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IBCNews May Week 2

The second May installment of Weekly IBC News

Liquid Staking Delegations, Bitcoin, and Network Hogs

IBC Protocol Ecosystem check:

Currently Live:
Cosmos
Solana
Ethereum
Polkadot

Soon:
Polygon
Avalanche
BNB Chain
Optimism
Near Protocol

Cosmos Community signals the adoption of permissioned Cosmwasm, slated for the v18 Gaia update

Atom Zone kicks off a new season with Aether sharing their views on being part of ICS

Osmosis gets featured on UnChained as they discuss the new 'alloyed' assets and Bitcoin coming to Osmosis

Osmosis prop from Stride is presenting a new liquid staking delegation system that would essentially 'copy' the already existing distribution of delegation weight from retail, making Stride delegation-neutral

https://daodao.zone/gov/osmosis/proposals/780

Osmosis Grants Program hosts another episode of Updates from the Lab

https://x.com/osmosiszone/status/1788236921426395241

Osmosis update includes the new feature to view your entire trade history right from the DEX

Block Creators appeals to the community with a signaling prop to urge the council to hire and focus on dapp developers to attract attention to the chain

Juno Comms team features an interview with dApp Development Support Role applicant

Stargaze prop discussion is up to migrate the Launchpad creation fee to USDC to fascilitate using fee generation to fund operating costs without price impact for STARS

Injective announces major integration with the Arbitrum Orbit stack.

Evmos concludes their analysis of the XEN project and its impact on network performance and operating costs for validators

Shentu is expanding with multiple positions for new Business Development Managers now open

Mars Protocol finally announces their plans to launch their perp product after migrating to Neutron

Neutron prop is up to migrate the lockdrop LPs and vesting contracts to the new Astroport Passive Concentrated Liquidity pools.

After polling the community in a twitter vote, the prop to set the inflation parameters to 0-4.2% gets passed, reducing the minimum from 10%.

Secret announces partnership with Linea, adding their Confidential Computing Layer to the zkEVM network

Archway team unveils the biggest chain update to-date: v7, adding 4 new modules that each bring unique features to the chain: 1. smart contract callbacks 2. updated fee grant module 3. interchain accounts 4. new error handling module

Sentinel Shield launches on Android, bringing native decentralized VPN services to mobile users.

Registration opened last week for Akash Accelerate '24

April update from the Cheqd team to roundup all the most significant news from the chain bringing verifiable identity to the block space.

https://x.com/cheqd_io/status/1786407119056515388

Cudos shares a video highlight of the last month's activities and growth

https://x.com/CUDOS_/status/1787882245463617913

Fetch integrates Llama 3-8B, giving onchain agents the latest advancements in language understanding and reasoning.

aiRight team introduces 'Instant Style', a one-click style transformation of any image utilizing Orai Chain

DYDX launches 'IRL Champion' initiative to raise up Community Leaders to represent at live events

Don't get lost in the noise! Tune in next week to catch the signal!
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