September Updates: Curve Launch, $300M Ecosystem Fund, MCON & Mainnet

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Harmony

6 min readOct 13, 2021

Harmony’s September is in the books! We made a large presence in the metaverse this month. As our $1M Hackathon comes to a close, we are just getting started with making our mark. Read below to find out what amazing things have occurred this month.

But before we dive in, make sure to follow @harmonyprotocol on Twitter to stay updated on everything Harmony related.

Key Accomplishments

$300M Ecosystem Fund: Harmony has launched a $300M fund to enhance the growth of our ecosystem. If you have a ready-to-launch project please see the guidelines here for more information. You can apply for a grant here and a member of the Harmony team will respond to you directly on that forum.

Harmony Founder, Stephen Tse, on the new $300M fund

Harmony threw a kickoff event to get the word out about this $300M fund. This event helped developers and creatives learn how to build on Harmony.

$300M Launch Event in San Francisco

$1 Million Hackathon: Harmony has officially closed the hackathon. This Hackathon was an opportunity for web3 and web2 developers to get together and build exciting apps, protocols, and tools. We want to thank all of those who participated in this hackathon and our amazing prize partners.

Peter Abilla wraps up the $1M TradFi to DeFi Hackathon

Congratulations to each of the winners of our $1 Million Hackathon! The winners of each track were announced and can be found in this Tweet thread:

Curve Launched on Harmony Mainnet: Harmony’s proposal for Curve to launch on Harmony was passed in September and on October 12th Curve officially launched on our mainnet. Harmony is providing $2 million in ONE tokens to bootstrap the initial usage.

Community Proposal for Aave Launch: The vote has been passed to deploy Aave v2 on the Harmony blockchain to expand lending to its community of users and provide incentives to bootstrap the launch of Aave to a new ecosystem. Harmony will start with $5 million in incentives to bootstrap initial usage of Aave on Harmony.

Anyswap Brings the Bitcoin Bridge to Harmony: Anyswap and Harmony came together to support bridging native BTC directly to Harmony. Now Bitcoin holders have a direct way to bridge and access decentralized finance products on Harmony and earn yield on their Bitcoin while holding on to their full balance. Then we announced that the community can bridge assets between Polygon and Harmony with Anyswap, read the article here.

DappRadar Now Tracking Dapps on Harmony Blockchain: The number one dapp marketplace, DappRadar, has integrated Harmony Protocol in its services. At launch, DappRadar begins tracking 15 dapps in the Harmony ecosystem, giving consumers insight into individual dapps. Users of the dapp discovery platform can use the Harmony Rankings to easily see which dapps have seen the most activity in the past 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days.

FTX has listed Harmony (ONE) perpetual futures: With over 1 million users and averaging over $10B of daily trading volume, FTX has grown into one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges. The platform serves the entire chain of cryptocurrency trading participants from retail and crypto-native investors, to sophisticated day traders, family offices, and experienced institutional traders.

Harmony and Stake DAO Announce Strategic DeFi Partnership: Stake DAO will soon be launching it’s ONE validator and offer staking-as-a-service to the ONE community. We will now be working together to create innovative strategies and bring the best of DeFi to the Harmony ecosystem.

Harmony at September’s Events: Harmony ventured across the country to join fellow crypto enthusiasts in Denver, New York, and Wyoming. MCON, Mainnet, and WyoHackathon were events where Harmony was able to create new connections with those in the crypto, DeFi, and DAO spaces. View all the video content from these events here and keep reading below to find exclusive interviews with Stephen Tse and other great minds at MCON 👇

We also sponsored an event held in Los Angeles hosted by Praise Token on the 8th of October. This was used to help foster new relationships with those in the NFT space and grow our Harmony LA telegram group. You can view the Praise Launch Party video below 👇

MCON Interviews with Stephen Tse

Harmony’s founder, Stephen Tse, sits down with attendees of MCON to engage in meaningful conversations about their projects. Watch them below:

Talking DAOs w/ Jacqueline Kim Perez of Covalent / Alchemist DAO

Talking DAOs w/ Yalor Mewn of MetaCartel

Talking DeFi w/ Devin Marty of Wise Token

Talking DAOs w/ Kaito Cunningham of Utopia Labs

Talking DAOs w/ Chase Chapman of Decentology

Talking DAOs w/ Zach Anderson of Coordinape

Talking NFTs w/ Globey of Davinci.Gallery

Talking DAOs w/ Ann Willmott of Meta Gamma Delta

Talking DAOs w/ Nick aka Biznustime of the Harmony Community DAO

Talking DAOs w/ Li Jiang of Harmony

Upcoming Events

ETH Lisbon: Harmony is heading all the way to Lisbon, Portugal to engage the community at ETH Lisbon. ETH Lisbon’s mission is to foster the ecosystem by bringing together startups, investors and stakeholders to be the catalyser for innovation. This will take place from October 22nd to the 24th.

DAO Global Hackathon: 2021 has been called the ‘Year of the DAO’ and Harmony is proud to see out the year by Co-Sponsoring the DAO Global Hackathon. This will be taking place October 25th through December 13th. Register here.

NFT NYC: We are headed to New York City at the beginning of November from the leading annual non-fungible token event. This conference connects leaders, influencers, developers, and fans of NFTs in NYC. It focuses on the companies and individuals using NFTs to advance the adoption of blockchain beyond its current use cases to a mainstream audience.

Telegram Groups for Events

Harmony is going to be hosting events in many major cities around you! To get connected and stay on top of these events please join the following links for the city nearest you (more will soon be added):

We are still looking to expand to every major city and everywhere that has a presence in the crypto space. Let’s build this community to reach 10 billion people 🌍 If you want to host a Harmony event, please review the guidelines on harmony.one/300 for events and you can send in your proposal at https://talk.harmony.one/c/funding-proposals/42.

About Harmony

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Harmony is an open and fast blockchain. Our mainnet runs Ethereum applications with 2-second transaction finality and 100 times lower fees. Harmony’s secure bridges offer cross-chain asset transfers with Ethereum, Binance and other chains. https://www.harmony.one/

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