Cosmos Bites #18: DeFi Renaissance

- Noble Dollar is live! $USDN 💸
- A New Vision for the Cosmos Hub ⚛️
- $ATC Airdrop for $ATOM stakers 🪂
- ShadeX - The world's 1st encrypted money market 🔐
- The Saylor-ization of Osmosis 🧪
- iAssets & Story token emission 🪙

OMies Trait Breakdown #4: Hyper Rare Body Types

▶️ A deep dive into the OMies collection:

- Get to know all hyper rare body types 🧋
- Legendary head gear 🤠
- Synthetic & pink diamonds 💎
- Cigs, clouds & pearls 🚬⛅🦪
- Lazy lil pengu 🐧

Cosmos Bites #17: $5B+ $BTC liquidity for the IBC economy

- Skip:Go Mobile is here 📱
- Noble Dollar $USDN launch 🪙
- $ATOM is powering the L1 renaissance ⚛️
- Bitmosis is accelerating 🧪
- Passage The American Metavers 🎮
- $PASG bonus unlocks 🪂

Bitmosis is accelerating 🧪

- New ATH in monthly Bitcoin trading volume.
- $216M volume in February.
- 7th consecutive month of hitting new ATHs.
- Osmosis is becoming the #1 DEX to trade native $BTC.

Cosmos Bites #16: Cosmos let's us aim higher!

- Nuklai Data is migrating to Cosmos 🌌
- First native DEX on Babylon
- LIL is live on Saga 🎮
- Ondo Finance partners with Mastercard
- Cosmos Hub invests in Shaga
- Tokenize Everything 🏠

Nuklai is migrating to Cosmos 🌌

- Shifting from Avalanche's HyperSDK to the Cosmos Stack.
- Building out their own L1 App-chain with Cosmos tech.
- Pushing the boundaries of compute and AI data.
- Mainnet launch is targeted for Q2 2025.

Cosmos Bites #15: IBC is expanding beyond Cosmos!

- $BABY Airdrop Registration 🐉
- ASI-1 Mini: World's first web3 LLM
- dYdX Mobile is here + tokenomics updates 📱
- Top DeFi protocols are launching Cosmos chains
- Cosmo dVPN & RWA meme launch ⚛️

The New dYdX Mobile Experience is here!

- Enjoy a sleek, refreshed design.
- Seamlessly slide in and out of trades.
- Access up to 50x buying power.
- Toggle to Pro Mode when you're ready.

BABY Airdrop Registration is Live!

A step-by-step tutorial that walks you through:

- Eligibility criteria for the $BABY airdrop.
- How to create a Babylon address.
- How to link your BTC wallet to your Baby address.
- How to register for the upcoming $BABY airdrop. 🪂

Cosmos Bites #14: The Hub as an IBC router ⚛️

- Mantra Secures VARA DeFi license
- Noble Dollar is bringing composable yield to Cosmos
- Skip:Go to be integrated to the Cosmos Hub
- Private Trading & Saga Vault 2.0
- RWAccelerator 🏠📈

USDN - Composable stablecoin Yield 💸

- USDN is a yield bearing stable coin (4-5% APY).
- Backed by short term U.S. Treasuries.
- Yield is redirected to USDN holders in form of USDN.
- Fully customizable & programmable stablecoin.

Mantra secures VARA DeFi License

Allowing Mantra to operate in the UAE & MENA region as:

- Virtual Assets Exchange and offer
- Broker-Dealer, Management & Investment Services.

Bringing the world's financial systems onchain!

Cosmos Bites #13: Tokenizing Everything 🪙

- Accelerating DeFi on the Cosmos Hub ⚛️
- Interchain Stack roadmap 🗺️
- Celestials IDs are here 🦣 🦥
- Never give up & believe in sOMething 🕉️
- Permissioned Keys on dYdX
- Private LSTs & multiple points programs

Interchain Ecosystem Map - February Edition 🗺️

Covering all projects leveraging:

a) Parts of the Interchain Stack
b) Modular Chains using Celestia for DA
c) Bitcoin aligned projects building around Babylon

OMies Trait Breakdown #3: Body Types (Ultra Rare)

▶️ A deep dive into the OMies collection:

- Get to know all ultra rare body types 🥤
- Legendary hand traits 🧪
- Vintage Komet Baseball ⚾
- Ice Cream Soda 🍨
- Gold Coin wielding a wooden sword ⚔️

Cosmos Bites #12: IBC to connect them all! 🌌

- $XRP is coming to Cosmos ⚛️
- Story Protocol Mainnet is live
- ATOM Alignment & Highway 🛣️
- Make IBC Great Again
- Bitcoinization of Cosmos 🪙
- Tokenomics Updates: $TIA, $AKT, $ATOM

Story Protocol is live on Mainnet.

The L1 chain purpose-built to reinvent the $61T IP asset class.

Users can now:

- Claim the $IP token airdrop. 🪂
- Stake $IP to secure the network.
- Bridge assets to Story & interact with the ecosystem.
- Start building IP apps.

Cosmos Bites #11: The Cosmos Hub is expanding

- A new chain is joining the Hub via ICS
- TradFi stocks index is live on Injective
- Hyperscaling Akash
- Next multi-billion $ chain to join #MONP
- $BERA trading competition on dYdX
- Whale Shark mint 🐳🦈

Intento is launching on the Cosmos Hub via ICS

- Launching via ICS v2 (Partial Set Security, PSS).
- Bringing secure & scalable interchain action flows to Cosmos.
- Auto-compounding rewards, DCAing, cross-chain PF management.
- Leveraging ICA, ICQ & IBC.

Cosmos Bites #10: Cosmos had the Endgame right 🌌

- Ondo Chain is building on the Cosmos SDK
- RWAs have found PMF in Cosmos 🏠
- #MONP is the new FAANG
- $AKT is leading DePIN earnings 💸
- The biggest adoption gold min in crypto
- $OSMO burn & $IP token 🔥

Ondo just announced the launch of their very own L1 chain.

- The Omnichain Network for RWAs
- A L1 chain purpose-built for institutional-grade RWAs
- Bridging TradFi and DeFi
- Paying gas fees in RWA
- Front-funning protection
- Built on the Cosmos SDK & EVM stack

Cosmos Bites #9: Bitmosis is on fire 🧪🔥

- Mainnet season is upon us 🪂
- Record $BTC volumes on Osmosis 📈
- 1K+ GPUs available on Akash 💻
- A Cosmic Expansion 🌌
- Honeypaper & Story Whitepaper 🐻
- Interwoven NFTs 🪢

OMies Trait Breakdown #2: Body Types (Super Rare)

▶️ A deep dive into the OMies collection:

- Get to know all super rare body types 🧁
- Legendary backgrounds 🏙️
- Toasty Marshmallow 🍬
- Greek Coffee Cup ☕
- Ninja chocolate 🥷🍫

Cosmos Bites #8: The Hub is ramping up ⚛️

- Injective launches EVM support + AI index 🤖
- Story Protocol unlocks $61T
- Cito Ventures & Hydro 2025 🌊
- Celestia doubles block size
- New Minitia revealed 🪢
- Private $BTC on Penumbra
- Big $MARS burn 🔥

Injective launches Tokenized AI Index: $AIX

$AIX includes a total of 10 AI tokens like $TAO, $FET, and $AI16Z, along with top AI stocks such as Nvidia and Palantir.

The AI Index with the ticker $AIX will first launch on Helix, a native DEX on Injective.

Cosmos Bites #7: NFTs are back!

- 8MB blocks are live on Celestia 🦣
- DeepSeek R1 is live on Akash 💻
- Osmosis surpasses $39B trading volume 🧪
- dYdX ecosystem report 2024 📈
- $PRYZM airdrop & $MOVE mainnet 🪂
- NFTs are back & Dymension Wizards 🧙‍♂️

OMies Trait Breakdown #1: Body Types

▶️ A deep dive into the OMies collection:

- Super, ultra & hyper rare body types 🥁
- Legendary traits 💎
- Burning dumpsters 🔥
- Lucky slot machines 🎰
- Lazy little guys 🦥

Cosmos Bites #6: Ushering in the multichain future!

- Keplr raises $5M 💸
- THORChain insolvency 🔨
- Saga airdrop is live 🪂
- Bling the Babylóóng 🐲
- $INJ Flywheel 🔄️
- Juno new roadmap proposal 🗺️
- Record NFT sale (>$88M) 💎

Osmosis recently processed over $65 Million in 1-day trading volume 🧪

This is the highest daily trading volume recorded since August 2024.

Already shaping up to be a big year, scientists! 💫

Privacy is more than a web3 mantra ⚛️

Privacy protects user data, the free flow of communications, and many financial transactions. Without confidentiality, web3 is not web3.

A highlight of privacy in Cosmos 🧵

Cosmos Bites #5: The Cosmos Hub's new North Star!

- Cosmos is leading is leading in on-chain privacy 🔐
- Nillion airdrop 🪂
- 8MB blocks on Celestia 🦣
- $522M $USDC issued on Noble 🪙
- Tokenizing electric motorcycles 🏍️
- Ecodrops for OMies 🕉️

Devs said "see you in February"

THORChain 2024 Annual Report by @ninerealms_cap

⚡️ 56b swap volume

⚡️ 30.6m in liquidity fees

⚡️ 24.6m earned by affiliates

⚡️ Ledger, OKX, Bitget, Zengo, LiFi integrations

Been a big year thanks to all the users, builders, and liquidity providers 💙

Onwards to the next chapter!

DeepSeek-R1 is available in AkashChat.

R1 is currently the most capable open-source AI model, surpassing 3.5 Sonnet and o1 on several leading benchmarks.

Cosmos Bites: NFT season is imminent!

- Mantra teased NFT collection 🏠
- Stargaze becomes interwoven 🪢
- Akash roadmap for 2025
- $100M monthly $BTC volume on Osmosis
- First Cosmos Hub upgrade of 2025

INJ 3.0: Everything You Need to Know

What is INJ 3.0?

INJ 3.0 represents the latest evolution of Injective's tokenomics. At its core, the upgrade aims to dramatically decrease the supply of $INJ that continues until Q1 2026.

With mainnet phase 3 right around the corner, let's look at how IBC asset transfers and shielding work on Namada.

Shields are literally about to go up!

Cosmos Bites: Latest developments from the Interchain.

- Mantra signs $1B RWA deal 🏠
- Babylon rebrand & BTC bridge to Cosmos ⚛️
- Programmable IP 🤝 Collective Intelligence 🤖
- Akash Supercloud 📈
- $dTia restaking 🥛
- 5M $FET burn 🔥

2024 was a defining year for the Akash Supercloud.

Significant network growth, key integrations, and transformative improvements in network UX have positioned Akash as the leading network for permissionless compute.

Growth in 2024 sets the stage for massive expansion in 2025.

Cosmos Bites: The latest & hottest from the Interchain.

- Dymension 3D is live ⛓️
- Babylon NFTs? 🐲
- Lazy Chain announcement 🦥
- Saga Snapshot 📸
- Akash integration with AI16Z 🤖
- $INJ 3.0 - New Tokenomics 🪙

🌐 Phase-2 testnet (bbn-test-5) launches on Jan 8, 2025!

Block production starts at 9AM UTC, with the staking web app going live at 10AM UTC.

Phase-1 testnet stakers will have the opportunity to register their stakes into the Phase-2 testnet Babylon chain.

The Great VM Evolution!

Introducing Agent TCP/IP:

An experimental framework that lets agents trade IP with each other.

Agents can now exchange their training data, creative style, investment strategies, and more, ushering in an intelligence economy. 👇

Big things brewing...

Have you been paying attention, anon?

No worries – interns got you 🧵⤵️

I gaze up.

Nillion mainnet.

Every revolution has its genesis moment.

February 2025.

AI Agents are arriving on the Akash Supercloud.

Today, @LevangieLabs is releasing a first look at a framework that allows an AI agent to take control of a computer — including the ability to autonomously deploy on Akash.

This is the beginning of the agentic age of Akash.

Ready Cosmos?

@keplrwallet has now integrated THORChain and $RUNE so you can now use your favourite Cosmos wallet together with your favourite Cosmos chain!

$70M in MegaVault deposits.

Big shoutout to the dYdX community 🫡

Ginger (v3) is live on Mainnet Beta 🫚

2x data throughput and 6s single-slot finality

1.33MB/s 🔜

Mainnet phase 2 is live!

The governance proposal to activate phase 2 passed with 98.45% of the vote.

Staking rewards and PGF are now enabled.

Check your very first rewards on Namadillo 👀

https://namadillo.denodes.xyz/staking

It is time!!!🔥

▪️ Airdrop Claiming: https://airdrop.elys.network

▪️ Elys Network Application: https://app.elys.network

Use our interface to deposit a small amount of USDC or ATOM to claim your airdrop.

1⃣ Click on Wallet

2⃣ Deposit Crypto

3⃣ Choose ATOM or USDC, and you’re all set!

Saga Mainnet 2.0 is here.

The Layer 1 to launch Layer 1s just became the first to host Uniswap v3 as its own appchain.

Gasless. Seamless. Unstoppable. Here's everything you need to know: 🧵👇

The Osmosis 2024 Recap is live!

Let's dig into some of the data-focused highlights from the end of year wrap-up 🔢

👇

$STARS Thirding will happen on January 1st, 2025:

- Similar to $BTC halving event

- Every year, $STARS issuance is reduced by 1/3

- Combined with the burning, it contributes to the deflationary aspect of the token

🛰️ MARS PERPS LIVE ON NEUTRON MAINNET

Moments ago, Mars Perps went live on @Neutron_org mainnet, introducing Gen3 leverage trading with unmatched capital efficiency. Here's what you need to know about this game-changing launch: 🔻

.@axelar TVL approaches $600m.

That's just below @Optimism placing it as #16 across all chains. 🤯

Are you not interchained?

Deploy your token at http://interchain.axelar.dev

Nm! Native USDC via Noble is now available on @kucoincom✨💜

Noble is a stablecoin liquidity hub for the @cosmos ecosystem of IBC enabled appchains including @dYdX, @osmosiszone, @injective, @Neutron_org & more!

Saga Stakers lookout, more rewards coming your way in 2025.

Llama 3.3 70B is live on AkashChat.

The latest state-of-the-art multilingual AI model released by Meta is as performant as Llama 3.1 405B at a fraction of the size.

Try it today:

https://chat.akash.network

Duality is LIVE ⚡️

Duality combines the advantages of orderbooks and AMMs into a single trading venue to offer the best execution for traders & LPs.

Duality will serve as the base layer of spot liquidity to enable maximally profitable & capital-efficient DeFi on Neutron 🧵⤵️

One shield to protect them all. One shield to guard the multichain.

NAMADA IS LIVE. SHIELDS UP!

Unveiling Osmosis highlights from November 🧪✨

Here's a recap of everything that went down over the last month.

🧵👇

Babylon Bitcoin Staking Phase-1, Cap-3 opens on December 10th, 2024, around 11AM UTC

New limits, updated points, and longer duration.

Let’s dive in 👇

This December, we are launching the First Restaking Protocol for @CelestiaOrg 🐄 🦣

Build Whatever. Secure Whatever.

1.33MB/s 🦣

8MB blocks are now live on Arabica testnet, enabling 1.33MB/s of permissionless data throughput.

Mainnet-ready in January.

dYdX Unlimited is finally here 🚀

Enter the Unlimited Era of instant market creation and automatic liquidity.

Get started today on DeFi's pro trading platform.

1/ A new chapter for Noble: Announcing our $15M Series A led by @Paradigm! ✨✨✨

Investors include @Polychain, Foresight, @wmt_ventures, @Informalinc, angels from @CelestiaOrg, @SkipProtocol, @SuccinctLabs, @Conduitxyz& others

From @FortuneMagazine:

1/ Today, Injective is officially launching iAgent, a groundbreaking SDK that enables anyone to create their own on-chain AI agent.

By leveraging large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, iAgent redefines the possibilities for AI finance 🚀

https://blog.celestia.org/lazybridging/

In order for modular to succeed long-term, applications cannot be forced to trade off access to users and liquidity, due to cross-chain fragmentation.

Lazybridging is Celestia’s “endgame” plan to allow Celestia’s blockspace to be saturated by a multi-rollup ecosystem that feels like a seamless, single experience to the end user.

As mainnet draws near, here's a recap of everything you can do through the 5 phases of launch.

Shields up! Let's dive in 🧵⤵️

The first on-chain banking infrastructure for Bitcoin is built with #Cosmos

@SideProtocol enables a Bitcoin-native, non-custodial, liquidity-based lending system ⬇️

After carefully considering Atom Accelerator DAO's future at a recent meeting, contributors reached a unanimous conclusion: we will sunset the DAO.

Read more 🧵👇

24.7M in total funding raised by Ecosystem projects building on Story.

꧁IP꧂ is inevitable.

One year since mainnet 🎉

Polygon soon

IBC Eureka is coming in 2025 👀

- EVM Compatibility: direct communication with Ethereum

- New Extensibility: extend to any VM

- Reduced Complexities: reliance on third parties

Cosmos IBC is expanding 🥳

We are excited to announce a total of $50M raised, with our latest $25M round led by @hack_vc.

🕉️ MANTRA Launches #Mainnet to Tokenize Real-World Assets

The launch marks a significant step forward in bringing traditional finance onchain toward our vision of becoming the preferred ledger of record for compliant tokenized assets.

You heard it here first... 🥁

We're excited to share an estimated timeline for Rujira's roll-out on the App Layer of THORChain!

Please keep in mind that this is an estimate and may vary; roll-out can happen faster or slower, and the order of apps may change.

Excited and want to know more? Details below! 👇

In case you missed it...

Limit Orders are live on Osmosis 🧪 powered by Onchain Orderbooks ⛓️📖

Here's how it works 👇

1/ Since 2021, @MapOfZones has been tracking the interchain expansion!

Map Of Zones enables the visualization of the interchain by mapping IBC chains and analyzing the flow of assets and data across the internet of blockchains.

12s ⏩ 6s block time

Celestia’s v3 upgrade, Ginger🫚 activates in 12 days on Arabica testnet.

Ginger instantly doubles throughput and cuts time-to-finality in half, enabling the community to make a near-term upgrade to 1.33MB/s throughput (then, 🦣).

Mainnet soon.

Drop Protocol has secured a cool $4M in seed funding💧

The round was led by @coinfund_io, with backing from @cmsholdings, @anagramxyz, @ChorusOne, @interopvc, and more.

This funding turbocharges our mission to unleash new economic possibilities in the Interchain.

1/ Regulated financial services company @Paxos has launched their yield-bearing stablecoin, Wrapped $USDL on Injective.

Users can now engage in trading, lending, and more with wUSDL across Injective's suite of DeFi protocols.

Bigger blocks. Even tinier light nodes.

Shwap, Celestia’s first DA network upgrade, is now activated on Arabica and Mocha testnets with v0.18.2 of celestia-node.

Developed and coordinated with the community, Shwap makes DA sampling 12x faster ⏫ and reduces storage requirements for full nodes by 16.5x ⏬.

After further testing, Shwap is expected to reach Mainnet Beta in November.

Akash experienced record-setting 1,729% year-over-year growth in user fees collected in the 3rd Quarter of 2024.

As we just wrapped up the quarter, we couldn't be more excited to share some of these insights.

Native is a Zero Trust application platform for Bitcoin, which brings IBC and programmability directly to Bitcoin.

@NativeNetwork unlocks Bitcoin’s liquidity & builds an app layer for Bitcoin by leveraging the Interchain Stack.

Expanding Bitcoin to the #interchain and beyond!

🎉 Cap-2 Completed! 🎉

Today, Babylon reached an incredible milestone—almost 23,000 bitcoins staked in Cap-2!

A big thank you to all of our stakers for being part of this journey

Celestia is revolutionizing data availability, but over $4.3B of staked $TIA remains locked and unusable.

Soon, with $dTIA launch, Drop will enable staked $TIA positions of any size to flow into @CelestiaOrg sovereign rollup ecosystem and DeFi apps. 🧵⤵️

The THORChain Q3 2024 Report by @ninerealms_cap is out. Highlights:

• ⚡️$8.17b swap volume

• ⚡️$6.37m in liquidity fees

• ⚡️Integrations by @okxweb3 & @Zengo

• ⚡️RUNEPool

• ⚡️Bitcoin Taproot

Roadmap:

• ⚡️Base & Solana ⚡️App Layer ⚡️LP Improvements

Full article on Medium below. Onwards!

1/ Hydro is coming soon!

Hydro is a first-of-a-kind liquidity allocation platform for ATOM stakers.

The initial rounds will be pilot rounds, and here's what to expect 🧵 🌊

Introducing the Axelar Mobius Development Stack (MDS), a new interoperability standard coming to an ecosystem you love 🧵👇

Elys Network: Road to Mainnet

Thanks to all our features:\

• Spot trading

• Liquidity pools

• Leverage LP

• Staking (USDC / ELYS)

• PerpDEX

We are fully equipped to launch our mainnet and, more importantly, to make the ELYS token useful.

Osmosis just eclipsed $36 BILLION in total trading volume 🧪🤯

That's equivalent to 150 million years of Netflix premium 📺 or 3.8 billion Big Mac meals from McDonald’s 🍔 or like 5 tickets to a Taylor Swift concert 🎶

1/ Drop is thrilled to be not just a bidder, but also a proud LST partner of Hydro! 🌊

Hydro by @cosmoshub is an auction platform that allows $ATOM to be deployed on Drop and lets protocols direct $dATOM liquidity to their apps via incentives.

Here’s how it works 🧵⤵️

1/Payy with @CelestiaOrg underneath ✨

we’re upgrading Payy Network to scale with @CelestiaOrg as a permissionless, high-throughput data availability layer.

dYdX Trading will sunset v3 starting from October 28, 2024.

Users of dYdX Chain, http://dydx.trade, and the v4 API, are unaffected.

The Unlimited era is just beginning! #dYdXUnlimited

We’ve added Paths to Parthenon! Welcome to a new phase of the Movement testnet.

Today, Parthenon has 50+ apps.

Paths simplify and organize their quests into journeys.

Starting a Path is like starting a game’s main story.

Here’s how to begin 🧵👇

🚀 Big news! Introducing EVM Swaps on Skip:Go!

Swap any asset from EVM chains to Cosmos chains—and back again—in just one click!

Babylon is the third native use case for Bitcoin.

Until now, there have only been 2: store value, and payment.

For non-native use cases, you must trust a third party.

Babylon is trustless.

Llama 3.2 is the latest open-source AI model from Meta, released only a few hours ago.

Here is the 3B parameter model running on Akash Chat at 165 tokens/second, powered by NVIDIA A100s on Akash.

Try Llama 3.2 for free, no sign-in required:

https://chat.akash.network

Big news!

Stride is heading into the woods to launch liquid staking for @berachain 🎉

Berachain's gov token, BGT, is non-transferable. So we're launching a liquid version, called stBGT.

Trade, send, earn rewards, borrow against. Unlock the full power of BGT with stBGT.

All your chains are belong to us 🪢

Initia is excited to announce our $14M Series A fundraise led by @ttunguz and @SpencerFarrar at @theoryvc with @Delphi_Ventures and @hack_vc doubling down.

Announcing $100M in new fundraising, bringing the total raised to $155M.

With Celestia underneath ✨, developers can deploy high-throughput, unstoppable applications with full-stack customizability.

Milkers, got more than 10k mPoints?🥛

Your mission:

✅ Hit the leaderboard

✅ Bind your Osmosis wallet to an EVM address

⏰ Deadline: Monday, September 30th, 12 PM UTC

📸Snapshot: September 26th

Probably nothing... @MitosisOrg

👀

.@EclipseFND mainnet in October

That's it. That's the tweet.

🧘Our Chakra Pool now boasts over $8 Million TVL. Thank you Sherpas for your support!

Deposit $USDC into the Chakra Pool http://mantra.zone/chakra-pool to receive:

🕉 KARMA on http://MANTRA.Zone toward the 50M $OM GenDrop🪂

🫡 Additional rewards in the form of $OM coins and $ONDO tokens (provided by @MANTRA_Chain and @OndoFoundation)

Introducing Polaris – The Token Portal

All Tokens, All Chains, One App.

A short summary of Halo: ATOM-Powered Rollups ⚛️

▶️ What is Halo?

▶️ How does Halo drive value for $ATOM?

▶️ Does Halo compete with Interchain Security (ICS)?

and more!

3D Playground testnet is live!

Deploy RollApps as easily as tokens

http://playground.dymension.xyz

In the past 6 months, daily active users on Sei have grown relentlessly.

Probably nothing...

1/ Let the bidding wars begin ⚔️

Hydro, the interchain auction platform, transforms how projects access liquidity.

1/ We’ve been in touch with CEXs to enable Noble support so we figured it was time for a public thread on ‘Why Noble’ 💜

Simple: Noble is UX and a liquidity on-ramp to a $30B ecosystem of blockchains ✨

In the last year, we’ve facilitated $3B of tx volume

Let’s dig in 👇

Lemongrass is live 🍵

As Celestia’s first Mainnet upgrade, Lemongrass introduces 1-click interactions over IBC, interchain accounts, and more.

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #18

• Bad Kids sales are ramping up

• Laser Eye Mad Scientist break new records

• Sloths join the SEZ & floor is back at 460K

• Women of Fada record sale

• Pixel Wizards are taking off

• After the Filter top sales

Saga’s new token economic model is built to attract endless experimentation. Here’s how we’re flipping the script on traditional blockchain economics: 👇🧵

🕉️ #MANTRA Brings Real-World Assets Onchain with #Mainnet Launch.

We’re thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated launch of the MANTRA Chain Mainnet will be coming in October 2024.

Drop has officially surpassed the 8-figure mark 🎯

Congrats to the Drop community on this early milestone!

Let's add a zero to that in the coming months.

1 GB blocks to build whatever

Introducing the community's roadmap to relentlessly scale Celestia 🫧, enabling developers to deploy high-throughput, unstoppable applications using any VM.

http://blog.celestia.org/roadmap/

Providing app-chains with everything they need out-of-the-box on The Interwoven Stack.

Introducing one of the key innovations in Saga's Liquidity Integration Layer: Automatic Bridge Deployment. 🧵

Get ready for something BIG 👀

Coming soon.

Vote passed ✅

The dYdX community has voted to add @osmosiszone $OSMO on dYdX.

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #18

• Smoking backpack kid auctioned off for 200K $STARS

• ATF ghostie sold for 19.5K $STARS

• Skeleton Mad Scientists in high demand

• After the Filter Chapter 4 Announcement

• Fractional Fun is live

• Chaos Kidz pump & all top sales of this week

Unveiling Osmosis highlights from August 🧪✨

Here's a quick recap of everything that went down over the last month.

🧵👇

No waiting and no lost staking rewards.

You can now convert staked $ATOM positions to $dATOM instantly with zero unstaking period 🙌

Here's how ⤵️

Promised nothing big before the weekend, but..

#IYKYK

Shoutout to frens @StarMaa for broadcasting a flawless live stream w/ ultra low-latency simulcast to 3 platforms to 16M+ followers

YT: http://youtube.com/watch?v=az18Z4_tIfo

FB: http://facebook.com/watch/?v=833198745627848

IG: http://instagram.com/starmaa

10 chains on The Interwoven Stack 🪢 with Celestia underneath ✨

From order book to settlement: 100% on-chain. 100% decentralized. 100% game-changing.

dYdX Unlimited.

Coming soon ➡️

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #18

• Emoji NFT season on Stargaze

• Pixel Wizard learned some new skills

• Mad Scientist & ATF sales are taking up

• Story Protocol loves Sloths

• Stargaze Marketplace V2 is around the corner

🥳 IBC data is now available on @DefiLlama.

Data showing the massive size and scale of the interchain is now at your fingertips. 🤝

Exciting news, Scientists! Welcome to an all new Trading Experience, complete with one of the top requested features 🧪

Limit orders are finally here, powered by Onchain Orderbooks ⛓️📖 All wrapped in a fully upgraded user experience 🤩

Let's dive in👇

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #16

• Unicorn Memes Airdrop clawback is live

• Golden forcefield bad kid sold for 259K $STARS

• Sloths are slowly running out of supply

• Monad is flirting with sloths

• The Stargaze furnace is running hot

1/5: Welcome to MILKIN’ IT #2: MilkyWay’s Giant Stride! We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with @stride_zone.

Along with milkTIA, milkINIT and native AVS assets, you’ll be able to deposit stTIA into MilkyWay’s restaking pools!

3D Upgrade: Overview and Vision

Deep dive article on what comes next: https://medium.com/@dymension/3d-upgrade-overview-and-vision-b6b21788eec6

TL;DR🧵

The Supercloud is growing.

A new community-led LATAM Provider Initiative in Brazil is starting soon.

In addition, two new community providers in Indonesia and Japan are live on the network.

Celestia’s first upgrade, Lemongrass, is coming. 🍵

Developed and coordinated with the community, Lemongrass includes 1-click Tia interactions with other IBC chains, Interchain accounts, and a new upgrade mechanism.

Wow, the Drop community works fast! 🏃‍♂️💨

1M $ATOM liquid staked on Drop just 20 hours after hitting 100K.

Congrats to the community on hitting this early milestone 🎉

Restaking is already live on Mainnet.

This means security costs are lower for the protocol and restakers can help boost quality of service.

>Stake LAVA to secure the Lava blockchain.

>Restake LAVA to the top providers and improve performance across the network.

Today Saga is announcing its Liquidity Integration Layer (LIL) to solve the persistent issue of liquidity fragmentation in the blockchain space.

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #15

• Mantra Chain airdrop for the SG NFT Trinity

• Lazy e-mail login is live on Stargaze

• Baseball head sold for 260K $STARS

• Balloon Bad Kid sold for 300K $STARS

• MeMe Ducks almost up 10x W.o.W

• Sloths remain volume kings

Akash Chat currently runs Llama 3.1 405B at 27 tokens per second.

It's fast, free, and private.

• Runs the most powerful open-source AI model.

• Chat history is stored locally in the browser.

• Completely permissionless. No signup required.

Chat with Llama 3.1 405B:

Gm & Happy Monday ✨🌱

Over the past week, Noble Express has facilitated 4M+ in USDC transfers!

http://express.noble.xyz is emerging as a destination for 1-click transfers of native USDC across the @ethereum, @cosmos and @solana ecosystems.

Check out the beta release & let us know what you think! 👀

100M $DROP tokens are now up for grabs with the launch of @dropdotmoney 🪂🪂🪂

This launch marks a significant milestone in the world of cross-chain liquid staking via @Neutron_org.

APR on $DYDX staking reached a new all-time-high this week, surpassing 60%...

👀

Get started ➡️

Vault Four 📸

1 | 📙 Picasso's Manifesto 📙

We're tired of seeing success of protocols limited by ecosystem ties. Coordinated collaboration & inclusivity to service & thrive across multiple domains = the future.

❓ @Cosmos Season

❓ @Solana Season

❓ @Ethereum Season

✅ Decentralized Season

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #14

• StarDEX is live on Stargaze

• The Watchers from OhhNFT are taking off

• Sloths climb back above 420K $STARS floor

• Balloon Bad Kid sold for 190K

• Shane's thoughts on the future of Stargaze

Introducing

⚡️evmOS Lite EVMs ⚡️

Excited to introduce our latest EVM innovation and have @osmosiszone be the first to adopt it 🫡

🚨 BREAKING: Sherpas, we just released a deep dive into the #MANTRA 50M $OM GenDrop in our latest article!

🕉️ We delve into the GenDrop details, explaining the eligibility criteria and how you can participate in this exciting community initiative.

📝 Read more: https://mantrachain.medium.com/mantra-50m-om-gendrop-explained-e6109f73ad2f

𝑀𝐴𝑁𝑇𝑅𝐴 - 𝐹𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠: 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑂𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛.

The ultimate dYdX Tokenomics Guide

• Token utility & value accrual mechanism

• Token distribution, unlocks & supply schedule

• Investors and funding

• Protocol revenue & real yield paid in USDC

• The DYDX Flywheel

Eclipse Mainnet is now open for builders.

We've delivered Solana on Ethereum. As Ethereum's first SVM L2, this milestone represents a major step forward in Ethereum scalability.

Unveiling Osmosis highlights from July 🧪✨

Here's a quick recap of everything that went down over the last month.

🧵👇

#dYdXChain is approaching $200b in total trading volume 📈

RollApps with Decentralized Sequencers

Coming soon to mainnet

🧵👇

STARDEX ⚡️ (Alpha)

Trade your favorite meme coins natively on Stargaze✨🔭 :

http://swap.stargaze.zone/swap

Vault Three Saga tokens have been distributed.

Partner drops are following on a rolling basis (most are complete).

Llama 3.1 405B is live on Akash.

This is the most powerful and capable open-source AI model available today. As of right now, it’s live on the Akash Supercloud.

Get started with the Akash Chat web app and API.

Details below.

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #13

• Burger head kid sold for 300K $STARS

• Mad Scientist sold for 95K $STARS

• $STARS airdrop to Mad Scientists

• Stargaze morphing into a full-fledged CW L1

• Marketplace V2 imminent?

• New secret pixel collection

Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Token Merger Phase 1 Complete, Begins Integration Phase

1/ @OndoFinance’s USDY is now live in @Cosmos via Noble!

Users across the Interchain can now access stable, high quality yields backed by US Treasuries that can be leveraged in a variety of blockchain applications

Let’s dig in! 🧵⬇️

Skip Go is now powering more than 25% of IBC volume — $200m+ monthly

We’re so grateful devs are choosing Skip Go to onboard users from everywhere. But we’re just getting started

We’re going to make x-chain swaps & transfers on sovereign chains as fast & easy as on Solana

1/5 Excited to announce launch of the Stride Reward Share Program 🎉

Popular frontends, such as @KeplrWallet and @Leap_Cosmos, will support in-app liquid staking with Stride.

Increased visibility; accelerated onboarding of new users. Will boost adoption of liquid staking 💪

Build with the Akash Chat API

The Akash Chat API is officially open to the public.

Starting today, anyone can create an API key and access Llama 3 powered by the Akash Supercloud at zero-cost.

Create an API key and start building:

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #12

• Sloth floor rises above 450K $STARS

• Burger head kid sold for 350K $STARS

• Bad Kids are passively earning 5 figs

• Stargaze's path towards deflation

• 300K $STARS burned this week

PENUMBRA IS BECOMING.

Penumbra Prop0 is live. If this proposal passes, the network will pass from Phase 0 to Phase 1 of mainnet.

This will ratify the current network as Penumbra.

🚨BREAKING: Season 2 of #MANTRA 50,000,000 $OM GenDrop starts on 17th July

✅ Get started on http://MANTRA.ZONE https://app.galxe.com/quest/krFNiTdbd4L3XrqumQk8fb/GCxhytkcBX

👀 Early participants on http://MANTRA.ZONE will receive exclusive rewards.

In under 48 hours, Season 1 Snapshot of the leaderboard on Galxe will be taken!

THORChain's Q2 Report has been published

Highlights:

⚡️ $13.9b in total swap volume

⚡️ $5.28m in fees collected

⚡️ $3.92m earned by interfaces

⚡️ New integrations: @cakewallet @lifiprotocol @ZenGo @FireblocksHQ

⚡️ Trade Assets launch

⚡️ RUNEPool & Solana Soon™️

Brev has been acquired by NVIDIA.

As a primary network client, http://Brev.dev utilizes the Akash Supercloud to access high-performance GPUs, including H100s, A100s, and more.

The ultimate Akash Tokenomics Guide

• Token utility & value accrual mechanism

• Token distribution, unlocks & supply schedule

• Investors and funding

• AKT 2.0: Take Rates

• The good, the bad, and the ugly

1/ 🎨 We posted a proposal for discussion to onboard Partial Set Security (PSS) - launching Picasso as an opt-in consumer chain.

Check all the details in the proposal and please engage with any feedback, input, or suggestions:

1/ The community previously voted to bring the Fee Market Module (Prop 842) to the Cosmos Hub.

We've now finished the integration as a part of the Gaia v18 release, which brings an adaptive fee market...

and also supports ATOM burn! 🔥🧵

We're taking a new approach to the LAVA token launch.

Step 1: The Vesuvius Airdrop is live.

Have you 👀 the Asset page upgrades?

Guided by user feedback, here are some noteworthy features to look out for ✨👇

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #11

• $ATOM August on Stargaze

• Mad Scientist sold for 4k $OSMO

• $LAVA airdrop for Bad Kids and Sloths

• Habitat free mint + WL for Sloths and ATF

• 25 million $STARS burned

ROIDS-ATOM liquidity has broken 6 figures! ☄️

Check out the latest stats and deposit liquidity directly on @astroport_fi:

Vault Three 📸

MANTRA Incubator Project Showcase: Introducing @PyseEarth

🛠️ In the first part of the #MANTRA Incubator Project Showcase series, we introduce Pyse, their proposed solution, and how they will integrate into the MANTRA ecosystem.

👀 Pyse addresses the inadequate financing of climate-focused projects by enabling individuals to earn predictable returns from investing directly in green assets like electric mobility and renewable energy.

Stargaze ✨🔭 just surpassed 100,000 users!

1/ @Bitcoin IBC❓

We are exploring the implementation of the first trust-minimized connection between @Bitcoin, @Solana, @Cosmos, @Ethereum, and @Polkadot by making Bitcoin @IBCprotocol-compatible.

📑 Learn more:

1/ The Cosmos Hub Engineering Update by @informalinc is back!

In June, the team shipped:

• Cosmos Hub v17

• Gaia v18

• Integration phase for Gaia v19

• Signaling phase for ICS with Inactive Hub Validators

• Discussion phase for Permisionless ICS

Today, we’re launching a new Skip brand.

Everything's changing. But it's all in service of reaffirming our same mission: to create amazing tools that empower sovereign communities.

Learn about the new Skip below!

ZK interoperability is coming to @arbitrum

Get ready for smoooooth liquidity flows for Orbit chains 🏂

🧵 ⤵️

Oh?

It's been a busy H1 for #dYdXChain!

With 40+ new markets launched and 800 more unlocked and made available for listing through the new market listing widget.

And this is only the beginning 🫡

Read more ➡️

🔥 UAE Real Estate Giant #MAG Partners with #MANTRA to Tokenize $500 Million in Real Estate Assets

✅ MANTRA and MAG will collaborate to democratize access to luxury UAE real estate using secure, yield-bearing vault products backed by MANTRA’s L1 technology.

PENUMBRA IS LIVE.

Penumbra was summoned by the validators who found its genesis file. The network is now in Phase 0 of a three-stage process, where the network has limited functionality.

Read the rest of the mainnet post here:

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #10

• Space Suit Sloth sold for 570K $STARS

• Baseball-head Bad Kid sells for 444k $STARS

• The Mad Scientists MemeLab is live

• Claiming RWAs on Stargaze

• Bad-Kidification of the Sunrise Logo

We're pleased to announce another potential consumer chain on the horizon!

@KiiChain_ is a modular Layer 1 building the future of finance for emerging markets: tokenization of RWAs, DeFi, payment settlement, and much more!

The AEZ continues its expansion 💥

There's nothing to do on Sei ‼️

or is there?

Welcome to Chapter 1 of 'Nothing to Do on Sei,' where we highlight ongoing initiatives within the Sei ecosystem 🧵👇

Did you know you can earn $NTRN on these @astroport_fi pools?

• USDC/NTRN

• TIA/NTRN

• DYM/stDYM

• TIA/stTIA

And then auto-compound your LP position on @ApolloDAO to earn additional yield + $NTRN and $AXL?

Announcing our latest Innovator Cohort.

1/ Another amazing update from our grantee @asteroidxyz - be among the first in the world to send inscriptions (CFT-20s) across chains!

We funded Asteroid back in Mar'24 to significantly build out the protocol.

Why? 🧵👇

Copy Trading Vaults

Mars Protocol will soon introduce Copy Trading Vaults, a feature that allows users to automatically copy the trades of top traders and earn attractive yields.

The #dYdX Foundation 2024 Semi-Annual Ecosystem Report is now live 🚀

The dYdX protocol ecosystem has seen substantial growth in H1 following the launch of various features such as isolated margin, and much more!

Full report here ➡️

Unveiling Osmosis highlights from June 🧪✨

Here's a quick recap of everything that went down over the last month.

Prime Intellect has integrated the Akash Supercloud into its new compute platform.

Now, AI developers can access high-performance GPUs from Akash's permissionless marketplace, including NVIDIA H100 as low as $1.65/hour, directly through @PrimeIntellect.

1/ 📝 PICA Improvement Proposal is Now Live for Voting:

• Buyback-and-Burn Execution: We’ll release the buy-back & burn amount following each event.

• Continuous Monitoring and Updates: We’ll keep a close eye on performance and community sentiments and plan to post regular updates.

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #9

• Stargaze introduces Astra L2

• Bad Girl sold for 666K $STARS

• Unknown Pixel Deity sold for 30K

• Penumbra Stargaze Alliance, what's cooking?

• New $STARS token burn page

• Sloths and Bad Kids role in the Sunrise Discord

2.2 million users transfer tokens 5.7 million times over IBC in a 30-day period.

Here are the top 6 things to know about IBC. 👇

💥 @Cardano goes interchain!

Through the Cardano IBC Sidechain, Cardano connects with an ecosystem of 115 IBC-enabled chains: the interchain.

Cardano’s IBC integration will expand the #interchain ecosystem to a vibrant community of blockchain pioneers.

Vault 2 saw incredible community participation of 81%.

Vault 2 Distribution will occur on Friday, June 28th.

By January 2024, the entire initial supply of $INJ was 100% unlocked and circulating, marking a significant milestone.

Protocols like @mars_protocol and @astroport_fi are transitioning to Integrated Applications on Neutron.

But what exactly are "Integrated Applications"?

Let's break this down...

A deep dive into @FortyTwo_money

The one-stop platform for your Interchain journey:

• Staking, Liquid Staking, and Lending

• Swaps and Yield Strategies

• Fiat onramp & Airdrop Farm

=> All of the above in one single interface 🔥🧵

🚀 Big news!

We're excited to propose using Interchain Security of the Cosmos Hub to secure Evmos!

This initiative aims to boost liquidity, enhance cross-chain composability, and drive growth for Evmos and the broader Cosmos ecosystem. 🌌🌉

☆ Introducing Astra 💫

Astra is a new high-throughput Stargaze L2 built on @RollkitDev 🧮 with @CelestiaOrg underneath ✨

Week 6 Recap of The Initiation: 🌊

🧑‍🎨 Picasso’s Updated Roadmap is live with key milestones and planned releases for the rest of 2024!

⏩ @IBCProtocol Bridging

🧰 General Updates

🔁 Restaking & Security Infrastructure

🗣️ Messaging & Comms

✨✨✨

Noble block time is now around 1.3s. It is the 4th fastest chain in the Interchain!

>Be a Milker

>Stake TIA, get milkTIA

>Stay liquid

>Earn staking rewards while participating in DeFi

>Receive Airdrops 🪂

@ElectronDeFi 🤝 Milkers, achieving more together.

Proof of Liquidity is an accelerant for the application layer of Berachain.

Learn more about the ethos of Proof of Liquidity and how it works in our new blog post.

Wake up babe! The latest and greatest @SeiNetwork v2 updates are here, brought to you by @21nemus!

Today, we're covering everything from the current status of Sei v2, to the exciting $SEI airdrop, to insights from the Messari $SEI Report... and more!

Smart Accounts on Osmosis: Redefining UX and Account Management in DeFi!

1/ Introducing @ValenceZone: a cross-chain protocol enabling programmatic relationships between crypto-native organizations 🌐

Developed by @TimewaveLabs, Valence enhances #interchain collaboration, allowing chains, dApps, and DAOs to engage in economic relationships.

Did you know that Stargaze has a burn mechanic built in called Fair Burn? Every transaction burns 50% of the fee, and 50% go to stakers.

Current real yield (excluding inflation) is 4%.

THE VOID SUN DELIVERS ITS MESSAGE

The $UM airdrop is now live at http://penumbra.claims!

This is the official launch thread of eligibility criteria.

🌖🌕PENUMBRA🌒🌑

1/ With the upcoming v18 upgrade in mid-July, we're introducing permissioned CosmWasm to the Cosmos Hub.

This update will bring new capabilities to the Hub, enhancing ATOM's functionality, utility, and cross-chain composability.

Starting July 1, 2024, $DYDX monthly unlocks will decrease from 33M per month to 8.3M per month.

Resulting in a 75% reduction.

Celestine Sloths! 🦥🦥🦥🦥🦥🦥

We've got some exciting airdrop updates for you! 🪂

Join Stakecito as @21nemus dives into some updates from the @CelestiaOrg world!

1/ Who's ready for @DA0_DA0 on the @CosmosHub?

We want to hear your thoughts, opinions and feedback on launching DAO DAO natively on the Cosmos Hub, once we have CosmWasm live. 👇

Berachain's Public Testnet bArtio B2 is now live.

Hot Bera Summer begins at:

🐻 http://berachain.com 🐻

Over 1.6m $APOLLO (over 2% of the total supply and ~$200k at current prices) have now been burnt with 1.2m (~80%) coming from Buybacks.

"It do go down"

"bro recap modular week"

1. Celestia Blobstream on Ethereum

2. Symbiotic Permissionless restaking Launch

3. Optmism Stage 1 Rollup

Everything in less than 1 minute! 🧵

Everything you need to know about the @mars_protocol migration to @Neutron_org and the $MARS tokenomics revamp 🔴🛰️🔥

1/ From announcing the first Batch of 2024 grants to launching our Venture Grants program and signing its first agreement, the AADAO has been very busy these past few months!

Let’s get you caught up with a breakdown of our latest Transparency Report 🧵👇

📜Rollups have emerged as a promising solution to scalability challenges faced by L1 blockchains like Ethereum, but current architectures often sacrifice security for increased throughput.

⚡️In our new proposal, "Forkless Rollups with Bitcoin Staking," we introduce a solution that enhances rollup security by leveraging Bitcoin staking, reducing latency, and addressing the centralization bottleneck.

Blobstream 🎇 is now live on Ethereum mainnet.

Deploy a high-throughput L2 as *permissionlessly* as a smart contract.

1/ The next iteration of Interchain Security (ICS 2.0) is live on the @CosmosHub as of last week! 🎉

Cosmos Hub's validators successfully upgraded the core software of the network - Gaia v17 - which brings with it ICS 2.0

Need an intro to ICS2.0? 🧵👇

Akash Chat is powered by permissionless compute from the Akash Supercloud.

As other centralized chat interfaces experience downtime, Akash Chat is open and available.

Just 10 days into the Sei v2 journey – the first-ever parallelized EVM – and we're already buzzing with an amazing lineup of DeFi projects!

Try out some of the dApps already live on Sei 👇

ASI Logo Revealed

This emblem symbolizes the token merger of @SingularityNET @Fetch_ai and @OceanProtocol, representing the unity of our strengths and the dawn of a new era in AI.

By combining our resources, we're creating a force to challenge big tech's control over AI development.

Just keep building.

$DYM frens, join us as we dive into the @Rivalz_AI incentivized testnet, which is live now! 💎

Introducing DYM Sponsorships

Weight-based voting system for bringing value to DYM stakers, RollApp teams, and the base liquidity layer.

Unveiling Osmosis highlights from May 🧪 ✨

Here's a quick recap of everything that went down over the last month.

🎉 Exciting news! Babylon has successfully completed a $70M raise led by Paradigm @paradigm to advance trustless Bitcoin staking. 🚀

Build whatever on @Arbitrum Orbit with Celestia underneath ✨

Orbit with Celestia is now Mainnet-ready with fully-working Nitro fraud proofs 🏎️

1/ Introducing dYdX Chain for Android 🤖

All the features you know and love from dYdX Chain, now in your pocket 🤳

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #5

• Sneak peek of After The Filter Chapter #4

• Robot Bad Kid was sold for 350K $STARS

• Sloth Rank #16 sold for 299K $STARS

• Fee abstraction module is coming to SG

• ETERNALS mint on Friday, May 31th

Here we go!

We're launching multiple pilot games on Saga chainlets that will begin to demonstrate the unique scale, speed, and UI/UX capabilities of Saga.

Huge thanks to our Saga Innovators as we begin to see their projects go live.

Phase 2 of the Sei Airdrop is here.

A total of 27,421,200 SEI tokens are available to 43,052 unique addresses. Stakers, Liquid Stakers and NFT Collectors are eligible.

Introducing Drop 💧

The newest Integrated Application on Neutron, coming 🔜

🧵1/ 🎨 Restaking has launched on Solana

@Solana @IBCProtocol - is live as the first AVS in production on Picasso's Restaking Hub on Solana.

GM Babylonians, thank you for participating in our #Bitcoin Staking Testnet-4! 🧡

Cap 1 is filled and here are a few updates about the next steps 🧵

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #4

• The era of Interchain NFTs is upon us

• Mad University opened its gates

• Bad Kids Spotlight #2: Builders

• $GRAC airdrop to all Mad Scientitst

• SG Marketplace turns 2 years

• Bad Kids 2nd anniversary mint

1/ Introducing Hydro: a bidding & governance platform for the efficient deployment of liquidity across the #interchain

Developed by @informalinc, Hydro enables the @cosmoshub to meet the demand from projects seeking to add #ATOM and other token liquidity to their systems.

"bro recap modular week"

1. Rollkit Sovereign Rollup Framework

2. Initia Testnet Launch

3. Movement Universal Token Standard

Everything in less than 1 minute! 🧵

𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐍? 🔥

Over 1.2 million OSMO were burned after today's v25 upgrade 💥

Initia’s Incentivized Public Testnet is Here! 🪂

Follow along as we explore key features, set up wallets, and engage with the Initia ecosystem. Stakecito is very pleased to be a validator on @initiaFDN (although currently inactive)!

We are excited to partner with @OndoFinance and serve as an onchain distribution hub for tokenized RWAs in the @Cosmos and ecosystem and beyond!

Interchain 💜 Ondo

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #3

• Stargaze Roadmap

• Early Sloth concept art

• $PRYSM airdrop for Gekies and Mad Scientists

• Strange Clan: The Hunt Begins!

• Top Interchain NFT collections by owners

• WLs for Open Edition mints are live on SG

evmOS 🤝🤝🤝 Ripple and Peersyst

@ripple and @Peersyst are developing an EVM sidechain for XRPL (in devnet) utilizing ⚡ evmOS ⚡

Sei v2 is a proposed upgrade to a live blockchain. The launch is planned to be divided into three phases:

Phase 1: Governance

Phase 2: v2 Alpha: Stability and Infrastructure Deployment

Phase 3: v2 Beta Live

1/ We are proud to announce the first recipient of Cosmos Hub’s Venture Grant: @elys_network

Deployed by @AtomAccelerator, this investment is set to grow the Community Pool and catapult the AEZ.

The launch of the first CFT-20 bridge draws near! ☄️

To help attract deep liquidity for an initial $ROIDS pool, Asteroid contributors have submitted a governance proposal on @astroport_fi to offer $ASTRO rewards for ROIDS-ATOM LPs 🧵👇

Are governance tokens really just memecoins with more steps?

Maybe some are - but not STRD.

Staked STRD earns 4.1% APR in real rewards, plus 3.1% APR paid in newly-emitted STRD. Total annual yield of 7.2%.

Real, sustainable, diversified rewards.

50k+ eIBC transfers (fast withdrawals) have been processed so far!

Start processing RollApp withdrawals and generate fees today.

Bad Kids Spotlight #1: Devs

▶️ Get to know the baddest developers in Web3

• Crypto OGs, visionaries, thought leaders

• Bad Kidification of entire teams

• Famous Bad Kids PFPs 😈

Cosmos Hub to become a Security Aggregation Hub!

Starting with Babylon x Cosmos Hub integration.

@akashnet_ $AKT stats keep breaking ATH and getting adopted by more and more projects 😎

Dive into the latest updates from the @SeiNetwork as Stakecito explores the integration of leading DeFi projects on $SEI as well as exciting community activities around the globe.

The number of ecosystems connected to IBC is growing fast. \

All blockchains deserve to communicate.

Stakecito is thrilled to launch a new format for our Celestia updates, keeping you in the loop with all things Celestia: regular insights, breakthroughs, and developments.

Update by @21nemus!

Weekly Cito NFT Recap #2

• Bad Kids Spotlight #1: Devs

• After The Filter free open edition mint

• Full Mad Scientist collection revealed

• Stargaze volume soars to $4.88M in April '24

• Bit Kids anniversary gift

• Interchain NFT Transfers (ICS-721)

inEVM is unveiling its integration with @arbitrum today!

🪂 Upcoming $DYM RollDrop Alert for May 9th!

- $MAND airdrop earmarked for $DYM stakers includes 5% of the total supply.

Power-Level Over 9000

Vault One Criteria

MilkyWay has raised a $5 million seed round. Investors include Polychain and Binance Labs.

@Mars_Protocol is thriving!

Despite the recent market down-turn, Mars TVL remains at $22.5M - just 10% off its recent ATH.

Of that, $5.3M is Stride LSTs.

5 months in a row with $1B+ in trading volume on the Osmosis DEX 🧪

Introducing LAVA, the native token of the Lava Network.

Ethereum, rollups, L1s, L2s, modular, integrated, sovereign, app-specific, rollchains - all will be supported on Lava 🌋

ATF Faction Report #1: Ghosties 👻

▶️ Take a look behind their white sheets

• Combat knife, rodent

• Soul capturer, skull-o-lantern

• The floating ghost

🪂📸The deadline for the first @Sagaxyz__ snapshot is fast approaching (April 30th!).

Here's a quick tutorial on how to stake $SAGA using Keplr.

▶️ Get to know all 25 Strange Clan CHARACTERS

• Crow, Gator, and Goat 🐦‍⬛

• Panda, Rabbit, and Platypus 🐼

• Gold Hart and White Tiger 🐯

  ✨ A Passage NFT collection ✨

1/ The Cosmos Hub is set to start deploying Venture Grants, as a mechanism for value capture from the growth of the interchain.

Mandated by governance, @ATOMAccelerator will drive tangible and measurable value for the Hub through these venture grants.

ATF Faction Report #2: Squidheads 🦑

▶️ Get to know all storm-lashed fishermen

• Squidhead mask rarity guide

• Faction & class breakdown

• Hidden gems 💎

Introducing Power-Level Over 9000!

Through this campaign $SAGA stakers will be leveling up all year with token & NFT drops from over 100+ confirmed projects across web3!

We are excited to announce Nim Mainnet is launching this Wednesday in just 2 days.

Here's everything you should know about what comes next 👇

ATF Faction Report #3: Bots 🤖

▶️ Everything you need to know about Robots

• Rarity rankings & special traits

• Tanky and fragile bots

• Legendary robots

$STRD airdrop Season 16 Claim is live 🪂

Bad Kids Trait Breakdown #1: 😈

▶️ The best guide to finding your favorite Bad Kid

• Learn about all 50 body types

• Common, super rare and legendary ones

• Hidden traits 🥷🏽

• Skater, bad girl, and cool nerds 😎

Introducing $stBTC, a Bitcoin Liquid Staking Token powered by @babylon_chain.

ATF Faction Report #4: Clerics 🙏🏽

▶️ Get to know all ATF pacifists

• Special accessories & sings

• Lucky cat & caution arrow

• The Diviner ⭐

ZK and Privacy are the least obvious narratives in crypto 👀

Bad Kids Trait Breakdown #2: 😈

▶️ The best guide to finding your favorite Bad Kid

• Get to know all rare body types

• Troublemakers, free spirits, schoolgirls, and goofs 🤷🏽‍♀️

• Pets and inappropriate gestures 🐶

Who is your favorite Cosmos liquid staking provider?

We did a deep dive into 4 liquid staking protocols in Cosmos 👇

ATF Faction Report #5: Shepherds

▶️ Learn more about the Bad Kids of ATF

• All three shepherd classes

• Rider & low rider

• Legendary kids

ATF Faction Report #7: Singulars

▶️ Learn more about the singular class

• Geeks and nerds

• Thought leaders & influencers

• Sleepwalkers

▶️ Get to know all Strange Clan CLASSES Part 1

• Hunter and Magician 🪄

• Fighter and Mercenary ⚔️

• Peddler, Bard and many more 🎶

  ✨ A Passage NFT collection ✨

Saga Mainnet is now live.

ATF Faction Report #11: Grindhousers 💣

▶️ Get to know the toughest guys in ATF

• Grunts, carriers & grindbabies

• All their lethal weapons

• And enigmatic animal masks

Movement Labs' Strategic Partnerships From September 2023 to April 2024

Penumbra Zone is integrating Privacy and IBC with a laser focus on building an IBC-capable private decentralized exchange

ATF Faction Report #10: Trash Hoarders 🗑️

▶️ Learn more about these creative minds

• Dumpster dog & pittrobber

• Hatches and battle staff

• Gutterboi & The Wet One

ATF Faction Report #9: Normos 🙋🏽‍♂️

▶️ Unveiling the extraordinary in the ordinary

• Sales associates & numbercrunchers

• Metal skin type

• Special accessories

zkIBC is coming and we could see the first version of it go live this year 🤯 @union_build and @Polymer_Labs are prominent teams that have kept pushing this narrative 👀

Bad Kids Trait Breakdown #4: 😈

▶️ The best guide to finding ultra-rare Bad Kid

• Astronauts & Dinosaurs 🦖

• Baseball & Lemonheads ⚾

• Robots, Reapers, and Devils 💀

Stakecito fam, shill us the airdrops you're most excited for in 2024! (We might just cover them... OR ape into them... so go!)

ATF Faction Report #8: Buskers 🎸

▶️ Everything about the ATF rockstars

• All busker classes and hand traits

• Streethound & powerchorder

• Banjo, boombox, and cans

Bad Kids Trait Breakdown #3: 😈

▶️ The best guide to finding your favorite Bad Kid

• Get to know all super rare body types 💎

• Tryhard, metalhead, outcast & beanpole 🤘🏽

• Moonkids, tiny dancer, and much more 🌖

ATF Faction Report #6: Chemists ⚗️

▶️ Get to know the Chemists

• Gassy crystalcutters

• Streetlingers & squatking

• Legendary chemists