[PoS Round-Up] Ethereum is marching on towards the London hardfork!
PoS Round-Up is our focused biweekly report on the major news in and around the Proof of Stake ecosystem.
Ethereum
Ethereum is marching on towards the London hardfork! There will be five key EIPs included in the London hardfork including EIP-1559 which changes the fee market and EIP-3554 which delays the difficulty bomb to December 2021. Ethereum’s testnet upgrade will first go live on Ropsten, around June 24, 2021.
Vitalik released an article explaining Verkle trees which are shaping up to be an important part of Ethereum’s upcoming scaling upgrades.
Cosmos
The Cosmos ecosystem is signaling proposals to activate the Gravity Bridge onto the Cosmos Hub.
Osmosis
Osmosis Zone successfully launched its mainnet! It is the 8th Cosmos blockchain to enable IBC and the 6th chain to connect to the Cosmos Hub.
After the Osmosis Zone launch, IBC daily txs went from 236 daily IBC txs to 19,366 daily IBC txs.
Rewatch the launch party here:
Tezos
The latest governance proposal on Tezos was the Granada upgrade. It proposed tweaking the consensus algorithm, introducing Liquidity Baking, and providing gas improvements among others.
NEAR Protocol
NearCommunity partnered with the Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) to release a collection of non-fungible tokens featuring hip-hop artists from the 1970s to now.
stakefish
The Gitcoin Grants Round 10 is now live with $650k on the Founding Pool. Join us before July 1st to support the open source software and shape the future of Digital Public Goods.
We launched our support for Osmosis staking right after its mainnet launch.
Don’t miss your chance to earn up to 70% on rewards.
We joined the BAF network in an event discussing our work in the PoS ecosystem. Topics included staking as a service, protocol management, governance, special projects, and delegator communication.
Check out the full discussion here:
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