State of Stake vol. 78

A biweekly update on the Proof-of-Stake ecosystem, 14th November — 29th November

TL;DR

• Gnosis Core Devs released dates last week for the merge aiming for December 7th.
• Maker adds Rocket Pool staked ETH as collateral.
• Staking on Litentry parachain is officially live.
• Ocean stakers can claim DF12 rewards. DF13 runs Nov 24-Dec 1 2022.
• Kyber Network partners with Lido to bring the best wstETH liquidity to Ethereum mainnet.
• Polkadot nomination pools have hit another milestone with more than 500,000 DOT currently bonded by pool members.
• Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is here.
• Algorand’s biggest event of the year — Decipher is coming to Dubai, November 28th — 30th.
• Filecoin Network v17 Shark upgrade is coming.
• Bifrost announces the official launch of the first parachain derivatives vGLMR & vMOVR.
• AVAX processed 68M transactions during September, up 51% from August.
• Learn about the BNB Chain Martian Program. The initiative is dedicated towards developing the BNB Chain ecosystem by presenting engaging opportunities for its members to help the core vision of the chain.
• Cardano builder Input Output Global invests in the future of blockchain with a $4.5M research hub at the University of Edinburgh.
• Applications for the 3rd cohort of the Interchain Developer Academy closed.
• IC People are excited about the launch of SNS-1. The DFINITY Foundation will vote to adopt on November 29th.
• Magic Eden comes to Polygon to accelerate blockchain games development.
• Synthetix V3 update by CC Noah is out.
• Dock has proven to be a successful use case for BurstIQ platforms, making data tamper-proof and verifiable with the help of Dock Certs.
• Elrond’s xExchange & MEX 2.0 outlook from Beniamin.
• Injective has officially released its fiat on-ramp with Kado.
• The ICON Tracker will be redirected from tracker.icon.foundation to tracker.icon.community on December 5th.
• ‘NEAR Transparency Report: the State of Staking’ is out.
• The iOS version of the 1inch Wallet is back on the App Store.
• Kava EVM 2.0 launches this holiday season.
• And much more!

Top 10 Crypto Assets by Staked Value

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Proof-of-Stake Networks’ Updates

Ethereum

• Latest core devs call video. Notes from Tim Beiko.
• EIP4844 devnet 3 milestone tracker.
• Stress4844: CLI for submitting large calldata transactions to test networking for EIP4844.
• Validators can set a minimum bid before using MEV-Boost, setting a minimum bid of 0.05 ETH would produce almost half the blocks locally, increasing censorship resistance.
• Somer’s Geth guides updated, adds a TimeoutStopSec to Geth service config to prevent corruption of state database on shutdown.
• Vitalik: make custodial exchanges better using proof of solvency & validiums.
• Latest ‘Week in Ethereum’:

Check out our recently-published ‘Defi in Ether’ — biweekly update on Ethereum DeFi ecosystem vol.60 full of news from the ecosystem: $38 in DeFi, Uniswap releases Permit2 and a universal router, Aave on Aztec, The 1inch Router v5 is here, Kyber Network partners with Lido, dYdX introduces Swap Mode, Gnosis will undergo the Merge in early December, FTX collapse, and much more!

Polkadot

• Polkadot nomination pools have hit another milestone with more than 500,000 DOT currently bonded by pool members. Learn how to join them to start collecting rewards with as little as 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. It is software.
• Polkadot’s Anti-Scam Initiatives: How the community is working to make the Polkadot ecosystem safe.
• The Web3 Foundation research team has released a formal write-up describing improvements that allow for more efficient verification for BLS signatures for individual and aggregated signatures.
• The latest demo of Nova Wallet shows it working well with Polkadot Gov 2.0.
• Referendum 80, proposing to grant sufficiency to USDT on Statemint, has passed.
• Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, has passed.
• Referendum 84, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot Relay Chain to runtime v9300, has been passed and executed.
• Referendum 85, proposing to force and update to the Kapex parachain runtime code to allow it to upgrade.
• Missed November’s Polkadot Community Calls? Check out the recording to learn the latest updates, referenda, and treasury proposals for Polkadot & Kusama, and hear from the ecosystem teams.

Feel free to read our latest biweekly report on the Polkadot ecosystem vol.49: OmniBTC has won the most recent parachain lease auction, Sub0 on Nov 28, Humanode mainnet launched, Energy Web presented its Trusted Green Charging Solution, MetaMask has integrated Celer cBridge, PhalaNetwork enters its 1st halving period, Centrifuge has raised $4M, EQ offering Phase 2 kicks off this month, Polkadot’s codebase turns 5, and more!

Avalanche

• Rust VM SDK: Build Custom Virtual Machines on Avalanche using Rust
• LayerZero Aims to Create One, Unified Experience for BTC.b, Expanding BTC.b Transfers to Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum
• Avalanche (AVAX) Listed on Coinbase Japan
• Trader Joe Presents Liquidity Book: A New AMM Design for DeFi
• Avalanche Opens Merch Store with Global Shipping
• Learn-and-Earn StackUp Campaign Now Live for Web3 Devs
• NFT Artist Spotlight: Brian Morris Pioneers “See-Through” Surrealism
• Developer Documentation and Tutorials for Avalanche.
• AVAX processed 68M txns during September, up 51% from August.

Algorand

• Founders and Executives at Nine India-Based Companies will Present at Algorand’s Decipher Conference in Dubai, 28–30 November
• HesabPay, Giving Access to Resources for the People of Afghanistan
• Algorand Foundation statement on their exposure to FTX
• Algorand is Now Live on CryptoSlam, Increasing Visibility of Algorand’s NFT Ecosystem

Binance (BNB Chain)

• BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (18 Nov to 24 Nov): Enjoy the BNB Chain Weekly Ecosystem Report (18 Nov — 24 Nov), summarizing events from the past week on the ecosystem.
• DappBay: Red Alarm dApp Risk-List (Nov. 18th — Nov. 25th)
• My Journey From Web2 to Web 3: Alex Lee, Founder of Wombat Exchange
• BNB Chain Martians Program: Community Organizers and Champions
• Utilize Your Binance Account Bound (BAB) Token for Exclusive Offers
• BNB Chain vs EVM Chains Pt 2: Token Migration
• Auditing Liquid Staking Partners on BNB Chain
• BNB Chain Monthly Stars — November
• Find the latest BSC news here.

Cardano

• Cardano builder IOG and University of Edinburgh to create first ever index to provide industry standard metric for crypto decentralization
• Cardano builder Input Output Global invests in the future of blockchain with $4.5m research hub at University of Edinburgh
• Cardano builder IOG and University of Edinburgh launch Zero-Knowledge Lab to drive greater blockchain scalability and security

Cosmos Network

• Applications for the 3rd cohort of the Interchain Developer Academy closed on Nov 24th
• PHASE 1 Update — Game of Chains
• Find the latest governance proposals here.

DFINITY

• How InfinitySwap Will Leverage Internet Computer Tech to Become the Next Iteration of DeFi
• Building in Rust on ICP: Unlock the Power of the World Computer
• Catalyze: The Decentralized Social Platform for Thriving Communities
• Women in Web3 are the key to driving a healthy culture, growth and adoption

Solana

• Snapshot: State of the Network
• Monthly Community Update | November 2022

Synthetix

• Synthetix V3 update by CC Noah.
• SNXweave Weekly Recap.
• Twitter Spaces: Spartan Space : Synthetix V3 Deep Dive; Spartan Space: Synthetix Ambassadors and Aztec Protocol.
• KWENTA Token is live.

Tezos

• Announcing Homebase Lite: Snapshot on Tezos
• Announcing Lambda DAOs on Homebase
• Are your tez, actually yours?
• Tezos Community Spotlight: Roy Scheeren, StakeNow
• Tezos: the Dark Horse in the Race for Blockchain Dominance — Part 1: Track Conditions
• The latest Tezos Backing Sheet is out.

Aave

• Latest Aave News: The Bad Debt, the Action the Community is Taking and other Updates from the Aave-verse. Plus, an Aave Grants Retrospective.
• Follow the Aave governance forum.
• Aave discussion on reducing long-tail asset risk after $1.5 million of CRV bad debt.
• An update on Aave V3 casually appeared on the governance forum.

Bifrost

• Bifrost Announces the Official Launch of the First Parachain Derivatives vGLMR & vMOVR
• Bifrost October Monthly Report is out.
• Bifrost collaborates with Enkrypt to enable derivatives management for its users.
• Bifrost SALP Supports Ajuna Network Polkadot Crowdloan
• LP Farming Tutorial: How to Start Earning Rewards on Bifrost.
• What are the advantages of the Polkadot XCM-based Liquid Staking design?

Dock

• Dock has proven to be a successful use case for BurstIQ platforms, making data tamper-proof and verifiable with the help of Dock Certs. This video tells the success story of the collaboration.
• 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

• The first Governance Referendum: Transition to xExchange and MEX 2.0. Cast your vote between November 28th and December 5th
• MEX 2.0 Upgrade — Community’s Most Frequent Questions Answered
• Maiar DEX Transforms Into xExchange. Economics, Utility, and Mechanics of MEX 2.0
• X Day. Paris — It’s time to build! X Day Paris is the inaugural edition of the Elrond Network annual conference series.
• Last week in EGLD

Filecoin

• Filecoin News 56: Get the latest and greatest from around the ecosystem on Filecoin.
• Filecoin Network v17 Shark 🦈 Upgrade: The upcoming Filecoin upgrade to network version 17, “Shark 🦈”, will bring a range of improvements and simplifications that set the stage for programmable storage: smart contracts that interact with storage deals and providers.
• The Filecoin Masterplan: A recap of Juan Benet’s keynote address at FIL-Singapore exploring where the Filecoin network is headed.

Injective

• Coin98 Integrates Injective to Bring Millions of Users into a New World of Interconnected Finance
• Injective Publicly Launches its Fiat-to-Crypto Solution with Kado: Injective has officially released its fiat on-ramp with Kado.
• Injective and Alpha Venture DAO are Collaborating to Spearhead an Interconnected Web3 Builder Ecosystem
• Switch from a CEX to a DEX: New User Bonus

Immutable X

• The Next Evolution of Immutable’s Developer Experience.
• Nifty League and ImmutableX: To the Niftyverse and Beyond.
• Twitter space: IMX Spotlight: @BLOCKLORDS @metakingstudios.
• ICYMI: AMA with Robbie Ferguson (Summary).

ICON

• ICON Integration Update — October 2022: In this recurring ICON Integration Update, the team zooms in a bit more on the Interoperability Integrations and summarise the highlights from progress reports that contributing teams have supplied to the ICON Bridge GitHub repository.
• ICON Tracker Gets a Fresh Upgrade: The ICON Tracker will be redirected from tracker.icon.foundation to tracker.icon.community on December 5th 8:00 PM ET and the tracker.icon.foundation will be completely shut down by January 5th 10:00 AM ET.

Kyber

• Kyber Network partners with Lido to bring the best wstETH liquidity to Ethereum mainnet.
• Dr. Chan Nam Ngo (nam_nc) from the Kyber Research Team has been published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, documenting research on Cryptographic and Financial Fairness.
• [DRAFT] [GF: Phase 1 Proposal] KyberSwap.
• Find out all Kyber proposals here. Check them out on GitHub.

Manta Network

• Representatives of the Manta team went to ETHSanFrancisco2022 to participate in the hackathon. They built and launched decentralized Texas Hold’em using ZKP to power the game fully on chain.
• UPA Celebrates Global Encryption Day: Twitter Space Recap

mStable

• Solving the issue with slippage in EIP-4626
• Check out mStable’s latest proposals here.
• Standards in DeFi and why they are important: a mStable meet-up took place.

Near Protocol

• NEAR Transparency Report: the State of Staking
• NEAR Transparency Report: November 25
• An Update on NEAR Wallet Transition
• NEAR Foundation Funding Team Report: October 2022
• Evolving NEAR Foundation’s Funding Strategy

Polygon

• Magic Eden comes to Polygon to accelerate blockchain games development: The leading cross-chain NFT marketplace is integrating with Polygon network to accelerate the development of exciting blockchain-based games and global brands entering Web3.
• Twitter Space: Polygon X Magic Eden TownHall.
• Iconic ‘Captain Tsubasa’ Manga IP Is Coming to Polygon as a Web3 Game
• Sensorium Taps Polygon to Build a Metaverse of Immersive Digital Experiences
• Login with Unstoppable is coming to Polygon with $10,000 prizes pot for DApps
• GBM Auctions Coming to Polygon to Make NFT Drops More Fun, Fair and Rewarding
• Polygon zkEVM Arrives at ETH India
• The Creator Economy is Dead. Long Live the New Creator Economy
• Polygon Sponsors Startup Weekend Global 2022
• Web3: Made in India Crosses the Finish Line at Polygon Connect on Dec. 1
• Open Source, Zero Knowledge, and the Age of Copypasta
• Check out the latest updates on Polygon and in Web3

StaFi

• Introducing The StaFiHub Governance Platform with Cooperation of Commonwealth
• AMA: StaFiHub Launches on Commonwealth
• StaFi Protocol Monthly — October Community Update

Gnosis Chain (formerly xDai Chain)

• Gnosis Chain Weekly · 25 November 2022: Gnosis Core Devs released dates last week for the much anticipated merge aiming for December 7th, 2022. The Merge is a significant shift for Gnosis, replacing the legacy PoA consensus with the open and non-permissioned Beacon Chain consensus. This allows Gnosis to transition to a fully decentralized and permissionless PoS network, mirroring Ethereum. The Merge also brings Gnosis one step closer to achieving its goal of being the most credibly neutral network available. With over 100K validators currently securing the Gnosis Beacon Chain, Gnosis is poised to offer a resilient, unstoppable network to the public. The team has simplified the process of running a validator ~ only 1 GNO is required and the process is user-friendly.
• Subscribe to the Merge Newsletter for the most up-to-date information on how to prepare for the Gnosis Chian merge.

Yearn Finance

• Yearn <> CoW Swap: After months of working on a yearn cowswap solver, the team reached production-ready code. Now you can do complex swaps in CoW Swap like, 3CRV <-> yvSNX. Yearn is committed to settling all strategies trades through CoW Swap and trying to get as many cows as possible to increase users revenue.
• yBribe has been introduced. Yearn’s new bribe platform for Curve gauge voting. Check out the thread for key product and contract upgrades, or start selling and buying votes at yBribe.com
• Twitter space: Fireside chat with @iearnfinance.

0x project

• San Francisco Blockchain Week 2022 Recap: Highlights from 0xpo and ETHSanFrancisco.
• PoweredBy0x livestream: Building an Innovative Market Making Solution with Dodo.

1inch

• The 1inch Router v5 is released.
• 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.
• Aggregation of on-ramp providers and NFT support added to the 1inch Wallet for Android: Android users can now get the best exchange rates when buying crypto for fiat and spend their coins on NFTs directly in their 1inch Wallet.

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