TL;DR
- The second cohort of the Ethereum core dev apprenticeship program
- Cardano gains smart contract capability following ‘Alonzo’ hard fork
- Kusama Parachain Auctions: second batch. With one day left to go before the ending period starts, Basilisk is currently in the lead in the current auction
- The Avalanche Rush program keeps growing. Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital Lead $230M Investment in Avalanche Ecosystem.
- DeFi in Cosmos: Meet 4 cross-chains DEXs
- Drone Racing League, the world’s premier, professional drone racing property, will leverage Algorand’s blockchain technology to disrupt the sports and gaming world
- The Internet Computer’s ‘Increased Canister Storage’ roadmap proposal is approved
- Perpetual Futures powered by Synthetix are launching on Kwenta soon
- Polygon has started a collaboration with EY, a global professional services and technology firm, on building Ethereum scaling and enterprise solutions
- Celo’s Optics is here, a new protocol for gas-efficient and trust-minimized interoperability
- COTI’s growth plan to become a next-gen financial ecosystem has been presented
- StaFi announces the launch of the rBNB solution, which solves the staking liquidity problem for the Binance Chain community
- The Band Protocol team is ready to move on to the final step of submitting BandChain Improvement Proposal #3 before the relaunch of BandChain Phase 2
- The Injective Bridge is now live and offers seamless cross-chain interoperability
- Homebase, a web application that enables users to create and manage/use DAOs on the Tezos, is live
- The latest on The Graph network adoption, core development, GIPs, and subgraph migration
- The 1inch Network partners with BitPay
- Elrond’s Maiar DeFi Wallet unveiled
- Filecoin Network capacity surpasses 10 EiB
- The long-awaited ICON 2.0 migration is nearing completion
- IOST partners with Play2Earn project Zodium to boost NFTs & blockchain game growth
- The official guide for preparing and migrating Terra dapps to Columbus-5 is now available in the Github Wiki
- 0x API is now available on Avalanche
- Oasis partners with API3 to bring off-chain data to the Oasis Network
- KAVA stakers earn even more with Kava Swap launch
- Secret Network Ecosystem Roadmap has been revealed
- IGNITION, the global Solana hackathon, is here
- Solana will be the next chain for Orbs integration
- NEAR’s MetaBUIDL hackathon highlights
- Akash launched a liquidity mining campaign
- IRISnet August monthly update is out
- And more!
Top 10 Crypto Assets by Staked Value
Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates
Ethereum 2.0
- Ethereum 2.0 is up and running smoothly! With more than 235,000 active validators and thousands more queued up and waiting to join the network, the Ethereum 2.0
- What’s New in Eth2–10 September 2021: Updates on the Beacon Chain, Altair, The Merge, staking and more in this week's what’s new in eth2.
- Core Dev Apprenticeship Program Second Cohort Announced: Aspiring Ethereum core developers can apply to this program starting today with a deadline of September 13th. It will run from September 2021 to February 2022.
- AllCoreDevs Update 006: In this update, Tim Beiko gives a breakdown of the pre-merge history — that is, the history of eth2, the various phases, layer 2 and more.
- Blocknative Gas Estimator Browser Extension Announced: You can now access Blocknative’s industry-leading Gas Estimator right from your browser — and accurately estimate fees for legacy and EIP-1559 transactions.
- Gitcoin Grants Round 11 Now Live: The largest matching pool ever ($950,000) will be paid out to grants on the Gitcoin platform — go donate to your favorite projects to spread the love!
- As Ethereum becomes cheaper, the use cases and user groups it can cater to will expand massively
- Vitalik Buterin and Karl Floersch: Retroactive Public Goods Funding — Into the Bytecode
- Vitalik’s impromptu Twitter AMA
- Ethereum 2.0 resources
- EIP-1559 did not increase gas fees — NFTs did
- An update on EIP-1559 adoption
- Scaling Ethereum on The Daily Gwei
- Ethereum.org governance page
- Private message sharing for ETH2 validators
- ETHOnline soon:
- Latest ‘Week in Ethereum’:
Check out our recently-published ‘Defi in Ether’ — biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.37 full of news from the ecosystem: $86B in DeFi, Arbitrum One is now live, MetaMask surpasses 10M MAUs, 0x API is now available on Avalanche, Dharma is live on Polygon, The RenVM Greycore is on testnet, KyberDMM launches on BSC, 1inch partners with BitPay, More details on how MIP7 is being implemented, and more!
Polkadot
- Kusama Parachain Auctions: Second Batch: Teams are competing to get a slot on the Kusama relay chain to start their own individual parachains.
- After winning the sixth parachain auction, Kilt is now being onboarded as Kusama’s seventh parachain (6-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine). Approximately 8,000 network stakeholders locked up KSM in favor. The momentous day is finally here: KILT Protocol is live.
- Participating in Crowdloans on Kusama and Polkadot: Information on how crowdloans work and how to safely participate has been posted on the Polkadot blog
- XCM: The Cross-Consensus Message Format: Gavin Wood has written up a primer on XCM, the cross-consensus messaging format.
- Part 2 of Gav’s series on XCM has been published.
- AMA: Polkadot for Beginners with Bill Laboon.
- On September 23–24 join Unfinished Live to hear from Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, Web3 foundation, and Parity, discuss a decentralized future and how new technologies can fulfill the promise of a decentralized web.
- Sub0, the Substrate Developer Conference, is taking place on 13–14 October this year.
- Latest Polkadot digest
Feel free to read our latest biweekly report on the Polkadot ecosystem vol.18: The second batch of Kusama auctions is well underway, Kilt has been onboarded as Kusama’s seventh parachain and went live, Gavin Wood has written up a primer on XCM, Khala rolled out Para-2 testnet, The Crust mainnet launched, Zenlink partners with the Manta Network, Microsoft Japan announces support in building the Astar & Shiden ecosystem, Humanode testnet soon, and more!
Avalanche
- Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital Lead $230M Investment in Avalanche Ecosystem.
- Avalanche DApps Can Now Access Decentralized Infrastructure Through Pocket Network: Avalanche users and developers are now able to take advantage of Pocket’s decentralized, reliable, and cost-effective node infrastructure.
- Pangolin Enters Avalanche Rush Program with $2M Allocation: Avalanche native DEX to join the program as part of native app allocation
- ParaSwap is Entering Avalanche Rush
- Winners of the Avalanche Developer Contest
- Topps Celebrates Baseball’s Rising Stars with MLB Inception NFT Collection on Avalanche
- Kalao Brings the Future of Interactive Virtual Reality and NFTs to Avalanche
- Last week in AVAX:
Algorand
- The Drone Racing League and Algorand Partner to Disrupt Sports and Gaming With Blockchain as the 2021–22 DRL World Championship Season Launches on NBC and Twitter
- Arrington Capital on How Algorand Will Illuminate The Dark Age of Blockchain: Learn about Arrington Capital’s take on why Algorand will help push blockchain technology into a new era.
- How Algorand is Building a Scalable Blockchain Ecosystem: Discover how Algorand is able to provide a scalable and sustainable blockchain ecosystem thanks to its innovative tech stack.
- Algorand Ecosystem Spotlight: AB2.Gallery: Learn about the new decentralized NFT marketplace, AB2.Gallery, which operates on the Algorand blockchain.
- SkyBridge and NAX Announces Groundbreaking Partnership to Accelerate the Growth of Decentralized Applications on Algorand
- e-Money Announces Integration with the Algorand Blockchain to Accelerate the Circulation of European Stablecoins
- Wyre to Enable Simple Payment Solutions and Accelerate DeFi Growth on Algorand
- Colombian Government selects Vitalpass, Co-created by Auna Ideas, as the Nation’s Official Digital Vaccination Passport
Cardano
- Cardano gains smart contract capability following ‘Alonzo’ hard fork: The latest upgrade ushers in an era of smart contract composability for the four-year-old network.
- Cardano Foundation announces new Board and welcomes two members: The Cardano Foundation announces the election of two new Board members: Mary Beth Buchanan and Andreas Eschbach.
- Cardano Summit 2021 coming soon:
Cosmos Network
- DeFi in Cosmos: Meet These 4 Cross Chains DEXs.
- Cosmos Video Contest Winners: DeFi’s growth in 2021 has been exponential, turning it into a sector now worth over $100 billion. Interchain Grantee Spotlight: How Bianjie Is Helping to Grow the Cosmos Ecosystem.
- Interchain Security is coming to Cosmos:
- Code with Us Series:
- Find the latest governance proposals here.
DFINITY
- The Internet Computer’s ‘Increased Canister Storage’ Roadmap Proposal Is Approved: The network’s community is actively directing the effort to make the network more efficient, faster, and easier to use for developers.
- DFINIHack Hackathon Announces Winning Internet Computer Projects
- Plug, a Crypto Wallet for ICP Tokens and Cycles, Surpasses 100,000 Users
Tezos
- Homebase is live on Tezos mainnet
- Tezos Community Reward Winners — August 2021: Announcing CRP winners for August
- Month at a Glance — August
- The latest issue of ‘The Baking Sheet’: Homebase’s launch, and the likes of Doja Cat dropping NFT’s on Tezos through recently launched NFT platform, OneOf.
- Arthur Breitman AMA 2021–09–14:
Synthetix
- The Mirfak Release: On September 13th, several new updates will be added to the protocol.
- Deprecating Low Volume L1 Synths: As part of our rollout on the Optimistic Ξthereum L2, a number of synths will be deprecated on L1 and subject to a re-listing process for L2.
- V2x Revisited.
- Perpetual Futures powered by Synthetix are launching on Kwenta soon. They will be running a massive futures trading competition that you won’t want to miss. Sign up here to be one of the first to know when it starts.
Akash Network
- End of Summer Update is out.
- Akash launched a liquidity mining campaign:
- Create a blog post on Blockchain Governance : Win AKT.
- Two meetups next week in NYC soon:
Celo
- Optics is Here: Optics is a new protocol for gas-efficient and trust-minimized interoperability. Its name is an acronym derived from its description: OPTimistic Inter-chain Communication Standard.
- cLabs Named as a Finalist in Global CBDC Competition
COTI
- Beyond Payments: COTI’s Growth Plan to Become a Next-Gen Financial Ecosystem
- Occam.fi Partners with COTI to Explore Strategic Co-Development Initiatives: Among other synergies, the partnership will explore bringing $ADA Payments to the OccamRazer Launchpad
- $COTI is Now Available on 1inch: COTI (ERC-20) is now listed and available to swap on the DEX Aggregator Protocol 1inch
- COTI AMA Recap — September 6th, 2021
- Crypto Volatility Index Newsletter — September 9th
- The Crypto Volatility Index & EPNS Partnership — Enabling Push Notifications for CVIs Protocol
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
Elrond
- The Maiar DeFi Wallet: A Powerful Web Extension For Internet-Scale DeFi
- Blazing Fast APIs For Internet Scale DeFi: Performance Optimization Via Refactoring And New Components
- Leading US Blockchain Infrastructure Provider Staked Is Now Offering Non-Custodial EGLD Delegation Services
- KuCoin Lists EGLD And Announces Strategic Integration Enabling Listing Of Elrond ESDT Tokens
- Groundbreaking AI-Generated Media Content Comes To Elrond Via HUMANS, Powered By Elrond Research Strategic Investment
- MASSIVE: US Citizens Can Now Purchase EGLD From Maiar
- Discover The Elrond Network Technology And Ecosystem Via Educational Resources By Blockchain Academy NewsCrypto
- Last week in EGLD:
Filecoin
- Filecoin News 26: Filecoin Network capacity surpasses 10 EiB, and more
- ION: A Path To Decentralized Identity: ION is building a solution on top of Bitcoin and IPFS to fix our fractured online identities.
- Decentralized Storage: Estuary, Web3.storage, and NFT.storage: Breaking down the different reasons to use Estuary vs. Web3.storage vs. NFT.storage
- The Future of Decentralized Social Media: Decentralizing social media is the latest evolution in the “forum” — a critical tool for human discussion, collaboration, and consensus.
The Graph
- Update on The Graph’s Permissionless Network: The latest on network adoption, core development, GIPs, and subgraph migration. The Graph Network has been live for over 9 months. Since then, it welcomed 2x new Core Dev teams, 160+ Indexers, over 2K Curators & nearly 7K Delegators. Read the full update to learn more about the decentralized network’s recent developments.
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.
ICON
- ICON Development Roadmap Update — August 2021: The long-awaited ICON 2.0 migration is nearing completion. The block import test run is at 100%. This is a huge milestone for the network and sets the path for the complete migration to take place in relatively short order. After testing and block import completion, the team estimates it will take around two weeks to prepare nodes and exchanges for the hard fork. At that point, ICON 1.0 will be stopped simultaneously at a predefined block height by a network proposal which will then mark the start of the ICON 2.0 era. The exact block height for the transition is currently being discussed.
- Introducing ICON’s Official Bounty Program, HX57.
- Sejong testnet has been upgraded:
IOST
- IOST Bi-Weekly Report | Huge Progress in Exchange Listing, NFTs, Cross-Chain, Airdrop & Much More
- IOST Collaborates with KnitFinance to Enable Cross-Chain Transactions & Create Market Options
- IOST Partners Rising Play2Earn Project Zodium to Boost NFTs & Blockchain Game Growth
- OKCoin Japan Exchange Announces Listing of IOST
- What is an $IOST MEMO and Why You Need It?
Kava
- Simple and Streamlined Access to the Kava Platform: Expanded Accessibility and A New Ramp for Onboarding
mStable:
- Metanauts Guide to Coordinape: Rewarding mStable core community.
- Episode 268: James Simpson, Founder, mStable: In this episode, Tegan Kline interviews James Simpson, the founder of mStable, a stablecoin automated market maker on Ethereum and Polygon. Before founding mStable, James was the first employee at Australian crypto hedge fund Apollo Capital, worked as a management consultant at KPMG, Shanghai, and later as a data analyst at KPMG, Melbourne. James studied foreign policy and economics at the University of Melbourne at Fudan University, Shanghai.
- Check out mStable’s latest proposals here.
- Idle Leagues partnership proposal with mStable:
Near Protocol
- MetaBUIDL Launch Highlights: MetaBUIDL is a global hackathon hosted by NEAR with a $1M prize pool. MetaBUIDL ushers in an era of “zero finance” where distributed computing invisibly powers all of the activities. Check out talks from NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin, Atelier Ventures founder Li Jin, Richard Muirhead,Managing partner of Fabric Ventures and more.
Oasis Network
- Oasis partners with API3 to bring off-chain data to the Oasis Network with a joint developer grant
- Oasis August Engineering Update
Orbs
- Orbs Coming to Solana: Solana will be the next chain for Orbs integration.
- How to Use the Orbs Fossil Farms & Extinction Pool on DinoSwap
- Introduction to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
- A Closer Look At CBDCs
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:
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:
Solana
- Anatoly Yakovenko talks decentralization, developer community at UDC 2021: The Solana Labs co-founder and CEO answered questions from the audience. Here’s the TLDR.
- The Solana validator community successfully completed a restart of Mainnet Beta after an upgrade to 1.6.25.
- IGNITION, the global Solana hackathon, is here.
StaFi
- StaFi Officially Announces rBNB Liquidity Solution: StaFi announces the launch of the rBNB solution, which solves the staking liquidity problem for the Binance Chain community.
- Research on Leveraged Staking
- Introduce The StaFi Governance Platform with Cooperation of Commonwealth
- StaFi Protocol Monthly-August Community Updates
- The Recap of AMA with RockX
Terra
- Introducing Project Dawn: Project Dawn has commenced as of today with a 5 million LUNA unlocked and distributed by the TFL Genesis wallet (market value $150M).
- Weekly Update TDP September 2 2021
- 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.
xDai
xDai Weekly Recap September 10, 2021:
- The latest bridge contracts have been audited by Chain Security. A number of issues were identified and remedied, and we look forward to deploying some exciting new bridge functionality. Details coming.
- POAP (Proof of Attendance Protocol) has been using xDai for scalability for a long time, and the project continues to grow with over 1M POAPs now minted on xDai.
- A new FOX/DAI pool was established on Honeyswap.
- And more!
0x project
- 0x API is now available on Avalanche: 0x API is live on Avalanche, aggregating liquidity across all existing sources — including Pangolin, SushiSwap and TraderJoe. Check out our documentation and start building on Avalanche with 0x API today.
- 0x + Celo partner to bring DeFi to 6 billion smartphone users worldwide: 0x establishes itself as a founding partner of DeFi for the People built on the Celo blockchain.
- 0x Ecosystem Update #14: Highlights, network insights, and news from across the 0x ecosystem — July / August 2021.
1inch
- The 1inch Network integrates with Hashflow: The integration offers top-quality trades for users, while opening access to deeper liquidity for 1inch.
- The 1inch Network partners with BitPay: Thanks to the partnership, BitPay users will get access to the 1inch dApp’s DEX aggregation functionality for the best deals across multiple liquidity sources.
- The 1inch Foundation compensated gas costs to 1inch dApp users in August: Gas cost refunds for those who used the 1inch dApp on Ethereum in August have been successfully paid out.
- Sergej Kunz, 1inch Network: “Decentralized exchanges and aggregators drive DeFi growth”
- The 1inch Network partners with Take My Muffin animated series
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