TL;DR
- The first network upgrade for the consensus layer (Eth2), Altair, will be hitting mainnet at epoch 74240 which is scheduled to occur on October 27th, 2021
- Polkadot is ready for parachain launch, auction dates proposed
- After winning the 11th parachain auction, Kintsugi is now being onboarded as Kusama’s 12th parachain [11-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine]
- Evmos was introduced, the EVM hub of Cosmos, making it easy for Smart Contracts to deploy and communicate within the Cosmos
- Avalanche network reaches $7B TVL. AVAX now available on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro
- Polygon’s number of unique daily active addresses has surpassed Ethereum’s for the first time on record. Check out Polygon PoS in numbers
- Lido Ethereum staking dashboard introduced. Users can now track their Lido staking deposits, daily rewards, average staking APR and much more — at the click of a button
- The Dfinity community is actively shaping the blockchain’s feature and upgrade roadmap. Among many proposed features is the highly anticipated “service nervous system,” or SNS, to enable tokenized governance for dapps running on IC
- Tezos has the second most developer interest in the industry according to the digital assets primer of Bank Of America. Also, Tezos is heading to South Beach with Tezos NFTs being showcased at Art Basel Miami Beach
- Equinox Staking rewards have been distributed. Over $1.2 Million were sent to Injective Mainnet wallets
- Columbus-5 is now officially live as the new Terra mainnet
- rSOL App is live on mainnet now. It will help SOL stakers enjoy better staking APR with efficient liquidity powered by rSOL voucher tokens
- The Celo Climate Collective, a community driven effort to fight climate change by tokenizing rainforests and other carbon sequestering assets, was introduced
- The Graph to integrate with decentralized data storage protocol Arweave
- The first Synthetix Treasury Council was elected alongside the other DAO’s within the Synthetix governance system
- ICON 2.0 mainnet upgrade in final stages as nodes and exchanges prepare for the hard fork
- Secret Network major upgrade Supernova coming soon
- CertiK has been selected by Kava Labs to provide enhanced security for the Kava Ecosystem
- ZilBridge is now live on the mainnet. This means users can now bridge over ETH, WBTC and USDT assets to the Zilliqa blockchain seamlessly
- The 1inch Network is integrated into Dharma
- BandChain’s Oracle is now live on Moonriver
- Filecoin Orbit 2021 has been announced
- Akash Product Roadmap 2022 is out
- First European car dealer to accept EGLD
- Cardano Summit 2021 summary
- In November 2021 join Decipher, the inaugural two-day experience featuring conversations, networking and hands-on sessions that explore future opportunities for blockchain-based solutions in DeFi, NFTs & more
- NEAR is launching a marketing competition and virtual conference with more than $1 million in prizes and funding. Taking place in November 2021
• And more!
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Ethereum 2.0
- Ethereum 2.0 is up and running smoothly! With about 250,000 active validators and thousands more queued up and waiting to join the network, the Ethereum 2.0
- Altair Mainnet Announcement: The first network upgrade for the consensus layer (eth2), Altair, will be hitting mainnet at epoch 74240 which is scheduled to occur on October 27th, 2021 at 10:56:23am UTC).
- What’s New in Eth2–8 October 2021: Altair is coming, Rocket Pool delayed, tales from The Merge workshop and more updates in this week’s eth2 recap.
- Finalized №29: Altair upgrade scheduled for October 27th on the consensus layer with information on the merge interop specs and coming devnets.
- Virgil Griffith Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy Charge in North Korea Sanctions Case: Virgil Griffith, the Ethereum developer charged with violating U.S. sanctions law, has pleaded guilty in an agreement with federal prosecutors.
- $1 Million Dollars for Public Goods: In the next month Optimism will give away $1 million to Ethereum public goods for their amazing contributions to the community.
- Lido Ethereum staking dashboard introduced: Users can now track their Lido staking deposits, daily rewards, average staking APR and much more — at the click of a button.
- Visa Building Payments Network: The Ethereum-based layer 2 payments network would use state channel technology and is first focused on CBDCs but can be generalized for other assets.
- Prysmatic Labs’ Statement on Client Diversity — Raul Jordan via PryLabs
- Below the Surface of EIP-1559 — T via Data Always
- Ethereum is actually delivering on the pre-2016 promises of Bitcoin
- The Ethereum ecosystem is hiring interns and apprentices, plus offering mentorship
- The Golden Age of Ethereum — The Daily Gwei
- The Technical Benefits of EIP-1559 — Yuga Cohler via Coinbase Blog
- Why ETH Will Hit $20K — Nilo Orlandi via Bankless
- A Beginner’s Guide to Ethereum Scaling Solutions — William Peaster via DeFi Pulse
- A Vision of Ethereum: 2025 — Polynya
- Latest ‘Week in Ethereum’:
Check out our recently-published ‘Defi in Ether’ — biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.39 full of news from the ecosystem: $90B in DeFi, Aave Arc gears up for launch, Yearn goes multichain with Fantom, Dharma introduces cross-chain quoting, Fei v2 announced, Alchemix roadmap, mStable’s Q4 roadmap, 0x turns 5, Raiden mainnet soon, Loopring quarterly report, Ren monthly updates, and more!
Polkadot
- After winning the 11th parachain auction, Kintsugi is now being onboarded as Kusama’s 12th parachain [11-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine].
- XCM Part III: Execution and Error Management: Part III of Gavin Wood’s series on Polkadot’s XCM is out (this time on execution and error management).
- Gavin Wood spoke at Mainnet 2021 in NY end of September:
- Introducing Polkadot Gifts: The Easiest Way to Send DOT
- Sub0, the Substrate Developer Conference, is taking place on 13–14 October.
- Polkadot Hackathon: APAC Registration Form. The Polkadot Hackathon Series kicking off in Asia Pacific (APAC) on October 22.
Feel free to read our latest biweekly report on the Polkadot ecosystem vol.21: Altair and Parallel-Heiko have been onboarded as Kusama’s parachains, Gavin Wood’s XCM Part III on execution and error management, Ocean’s on Moonriver, Humanode testnet is live, Clover web wallet introduced, cBridge 2.0 announced, Crust Network collaborates with Elrond Network, Acala launched the first liquid staking product in the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem, One year of Darwinia’s mainnet, and more!
Avalanche
- Avalanche network reaches $7B TVL
- Jason M Peterson Launches NFT of Kanye West Mural on Avalanche.
- Topps Launches 2021 MLB Series 2 Baseball NFT Collection: Flagship Topps Product becomes 2nd MLB NFT Collection Drop on Avalanche
- Trader Joe Enters Avalanche Rush with an Incentives Program up to $20M
- Avalanche (AVAX) Listed on Coinbase and Coinbase Pro: AVAX now available on leading cryptocurrency venue
- Curve went live on Avalanche with an incentives program.
- Last week in AVAX:
Algorand
- Accelerated Vesting Complete: The Algorand Foundation announces the completion of EIP- 11252019AF, the Accelerated Vesting Program linked to the Algorand Early Backer/ Node Runner program. As of today, October 5th, approx. 3.1Bn Algo linked to this program has been vested. As a result of this year’s multiple accelerated vesting events, circulating supply of the Algo is now ~6.15Bn Algo, with a liquid supply of ~6.7Bn Algo.
- Algorand Virtual Machine Upgrade Fuels Simple, Even More Powerful Smart ContractsAlgorand Foundation launches Algorand Centres of Excellence Programme (ACE): The ACE programme is being launched as an university engagement initiative that strives to make a long-lasting, positive impact in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. As a commitment to Algorand Foundation’s mission, the ACE programme is being launched with a budget of 100 million ALGO token for the next ten years. Universities and non-profit research organisations can apply for funding to cover the cost of the set-up and operations of a centre for three to five years. Selected centres may differ by scope, duration, performers and number of institutions involved.
- Algorand Foundation Announces Grant to LoginID: The Algorand Foundation announced, support for a grant awarded to LoginID, a FIDO-certified authentication provider. The grant will allow LoginID to research building a technical path towards enabling its suite of APIs and SDKS for the Algorand ecosystem. For Algorand developers and enterprises this means utilizing FIDO-certified authentication for a one touch execution of a smart contract, which will not require plugins or downloads to complete. Integration of FIDO also provides the benefit of ‘Transaction Confirmation’, a digital signature and receipt binding the individual’s biometric to the transaction.
- Kollektor.io Awarded Grant to Develop an NFT Service for Social Art Platforms
- The Algorand Foundation welcomes Staci Warden to the Algorand Foundation Board of Directors: The Algorand Foundation welcomes Staci Warden to the Algorand Foundation Board of Directors.
- Algorand Provides a Truly Developer-Friendly Blockchain Ecosystem: Here’s How
- Learn Blockchain Development: How to Build Your First DApp on Algorand: Building a simple decentralized application (DApp) on Algorand is arguably one of the best ways to learn blockchain development.
- In November 2021 join Decipher, the inaugural two-day experience featuring conversations, networking and hands-on sessions that explore future opportunities for blockchain-based solutions in DeFi, NFTs & more.
Cardano
- Cardano Summit 2021 summary: Governance is the next big thing. Charles Hoskinson says that to continue to grow the blockchain industry needs to finish what it has started
- Cardano Unveils Multiple Strategic Partnerships at the Cardano Summit 2021: The Cardano Foundation has announced a number of strategic partnerships that will drive further adoption and utilization of the Cardano blockchain following its highly anticipated launch of smart contract capabilities earlier this month.
- Acuant’s new strategic partnership with IOG and Atala PRISM to offer enhanced security in the DeFi space: New capability will eliminate bad actors and strengthen security by offering fraud prevention and anti-money laundering technology.
Cosmos Network
- Cosmos Engineering Updates: July and August
- Introducing HackAtom VI — The Biggest Hackathon in Cosmos History with $1,000,000 of ATOM in Prizes
- Earn ATOM for Providing Liquidity — Farming Incentives on Gravity DEX
- Introducing Evmos, the EVM Compatible Hub on Cosmos: Evmos was introduced, the EVM hub of Cosmos, making it easy for Smart Contracts to deploy and communicate within the Cosmos. By the end of the year, the team will have full EVM-compatibility in the Cosmos.
- Manage All Your Keys with One Seed Phrase and Keep Their Identities Separate: Confio proposes an important upgrade that allows the convenience of using just one seed phrase to manage all your keys, yet keeps their identities separate, even on Cosmos chains. It’s called the Cosmos Derivation Path Spec Proposal. Confio’s proposal changes the way that keys are generated within the Cosmos ecosystem.
- October Codefest is here: Tendermint presented October Codefest, a month-long virtual event to celebrate open-source software development and expand the Cosmos community.
- Learn to Build Your Own Blockchain with the Starport Community Call
- What’s Coming to Cosmos Hub — AMA Recap with Billy Rennekamp
- Find the latest governance proposals here.
Check out our latest biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 56 covering the following topics: October Codefest is here, Prepare yourself for a new level of privacy thanks to the Cosmos Derivation Path upgrade by Confio, Ethermint is now Evmos, Juno launches mainnet, e-Money mainnet upgrade is complete, BandChain Phase 2 on the mainnet, Terra’s Columbus-5 launches, Kava is launching the $185M Ignition Fund, and more!
DFINITY
- The Internet Computer’s NNS Front-End Dapp Is Now Open Source
- How the Service Nervous System (SNS) Will Bring Tokenized Governance to On-Chain Dapps
Tezos
- Tezos has the second most developer interest in the industry according to the digital assets primer of Bank Of America: In the graphs that are included in the report, we see that Tezos scores the second-highest on the developer interest scale. Out of the 30 cryptocurrencies, only Ethereum scores higher than Tezos.
- Month at a Glance — September
- An Important Tooling Platform for the Tezos Ecosystem — TezTool
- TzFlow — A Useful Tool for Displaying On-Chain Data
- The latest issue of ‘The Baking Sheet’: Tezos is taking its talents to Miami.
Synthetix
- The Sargas Release: This release brings some new features to Synthetix on the Optimistic Ethereum L2: SIP-135 — L2 Shorting: This SIP brings shorting capabilities (that have been available on L1) to L2.
- The Inaugural Treasury Council: The first Synthetix Treasury Council was elected alongside the other DAO’s within the Synthetix governance system. As per SIP-155 the Treasury Council has been established to undertake many of the responsibilities of the now-dissolved synthetixDAO. It was one of the last remaining areas of centralisation and this transition marks the end of an important but opaque function which the synthetixDAO, as a proxy for the previous foundation structure was performing.
Akash Network
- Akash Product Roadmap 2022 is out
- Supermini Update
- Opera has partnered with ixo to ship Cosmos SDK-based Web3 wallet directly into their browsers. Meaning, in a not-so-distant future, millions of Opera’s users will soon be able to transact with AKT directly from their browsers.
- Governance 101
Celo
- Announcing the 30 teams of Celo Camp Batch 4
- Introducing the Celo Climate Collective
- Hope for Haiti Chooses Celo and Emerging Impact as First Blockchain Partners to Deliver Digital Humanitarian Aid: The Celo Alliance for Prosperity, together with Emerging Impact shares that Hope for Haiti, a humanitarian organization working to improve the quality of life for Haitian people will leverage the benefits of blockchain technology for the first time in its community healthcare program.
- Growing the Celo Foundation Board
Band Protocol
- Band Protocol has successfully launched BandChain Phase 2 on the Mainnet: Band Protocol has successfully launched BandChain Phase 2 on the Mainnet, upgrading from GuanYu to Laozi which supports streamed revenue for data providers and IBC integrations.
- BCIP-4: Enable IBC Oracle Official Proposal: BandChain Phase 2 Proposal 4 is now live to enable one of the key features of Phase 2 upgrade: IBC Oracle.
- Moonriver Bolsters its Ecosystem Scalability through Band Protocol Integration
Elrond
- 2,000 Petabytes Of Unstoppable IPFS Storage Will Be Available For Elrond NFTs And dApps Via Decentralized Storage Solutions From Crust
- Buy Your Next Car With EGLD: Autoworld Becomes The First European Car Dealer To Accept EGLD Payments
- EGLD To Become One Of The First Cross-Chain Assets To Collateralize Stablecoins Issued On Cardano Via The Ardana Stablecoin Hub
- Interoperable dApps With Multichain Liquidity To Be Made Possible On The Elrond Network Via “Composable Finance”
- Privacy Preserving DeFi Products And Interchain Swaps For Elrond Assets Via Panther Protocol
- Last week in EGLD:
Filecoin
- Filecoin News 28: Filecoin Orbit is Here! Celebrating 1 Year of Filecoin Mainnet.
- Filecoin Plus: How Storage Providers Can Engage with Verified Clients: Filecoin Plus adds a layer of social trust to the Filecoin network to incentivize useful storage and facilitates deals with verified clients.
- Reviving Halo 2 with Protocol Labs, Filecoin Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, and Electric Coin Co. The four ecosystems come together to explore the future of recursive zero knowledge proofs.
The Graph
- The Graph to Integrate with Decentralized Data Storage Protocol Arweave: Indexing Arweave will open exciting prospects for the future of permanent data storage.
- The Graph talks decentralized NFTs and web3 at the Dubai World NFT & DeFi Show: Solutions engineer Pranav Maheshwari gave a keynote at the conference on how the protocol is using web3 infrastructure to decentralize NFT creation and ownership.
- Indexer Cut Simplification Proposal
Injective
- Injective Update: September 2021: Some highlights include the launch of the injective Bridge and API, Injective insurance funds, new trade and earn options, and multiple validators as well as projects joining the Injective ecosystem.
- Equinox Staking Rewards Distribution: Equinox Staking rewards have been distributed. Over $1.2 Million were sent to Injective Mainnet wallets.
- Injective Launches Unified Governance Interface with Commonwealth
IRIS Network
- Find the latest IRISNet proposals here.
ICON
- ICON Development Roadmap Update — September 2021
- ICONFi now supports ERC20 ICX for the Ethereum DeFi Ecosystem
Kava
- Kava Is Partnering with CertiK to Secure The Kava Ecosystem
- Kava Labs Selects Cosmostation as First Recipient of $185M Ignition Fund
- The Kava Meme Competition Is Live
mStable:
- mStable’s Q4 Roadmap: This post covers a list of short term goals that the core contributor group is working on along with our Metanauts, and includes some soon-to-be-made proposals which will be voted on by Meta governors. Highlights include changes to the MTA emissions, Factory Feeder Pools and targeting of new EVM compatible ecosystems.
- Check out mStable’s latest proposals here.
- Weekly stats:
Near Protocol
- NEAR Launches $1 Million Marketing Competition and Virtual Conference: NEAR is launching a marketing competition and virtual conference with more than $1 million in prizes and funding. Taking place between November 1–30 2021, Gen C 2021 is for anyone looking to help solve some of crypto, and tech’s biggest challenges.
- Astro Launches on NEAR To Supercharge DAO Communities
- The NEAR | CON Community Swag Contest Has Begun
Persistence
Polygon (previously Matic)
- Polygon’s number of unique daily active addresses has surpassed Ethereum’s for the first time on record
- Polygon PoS in Numbers
- Polygon Bolsters Augur Betting Platform With $1M Liquidity Program
- Polygon Extends $1 million Grant to QuickSwap to Boost Liquidity on the Platform
- Polygon Grants Hackathon — Quadratic Funding Round
- Sails Up On The OpenSea: NFT Marketplace OpenSea Comes To Polygon
- The IDEX v3 Sandbox Environment is LIVE on Polygon testnet.
- Check out the latest Polygon integrations here.
Secret Network
- Revealing Shinobi: Bridging Bitcoin to Secret Network: Announcing the testnet launch of Shinobi: a new protocol for bridging Bitcoin and Secret Network. Learn more about Shinobi and the arrival of Secret Bitcoin (sBTC).
- Switcheo Research — Secret Network
- Secret Network major upgrade Supernova coming soon:
Solana Network
- Monthly community update | September 2021
- How Solana is like Netflix: Kyle Samani on the ‘Business Breakdown’ Podcast
- IGNITION, the global Solana hackathon, is here.
StaFi
- StaFi Q4 Roadmap Exploration on a open staking derivative platform
- StaFi Protocol Monthly-September Community Updates: In September, the rMATIC and rBNB App were successfully launched on the StaFi mainnet. At the same time, preparations for launching the rSOL App were completed and the official launch is expected in early October.
Terra
Columbus brings:
- LUNA Hits All-Time Highs After Terra Network Upgrade: The Columbus-5 upgrade has altered the network’s token economics to place “deflationary pressure” on LUNA.
- You can now access the Terra Station dashboard and features like staking directly from the Terra Station website: station.terra.money
xDai
xDai Weekly Recap October 8, 2021
- POSDAO staking is another example of a collective, gamified experience for participants, where delegators vie for a high APY as they protect the xDai chain.
- APY.Vision provides valuable insight into LP positions, and this week they announced an xDai integration.
- POKT Network helped with DF scaling, and their latest offering is full archive node support for xDai users.
- And more!
Zilliqa
- ZilBridge is now live on the mainnet: This means users can now bridge over ETH, WBTC and USDT assets to the Zilliqa blockchain seamlessly.
- Zilliqa Monthly Newsletter — September 2021
0x project
1inch
- The 1inch Network is integrated into Dharma: All swaps on the popular Ethereum wallet are now powered by 1inch.
- 1inch teamed up with Unstoppable Domains as a founding member of The Wallet Alliance to accelerate the adoption of wallet payments and change the way crypto is sent around the world.
- How to pick the most suitable platform with liquidity pools?
- Types of DeFi, their pros and cons
- Top 5 most common user mistakes in DeFi: In this post, the team discusses the most common mistakes made by 1inch users. Learn from them and don’t repeat these mistakes!
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