Weekly CosmWasm Dev Digest #6 - August 10, 2023
ISSUE #6 - A heated week 🔥
Hey there, fellow Cosmos enthusiasts!
Welcome back to the latest edition of the Weekly CosmWasm Dev Digest! 🚀 I’m thrilled to bring you another round of updates and insights from the vibrant Cosmos ecosystem.
To start this week, I want to announce the new section of the newsletter called CosmWasm For Beginners, where you can find different articles on what you need to know to get you started with CosmWasm development! Check it out!
🚀 Releases
Skip Protocol has developed a dashboard for DyDx that highlights the amount of MEV each validator potentially has extracted. Make sure to check it out before delegating!
IBC Swaps are possible on TFM! This is a massive improvement on user experience. The user it’s not supposed to know what channels the tokens need to be sent through, just click source chain, destination chain and boom, it’s done! Big kudos to TFM 👏 check the beauty here.
Leap Wallet revamped the NFT gallery! More on that here.
TFL released the Alliance Dashboard, allowing you to track Alliance yields, assets, integrated chains, and more! Exciting stuff! 😍
💻 Development
Osmosis integrates with Celestia's data availability layer to become the modular liquidity hub. This one is massive 🤯. Read the announcement here.
Secret Network announces Secret Ethereum, a new initiative to support the Ethereum community in accomplishing its mission of protecting confidential data from the radical transparency of public blockchains. It leverages technologies such as Axelar’s GMP to do so. Read the announcement here.
Testing of native (Noble) USDC spot in the wild. Wen nUSDC? The community is impatient, has been waiting for this for over a year. Hopefully soon! Check the traces here.
📚 Educational Resources
These are some of the articles you can find in the CosmWasm For Beginners section. They are not tech-heavy and are full of simple analogies anybody can understand.
🔒 Security
SCV made an incredible job at doing a security assessment of validators across multiple blockchains in the cosmos. If you are a node operator, please make sure to check this out! Consider also delegating to SCV for their good work 👏👏!
🗳️ Governance
The heated proposal #811 on the Hub to enable permissioned WASM applications. What do you think about this one?
🔭 Beyond Cosmos
Now you can get fiat via Kado into Coinbase’s L2 Network. Check it out.
PayPal launches stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD), fully backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. treasuries, and similar cash equivalents, and can be redeemed 1:1 for U.S. dollars. What do you think? Yay or Nay? Read the announcement here.
🍯 Bounties
White Whale needs help with the Frontend. If you help you will be rewarded. Learn about it here.
🤝 Sponsors
If you are a project in the Cosmos ecosystem and would to get exclusive coverage, detailed articles or videos showcasing your product, please reach out to me at @jvr0x and let’s see what we can cook together!
That's all for this week folks! I hope you learned something from the information I shared today. As always, feel free to reach out with any questions or suggestions.
Stay tuned for more smart contract insights, tutorials, and updates in the world of Cosmos and CosmWasm. Follow me @jvr0x for time-sensitive updates in the Cosmos ecosystem.
Keep coding, keep building!