State of Stake vol. 53
Tags: Proof Of Stake, State Of Stake, Staking, Finance, Blockchain

Vitalik Buterin talks on the future of Ethereum on EthCC

The Gravity DEX protocol is finally live, marking the biggest stride forward for Cosmos to date

Learn why auctions are better run on-chain than off-chain and why a candle auction is a central feature of the Kusama network and Polkadot.

Chainlink price feeds are live on Avalanche mainnet, paving wave for advanced DeFi apps. AVAX staking via delegation is now live on Stake DAO

Cardano’s Daedalus: from launch to Flight and beyond

BandChain Laozi mainnet upgrade — post-mortem

2 year anniversary of Algorand mainnet

Tezos Protocol upgrade Granada is in the final stages, contract calls are on track to reach another record high, and the DeFi and NFT landscape are continuing to grow

The Synthetix exchange will be enabled on Optimism during the week of July 26th with a final deployment date pending Spartan Council approval

PayU purchases CELO tokens to kickstart stablecoin payment program

Bluzelle partners with PolkaFoundry to accelerate DeFi adoption through intuitive oracle and NFT solutions

Polygon Studios has been presented, a brand new Polygon’s arm for the Blockchain Gaming & NFT ecosystem. This will cement Polygon’s existing lead position as the de-facto platform for NFTs & Gaming.

The UpOnly exchange is live, one of the first Injective relayers to go public and aims to provide a sleek interface for decentralized derivatives trading

The ICE Blockchain introduced, a new EVM compatible blockchain for the ICON ecosystem

The Graph Foundation to provide over $2.8M in funding to grants, in addition to $60M Core Dev Grant to StreamingFast

Terra’s new $150M Ecosystem Fund introduced

1inch Foundation launches a $3 million grant program

Neon, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) scalability solution built on Solana, introduced

Hop Protocol released their multichain bridge connecting xDai, Ethereum and Polygon

0x + Brave partner to make crypto and DeFi more accessible to everyone

The Filecoin Techstars Accelerator announced

Revival NFT Marketplace is officially live on IOST

Persistence and IRIS Network join forces on multiple fronts

Learn what the NEAR Foundation does

And more!

Top 10 Crypto Assets by Staked Value

Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates

Ethereum 2.0 is up and running smoothly! With more than 198,000 active validators and thousands more queued up and waiting to join the network, the Ethereum 2.0

Latest ‘Week in Ethereum’:

Check out our recently-published ‘Defi in Ether’ — biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.34 full of news from the ecosystem: $54B in DeFi, Uniswap v3 on Optimism, Synthetix x Optimism update, TokenSets launches on Polygon, Gnosis Safe is live on Layer 2, Hop Bridge is here, 0x + Brave partner up, KyberDMM liquidity mining now live, Balancer launches Stable Pools, SushiSwap NFT platform sneak peek, and much more!

Research Update: The Case for Candle Auctions: Parachain auctions are a central feature of Kusama network and Polkadot. Their outcome determines who gets which parachain slots and the amount of tokens locked. Learn why are auctions better run on-chain than off-chain and why a candle auction is used.

Nominating and Validator Selection on Polkadot: Jonas Gehrlein, Research Scientist at W3F, has written a good overview of nominating and validator selection and the rationale behind it.

Khala Network won the 4th slot with 132,280 KSM bid, and it is now officially the 4th commercial parachain on Kusama.

Web3 Foundation is celebrating its 10th round of grants accepted through its Open and General Grants programs. With 27 new grant agreements signed in the second quarter of 2021, they are now nearing close to 300 grantees since the beginning of the Foundation’s grants program in 2019.

Feel free to read our latest biweekly report on the Polkadot ecosystem vol.15: Shiden successfully won the third auction on Kusama, Khala won the fourth, Genshiro and Robonomics prepare for the next auctions wave, The Altair crowdloan is now live, polkaBTC becomes interBTC, The 1st Polkadot & Kusama <> BSC bridge is live on the testnet, Dock’s Proof-of-Stake mainnet is live, KILT Protocol shifts to LDPos, and more!

Preparing for the Next Generation Avalanche Bridge (AB): The next generation Avalanche Bridge (AB) is coming–seamlessly bridging Avalanche and Ethereum. AB will be 10x faster and 5x cheaper than the Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge (AEB). Here’s what you need to know:

Check out our latest biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 52 covering the following topics: The Gravity DEX protocol is live, Emeris introduced, The HackAtom HCMC winners announced, Interchain Foundation collabs with BlockScience, UFC partners with Cryptocom, Persistence and IRIS Network join forces, Injective’s Canary Chain launches, New ‘IBC Explained to Cosmonauts’ series, and more!

Synthetix Optimism launch announcement: The Synthetix exchange will be enabled on Optimism during the week of July 26th with a final deployment date pending Spartan Council approval. There was also an update provided regarding the gas situation on Optimism and the Synthetix June monthly update was also published.

June UX/UI Designer Challenge results are out.

Thales Raises $2.5 Million: Thales, a Synthetix ecosystem project building support for trading binary options, raised $2.5 million in a strategic investment round led by Framework Ventures and Apollo Capital.

Omm Finance Partners With Band Protocol For Mainnet Launch of Open Money Market

BandChain Laozi Mainnet Upgrade — Post-Mortem: The oracle remains active and secure, no partners were affected, and no funds were affected. The Mainnet launch of BandChain Phase 2 will have a revised timeline as the team eliminates the issue moving forward.

Filecoin News 22: Announcing the Filecoin Techstars Accelerator, Starling Labs featured on BloombergTV, SNARKs website launch, and more!

Building Businesses for the Future of the Decentralized Web: Outlier Ventures CEO & Founder Jamie Burke and Protocol Labs Ecosystem Lead Colin Evran talking about the business opportunities of decentralized storage in the future of Web3 and the role that the recently-announced Filecoin Base Camp by Outlier Ventures plays.

Open Web Community Summit: The Future of Storage Capacity: Dystopia Labs recently hosted the Open Web Community Summit for Creators & Community, co-presented by NEAR Protocol and Gitcoin. The event mainly focused on NFTs and featured 50+ speakers and dozens of artists and creators from all over the world.

Filecoin zk-SNARKs: Zero Knowledge — but a Lot of Zero Knowledge: CryptoComputeLab created a beautiful zk-SNARKs for the world minisite, showcasing that Filecoin is the largest deployed zk-SNARK network to date and highlighting the key improvements that allowed a deployment of this scale.

The Graph Foundation allocates over $2.8 Million to Grants & Ecosystem Support in Wave 2: The Graph Foundation to provide over $2.8M in funding to grants, in addition to $60M Core Dev Grant to StreamingFast.

Building Subgraphs with Subgraph Studio: A how-to guide for using the Subgraph Studio and publishing subgraphs on the network.

Persistence and IRIS Network join forces on multiple fronts.

Interchain.fm Ep. 18 — IRISnet:

Find the latest IRISNet proposals here.

The ICE Blockchain: A new EVM compatible blockchain for the ICON Ecosystem. Here are further details on a brand new blockchain project coming to the ICON community. This new blockchain, called ICE, will bring about a new application hub for the ICON ecosystem. Upon completion, ICE will provide developers better tooling, EVM and eWASM compatibility, and immediate access to the growing ETH & Polkadot ecosystems. It also represents a shift in the direction of the ICON project by separating functionality, product targeting, and the purpose of each of these respective networks.

ICON 2.0 Migration — Community Update: Development Progress, Timeline, and Path

Kava Swap Testnet: Win $100,000 in the Kava Swap Testnet Competition. July 28th @ 17:00PST — August 4th @ 17:00PST.

Secret Network Ecosystem Update: June 2021: June saw the launch of the Secret BSC bridge on mainnet, the announcement of the Secret Terra Bridge, the release of CSHBK on SecretSwap, and much more.

Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

Neon, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) scalability solution built on Solana, introduced:

xDai Weekly Recap July 16, 2021

NFT OmniBridge beta testing is ongoing.

Hop.exchange released their multichain bridge connecting xDai, Ethereum and Polygon.

Ethereum SANA is a point-to-point storage area node network forked from Swarm and integrated with xDai.

Pocket launched their Pocket Portal with xDai support.

And more!

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