Ecosystem

Akash Network:

Akash Partners with Solana to Bring Web-Scale Smart Contracts to Supercloud: By interoperating with Solana, Akash users will soon be able to run secure and scalable smart contracts on Solana’s hyper-performance platform and pay using Akash Token (AKT). Whereas Solana’s users will soon be able to run distributed applications (like machine learning or web apps) and settle using Solana Token (SOL) on Akash.

Additionally, Akash will provide first-class support for Solana’s validators to run nodes in highly secure and scalable environments.

Currently, validators have little to no option other than to run their nodes on centralized cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. 60% of Ethereum nodes currently run on AWS and other centralized cloud service providers. This threatens decentralization at the core. Validators have few alternatives and are forced to make a massive upfront investment in talent, servers, and flexible scalability or choose the big cloud. By leveraging Akash decentralized cloud, Solana’s validators will no longer be required to do this, and they’ll be able to stay decentralized. This is a win-win scenario for both Solana’s and Akash’s users.

In the latest episode of OK Let’s Chat, Alex sat down with Osuri to discuss his work on this innovative token project:

Althea:

Althea Development Update #83: Rust static binaries and OpenWRT.

Hardware hacking is good for business.

BitSong:

Bitsong continues to test and prepare for a mainnet.

e-Money:

Mainnet launched today:

Next AMA is on March 30th on Staking Hub telegram channel. Details here:

Forbole:

Forbole Monthly Update: It’s more than a month since Forbole last newsletter. The team keeps making progress, especially on Desmos project.

IOV:

IRISnet:

IRISnet has been chosen to participate in the seventh round of the Binance Community Coin Vote.

Kava:

The Kava Monetary Policy proposal is in the pre-voting stage. You only have a few days left to deposit. Voting starts this week. Stay tuned for the announcement to go vote! See the full proposal at http://kava.mintscan.io/proposals/2

The Kava Oracle Roadmap: This article’s purpose is to provide a high level overview of Kava’s approach to oracles and the vision for how Kava’s use and integration with oracle solutions will evolve overtime.

Kava Development Update: The Kava engineering team has been making great strides as they approach important milestones on Kava roadmap. In this development update, the team dives into what they’ve accomplished and what’s ahead for Kava’s multi-asset DeFi platform.

They shipped Kava Testnet 4000 with CDP functionality. This major milestone provided a valuable testing ground for catching bugs, improving docs, and getting feedback from early adopters.

They added an additional engineer, John Maheswaran, to the team. John brings a deep knowledge of cryptography and distributed systems from his Ph.D. work at Yale and has worked in the enterprise blockchain space as a lead engineer for the last few years.

Thoughts from Kava’s Lead Engineer on MakerDao Situation by Kevin Davis, a co-lead architect of Kava’s cross chain DeFi platform and helped build the core components of Kava’s CDP module.

Band Protocol price data has been successfully integrated into Kava feed module. Band’s oracles will provide secure price feed data for collateral tokens BTC/USD, XRP/USD, BNB/USD & ATOM/USD in support of Kava’s cross-chain CDP platform and stablecoin.

LikeCoin:

LikeCoin Weekly Progress Update 2020.03.16: LikeCoin chain proposal #1 passed with 78.63% of the online voting power voted, thereby relaxing validator requirements to transform LikeCoin chain to a permissionless, BPoS mechanism.

Teach & Learn Wednesday. Aludirk giving a IPFS sharing session.

Loom Network:

Loom Universe Bi-Weekly Highlights:

Axie Infinity Alpha Season 2 is live with KNC rewards

Regen Network:

Community Development Call ¾

Check out a transcription of the 15th Community Development Call led by the Regen Network team here.

View slides from the call here.

Regen Network Testnet points to XRN rewards: Regen Network has run two incentivized testnets, and one community testnet with a few christimas goodies.

Planetary Regeneration Podcast | Episode 8: Martin Wainstein: In this episode, Gregory interviews Martin Wainstein, leader of Yale Open Labs.

Planetary Regeneration Podcast | Episode 9: Neal Spackman: In this episode, Gregory interviews Neal Spackman, Co-founder and CEO of Regenerative Resources Co.

Sentinel:

On 13 March the Sentinel Network achieved an all time high in usage with over 12,000 sessions in a 24 hour period.

Terra:

Introducing Terra Ecosystem Grants: The Terraform Labs team announced a series of grants in order to improve ecosystem tools and products as well as to provide an overall better environment for community members. That being said, the Terra team will be starting the Grant Program by rolling out four RFPs alongside an open community suggestion form.

The first two RFPs are in relation to a new type staking product, which they call Anchor, that requires both a new derivative token and a lending pool. The team has noticed that despite high returns for staking Luna, there has been a lack of staking by users due to the volatile nature of Luna’s prices. In light of this problem, Terraform Labs would like to design a solution where the initial deposit principal is protected. To accomplish this goal, they will be looking for partners capable of understanding and implementing the bLuna token and the fungible money market.

bLuna RFP — https://medium.com/terra-money/terra-anchor-rfp-form-1-50ae6e5b8502

Lending pool RFP — https://medium.com/terra-money/terra-anchor-rfp-form-2-8b07d80a9365

The next RFP is concerned with reducing the time to resync a node in the event of data corruption through the utilization of a data backup service.

Data Backup Service RFP — https://medium.com/terra-money/terra-data-backup-rfp-form-979544603e4

Lastly, in order to ensure a smooth development, deployment, and production experience for present and future apps powered by Terra, and to provide simple, universal access to Terra’s public ledger, Terraform Labs is looking for community-driven initiatives to provide a robust, distributed availability layer for accessing the Terra blockchain. The focus is to enable users of the Terra blockchain to think in terms of use-case rather than focus on infrastructure.

Infrastructure RFP — https://medium.com/terra-money/terra-infrastructure-rfp-form-8d1fbb99c61d

Suggestions by community members in Terra Discord server or Twitter community often give the Terra team insightful pieces of advice that they have never considered before. They believe that in order for more use cases to arise, the community must be at the forefront focus. Thus the team would like to also leave an open RFP, where any community member is welcome to suggest any ideas that we may have overlooked as well.

Community Suggestions — https://medium.com/terra-money/terra-open-suggestion-rfp-form-f0f110e8ef93

Please send all proposals/inquiries to ecosystem@terra.money, and note that the deadline for submission is April 24, 2020.

THORChain:

THORChain Weekly Dev Update for Week 18–23 Mar 2020:

The team spent last week validating THORChain’s ability to start, churn up to 12 nodes, then back down to 4 nodes, initiate a Ragnarök and complete a shutdown. The team were able to achieve a full-life cycle at the end of the week, and many small bugfixes were made along the way.

In addition, the team completed the last of Certik’s Audit report fixes, as well as implementing Blame into THORChain.

Testing continues on BEPSwap, with the bulk of the work in adding BigNumbers.js to BEPSwap which required a full re-write of core arithmetic functions.

Testing and QA flows on to tweaks and additions to Midgard API — which is difficult to test until connected to BEPSwap, since a lot of what Midgard outputs is user consumable.

Delphi Digital wrote a 30 page report on THORChain, covering the system, tokenomics, security, and comparisons with other platforms.

Cosmos India:

Chorus One:

Liquid Staking call by Chorus One scheduled on Wed, 25th March at 4pm CET.

34 Flow: A Blockchain by and for Smart Contract Developers with Dieter Shirley: In the last Chorus One podcast episode, Felix is joined by Dieter “dete” Shirley, CTO at Dapper Labs. The team at Dapper Labs, a spin-off from Axiom Zen, are the creators of Cryptokitties and have spent recent years to create their own blockchain optimized for decentralized applications building on their learnings of writing some of the most widely used smart contracts.

The podcast begins with Dieter going into his background in crypto and how Cryptokitties emerged out of a series of ideas his former company at Axiom Zen had for blockchain applications. They then talk about how Cryptokitties helped the team realize both the benefits and shortcomings of Ethereum and Solidity development. Dieter explains how Flow is designed from the ground up with composability and developer experience in mind. They go into detail as to how Flow is able to scale by having multiple separate node roles, the interplay between them, as well as benefits that Flow tooling and the programming language Cadence provide to developers. Finally, they wrap up with a discussion of the economics in a blockchain with multiple different roles.

Other:

Bluzelle’s CURIE testnet is now live. Follow the instruction on how to build on the network here:

Cosmic Compass launched, a network navigator with GUIs for investors, APIs for developers and Node Management Tools for validators:

Everett Protocol announced Keplr, MetaMask-like wallet for Cosmos dApps and blockchains:

The Nomic team just released v0.1.1 of the Nomic Bitcoin sidechain:

Codechain showcased the first non-Cosmos-SDK blockchain framework with ICS compatibility:

Agoric ‘s weekly updates:

Lunie login issues have been resolved:

http://dither.chat now supports channels.

https://dither.chat/channels/wikirona… and bring your contribution to Wikirona Repository (COVID19)-by the People, for the People.