Weekly CosmWasm Dev Digest - August 3, 2023

Aug 03, 2023

Hello there!

Welcome to another alpha-packed edition of The CosmWasm Dev Digest! A lot of releases and developments happening left to right, exciting times!

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Let’s see what we got this week 👀

CosmWasm 1.3 was released with new exciting features, such as Rust 1.70+ support, signed integers among others. Note that cosmwasm-storage is officially deprecated, migrate to cw-storage-plus. Read more here.
Hermes relayer v1.6 is out, This release introduces a new "pull" mode, adding to the existing "push" mode, for fetching chain events. This enables native WASM relaying, a long-awaited feature. Learn about this release here.
Introducing the Pricefeed Module: Seamless Price Data Integration for Cosmos Developers by Band Protocol. Read the announcement.
Leap releases Elements, a front-end SDK addressing UX onboarding. It allows for one-click IBC swaps, have access to cross-chain liquidity and even fiat on-ramp! Definitely worth looking at.
Keplr Wallet integrated with Skip’s IBC magic for seamless cross-chain send. IBC swaps incoming! See it in action here.
Mars protocol launches on Neutron. See the announcement here.
The Agoric components library is now live - Opening the #interchain ecosystem to JavaScript developers! Read here.
Evmos 2.0 came out! What do you think it’s coming? Announcement here.

How to Use the Nois Beacon to Get Randomness for Your Application in CosmWasm, text + video tutorial!
Tips on becoming a good smart contract security auditor. Read here.
Article by Kimura to realize Ethereum-format transactions compatibility in Cosmos SDK chains using Larry’s Account Abstraction technology. Read here.
Why Cosmos is so attractive for project development? Interview with Jacob Gadikian. Watch it here.

Osmo 2.0 was unveiled, making changes to the tokenomics. Read announcement here.
BTC coming to Cosmos via WrappedBTC on Osmosis! Read here.
Keplr wallet implements the message from the staking module MsgCancelUnbondingDelegation, allowing you to cancel the unstaking operation mid way and get back your position staked as it was before. Learn more here.
IBC Channel Upgradability coming by the end of this quarter, so old(er) relayers can take advantage of incentives such as the Fee Middleware. Read the article here.
DOT and KSM tokens got into the cosmos ecosystem via Picasso thanks to the magic of IBC. Check it out.
Atomic IBC!? Listen to this Informal Space.

Proposal to recognize Wormhole as a Canonical bridge service provider (BSP) for Osmosis. Read prop here.
Proposal to bring $SHD Protocol Owned Liquidity to both Kujira’s BOW and ShadeSwap. See here.
Terra Alliance Follow-on Proposal, looking to whitelist 3 assets: $rSWTH (Carbon), $bWHALE and $ampWHALE (Migaloo). Participate in the discussion.
Cosmos Hub v11 upgrade proposal is live! This includes features regarding replicated security, global fee module and liquidity module. Learn more here.

Last batch of tickets for the Cosmoverse going live on August 6th. Don't miss out, this is your last chance. See you in Istanbul ✌️.
Missed Osmocon? Check the video Osmosis: State of the Union.

stATOM made it to Polkadot thanks to Composable Finance! Learn more here.
Vistara allows you to deploy a rollup within seconds with an intuitive UI 🤯. See it here.

Flashbots & everyone else involved in MEV should pay close attention to MiCA Art. 92 that could deem MEV to be illegal market abuse. Learn more here.

That's it for this week!

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Keep coding, keep building!

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