State of Stake vol. 77

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16 min readNov 14, 2022

A biweekly update on the Proof-of-Stake ecosystem, 31st October — 14th November

TL;DR

Vitalik’s updated roadmap diagram. Shanghai upgrade planning.
Polkadot’s Nomination Pools are live: stake natively with just 1 DOT. Polkadot’s native token (DOT), initially offered, sold, and delivered to purchasers as a security, has morphed and no longer is a security.
Game of Chains has started. The public testnet will run thru November. Validators will compete for prizes by completing various challenges — proving their ability to run Interchain Security.
Gnosis Chain now has an official PoS testnet. Chiado is a Gnosis PoS testnet that’s primary purpose is to provide tooling for developers in a sandbox environment.
Polygon is working with the Walt Disney Company after participating in Disney Accelerator.
GameStop and Immutable announce trading rewards and staking.
Japanese media giant GREE to build Web3 games and run nodes on Avalanche.
The Algorand Foundation and Algorand Inc. are proud to announce the launch of a series of bounties hosted on Immunefi.
An installment of Network Nervous System metrics regarding ICP inflation and staking.
The Solana Foundation answers some questions about what is happening at the boundary of Epoch 370, and provides a place to get updated information.
Synthetix Direct Integrations went live.
The Kwenta treasury will distribute the owed 35% of the initial supply to Synthetix stakers and Synth traders.
Kava news for August — October has been published. Kava EVM 2.0 launches this holiday season.
Another jam-packed month for BNB Chain as they ready the release of zkBNB, port multiple features into Akula and prepare the proposal of BEP-171 among other important updates.
Latest Aave News: Aave Grants uUpdate & new grantees, JP Morgan using Aave, and staked aTokens. Plus, risk update from Gauntlet, governance update from Boardroom, and more. Aave is coming to zkSync 2.0.
KyberSwap has integrated Multichain to bring even more ease and accessibility to KyberSwap users.
NEAR Protocol roadmap 2023–2024 has been published.
The iOS version of the 1inch Wallet is back on the App Store, offering a more intuitive user experience and compatibility with other wallets.
To kick off the one-year mainnet anniversary, Injective is launching the Ninja Pass: the ultimate all-access passport to the Injective ecosystem.
Check out this map that highlights some of the most important Tezos DeFi projects in one place.
Oasis Network partners with Covalent, bringing data accessibility to the platform.
Dock Certs, the platform that enables users to easily issue, verify, revoke, and manage fraud-proof Verifiable Credentials, now has a Certificate Designer feature allowing users to customize the design of their credentials.
Elrond transforms and expands into MultiversX. Elrond-go v.1.3.48.0 is here and brings heartbeat v2 improvements, more API endpoints and several fixes.
The ICON team continued making progress on BTP and ICON 2.0.
Regen Network Partners on Return Protocol’s climate action platform launch.
New Secret post from SCRT Labs CEO Guy Zyskind: “Secret 2.0 — Request for Feedback”.
The StaFiHub governance platform with the cooperation of Commonwealth has been introduced.
Are you ready for the world’s first FEVM hackathon next week? FEVM is the Ethereum-compatible layer of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM).
Celo Camp Batch 6 Demo Day is next week.
Highlights, network insights, and news from across the 0x ecosystem.
Bifrost October Monthly Report is out.
GRT is now part of HYVE’s ecosystem.
Zilliqa is listed on OKCoin Japan.
And much more!

Top 10 Crypto Assets by Staked Value

Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates

Ethereum

Vitalik’s updated roadmap diagram: adds single slot finality as Merge milestone, Verge endgame of fully SNARKed Ethereum and the Scourge transaction inclusion
Latest core devs call video. Notes from Christine Kim:

-Shanghai upgrade planning, EIPs jostling to potentially be included along with withdrawals: EOF, EIP4844 (proto-danksharding), EIP4758 (deactivate SELFDESTRUCT), EIP1153 (transient storage) & EIP2537 (BLS12 precompile)

-Next call to focus on triage of Shanghai upgrade EIPs

-Users of SELFDESTRUCT need to shout as the plan is to deactivate

Discussion on censorship resistance vs scaling and improving node UX
MEV-Boost: v1.4.0: set minimum bid to accept blocks from relays otherwise build blocks locally. DoS vulnerability patched, would have prevented MEV-Boost blocks and forced proposers to fallback to local block production.
Goerli testnet supply issues discussion; proposed testnet lifecycle, launch new testnet every 2 years with lifespan of maximum 5 years
ETHLisbon hackathon winners and list of projects
Ethereum.org learning quizzes
Pintail: analysis of validator returns: third party block builders are the majority and outperform validators who build their own blocks
Guide to migrating validator keys between two machines
Proposal for stakers testnet: ephemeral testnet dedicated for testing staking setups
Latest ‘Week in Ethereum’:

Polkadot

Polkadot’s native token (DOT), initially offered, sold and delivered to purchasers as a security, has morphed and no longer is a security.
Nomination Pools are Live! Stake natively with just 1 DOT. Now that nomination pools are live, you can stake natively and earn rewards with as low as 1 DOT. Native, protocol-level nomination pools represent a major innovation in the broader blockchain industry, making staking accessible to all, even those with less tokens.
Congratulations to Crust Network on winning Polkadot’s 30th parachain auction. Its team is building decentralized cloud storage on Polkadot by supporting multiple storage-layer protocols, and exposing instant accessible on-chain storage functions to users.
Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, is passing with 99% in favor
Jonas Gehrlein, W3F researcher, has released a preprint on his research on validator selection in Polkadot.
The second edition of the Polkadot Academy will take place in Buenos Aires from January 10th to February 10th, 2023. Join to become a leading blockchain engineer.
Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28th to 29th in Lisbon, Portugal and online.
Missed Polkadot Community Call — October 2022? Check out the recordings to hear the latest updates, referenda, and treasury proposals for Polkadot & Kusama, as well as hear from ecosystem teams.
Polkadot & Web3 Educational Courses Launching on edX.
Note that upgrading to runtime v9320 will activate Gov v2.
Polkadot’s codebase turns 5:

Feel free to read our latest biweekly report on the Polkadot ecosystem vol.48: Nomination pools are live — stake natively with just 1 DOT, Polkadot is coming to WebSummit 2022, Crust won Polkadot’s 30th parachain auction, Ajuna Network has been in the lead, Darwinia introduces LCMP-XCMP Router, Moonbeam Illuminate is back, Early access eligibility for Chainlink staking v0.1, Celer is launching Peti, Litentry’s bi-directional bridge is live, Crust Files integrated with Aptos, Humanode mainnet on Nov 15, and more!

Avalanche

Algorand

Algorand Inc & Algorand Foundation launch new bounties, with more additions to come: The Algorand Foundation and Algorand Inc. are proud to announce the launch of a series of bounties hosted on Immunefi.
Algorand’s biggest event of the year is back for 2022. Decipher is coming to Dubai, November 28–30.

Binance (BNB Chain)

Benefits of Building on BNB Chain for Developers: You’re a Web3 developer with a great idea, a whitepaper, or even an MVP and it’s time to build out your protocol, launch it on a blockchain or migrate from your existing L1 to a new one. But which do you choose?
How Migrating to BNB Chain Helped Propel Gameta: As projects continue to consider their options going forward, we want to highlight the effective and successful migration of Gameta.
Technology Update of BNB Chain in Oct 2022: Another jam-packed month for BNB Chain as they ready the release of zkBNB, port multiple features into Akula and prepare the proposal of BEP-171 among other important updates.
zkBNB Part 2 — Under the Hood: Learn about the underlying zkRollup Architecture behind zkBNB in our latest installment covering the innovation.
New Milestone: The Implementation of Parallel EVM 2.0: Parallel Computing has been an area of active research interest and application for decades. Nowadays, Parallel Execution on EVM is emerging as a new paradigm in the blockchain industry. Learn about the implementation of EVM 2.0.
BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (27 Oct to 3 Nov): Enjoy the BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (Oct. 27th — Nov. 3rd), summarizing events from the past week on our ecosystem.
BNB Chain Builder Grant Crowns First Winners: BNB Chain Builder Grant, launched in early October, is actively working toward helping Web3 projects reach the next level. Check out our latest grant winners from October.
Find the latest BSC news here.

Cosmos Network

Ready. Set. Secure! Game of Chains kicks off: Starting November 7th, over the next 2–4 weeks, 150+ validators participate in Game of Chains.
Prop 83- Sentiment proposal on Cosmos Hub: An ATOM ONE Constitution, a minimalist vision for the Cosmos Hub outlined by Cosmos founder, Jae Kwon, is now ready for voting.
Find the latest governance proposals here.

DFINITY

Solana

Staking and Epoch Boundaries: The Solana Foundation answers some questions about what is happening at the boundary of Epoch 370, and provides a place to get updated information.
ASICS shows the future of commerce with new shoes for the Solana ecosystem
Network Performance Report: October 2022

Synthetix

Synthetix Direct Integrations went live. Direct integrations allow governance to establish a unique environment for integrators, allowing them to pass on lower fees (&more) to their users and driving new integrators to the SNX Ecosystem.
Synthetix Staker & Synth Trader Aelin Pool: The Kwenta treasury will distribute the owed 35% (109,680.55 KWENTA) of the initial supply to Synthetix stakers and Synth traders.
What is Synthetix V3, and why is it important? Let’s get into it. Synthetix V3 aims to accomplish what Synthetix set out to do many yrs ago — transforming the protocol into a permissionless derivatives platform. How will Synthetix get to V3?
Perps V2 summary and updates: Synthetix Perps V2 hopes to enable risk low-fee traders, unconstrained open interest limits, and broader asset compatibility.

Tezos

Tezos Defi Map: Check out this map that highlights some of the most important Tezos DeFi projects in one place.
Month at a Glance — October 2022.
Welcome to the Triple Crown of Blockchains. Enter Tezos: The Dark Horse [Part III]
The latest Tezos Backing Sheet is out.

Aave

Latest Aave News: Aave Grants uUpdate & new grantees, JP Morgan using Aave, and staked aTokens. Plus, risk update from Gauntlet, governance update from Boardroom, and more.
Open-sourced Liquidity with Aave: Aave is coming to zkSync 2.0.
Follow the Aave governance forum.

Akash Network

Bancor

Bancor Update — Week of Oct 3, 2022.
Get involved in Bancor DAO at gov.bancor.network.

New Dock Certs Release: Custom Certificate Designer: Dock Certs, the platform that enables users to easily issue, verify, revoke, and manage fraud-proof Verifiable Credentials, now has a Certificate Designer feature allowing users to customize the design of their credentials.
Blockchain and Health Care: BurstIQ Use Cases That Leverage Verifiable Credentials: See three BurstIQ use cases that demonstrate the importance of Verifiable Credentials in blockchain and health care. BurstIQ implemented our Verifiable Credential technology to make their health data secure and portable.

Elrond

Elrond-go v.1.3.48.0 is here and brings heartbeat v2 improvements, more API endpoints and several fixes.
X Day. Paris — It’s time to build! X Day Paris is the inaugural edition of the Elrond Network annual conference series.
Introducing X Day Community Awards
AshSwap Is Listing On The Maiar Exchange! Join The Price Discovery And Experience The First Stable-Swap On Elrond.
Last week in EGLD

Filecoin

Filecoin News 55: The Decentralized Storage Alliance is Bringing Web2 Enterprises to Web3.
Introducing the Decentralized Storage Alliance: Learn how Seagate, EY, and AMD, are working with Protocol Labs and Filecoin Foundation to accelerate the adoption of decentralized storage by enterprises.
Are you ready for the world’s first FEVM hackathon? FEVM is the Ethereum-compatible layer of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM).

The Graph

The Graph Foundation Supports Ecosystem Growth with New Wave of Grants: Efforts to scale The Graph continue to march forward with the Graph Grants program and The Graph ecosystem at large. Learn about the latest grantees.
The Graph Now Supports Solana with Substreams: The Solana developer community can begin using substreams at The Graph to build lightning-fast dapps. Substreams are the first step in bringing subgraphs to Solana.
GRT is now part of HYVE’s ecosystem.

Injective

Injective Mainnet Turns 1: On November 8th, 2021, the Injective Mainnet was released, marking the beginning of a new chapter for the entire Injective community.
Introducing the Ninja Pass: To kick off the one-year mainnet anniversary, Injective is launching the Ninja Pass: the ultimate all-access passport to the Injective ecosystem.
October Update: New Explorer, Ecosystem Updates, and Stride Airdrop
Injective Explorer V2 Release: The Injective Explorer V2 is now live.

Immutable X

GameStop and Immutable Announce Trading Rewards and Staking
ImmutableX Announces the Powering of GameStop’s NFT Marketplace, which is Live and Offering Access to Millions of NFTs
ImmutableX unveils a tool to enforce NFT royalties on Ethereum: Immutable is rolling out a solution on Ethereum that it says will help enforce the payment of creator royalties for NFTs.

ICON

ICON Development Update — October 2022: In October, the ICON team continued making progress on BTP and ICON 2.0.
Berlin Testnet to Upgrade for BTP Development Code Testing: The Berlin Testnet will be upgraded on November 2nd (KST), the first update since BerlinNet’s launch in December, 2020.
The blockchain that will hyperconnect the world | Why ICX

Kava

Kava News: August — October. It’s been a busy quarter, and the Kava ecosystem has been relentlessly growing, adapting, and BUIDLing. Here are some of the highlights:

-Kava 11 is LIVE

-40+ protocols have joined KavaRise, including Curve, Sushi, and Beefy

- The Kava 11 Liquid Testnet & Giveaway has concluded!

-Cosmostation Launches a new protocol Exclusively on Kava

-Master Multichain bridging to the Kava 3pool on Curve

-Learn new strategies to use Kava Earn & Liquid staking.

-Kava Foundation — Safeguarding Growth

Kava Launches Liquid Staking With Successful October 26 Mainnet Upgrade
Kava EVM 2.0 launches this holiday season:

Kyber

KyberSwap launches Multichain integration: KyberSwap has integrated Multichain to bring even more ease and accessibility to KyberSwap users. So you can now bridge your tokens assets from chain A to chain B in 1 single transaction.
KyberSwap Launches NPS Survey to Build a Better Journey for KyberSwappers.
Learn how Kyber Network used Google Cloud to develop a new AI market intelligence solution.
Find out all Kyber proposals here. Check them out on GitHub.

Manta Network

UPA Celebrates Global Encryption Day: Twitter Space Recap
Last weekend, some Manta Network team members went to ETHSanFrancisco2022 to participate in the hackathon.

mStable

Building the Bear S01E01 Stablecoins and risk frameworks.
[PANEL + HAPPY HOUR] : Finding alphas in complex crypto markets.
Check out mStable’s latest proposals here.

Near Protocol

Oasis Network

Oasis Network Partners with Covalent, Bringing Data Accessibility to the Platform.
Oasis Q3 2022 Engineering update: Q3 has been another busy few months for the Oasis Engineering team.
Oasis Tutorial Contest: Winners Announced.
Keep it Confidential: Sapphire Hackathon Winners.

Polygon

Polygon is working with Walt Disney Company after participating in Disney Accelerator.
Plonky2: A Deep Dive is out.
India Takes Center Stage in Polygon’s Web3: Made in India Tour.
Aera Taps Polygon to Bring the Power of DeFi to DAO Treasury Management.
ZK Research: Bignum Arithmetic for Zero-Knowledge Proofs.
PolygonInsights — WEEK43.
FIS Subsidiary Worldpay to Enable USDC Settlements on Polygon: Worldpay Global will enable USDC settlement for clients on Polygon PoS chain.
Chatting with Polygon about their zkEVM! (part 1).
Twitter space: VRJAM x Polygon AMA.
Twitter space: Polygon Presents: MaticX Vaults with Polysynth x Stader.
Messari just published “State of Polygon Q3” in which they take a deep dive into the Polygon ecosystem.
Bonus Interview: The Path into ZK with grjte.

Check out the latest Polygon integrations here.

Regen Network

Secret Network

New Secret Forum post from SCRT Labs CEO Guy Zyskind: “Secret 2.0 — Request for Feedback”.
Secret Agency Q3 Recap.
SCRT Developer Workshop: Building a Decentralized Netflix: The Developer Workshop took place in Medellín, Colombia, September 27–28, and was presented by SCRT Labs Lead Software Engineer Tom Langer. During this workshop, attendees were shown how to leverage programmable privacy to monetize and distribute content in Web3 by learning the basics of developing a Secret Smart Contract.
SCRT has been updated 212 times in the last month.

StaFi

Gnosis Chain (formerly xDai Chain)

Gnosis Chain now has an official PoS testnet. Chiado is a Gnosis PoS testnet that’s primary purpose is to provide tooling for developers in a sandbox environment.
Gnosis Chain Weekly · 04 November 2022.
Gnosis Chain has over 5K in bounties for ETHSanFrancisco.

Yearn Finance

Meet yDaemon imps, they harvest data from the yearn realm to serve you all in a single unified API.
Yearn security team has discovered a vulnerability in a third-party BribeV2 contract.

Zilliqa

0x project

Ecosystem Update #21: Highlights, network insights, and news from across the 0x ecosystem — September / October 2022.
0xpo: Crossroads — November 3, 2022 | San Francisco, CA.

1inch

The 1inch Wallet for iOS upgrades: added and removed features: The iOS version of the 1inch Wallet is back on the App Store, offering more intuitive user experience and compatibility with other wallets.
1inch Monthly Digest: October: The 1inch Network is happy to present you with the October digest of major news and updates.
1inch optimizes rETH swaps: The 1inch Aggregation Protocol has been optimized for Rocket Pool’s rETH swaps on Ethereum mainnet.
1inch partners with Revolut, launches joint L&E course
Bridges: blockchains’ communicators and connectors: Cross-chain bridges enable users to send assets between blockchain, solving the interoperability issue.

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State of Stake vol. 77

TL;DR

Top 10 Crypto Assets by Staked Value

Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates

Binance (BNB Chain)

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