TL;DR
- Ethereum Arrow Glacier upgrade on December 9th. Don’t forget to update your Ethereum clients
- Cosmos Hub Vega upgrade is just behind the corner
- Congratulations to Moonbeam Network and Astar on winning Polkadot’s parachain auctions! Parallel has been in the lead the entire Ending Period
- After winning Kusama’s 16th auction, Subsocial will be onboarded as Kusama’s 17th parachain
- As part of its commitment to supporting the growth and development of the Algorand ecosystem, and in the context of the early completion of the inaugural Node Runner program (due to accelerated vesting), the Algorand Foundation is launching a Community Relay Node running program, to run in parallel with their Relay Node Pilot program
- There is now 1M delegated Cardano wallets
- Solana’s monthly community update is out
- Hangzhou — Tezos’ 8th protocol upgrade is here. Rarible announced it will integrate Tezos into its NFT marketplace
- The Terra Delegation Program (TDP) is back
- The first Injective Bridge IBC connection to Terra is live
- NEAR Foundation launches new Validator Program to further decentralize the network
- The Maiar DEX solution is now ready and in review
- A vast majority of STAKE holders supported the xDai x Gnosis token merger
- Sienna Network and Band Protocol partner on real-time price data for SiennaLend
- Oasis Protocol to launch on Wormhole Network Following Freshly Announced $160M Defi Fund
- StaFi rToken app has integrated Tidal’s insurance for rETH holders
- 0x + Celo expand partnership to allocate $4.5M in joint funding to the 0x DAO
- Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II is here
- The Graph’s beta integration with Aurora chain goes live
- Defi Kingdoms comes to Avalanche with its JEWEL token
- The last Celo’s Kuneco of 2021 is happening next week
- And the countdown for IOST Yokozuna begins
- IRISnet Monthly Update was published
- The 1inch dApp added to Ledger Live
- Secret Network Ecosystem Roadmap update is here
- ICON Development Roadmap update is out
- Orbs is now available on Serum
- Zilliqa Monthly Newsletter was published
- 7.8K+ members have already registered for Polygon zkday
- pSTAKE public sale on December 16
- And much more!
Top 10 Crypto Assets by Staked Value
Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates
Ethereum 2.0
- Last week was the Ethereum Beacon Chain’s first birthday (on December 1st) and what a first year it has been. There’s been over 8 million ETH staked, over 260,000 validators spun up, the Altair network upgrade went live, and work on The Merge is progressing swimmingly.
- Arrow Glacier is coming: The upgrade will go live on the Ethereum mainnet at block around December 9th. The only change included is one to push back the difficulty bomb to June 2022.
- AllCoreDevs Update 008: Arrow Glacier is coming (update your nodes!), updates on the Kintsugi Merge effort and coverage of EIP-4488.
- What’s New in Eth2–3 December 2021: Updates on the Beacon Chain, The Merge, Staking, MEV and more in the latest edition of Ben’s newsletter.
- Finalized №32: Updates on the latest merge efforts with Kintsugi and a reminder to upgrade your eth1 nodes for the Arrow Glacier network upgrade.
- EF and UNICEF Partnership Update: Aya from the Ethereum Foundation share the story of the EF and UNICEF’s journey together, to recognize some of the achievements of their partnership, and to speak a bit more about what’s next.
- A Step-by-Step Roadmap for Scaling Rollups with Calldata Expansion and Sharding — Vitalik Buterin
- ZKOPRU Live on Testnet: ZKOPRU is now live on the Gorli testnet and users can deposit assets in to make private transfers.
- Lighthouse Update #38: Lots of updates from the Sigma Prime team including post-merge consensus sync research, post-merge MEV and more.
- Flashbots Eth2 Working Group Announced: Flashbots is putting together an Eth2 working group to tackle MEV in a post-merge world.
- State of Research: Increasing Censorship Resistance of Transactions Under Proposer/Builder Separation (PBS) — Vitalik Buterin
- A summary of the Ethereum sharding roadmap
- The effect of EIP-1559 visualized
- Ethereum is inherently political as a confrontation to legacy institutions
- Detailed pie-chart of the ETH genesis allocations
- Why EIP-4488 is good for Ethereum
- Decentralized Ethereum 2.0 Staking with Rocket Pool | Darren Langley & Dave Rugendyke — Bankless
- Rollup-centric Ethereum Roadmap: November 2021 Update — Polynya
- Scaling Ethereum & Crypto for a Billion Users — Justin Mart & Connor Dempsey via Coinbase Blog
- The Tokenomics Episode: Why ‘EIP 1559 Is Like Catnip for Investors’ — Unchained
- Compare live TPS of Ethereum and L2’s/sidechains
- Check how much ETH you’ve burned
- Latest ‘Week in Ethereum’:
Check out our recently-published ‘Defi in Ether’ — biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.43 full of news from the ecosystem: $104B in DeFi, Bancor v3 unveiled, Zapper reaches 1M MAUs, Perpetual Protocol v2 launched, xDai and Gnosis merger is going to go through, Ren’s Host 2 Host is live on mainnet, 1inch grabs $175M in token sale, 0x + Celo expand partnership, Private beta of Sulu on Enzyme before Christmas, and more!
Polkadot
- Congratulations to Moonbeam Network on winning Polkadot’s second auction! Moonbeam will be onboarded at block #8179200 [Dec. 18] at the beginning of lease 6 with the other first 5 auction winners. Over 200K network stakeholders locked up DOT in favor
- Astar won Polkadot’s third auction. Congrats!
- Parallel has been in the lead the entire Ending Period.
- After winning Kusama’s 16th auction, Subsocial will be onboarded as Kusama’s 17th parachain [16-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine] at the start of lease 18. Over 11.9K network stakeholders locked up KSM in favor!
Feel free to read our latest biweekly report on the Polkadot ecosystem vol.25: Moonbeam wins Polkadot’s 2 parachain auction, Genshiro is being onboarded as Kusama’s 15 parachain, Meet Edgeware’s Kabocha parachain candidate for Kusama network, Humanode testnet V2 on December 8, Chainlink price feeds are live on Moonriver, Crust Network partners with Flow, Composable Finance released its whitepaper, Dock’s roadmap is out, Raze Network roadmap V2 introduced, Kilt announced new additions to the ecosystem, and more!
Avalanche
- The Moralis Avalanche Hackathon is Now Live
- DeFi Kingdoms to Expand to Avalanche with New Realm, Crystalvale
- Avalanche is now live on Float Capital
- Avalanche Data is now Available on Nansen: Nansen users can now access a rich suite of data across the Avalanche blockchain.
- Fireblocks Launches Support For Avalanche
- Alpha Finance Lab, Joins Avalanche Rush with $6 Million Allocation
Algorand
- Community Relay Node Program: As part of its commitment to supporting the growth and development of the Algorand ecosystem, and in the context of the early completion of the inaugural Node Runner program (due to accelerated vesting), the Algorand Foundation is launching a Community Relay Node running program, to run in parallel with their Relay Node Pilot program.
- Key Dates For Algorand Governance Upcoming: A number of key dates for the end of the current Governance Period ( G1 ) and the start of the next Governance Period ( G2 ).
- Hallar.io receives grant award to integrate Algorand’s ecosystem on Hallar platform
- Mintdropz NFT Marketplace Receive Grant Support from Algorand Foundation
- Borderless Capital Announces the Launch of $500M Algo Fund II
- Flipside Crypto Awarded Grant Award to Develop Community-Enabled Analytics Solution
- Algorand Foundation pioneers Defi 2.0 with Algo Option Vaults on ThetaNuts
- Asalp.io Receives Algorand Foundation Grant Award
- GreenClimateDAO Set to Unlock the Power of the Crowd to Fight Climate Change
- Algofi Raises $2.8m to Build Decentralized Lending Market
- Borderless Capital Announces The Launch Of $500M ALGO Fund II
- MAPay partners with Verida to Implement Decentralized Healthcare Network in Bermuda on Algorand
- Algomint Opens BTC and ETH Floodgates to Algorand, the Blockchain Best Poised for Mass Adoption
- Former Citi Top Trading Executive Launches Hivemind, a $1.5B Venture to Institutionalize Crypto Investing
- PlanetWatch Selects City Of Miami To Deploy Air Quality Monitoring Network
- ClimateTrade Powers Carbon-Negative Blockchain Initiatives at Decipher and Art Basel
- New UNLOX Initiatives to Bring Corporate Value and Millions of Participants to the Frictionless Economy on Algorand
Cardano
- The AGIX ERC20 converter testnet is now live: A public testnet is available for you to try out the migration of AGIX tokens to the Cardano ecosystem
- Ardana, Cardano’s stablecoin hub, partners with NEAR Protocol to allow asset transfers between the two blockchains; Ardana will provide the bridging infrastructure. The agreement will also enable both networks to discover new development opportunities across the blockchain ecosystem.
- Slow and steady wins the race: network evolution for network growth
- There is now 1M delegated Cardano wallets
- Cardano Foundation Fireside Chat — November 2021
Cosmos Network
- Cosmos Hub Vega Testnet Update: Cosmos Hub Vega upgrade is just behind the corner.
- Cosmos governance submitted Proposal #59 to adopt Gaia v6.0.0, which includes a number of updates, fixes and new modules. Voting has started and ends on Dec.12, 2021.
- NFTs Travel From WenChang Chain to Ethereum for the First Time Through #IBCGang Member IRISnet
- Cosmos in India: 4 Key Projects Paving the Way for Innovation
- Cosmos Around the World — Catch the Highlights
- Announcing the Official New and Improved Cosmos Store
- Find the latest governance proposals here.
Check out our latest biweekly update on Cosmos ecosystem vol. 60 covering the following topics: HackAtomVI is live, Secret Network and Ki Foundation welcomed to the IBC Gang, Interchain Security is coming to the Cosmos Hub soon, Evmos testnet is up, Akash partners with Polygon, Polygon unveils Miden, Oasis collabs with Band Protocol, Althea introduced the World’s Smartest Router, The BSC network upgrade tomorrow, and more!
DFINITY
- Introducing the Ledger Internet Computer (ICP) App for Nano Wallets
- Integrating Ledger Nano With the NNS Front-End Dapp: User Manual
- DeFi Boom Coming: Internet Computer Smart Contracts Can Now Transfer ICP Tokens
Solana
- Monthly community update | November 2021
- Solana’s Energy Use Report: November 2021
- Proof of History: How Solana brings time to crypto
- Crowny, an advertising platform that allows users to reach their target demographic, partnered with Raydium, a leading AMM and DeFi application, to migrate to the Solana blockchain.
- Bonfida, a full product suite that bridges the gap between Serum, Solana, and the user, announced the launch of Jabber, an on-chain messaging application built on Solana.
Synthetix
- The Atria Release: On December 3, the Atria released. Here’s what’s included in this release: SIP-192: Fee Pool Accounting Error Fix and Reimbursement: Fixes an error where fees from WrapperFactory are double-counted.
- Debt Pool Synthesis: This post details the upcoming Debt Pool Synthesis feature that will introduce fungibility between L1 and L2 Synthetix synths.
- Futures Update: An update on the current state of Synthetix perpetual futures.
Terra
- Terra Delegation Program 2022 Round 1: Applications
- Native UST and LUNA transfers from Terra to Injective via IBC are now live.
- Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Chiron has raised a $50 million fund dedicated to backing projects on the Terra blockchain.
- NFT support is now live on Terra Station
Tezos
- Rarible announced it will integrate Tezos into its NFT marketplace, allowing it to bring a wave of new creators and collectors.
- The latest issue of ‘The Baking Sheet’: Hangzhou and the significance of this upgrade for the Tezos network.
- A Closer Look into Popular PFP Projects on Tezos
Aave
- Latest Aave News: v3 Licensing Snapshot, Add G-UNI to the AMM Market, Helsinki, aKIDNEY, and more.
- Follow the Aave governance forum.
Akash Network
- IBC: What You Need to Know
- Akash and Polygon Offer Decentralized Infrastructure to dApp Developers
- The Future of Decentralized Cloud Computing
- Thoughts after my 3-week experience of Akash
Celo
- Announcing the Grand Prize Winners and Awardees of Celo Camp — Batch 4
- The last Kuneco of 2021 is happening next week
- Introducing the Celo Climate Collective: 22 projects were submitted under Celo’s ‘green’ track, playing their part to use the power of blockchain to help sustain our environment.
Band Protocol
- Sienna Network and Band Protocol partner on real-time price data for SiennaLend
- Quantum-resistant QANplatform Integrates Band Protocol
Elrond
- The Maiar DEX upgrade is live
- Elrond Public Town Hall Meeting — 1st of December
- Last week in EGLD:
Filecoin
- Filecoin News 32: The Projects Building the Next Wave of Web3 Developer Tools
- Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II: Gaming and the Metaverse: 3D art galleries, play-to-earn, derivative NFTs, and more — explore the gaming and metaverse projects from Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator II.
- The deadline for the Chainlink x Filecoin Dev Grant has been extended to December 17.
The Graph
- Historical Ethereum Data Access After EIP-4444: The Graph fills the gap left by EIP-4444 for dapps by indexing historical data from genesis and serving queries for that data.
- The Graph’s beta integration with Aurora chain goes live: The Graph, the indexing and query layer of web3, has announced the launch of its beta-hosted service integration with Aurora.
Injective
- The First Injective Premier Metaverse Listing: GuildFi: Injective announced its first premier metaverse listing of GuildFi ($GF). Starting now you can begin to deposit funds onto the Injective Chain for zero gas fees
- Gas Free Deposit Program Launch: Injective is launching gas free deposits have started
- Injective November Update: Mainnet and Astro Incentive Program Launch
- ETH/USDT Perpetual Market Relaunch
IRIS Network
- IRISnet Monthly Update: 2021.11 — Technology & Ecosystem & Community Recap
- NFTs Travel From WenChang Chain to Ethereum through IRISnet to Support Global Commerce
- Find the latest IRISNet proposals here.
ICON
- ICON Development Roadmap Update — November 2021: With the successful launch of ICON 2.0 in early November, the team resumed work on BTP integrations, Java SCORE support, IISS upgrades, and more. Read more about ICON progress in November below.
IOST
- Yokozuna Finance App Live, Token Launch Imminent! Sumo, NFT, & DeFi Entering The IOST Dojo
- IOST Bi-Weekly Report | OKCoinJapan Becomes an IOST Servi Node & More NFT-DeFi Coming to IOST
- And the countdown for Yokozuna begins:
Kava
- The Loan Wars: Factions
- Using Keplr Wallet on Kava
- Formation.Fi to Bring Smart Yield Farming to The Kava Ecosystem
- Kava 9 Is Coming: IBC and More: The Kava 9 mainnet upgrade is coming, and it’s bringing a number of exciting changes aimed at expanding the Kava Ecosystem by adding new ways for users and projects to bring their assets to Kava. Chief among these is the upgrade to version 44 of the Cosmos SDK, which will implement the Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). This will allow holders of all IBC-enabled assets to seamlessly bring their assets to Kava and earn with them on Kava’s best-in-class products. Existing Kava users will also gain access to an array of new in-demand assets to use in the Kava Ecosystem. The targeted launch timeframe for the Kava 9 upgrade is late Q4 2021 to Q1 2022.
mStable
- mStable launches mUSD/RAI Feeder Pool: mStable launches new mUSD/RAI Feeder Pool with a non US dollar pegged asset. RAI is a decentralised and permissionless stable asset that is not pegged to the US dollar. MTA rewards started on 6th December and will be capped for the first few weeks to roll out this pool gradually.
- mStable ecosystem integrates with APY Finance: APY.Finance has integrated mStable’s Curve-musd pool within the APY.Finance yield farming portfolio. $APY governance token holders voted nearly unanimously to add the musd pool to the APY.Finance platform, with over 5.5m $APY tokens used to participate in the proposal.
- AMA with Symphony Finance — mStable
- Check out mStable’s latest proposals here.
Near Protocol
- NEAR Foundation Launches New Validator Program To Further Decentralize the Network: NEAR Foundation is happy to announce they’re making some changes to increase the number of validators who can take part in securing the NEAR network. With the introduction of a validator selection algorithm change, set to go live in mid-December, 2021, they expect the seat price to decrease significantly, allowing more capable validators to join the NEAR validator community.
- NEAR CLI 3.0.0 Released
- NEAR Launches 1,000 Teacher Education Program
- Decentralized Storage for dApp Developers
- deadmau5 Launches NFT Partnership with Mintbase and NEAR
- NEAR Sharding Rollout and Aurora IDO Postmortems
- NEAR Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Electron Labs, a project that helps blockchains seamlessly communicate with each other, to improve cross-chain security.
- Flux, a cross-chain oracle and oracle aggregator, launches on NEAR Protocol.
Oasis Network
- Oasis Protocol to Launch on Wormhole Network following freshly announced $160M Defi fund: Oasis users will be able to use the Wormhole bridge to move tokenized assets seamlessly across blockchains.
- NFTb is all in on the metaverse with native integration to the Oasis Network
- Oasis blazes the trail for DeFi 2.0 in new partnership with ThetaNuts
- The $160m Ecosystem Fund Event
Orbs
- Orbs is Now Live on Serum
- November Update
- Could Decentralization Transform the Art Market?
- Further Expansion on Avalanche: Orbs Goes Live on Snowball
Persistence
- Community Newsletter #14 — November 2021: November was a momentous month for the Persistence ecosystem. The team continued to push forward with theor pSTAKE roadmap, raising $10 million to bootstrap the protocol, with pSTAKE’s TVL rising to $32 million this past month. The Persistence team officially introduced assetMantle (inter-chain NFT marketplace framework) and the assetMantle testnet was launched. Meanwhile, Comdex launched their mainnet. In addition, the team introduced the validator delegation program for assetMantle amid overwhelming support from the validator community, receiving over 420+ responses. The Persistence team also continued to lead the discussion on DeFi, NFTs and liquid staking, appearing in multiple podcasts and interviews.
- Persistence’s native token, XPRT, is now supported on Keplr wallet.
Polygon
- Built the next web3 unicorn in India with Polygon LEAP 2021 Accelerator
- The Best of Both Worlds: ClayStack Brings Liquid Staking to Polygon
- Polygon Grants Hackathon concludes with a BANG
- Polygon and Wanchain Join Forces, Usher in New Era of Blockchain Interoperability
- Wintermute Announces $20M Fund To Bootstrap Polygon Dapp Development
- What’s new in matic.js v3
- ZKVerse: A Gentle Introduction to Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Leading liquid staking protocol, Lido, will add Polygon to its platform. Users will be able to stake their MATIC and use stMATIC on the secondary market.
- Check out the latest Polygon integrations here.
Secret Network
- Secret Network Ecosystem Roadmap — December Update: The Supernova upgrade has finally been deployed, and now the Secret community prepares for an explosion of application growth — powered by Secret NFTs and Secret DeFi
StaFi
- StaFi rToken App Has Integrated Tidal’s Insurance for rETH Holders: rETH holders could directly buy coverage on rETH DApp with the FIS and USDC tokens on Polygon.
- StaFi Protocol Monthly-November Community Updates
THORChain
- Dev Update #118-#119: THORChain Dev Update for Weeks 118–119, 22 Nov — 05 Dec; Liquidity Caps, MCCN Updates, Community Updates, and more.
xDai
xDai Weekly Newsletter December 03, 2021:
- A vast majority of STAKE holders (both in stake weight & number of voters) support the xDai | Gnosis token merger
- Tornado Cash reached a new milestone on xDai with over $1M deposited into the protocol.
- DeHive announced an xDai integration and plans to release several clusters on xDai.
- xDai Punks launched a unique token sale on xDai running from 1 December — 8 December.
- And more!
Zilliqa
- Zilliqa Monthly Newsletter — November 2021: Tokentraxx partnership, a new NFT standard, ecosystem updates and more
- Introducing ZRC-6: The new-and-improved NFT standard to fuel the creator economy
0x project
- 0x + Celo expand partnership to allocate $4.5M in joint funding to the 0x DAO: Celo’s DeFi for the People initiative is one step closer to its goal of delivering DeFi to 6 billion smartphone users worldwide on 0x-powered apps.
- 0x Ecosystem Spotlight: Matcha: An interview with 0x API integrator Matcha, a simple DEX aggregator designed for everyone.
1inch
- 1inch completes Series B: The $175 million Series B round was led by Amber Group with participation from a bunch of other investors.
- The 1inch dApp added to Ledger Live: A combination of 1inch and Ledger tech facilitates competitive swap rates while keeping users’ digital belongings fully secure.
MISC
- Is Proof of Stake a Rich get Richer Scheme? — ChainLeft via Bankless
- Introducing stakefish Ethereum staking 2.0
- Stakin Bi-Weekly Newsletter Vol. 38
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