Cosmostation Weekly vol.23

What happened at the station this week: January 17th ~ January 23rd

TL;DR: CWN Extract

🛰 Kava-9 Upgrade Complete: IBC Era is Here on Kava Network.
🛰 Umee x Composable Finance Announces Strategic Partnership: Umee will Bring Cross-chain To A Whole New Level!
🛰 Secret Network Launches a $225M Ecosystem Fund + a $175M Accelerator Pool.

Upgrades

Kava Labs has entered a new phase — with the successful completion of Kava-9 upgrade last week, Kava network is now one of the members of the IBC gang.

Listings

Fetch.ai’s $FET(ERC-20) is now available on eToro_Official, a social investment platform.
$SCRT of Secret Network has been listed on FTX and Huobi: $SCRT token is now available on FTX perpetual future market and Huobi spot trading.
$ATOLO of RIZON got listed on LBankExchange.

Updates

Ki Foundation has announced the coming of Cosmon, an NFT-based P2E(Play-to-Earn) card game — which is what we all have been waiting for. Let us play, let us have some fun, but most importantly, let us earn.
Along with the announcement of new investors(including Defiance Capital, Alameda Research, CoinFund, HashKey and more) joining Secret Network, Secret Network released a $225M ecosystem fund and a $175M accelerator pool — that’s a total of $400M in ecosystem funding!

Partnerships

Band Protocol and Coin98 has entered a new phase of their partnership with Band providing a real-time Oracle price feed solution for C98 token, the ecosystem tokens for Coin98 DeFi platform.
e-Money’s suite of European stable coins are being integrated with Strip Finance, a lending platform with NFT collateralization.
Junø is now one of the native assets on Keplr mobile and extension. Moreover, CW-20(CosmWasm) tokens are also supported on Keplr browser extension. For more details, go take a look at the official proposal for integration.
Umee is partnering up with Composable Finance, a cross-chain infrastructure provider in Polkadot ecosystem. Through this partnership, Umee will be connected to Picasso, a Kusama parachain that acts as a cross-chain hub on Kusama, by Centauri bridge. Cross-chain interoperability at its best!
PeckShield has completed the first smart contract code audit for Umee lending protocol with results suggesting Umee’s solid code design. Read the full audit report from the link.

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