendermint.
Gravity DEX Testnet Competition, Mainnet Launch on Cosmos Imminent
By: David Grierson
Tags: Dex, Blockchain, Defi, Cosmos

Gravity DEX Testnet Competition, Mainnet Launch on Cosmos Imminent

Tendermint has acquired DeFi liquidity innovator B-Harvest, creator of Gravity DEX, the first interchain decentralized exchange created for the Cosmos Hub. Gravity DEX enables decentralized trading between any two Cosmos tokens — a $90 billion market that includes ATOM, BNB, LUNA, and CRO — or any of the galaxy of tokens beyond the Cosmos ecosystem.

Gravity DEX uses the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC), by enabling a permissionless, trustless exchange of digital assets throughout Cosmos and other blockchain networks while integrating liquidity pools across dozens of protocols efficiently with its Equivalent Swap Price Model (ESPM) Automated Market Maker (AMM). The launch of Gravity DEX is a fundamental step in enhancing blockchain interoperability within the Cosmos ecosystem.

“The Cosmos ecosystem needs an interchain DEX,” explains Cosmos CEO Peng Zhong. “Tendermint is bringing B-Harvest in-house to launch and scale Gravity DEX so that any token within Cosmos — and from other blockchains — can be traded freely on an exchange that is permissionless and trustless. Interoperability is the future of blockchain, and it’s made widely possible by IBC.”

The Gravity ESPM AMM model combines batch execution, order books, and limit orders with an AMM to significantly outperform the CPMM model as seen on platforms like Uniswap. To learn more, we recommend reading our Litepaper and ESPM Economic Simulation.

Today, the Gravity DEX team has submitted a formal governance proposal to allocate 5000 ATOM from the Cosmos Hub community pool to use as prize money for the Gravity DEX testnet competition. Voting on the governance proposal begins today, April 7th, 2021. We invite you to follow and participate in the Cosmos governance process to get involved.

The next phase of the Gravity DEX rollout includes a weeklong testnet competition for traders, arbitrageurs, and bug bounty hunters to earn prizes totaling more than $200,000 in ATOMs and 10 sponsored tokens from the Cosmos ecosystem:

Registration for the Gravity DEX testnet competition opens on April 21.

As announced on Coindesk , B-Harvest Founder Hyung Lee will take on the role of Head of DeFi at Tendermint. The Tendermint acquisition will amplify the team’s already remarkable efforts in DeFi innovation.

“After 3 years of contributing to the Cosmos ecosystem, we are very excited to join Tendermint for more accelerated development of financial applications building with Cosmos-SDK,” said Hyung Lee.
Download and Install Forbole X
Tags: Desmos, Cosmos, Forbole, Forbole X Github repository, Big Dipper

Google is currently reviewing Forbole’s privacy policy. Forbole X wallet extension can be downloaded from the Github repository now. Once all the reviews have been approved, the wallet extension can be installed directly from Chrome Web Store.

First, click here to visit Forbole X. First time user will be asked to install Chrome Extension to implement on chain transactions. Click Install or visit the Forbole X Github repository to download it directly.

First time user will be promoted to install the Chrome Extension

Download “chrome-extension-v1.0.2.crx” from Github Repository

After chrome extension is downloaded, click Window -> Extension or the icon on the right top corner to go to chrome extension setting page.

Visit “Manage Extension”

As the extension is downloaded from Github repository, we have to toggle on Developer mode in order to install it correctly.

Toggle on “Developer mode”

Drag chrome extension file to chrome extension dashboard.

You will be prompted to trust the developer

Toggle on Forbole X extension.

After the extension is installed and turned on, go back to Forbole X and refresh the page, then click the Get Started to create your wallet.

Start using Forbole X now!

How to create your wallet? Visit this guide to explore more.
Don’t let Kotlin’s single-expression function ruin your business😲
By: Shreyas Patil
Tags: Kotlin, Programming, Android, Mistakes, Developer

Solution 💡

We are humans!😯 We always will do mistakes but that’s fine. The mistake which we did above ( = {} ) can’t be solved using any manual way. But there are some learnings by which we can avoid other related issues.

In my opinion, good practice to avoid mistakes will be a habit of mentioning return types explicitly! Yes, if we mention it explicitly (even if using a simple-expression function) then it’ll avoid mistakes then we’ll be sure about such things at compile time itself.

By this, we can be sure that this function is returning Item . If not, then the compiler will be there to help you out. It makes code more readable and also we can be sure about it just by reading it (like what exactly function is returning). It can help the reviewer while reviewing code on GitHub as well 😎.

For a simple, one-liner call that doesn’t return anything, then this is fine 👇

There’s no doubt that Kotlin has made developer’s life simple and easy. But anyone can do such mistakes.

So the final conclusion is 👇
Common NPM Mistakes Every Developer Should Avoid
By: Bhagya Vithana
Tags: NPM, JavaScript, Nodejs, Mistakes, Best Practices

Whether it is a UI library, a utility “toolbox”, or any other group of modules, it is almost always a bad idea to publish them all as a single package.

There’s no reason why we should force consumers of our code to couple their project to an entire set of modules or components when all they need is a sub-part of it. They should choose what to use and which version of it, and they should never have to deal with meaningless updates.

Most chances are that you agree with me but dread the thought of managing a monorepo to maintain all these packages. To that I say, fear not!

The JS ecosystem has come a long way since the days of the monorep-polyrepo dichotomy.

We are now fortunate to be able to source-control and publish independent components from simple CRA-like projects, with auto-generated package.json , documentation, and more.

To learn more about using Bit to publish multiple packages, see here:

4. Publishing sensitive data by accident

If you publish a module that contains sensitive information by accident, the first thing you might do is unpublishing the package.

But, once a module is published, it gets copied to all registry mirrors. Unpublishing it won’t make a difference.

Whitelists are a handy technique to secure what you publish in the registry and avoid accidentally releasing sensitive data.

All you need to do is modify the package.json with a property named files . with files property, you can easily specify files or directories you need to publish.

{

“name”: “my-package”,

“version”: “1.0.0”,

“description”: “my-package”,

“scripts”: {

“test”: “echo \”Error: no test specified\” && exit 1"

},

“files”: [

“dist/”

],

“keywords”: [],

“author”: “bhagya-withana”

}

So I recommend using whitelists to control which files are included in your next package.
HAVE YOU EVER LEARNED FROM YOUR PAST MISTAKES(PART I)
By: Marcus Austin
Tags: Leadership Development, Lessons Learned, Leadership, Mistakes, Past

The word, learning, is the most significant term of notable signs of progress. Many prior errors and omission is the experience necessary to create the next steps of maturation. The positive reinforcement of such a set of conditions can actually make one feel good or better. However, the critical element in such a state of affairs occurs only if a brain can apply and genuinely grasp what is being taught. The expectation of negative outcomes directly related to a corresponding punishment or risk becomes a subconscious realization. The reward of pleasure becomes the direct contradiction of knowledge extracted from that awareness of insight.

Mr. John Maxwell, an author, speaker, and pastor specifically directing his field of expertise on leadership, has addressed this crucial responsibility and task. Some of his most well works include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader. He makes a very powerful statement about this process when he states, “You must be big enough to admit your mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” This three (3) step way of thinking and being encompasses the admission of fault, the studying of it, and then the inspired action of correction and adjustment. The easy way of doing this has been shown through statements like “If you think I was wrong, I apologize”. Another term used as an informal representation would be “My bad”. Although these ways of expression are not a true representation of what it means to provide a heart felt and genuine thought of forgiveness, it has been the excuse to quickly avoid the deep impact that should resonate not only the admission of guilt but also change.

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HAVE YOU EVER LEARNED FROM YOUR PAST MISTAKES? (PART II)
By: Marcus Austin
Tags: Innovation, Perseverance, Learning, Mistakes, Growth

The acknowledgement of error is not in itself meaningful. There are many examples that explain this scenario. We can look at several cases to depict what past mistakes can provide substantial results.

I am not sure if you might be aware of the story of Ruth Graves Wakefield. She was an American chef, inventor of the Toll House Cookie, and the first chocolate chip cookie. Although she was also a college graduate, dietitian, educator, business owner, and author, her contribution was due to a mistake in creating what she is best known for. She was known for making chocolate cookies until a situation occurred where she was out of bakers chocolate. She can to the conclusion she had to use what was left in her possession, chocolate bars, to produce an expected end result. In baking with the chocolate bars, the melting process did not reduce what was newly added within the cookie. Therefore, they became chips instead of the smooth texture that was initially expected. Although initially, this was derived from a new experiment and in actuality a mistake, became what was one her largest business successes. Not only did this become her accomplishment, but also a favorite recipe and desert for millions of people across the globe. Although it was not the initial purpose of her efforts, the creativity and resilience to produce become an influence.

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13 Lessons from the last 13 months: A Non-Fiction Memoir
By: Bhavya Mathur
Tags: Lessons Learned, Reflections Of Life, Mistakes, Personal Growth, Professional Development

Credits: Jake Weirick via Unsplash

Does it not seem like the concept of time is warped? Isn’t it progressively going faster by the minute? I remember my childhood quite vividly; it seemed to go on for a long time before my adolescence set it. My teenage years went by quicker and the few years since have been a complete blur. It’s overwhelming to think about all the time lost. Today, I wanted to recall and revisit ATLEAST the past year to reminisce and document my learnings in some way. So here I am, trying to work my brain and recall some lessons from the last 13 months:

2020

June- I’m from the Graduate Class of 2020. So when the pandemic hit and the country went under a nationwide lockdown, our final semester got cut short and our Jury (which is the design equivalent of final exams) got pushed ‘until further notice’. After moping about for the first couple of months, I finally decided to do something constructive in June. A day after I got myself into that mindset, I received a call from a start-up that had gone through my portfolio and wanted me to join them as a designer. It literally took one bloody day. I grabbed the opportunity of being useful as fast as I could and I’m better for it. Carpe Diem.

Lesson: Make the most of the opportunities coming your way TODAY.