Weekly CosmWasm Dev Digest #31 - November 01, 2024
ISSUE #31 - Did uptober live up the hype?
Uptober went by without significant gains in the markets. However, it is likely buyers have been cautious amid the incoming american presidential election.
That been said, teams have never stopped cooking. Let’s see what we got this time 👇
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🚀 Releases
Gordian is a fast and flexible consensus engine compatible with Cosmos SDK, designed to outperform existing solutions like CometBFT… Read more
Binance introduces Wealth, the first solution for wealth managers to bring crypto directly to clients on a digital exchange… Read more
Mad Scientists NFT stakers on Osmosis earn $bOSMO rewards and participate in snapshots for additional benefits if they hold 2 or more NFTs… Read more
Astria’s mainnet has launched, built on the Penumbra stack. Read more
MANTRA mainnet’s $OM coins are now trading live on Osmosis, a decentralized exchange with 1 million users… Read more
Osmosis Pay allows you to spend digital assets anywhere, with over 40M merchants in 140+ countries using your Visa-enabled card… Read more
Osmosis v26 incoming. Read more
The Cosmos SDK’s latest release, Olympus (v0.52), marks a significant evolution with new features, improved performance, and greater modularity for building application-specific blockchains… Read more
🛠️ Development
IBC Eureka upgrades the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol, making it 10x simpler and 100x faster to implement natively on various blockchains, expanding its reach and capabilities… Read more
Estimated timeline for Rujira’s rollout on THORChain’s App Layer revealed… Read more
Existing blockchain chains can now be made EVM-compatible without modification, thanks to evmOS… Read more
Interest generated from investments is deposited into your wallet and also used to automatically pay off loans, Rujira is cooking… Read more
📚 Educational
A dedicated wallet called Prax connects to the Penumbra network… Read more
🔭 Beyond the cosmos
Kraken introduces kBTC, a 1:1 ERC-20 token backed by Bitcoin, offering more possibilities, functionality, and transparency through secure and verifiable onchain storage… Read more
Steel is a new modular framework for building smart contracts on Solana, reducing code complexity while increasing flexibility… Read more
🫂 Community
Terra chain’s future is uncertain, but users’ main concern appears to be unfounded… Read more
🤝 Partnerships
PayPal allows US businesses to buy, sell, and hold cryptocurrency… Read more
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That's all for this week! We hope you're as excited as we are about the latest advancements in the Cosmos ecosystem.
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