Cosmos Bites: NFT season is imminent!

TL;DR:

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

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!

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: Latest developments from the Interchain.

TL;DR:

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

Devs said "see you in February"

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!

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.

Cosmos Bites: The latest & hottest from the Interchain.

TL;DR:

- 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.

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 🥳

🕉️ 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.