Cosmos News /// by ZKV #52
A little bit of chit-chat An on-chain proposal is live asking for 588,000 ATOM to fund the ATOM Accelerator DAO Grant Program. The program aims to boost community participation and unlock collective intelligence by encouraging individual and team-based initiatives. The grants will focus on open-source code, public goods, and ecosystem initiatives that create value for […]
How is Liquid Staking changing crypto and DeFi?
Exploring the Liquid Staking ecosystem, its challenges and the latest breakthroughs.
Cosmos News /// by ZKV #51
A little bit of chit-chat Injective, a blockchain platform optimised for financial applications, has announced the launch of its $150 million ecosystem initiative, which includes some of the largest institutions in the Web3 and traditional finance space. This venture consortium is the largest assembled within the Cosmos community. It includes investors such as Pantera Capital, […]
Cosmos News /// by ZKV #50
A little bit of chit-chat Stargaze has put forward an on-chain proposal to increase the marketplace listing fee for NFTs from 0 STARS to 5 STARS. This change is to create a better deterrent for spam listings and be more successful in preventing bots. The 2022 developer report by Electric Capital was released last week. […]
Cosmos News /// by ZKV #49
A little bit of chit-chat The most significant version update for Juno is coming and here are some of the proposed changes: 1) a contract fee split, where 50% of the fees collected from contract usage will be split with the contract developers. 2) a native token creation mechanism called Token Factory will be made […]
Exploring ZK Bridges
After a $1.6B loss in assets due to bridge exploits in 2022, we explore the use of zero-knowledge proof systems (zk-SNARKs) to solve the current issues of scalability and security of cross-chain bridges.
Cosmos News /// by ZKV #48
A little bit of chit-chat A new proposal on the Hub is looking to change how the Community Pool is managed. The proposal proposes a rule that any projects receiving funding to deploy chains or consumer chains must open source their binary code and smart contracts before mainnet launch. In addition, wallet projects that allow […]
Mapping the ZK ecosystem: Mina Protocol
We explore the zkApps ecosystem of Mina Protocol, one of the L1 ZK pure players.
ZK Rewind: The year in recap
We go over the biggest highlights of 2022 for the ZK industry.
Cosmos News /// by ZKV #47
A little bit of chit-chat After a couple of weeks of community discussions, Proposal 88 has been put up for a vote on whether the Cosmos Hub should raise its community pool tax. If enacted, the tax rate will go from 2% to 10%, adding around 4M ATOM per year to the pool. In contrast, […]