Earlier this year, we announced the development & testnet of Connext’s Amarok network upgrade. This upgrade aims to fix many of the key issues that exist with Connext today and introduces support for arbitrary message passing, enabling developers to integrate easily into our network to build fully expressive xchain (cross-chain)…

FujiDAO is a xchain loan aggregator and management platform that identifies the best rates on multiple protocols to reduce the cost for users and the friction to manage multiple tools, and now multiple chains. — Today’s DEFI users face two critical problems: high volatility and high management costs. The first one is dependent on the current technology and maturity of the major lending protocols like Aave or Compound. These platforms use variable interest rates that change continuously based on supply and demand.

The Keep3r Network and its partner Wonderland have been working in the past weeks to upgrade their V2 infrastructure, and securely bring it on multiple chains thanks to an integration with Connext. — What is Keep3r? Keep3r is a decentralized devops platform that allows to run scripts in a decentralized way, and reward bots that perform maintenance tasks for other blockchain projects, such as oracles, liquidations and strategies, in a secure way. Notable projects they work with are Yearn and Maker.

Given recent market conditions and volatility, we have decided to delay our token distribution temporarily. Below you’ll find the reasons behind this decision and the next steps we are putting in place to transition Connext into a DAO as soon as possible. — In late April, we announced plans to launch $NEXT, a network utility and governance token, in addition to our intent to transition to a DAO — decentralizing the majority of our operations.

June was a great month for Connext, with the Contributor Program proceeding full steam, and Amarok launch approaching. Here are the major achievements of the past month. — NEXT Contributor Program Total applicants: 8956 Community Leaders Track There are now 10 new Moderator Trainees helping the other community managers to patrol the server and also provide support to users. Many Contributors are starting their own community events! Communities worth highlighting are:

Another great hackathon has just wrapped up in New York! — With 1500 attendees and 251 project submissions, this was the biggest event for ETHGlobal this year. It was fantastic to meet old friends and new people that learned and were mind blown by what Connext can do: upgrading a dApp to crosschain has never been easier. Here is a…

Superfluid, Nomad and Connext are excited to unveil a new collaboration and technical integration that is set to create a new primitive in the blockchain ecosystem: fluid streaming of tokens across any domain and L2. — The evolution of finance, work, money. Tokens are the best tool humanity has created to exchange value between entities — individuals and companies. However these transactions on the blockchain are still respecting a paradigm of the traditional world of single, specific, individual tranches: Alice sends 1 ETH to Bob, Tim pays 1 BTC for a service.

Blockchains are gaining momentum and Web3 has ambitions for mass adoption with a record 34 thousand new developers having contributed to the space in 2021. …

Upgrade your dApp to xChain — Connext lets builders create secure xchain dApps (xapps). Our network is the only way to build xapps that retain the security of underlying blockchains. What are xApps? xApps (pronounced “zaps”) are decentralized applications that perform operations between independent chains/execution environments, Ethereum and Avalanche, Polygon and Polkadot, but also Optimism and Arbitrum, for example.