Ethereum’s Berlin hard fork two days away
PoS Round-Up is our focused biweekly report on the major news in and around the Proof of Stake ecosystem.
PoS Round-Up is our focused biweekly report on the major news in and around the Proof of Stake ecosystem.
Ethereum
The Berlin hard fork, set to land in just a couple of days, introduces a number of optimizations and paves the way for the London upgrade, which will include EIP-1559, among five other EIPs.
After two slash-free months, there was an isolated slashing event on the Beacon Chain on April 6.
Bits & Bytes
- The Ethereum price has been setting new all-time highs
- The NFT space continues to buzz, with big players getting involved
NEAR Protocol
NEAR Protocol has launched its bridge to Ethereum, dubbed Rainbow, enabling direct transfers between the two blockchains.
IRISnet
IRISnet has enabled IBC transfers on its mainnet!
Learn more in their blog post:
Polkadot
Tether is set to add its popular USDT stablecoin to Kusama Network with a view to later going live on Polkadot.
Cosmos
Cosmos is running an incentivized testnet competition to battle test Gravity DEX, a decentralized exchange enabling trades between any two Cosmos tokens.
Agoric
Agoric has released its first public beta!
We’ll be joined by Agoric in just a few hours at 00:00 UTC on April 14 for a live AMA.
Persistence
DeFi-focused Proof of Stake blockchain Persistence went live at the end of March.
NuCypher
NuCypher’s first DAO proposal, which seeks to reduce gas fees by about 7x by extending period duration from 24 hours to 7 days, is live.
stakefish
We added support for Flow.
We open sourced our Eth2 Monitor tool and released a blog post about it.
Crypto Kickers designed some stakefish kicks for our excursions in the metaverse!
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