Gelato Community Update 01/31/2022 šŸ¦

Gelato Dan
Gelato Network
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4 min readJan 31, 2022

Hey! Welcome back to another Gelato Community Update šŸ¦

First off, we hope youā€™re having a fantastic start to 2022 and maintaining a positive outlook for the year ahead!

Itā€™s been some time since we last updated you with what weā€™ve achieved and wanted to do so because January was a BIG month for us. Letā€™s just say thereā€™s a lot to get through.

Weā€™ve kicked off the year by relentlessly shipping new upgrades to the Gelato Network, increasing our technical integrations, bringing on new team members, and growing our community. Prepare to see some fresh faces lurking as ā€œLegendary Membersā€ in our social channels. Wishing them the warmest of welcomes! šŸ‘‹

šŸ¦„ļø G-UNI TVL hits an ATH following the passing vote to increase the maximum GUNIV3DAIUSDC2-A debt ceiling to 500M

Source: DeFiLlama

With newfound 50x leveraging on G-UNI Oasis pools, it didnā€™t take long for users to begin depositing liquidity in the vaults and begin earning a juicy APY.

How is this possible? You might askā€¦

Utilizing the power of Oasisā€™ slick new interface, we are able to put our stables to work in a matter of minutes. Here is a comprehensive thread from Ari, the G-UNI Wizard himself:

šŸ¤ Sythentix partners with Gelato to offer L2 incentives to liquidity providers in the G-UNI WETH/SNX Pool on Optimism

Following this tutorial, you can see how easy it is to provide liquidity via G-UNI to stake your LP tokens and start earning rewards.

To put things in perspective, G-UNI comprises $12.25M of the $42.88M TVL on Uniswap V3 (Optimism PBC) as well as over 10% of Uniswapā€™s entire TVL on Ethereum Mainnet:

probably nothingā€¦ šŸ‘€

šŸ›  Smart contract automation has never been easier to set up ā€” thanks to Gelato Ops

Gelato Ops is continuing to take charge in 2022. With a super sleek UX, youā€™re able to set up and automate any arbitrary smart contract function in a few simple clicks. While we always knew the demand for automation in web3 was there, weā€™ve been experiencing a surge in interest for Gelatoā€™s automation tools.

Itā€™s no wonder though! Because with the power of Gelato, simplifying your DeFi experience remains a fun and rewarding process! šŸ’Ŗ

Video credit: Sarah Amann
  • Some examples of tasks users have been creating include auto-harvesting and auto-compounding yield vaults, topping up contract balances, and recurring payments. Though this is just a few instances of Gelatoā€™s automation capabilities. Weā€™re seeing new applications every day!
  • Dive into how you can start automating protocol-specific tasks using Gelato Ops. We cover how to use Gelato to automate yields on yields on yields on Liquid Driver in this live example here: Gelato x Liquid Driver:

January was a big month for us, but weā€™re only getting started. We want to thank you for all your continued support along the way. Everybody loves ice cream and weā€™ve plenty of it to go around.

Look forward to some more sweet announcements in the coming week! We canā€™t wait to share all of the new developments weā€™ve been working on behind the scenes. šŸ¤«

Last but not least ā€” we are hiring!

If any of the open positions interest you, ā€” please apply!

Stay cool!

About Gelato Network

Gelato Network is web3ā€™s automation network, enabling developers to automate & relay arbitrary smart contract executions on and across all EVM-based compatible blockchains such as Ethereum.

Gelatoā€™s goal is to provide developers with a reliable, scalable & decentralized network to which they can outsource all of their web3 related DevOps operations.

Examples of which features are powered by Gelato include:

  • Limit Orders on PancakeSwap
  • Periodically updating debt ceilings on MakerDAO
  • Offering users gasless token claims on Connext
  • Automatically compounding yield farming vaults on Beefy Finance
  • Automating the breeding of new digital racehorse NFTs on ZED RUN
  • Rebasing of algorithmic stablecoins with Tomb Finance
  • Updating price oracles on Abracadabra

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ā–ŗ Check out what weā€™ve been working on at šŸ¦ https://gelato.network/šŸ¦

ā–ŗ Automate your smart contract at https://app.gelato.network/

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