Cøsmos Network: 4 made-in-Cosmos cross-chains DEXs overviewed, Interchain Earth Program launches, Tendermint’s Proposal for new versioning of Cosmos SDK, Cosmos stars at Messari’s event, Project Dawn introduced, The Cronos mainnet on Oct 19, Binance Smart Chain’s 1st birthday, Oracle partnered with the University of Oxford, e-Money announces integration with Algorand, and more!
Biweekly update on the Cosmos ecosystem vol. 55, 6th September — 20th September
Astronauts, the last two weeks have been extremely fruitful for the Cosmos ecosystem, and we can’t wait to share some of the most exciting news with you!
The DEX ecosystem within Cosmos is growing quickly. There’s now access to new and promising tokens, higher liquidity for smooth trading and price stability, permissionless token listings, opportunities for generating higher ROI by participating in liquidity pools, and a lot more. Check out an overview of four of the hottest protocols right now and examine why they’re gaining traction: Gravity DEX, Osmosis, Sifchain, Coinswap.
The ICF launched the Earth Program recently. Cosmos is becoming the leading sustainable and regenerative digital finance ecosystem.
Considering the Cosmos governance updates, Proposal 56 to add IBC router to Hub is in the voting period. Don’t forget to vote!
Tendermint has always been committed to Cosmos’ success and this includes appropriate versioning of the Cosmos-SDK. Read their proposal for a compliant semantic Go module versioning, which guarantees full compatibility & improved dev experience.
As for the Cosmos ecosystem news: Do Kwon of Terraform Labs has announced Project Dawn, a $150M funding initiative to support Cosmos Core techs such as Cosmos SDK, Tendermint, and CosmWasm. The Cronos Mainnet with EVM smart contracts is launching on Oct 19, with a $1,000,000 prize pool for the CRO community. Keplr wallet surpassed the 100k user mark. Also, Keplr wallet + Agoric integration was announced. BitSong is becoming IBC-enabled and will integrate the Liquidity Module via Big Bang Upgrade. The Injective Bridge is now live and offers seamless cross-chain interoperability. e-Money announced it is integrating with Algorand to support a range of fully backed European stablecoins across the Algorand ecosystem, including eEUR, eCHF, eNOK, eSEK, and eDKK. The upcoming Althea blockchain launch has been announced. For the first time, the Secret Network team revealed the current Ecosystem Roadmap, featuring some never-before-seen products from over 20 teams and individuals supporting our network. Meet Training Validation, a new feature in the Idena Web App. Akash launched a liquidity mining campaign. Check out the blog post highlighting exactly how Bianjie has been instrumental in developing Cosmos so far. Bytom Foundation locked a total of 712,315,801 BTMCs and executed the lock-up plan. More than 100 million BTM tokens have already been staked. Oasis partners with API3 to bring off-chain data to the Oasis Network with a joint developer grant. Polygon has started a collaboration with EY, a global professional services, and technology firm, on building Ethereum scaling and enterprise solutions. Oracle was named a leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant. Furthermore, to speed up the identification of COVID-19 variants, Oracle has partnered with the University of Oxford on a data analysis system that’s accessible to researchers around the world. REGEN is now available on Uniswap as an ERC20 token thanks to Sifchain. Ledger Nano X and Ledger Nano S are now supported within the Sifchain DEX. Band Protocol integrates with Boba Network. The hottest updates on CosmWasm 1.0 have been published. An update of the Map of Zones has been released. Cosmos Video Contest winners have been announced. And more!
That’s all for today! Stay in the loop!
Development
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DeFi in Cosmos: Meet These 4 Cross Chains DEXs
DeFi’s growth in 2021 has been exponential, turning it into a sector now worth over $100 billion. Cosmos Network is making great strides while adding new layers to its already robust DeFi infrastructure that includes many exciting projects such as Terra, THORchain, Band Protocol, and Crypto.org.
One key area of growth is the addition of some of the most advanced cross-chain decentralized exchanges (DEXs) that leverage the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC) to enable permissionless and harmonious trading across various Cosmos blockchains and beyond.
The DEX ecosystem within Cosmos is growing quickly. There’s now access to new and promising tokens, higher liquidity for smooth trading and price stability, permissionless token listings, opportunities for generating higher ROI by participating in liquidity pools, and a lot more.
Here is a take a look at four of the hottest protocols right now and examine why they’re gaining traction:
CosmWasm 1.0, coming soon(tm)
The hottest updates on CosmWasm 1.0 have been published.
Interchain Foundation
Interchain Earth Program Launch
Cosmos is becoming the leading sustainable and regenerative digital finance ecosystem. The ICF launched the Earth Program.
Interchain Grantee Spotlight: How Bianjie Is Helping to Grow the Cosmos Ecosystem
Bianjie is a long-term core contributor to IRISnet and the Cosmos network — and no one is better placed to discuss Bianjie’s plans to help grow the Cosmos ecosystem than Jeffrey Hu, Research Director and Head of Strategy at IRISnet.
In this article, the team discusses how Bianjie and IRISnet have been instrumental in developing Cosmos so far, what the recent grant from the Interchain Foundation (ICF) means, and plenty more besides — from NFTs and cross-ecosystem bridges to enterprise-level applications and expanding the Cosmos China community. Check it out.
Keplr wallet surpassed the 100k user mark:
Tendermint
Tendermint’s Proposal for a New Versioning of Cosmos SDK
A very high-level overview of Tendermint’s proposal for the new versioning of Cosmos SDK. If you would like further information, please follow the extensive developer documentation on Github.
Towards Tendermint Core 1.0
Tendermint roadmap for the next 18 months
Tendermint Core 1.0’s chief concern is stability. It must be stable enough that people can (continue) to build production software on it confidently. This requires an increased level of clarity and rigidity around all the interfaces exposed by Tendermint Core. It also requires us to build confidence in Tendermint Core’s performance and correctness through investments in performance-oriented refactors and increased, more sophisticated testing.
This post outlines the things the team considers necessary for a 1.0 release.
The team thinks of new features and improvements as a kind of Maslow’s hierarchy combined with a food pyramid, with the most substantial and most boring goals at the bottom, and the shinier and smaller changes at the top.
If you have questions, ideas, or would like to contribute, please open an issue or join Tendermint developer forum.
Cosmos Governance
Proposals:
- Cosmos Proposal #56 is in the voting period [Add IBC Router to Hub]
The ‘Port City’ Era is coming: The IBC Middleware module will allow the hub to play the role of IBC Router that was always envisioned for it.
Find the latest governance proposals here.
Awareness and Events
- Denis Fadeev, Director of Developer Experience at Tendermint | Blockchain Interviews: Ashton Addison speaks with Denis Fadeev, Director of Developer Experience at Tendermint. Denis discusses Tendermin and Cosmos SDK, Starport user for creating blockchains on Cosmos, the IBC Inter-blockchain communication protocol, how Developers can start working with Cosmos, and more
- 16th Sept: Cosmos Community AMA with Jack Zampolin: AMA was focused t on the future of Interchain Routing, how it will transform the Cosmos Hub and give ATOM more functionality, and further details of Proposal 56.
Upcoming events:
- 21th-21st Sept: Cosmos stars at Messari’s event:
Check out the agenda here:
- 29th Sep: Join the team for the DeFi edition of Privacy in Cosmos: Delve deeper into privacy in the Cosmos ecosystem in this DeFi focused edition of “Privacy in Cosmos”. It is brought to you by the ZK Validator with support from the Cosmos Hub and media partner Zero Knowledge Podcast.
Code with Us
- Connect to a Cosmos blockchain with Go: Learn about connecting to a Cosmos SDK blockchain using Go!
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Finance
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Cosmos Roadmap:
The Cosmos Hub Roadmap 2.0
Earlier this year, Cosmos completed its whitepaper, fulfilling its founding vision of blockchain interoperability, scalability & usability that was laid out in the original 2016 roadmap. Today the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol, enabling the transfer of digital assets & messages between Cosmos chains & more, lifts the Cosmos Hub to new levels of scalability & utility. Discover those key developments that are bringing the cross chain and DeFi future to the Cosmos Hub:
- Liquidity Protocols
- Staking Derivatives
- Interchain Staking & Accounts
- NFTs
Ecosystem updates
Althea Network:
- Althea Blockchain : Time to Claim for 2019 airdrop: The upcoming Althea blockchain launch has been announced.
Agoric:
-Mainnet Phase 0
-Keplr wallet integration
-Testnet Phase 4.5 Recap (and what to expect for Phase 5: Adversarial)
-Developer Gitcoin bounties
-AMAs
Band Protocol:
- BCIP-3: BandChain Laozi Mainnet Official Upgrade Proposal B: With the launches of the Laozi Testnet #1–4 and stable network performance over the past months, the team is ready to move on to the final step before the launch of BandChain Phase 2. The core Band Protocol development team has submitted a new BandChain Improvement Proposal B (BCIP-3) to propose upgrading BandChain from Phase 1 (GuanYu) to Phase 2 (Laozi).
- Band Protocol Integrates With First Optimistic Rollup Platform Boba Network
- Whitepaper Digest #3: Decentralization, Validity and VRF
- Band Protocol August 2021 Community Update
Binance (BSC):
- Beyond the Big Bang: How we celebrated the 1st anniversary: On September 1, 2021, BSC launched two weeks of celebrations for Binance Smart Chain’s 1st birthday. This article is a recap highlighting the best moments of the #BeyondTheBigBang celebrations observed by the whole BSC ecosystem.
- Join the team for the BSC GameFi Expo! Airdrops, live streams, and top GameFi projects: Join the team for a 5-day GameFi expo filled with live streams and airdrops, and meet BunnyPark, Thetan Arena, BinaryX, DeFi Warrior, and Faraland.
- MVBIII: Monthly Stars announced, $1.5 million distributed in BUIDL rewards: One month has passed since the team launched the Most Valuable Builder III: Beyond the Big Bang, and now they introduce the winners of the Monthly Stars for August. Continue reading to meet the winners and get the latest updates on the $1.5 million BUIDL rewards.
- Find the latest BSC news here.
BitSong:
- IBC and Liquidity Modules — Core Infrastructural Capabilities for bitsong-2: BitSong is becoming IBC-Enabled and will integrate the Liquidity Module via Big Bang Upgrade.
Bytom:
- Bytom Weekly Report (2021.9.13–2021.9.17)
- Bytom Foundation has locked its 712,315,801 BTMC: On September 18, Bytom Foundation locked a total of 712,315,801 BTMCs and executed the lock-up plan.
- Instruction to Build BTMC Pool
- Introduction to Bytom 2.0 Registered
Crypto.com:
- The Cronos Mainnet with EVM smart contracts is launching on Oct 19, with a $1,000,000 prize pool for the CRO community.
- Crypto.com Expands Insurance Programme to one of the Industry’s Largest at USD 750 Million: Crypto.com announced that it has expanded its total insurance coverage to USD $750M, after increasing its policy coverage led by Arch Underwriting at Lloyd’s Syndicate 2012.
- Fnatic and Crypto.com enter historic partnership: Following several partnership announcements with major sports brands, Crypto.com enters esports for the first time as Fnatic’s Global Cryptocurrency Partner.
- Crypto.com App Now Supports Transfers via Arbitrum
- Crypto.com App Lists ARG, SCCP, and UCH Fan Tokens, COTI (COTI), Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR), dYdX (DYDX)
- ARUSD, HNTUSD, and XTZUSD Perpetual Contracts Are Now Available in the Crypto.com Exchange
- Crypto.com Exchange Now Supports Sub-account Trading via the Master Account
- BTCUSD and ETHUSD Q1 Futures Are Live in the Crypto.com Exchange
- Crypto.com Exchange F1 Paddock Club Passes™ Giveaway Leaderboard
- OFFICIAL RULES FOR SWEEPSTAKES: The relevant Crypto.com App entity that provides you the Crypto.com App services (“Crypto.com”) will conduct the sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) substantially as described in these rules.
e-Money:
- e-Money Announces Integration with the Algorand Blockchain to Accelerate the Circulation of European Stablecoins: e-Money announced it is integrating with Algorand to support a range of fully backed European stablecoins across the Algorand ecosystem, including eEUR, eCHF, eNOK, eSEK, and eDKK.
- Published: Our First Proof of Funds by Ernst & Young
- e-Money explores integration with Aurora
Idena Network:
- Meet Training Validation, a new feature in the Idena Web App. Training validation can help new users to learn the validation process, and validated identities — to educate their candidates. Try it out and share your thoughts.
Injective
- Trading Rebates are Live on Injective: Trade, Earn, Repeat: You can now start earning rewards for trading on Injective.
- INJ-ETH Bridge Release: Seamless Cross-Chain Interoperability: The Injective Bridge is now live on the Injective Hub. You can now bridge any ERC20 token to the Injective Chain using the secure cross-chain Injective Bridge.
- Injective Hub Guide: Ready to stake your INJ? Interested in voting for new Injective governance proposals? The Injective Hub Guide will walk you through all the major details you need to get started.
- Decentralized Perpetuals Trading is Now Live on the Injective Canary Chain: Perpetuals are now live on the Injective Canary Chain. Users can begin trading decentralized perpetuals with zero gas fees, lightning fast transaction times, and instant finality.
- Bloomberg Law: Mark Cuban-Backed Crypto Startup Injective Hires Legal Chief.
- Injective Labs Inc., which offers decentralized trading services with support from the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has hired Sullivan & Cromwell associate Brandon Ferrick as its first general counsel.
IRIS Network:
- IRISnet Monthly Update: 2021.08 — Technology & Ecosystem & Community Recap
- Cosmos&IRISnet Tech-based BSN OPB “WenChang Chain” Utilizes Interchain NFT Tech to Support Trustworthy Global Circulation of Chinese Traditional Artwork NFTs: On July 30, the Global Release Conference of Achievements of Chinese National Culture Digital Library was held in Beijing. This conference was organized by SEUD and Zhongmin Huacai, co-organized and supported by the China Promoting Minority Culture & Art Association, The Palace Museum Cathay View, Zhongzheng Shudeng (ZZSD), Boundless Creation, Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN), Bianjie and many influential institutions.
- Find the latest IRISNet proposals here.
Kava:
- Simple and Streamlined Access to the Kava Platform: Expanded Accessibility and A New Ramp for Onboarding.
Oasis:
- Oasis partners with API3 to bring off-chain data to the Oasis Network with a joint developer grant
- Oasis Protocol partners with Knit Finance to integrate $ROSE with their Multichain platform and issue wrapped K-ROSE for cross-chain transactions
- Starters Guide to Wrapped Coins
- The billion dollar data opportunity, that pays everyone for using the internet
- Oasis August Engineering Update
Oracle:
- Oracle Announces Fusion Marketing, the First Solution to Fully Automate Lead Generation and Qualification: Fusion Marketing enables marketers to automate lead generation and qualification from campaigns that span traditional marketing and advertising channels.
- Oracle Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems, North America: Oracle recognized for its completeness of vision and ability to execute.
- Adenza Chooses Oracle Autonomous Database to Expand its Multi-Cloud Risk Analytics Services: RegCloud® customers can now take advantage of the speed, availability, and security features of Oracle Autonomous Database.
- Oracle and Oxford Nanopore Team Up to Improve Healthcare and Speed Discovery of New Medical Breakthroughs: Technology leaders to jointly explore accessible, high-performance DNA/RNA sequencing solutions powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to improve patient care and outcomes.
- The University of Oxford and Oracle Cloud System Helping Researchers Identify COVID-19 Variants Faster: Global research community using genomic sequencing platform, running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to discover and act on potentially harmful new coronavirus mutations.
- Oracle Releases Java 17: Next Java long-term support release delivers thousands of updates, further improving the language and platform to help developers be more productive.
- Oracle Announces Fiscal 2022 First Quarter Financial Results: Total quarterly revenues were up 4% year-over-year to $9.7 billion.
- Oracle Offers Free Training and Certification for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Global training program helps close skills gap and creates new career opportunities with Oracle’s fast-growing cloud.
- Cablenet Monetizes Fast Growing Mobile Business with Oracle: Cloud native converged charging, policy and billing foundation helps Cypriot service provider accelerate new market offerings and better serve customers.
Polygon (previously Matic)
- Polygon and Mina Team Up: The projects have teamed up to build a bridge that will enable developers building dapps on Polygon to leverage privacy and verifiability via Mina’s zk-SNARK-based protocol.
- Polygon PoS in Numbers : 23th-29nd August
- Shard Labs Is Bringing Lido To Polygon
- Aragon Brings DAO Creation & Management to Polygon
- Dharma Is LIVE On Polygon
- Polygon’s DeFi Interview Series- C.R.E.A.M. Finance
- Polygon Announces Hackathon: The hackathon has a cumulative prize pool of $100,000 and registrations are now open for developers.
- Polygon has started a collaboration with EY, a global professional services and technology firm, on building Ethereum scaling and enterprise solutions:
- Check out the latest Polygon integrations here.
Regen Network:
- REGEN is now available on Uniswap as an ERC20 token thanks to Sifchain.
- Community Development Call.
Secret Network:
- Revealing the Secret Network Ecosystem Roadmap: For the first time, the team revealed the current Secret Network Ecosystem Roadmap, featuring some never-before-seen products from over 20 teams and individuals supporting our network.
- Secret Network Ecosystem Update: August 2021.
- Supernova coming Oct 2021:
Sifchain:
- Sifchain Weekly Update: 5 Sep — 11 Sep
- Ledger Nano X and Ledger Nano S are now supported within the Sifchain DEX
Starname:
- Starname Tech Roadmap 2021 Q4 is out.
- Updates Call — Recap: This is a written recap of our September 14th call.
Terra:
- Do Kwon of Terraform Labs has announced Project Dawn, a $150M funding initiative to support Cosmos Core techs such as Cosmos SDK, Tendermint, and CosmWasm.
- The winners of Terra Spacecamp have been announced.
- The official documentation guide for preparing and migrating Terra dapps to Columbus-5 is now available in the Github Wiki
THORChain:
- Weekly Dev Update #105
- The Growing THORChain Ecosystem
- THORSwap unveils Roadmap and Vision.
MISC
- Cosmos Video Contest Winners: The Prop 34/46 Video Contest — Discover Cosmos (June 12-August 31, 2021) invited Cosmonauts to use creativity and talent to produce high-quality educational videos aimed at new members of the community and beyond. Here are the winners.
- An update of the Map of Zones has been released:
- Coming soon:
Social media metrics
The Cosmos community continues to grow! There is a stable increase in the number of subscribers of Cosmos social media channels these weeks.
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