🦉Gnosis Chain Weekly · 02 April 2024

HOPR published a proposal this week on the Gnosis Forum outlining the vision of GnosisVPN, a truly private and decentralized VPN on top of the HOPR mixnet! HOPR is a decentralized and incentivized peer-to-peer mixnet open to anyone who wants to join and run a node. Following the vision of Gnosis 3.0, HOPR is stepping up alongside successful projects such as Safe, CowSwap and karpatkey with a new product for the Gnosis ecosystem.

The initiative seeks support through a multi-year investment from the GnosisDAO. To strengthen Gnosis’ positioning as a leader in resilient web3 infrastructure, GnosisDAO would invest into HOPR to build GnosisVPN. The proposal is live on the Gnosis Forum. Please check it out!

Join us for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Sebastian Beurgel of HOPR on April 04, 2024 at 4PM UTC live on the GnosisDAO YouTube channel, the GnosisDAO X Spaces and the Gnosis Chain Discord. We will talk about GIP-98 and the launch of GnosisVPN!

As founder of the private data exchange infrastructure HOPR, Sebastian contributes to establishing full stack privacy for web3. He also co-founded two other technology startups: Validity Labs (blockchain education & services) and Sonect (fintech). Sebastian holds a Ph.D degree in Microtechnology from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich.

All these developments indicate how Gnosis Chain is being used across different areas. If you find yourself in Berlin this spring, joins us at DappCon, hosted by Gnosis, on the 21st to 23rd of May to learn more!

🦉Updates

💳 Gnosis Pay Total Payment Volume

Gnosis Pay is clocking in an impressive total payment volume of 20% week after week. If they keep it up, Gnosis Pay will surpass Visas $12.3T annual payment volume in 1.5 years 😎

🥳 Gnosis Chain Hits 200M Transactions

Gnosis Chain crossed 200 million transactions onchain last week, representing a 60% growth year-on-year. We continue to push peer-to-peer payments and open financial rails towards consumer adoption, in line with Satoshi’s grand vision.

We also crossed 200,000 validators as the second-largest global blockchain validator community at the start of March. Onwards!

✅ Erigon v2.59.0 Upgrade

Erigon is an implementation of Ethereum and Gnosis Chain (execution layer with embeddable consensus layer), on the efficiency frontier. Gnosis node runners - Erigon released v2.59.0 addressing post-Dencun issues.

🕵️‍♀️ Shutterized Gnosis Chain

In February, we announced that Project Shutter deployed contracts and activated a Keyper network for the Shutterized Gnosis Chain on the Gnosis Chain testnet Chiado. The team along with Gnosis core devs are currently in development on the Shutterized Gnosis Chain for mainnet. Stay tuned!

🐦‍⬛ Rotki Premium

Rotki is the opensource portfolio tracker and accounting tool that protects your privacy. This week rotki announced a premium subscription, giving you access to an array of analytics in the form of graphs. 

🍞 Breadchain x Gnosis

Over the last year of building and integrating the Bread Crowdstaking Application on Polygon, the team has decided to make a big change and move the application onto Gnosis Chain and its ecosystem. The Breadchain team also found Gnosis Pay to be an incredible unlock for increasing the usefulness of digital community currencies like BREAD. Now BREAD holders will soon be able to buy bread with their BREAD through a Gnosis Pay debit card! Welcome Breadchain!

🧑🏾‍💻⛓️Events & Hackathons

🚶‍♀️ Random Walk Network x Gnosis

The Random Walk Podcast caters to both crypto natives seeking to deepen their understanding of the technical requirements and possibilities associated with institutional adoption, as well as TradFi players interested in delving into Proof of Stake concepts and emerging developments that could be relevant to their objectives. Gnosis Co-Founder, Dr. Friederike Ernst, joined the podcast recently to talk about the evolution of Gnosis and the new proposed roadmap of Gnosis 3.0.

✍️ Gnosis is Hiring!

🦉 Gnosis Chain

(Junior/Mid-Level) In-house Lawyer

Freelancer, Full-time Remote

Senior Brand Designer

Freelancer, Full-time Remote

💳 Gnosis Pay

Card Ops Manager

Permanent employee, Full-time · United Kingdom

Senior Software Engineer

Freelancer, Full-time · Remote

Financial Crime Analyst

Permanent employee, Full-time · United Kingdom

Tech Ops Analyst

Permanent employee, Full-time · United Kingdom

💿 Erigon Recruiting

Blockchain Core Developer (Erigon, Go)

Freelancer, Full-time · Remote

More info -> here

🙏 Thank you

Come say, hello in the Gnosis Chain Discord! Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call w/ HOPR on April 11th at 4PM UTC / 5PM CET.

See you onchain!