Harmony January Updates: ETHDenver, OKEx, oneUSD

Abhishek Purushotham
Harmony
Published in
3 min readFeb 2, 2022

The Harmony team gears up for ETHDenver next month, with 14 launches, 21 approved grants, 300 scholarships and 10 events lined up. While we were preparing for ETHDenver, our partners launched a Harmony ONE-backed stablecoin and deployed Aave v3 on testnet.

Read our January highlights below. Follow us @harmonyprotocol to stay in touch.

Partnership Highlights

Footprint Analytics: Harmony integrated with Footprint Analytics, which will create a dashboard through which users will be able to get real-time data about Harmony’s TVL, market cap & token data.

4everland: Harmony joined forces with 4everland, where the latter will serve as the Web3.0 infrastructure to advance the Web3.0 development of the Harmony ecosystem. Using 4everland services such as DDNS, Cert Manager, and Data I/O, developers at Harmony can quickly deploy the front-end on IPFS.

Aag Ventures: $AAG successfully bridged over to Harmony, through which users could purchase any HRC20 tokens with ONE tokens on Sushiswap.

Poolz: Harmony partners with Poolz, a cross-chain IDO platform that helps startups to build products and services without worrying about raising funds or marketing their IDOs. 20 startups incubating on Poolz wishing to integrate with Harmony will be granted $50,000 each!

Aave: In January, the Aave v3 went live on Harmony testnet which offers greater capital efficiencies, increased security, cross-chain functionality.

Keystone: Harmony and Keystone partner up to introduce enhanced cross-chain security for Harmony bridges. Moreover, Keystone’s Smart-Contract Metadata Registry will help keep users safe from phishing attacks.

Launches & Milestones

oneUSD Launched: The Harmony Protocol backed stablecoin oneUSD went live. VenomDAO and OIN Finance teamed up to support Harmony with the launch. Users can deposit ONE token through OINDAO to mint oneUSD with up to 150% collateralization.

BTC Bridge: After Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain & multiple other DEXes, Harmony is set to launch its awaited trustless BTC bridge for seamless asset migration. For this, community-managed vaults are essential, that come with generous incentives for the users.

Harmony Is Now Listed On The OKEx exchange: Now, ONE users can deposit, trade and withdraw ONE tokens from their OKEx wallet, as Harmony is now listed on the OKEx exchange. OKEx is one of the top 3 exchanges in the world by the number of users.

DeFi Kingdom: DeFi kingdom is leading the way in the blockchain gaming charts, with over 8.5 million transactions and 50,000 weekly users in January. The month also kicks in Phase 3 of DeFi Kingdom’s development, where users will get world map expansion, new auctions and kingdom plots.

Events And Announcements

NFTHack: Harmony were proud sponsors of NFTHack, which brought together a virtual collective of passionate creatives and developers for a weekend NFT hackathon and summit.

Metaverse Summit: The Harmony team gathered in Paris for the Metaverse Summit, where we talked to hundreds of creators, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts about interoperability and the future of metaverse at Harmony.

ETHDenver: Harmony will be at the biggest Ethereum event next month as one of the top sponsors. Come, join us, as we will be launching social tokens, wallets, NFTs, and more during the course of the event. Harmony is also sponsoring 200 developers to help them attend their first Web3 event.

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