⚔️ 🦉 Gnosis Chain Weekly · 12 May 2023
Springtime in Shapella

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Gnosis Chain’s Beacon Chain architecture means that compatibility with Ethereum is locked in. That means all future EIPs can be implemented on Gnosis Chain. It also means that GIPs (Gnosis Improvement Proposals) for Gnosis Chain can be implemented on Ethereum, should the upgrade prove to be valuable to the broader ecosystem.
Core devs diligently work to push upgrades from the Ethereum mainnet onto Gnosis Chain in a timely manner. The most immediate being the Shanghai and Capella upgrades to shadow the Ethereum roadmap. As the first initial step towards completing the upgrade, Gnosis Chain’s Chiado testnet will hard fork soon. In the coming weeks, the upgrade will take place on Gnosis Chain’s mainnet.
Shanghai will enable GNO staking withdrawals for Gnosis Chain. Shanghai is the name given to the execution layer (EL) upgrade and Capella is the name of the coinciding consensus layer (CL) upgrade. Shapella refers to the combination of both Shanghai and Capella into one name.
Run a Chiado node and support the network ahead of the Shapella upgrade on the Gnosis Chain mainnet! Resources are linked below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
How to Participate
- Running a Chiado node with Nethermind Sedge
- Chiado Testnet Deposit Contract: https://blockscout.com/gnosis/chiado/address/0xc5be8bf53755a41c2385e7aa86f6a9e28746f466…
- Deposit UI: https://docs.gnosischain.com/node/guide/validator/deposit#depositing-for-chiado-testnet…
Chiado Faucet is LIVE!
📢 Good news for @gnosischain users! 📢
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) May 10, 2023
The deposit page is now live and the faucet works for Chiado Testnet. 🚰
📌 If you hold Testnet $GNO on Chiado, need to work with the deposit contract programmatically, or want to deploy your own Deposit UI using updated config files,… pic.twitter.com/vf4dgRdOyu
Interested in becoming a validator on Gnosis Chain? 👇👇👇

Updates 🦉
Let's jump into this weeks update!
Agave.finance 🌵
The Agave.finance UI has a brand new look! Earn interest on deposits and borrow assets thanks to Agave, a decentralized, non-custodial money market and lending protocol on Gnosis Chain. It's not just a fancy dashboard either... check out those yields! 👀
Tired of our old interface? Agave got a fresh new look!
— Agave (@Agave_lending) May 11, 2023
Smooth, Elegant, User Friendly! 🔥https://t.co/pfrhIxoJbP@gnosischain
Balancer Pools 🎱
The Balancer Booster Pools are finally here and check out those juicy APRs! On stablecoins!
📣 Hey, LPs!
— mrsisyphos.eth (@sisyphos7919) May 9, 2023
Looking for nice returns on your stables?
What about boosting the APR on your $BTC/$ETH/$USD liquidity?
Or get rewards for your $GNO?
Look no more! You can find them in @Balancer on @gnosischain 🦉https://t.co/PT79gu5Wx1 https://t.co/Yh2HktckhY pic.twitter.com/C7oFZMvsQF
$agEUR is live on Angle Protocol!💶
Angle Protocol voted to push $agEUR on Gnosis Chain this week. Angle is a decentralized stablecoin protocol.
1/3 $agEUR is now live on @gnosischain! 🎉 This further solidifies this chain as a central liquidity hub for EUR stables. 🧵👇https://t.co/7SiwtQHKxJ
— karpatkey (@karpatkey) May 12, 2023
New Safe Milestone🎉🎉🎉
This week marked 10 million total transactions by Safe accounts. Congrats!!! Safe is the most trusted decentralized custody protocol and collective asset management platform on Ethereum and the EVM (incubated by Gnosis 😏).
10 MILLION total transactions have been made by @safe accounts 🎉
— Daniel (@danftz) May 8, 2023
- 4.5M txs on 💜@0xPolygon
- 2.7M txs on 🦉@gnosischain
- 1.3M txs on 🦇@ethereum
- 0.6M txs on 💙@arbitrum
- 0.35M txs on 🔶@BNBCHAIN
- 0.2M txs on 🔴@optimismFND
- 0.35M txs on other chains pic.twitter.com/tAuada5tjA
Gnosis Chain Active Addresses 🚀🚀🚀
Active addresses on @GnosisChain have been surging recently. Over the past week, Gnosis Chain averaged 16,595 active addresses, up from an average of 3,855 in December. pic.twitter.com/3yAaWlD4oG
— elbagococina.eth (@elbagococina) May 6, 2023
Gelato Network 🍨🍨🍨
The Gelato community took steps this week to increase the decentralization of their node operators. The proposal is the first step in turning Gelato into a fully permissionless network of node operators. Gelato is web3’s decentralized backend empowering builders to create augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless & off-chain on all major EVM-compatible blockchains.
Today marks a decisive step toward the decentralization of @gelatonetwork 🙏🏻
— Luisa (@gitpusha) May 8, 2023
I just posted the proposal to kick off $GEL staking for Wave I of Gelato Node Operators, including:
- @BwareLabs
- @ChorusOne
- @P2Pvalidator
- @StakingFac
Find out more👇https://t.co/9ef1hdggSj
Gnosis Pools 🚰
The Gnosis Chain analytics dashboard, Gnosis Pools, has a fresh look! Created by the Gnosis Builders, the tool provides a comprehensive overview of Gnosis Chain Execution and Consensus client stats. 😎
📈📊 Gnosis Pools has a brand new look! 📈📊
— Gnosis Builders (@gnosisbuilders) May 5, 2023
The new @GnosisPools dashboard offers a comprehensive view of Execution and Consensus client statistics on @gnosischain. Get quick and easy access to critical metrics all in one convenient location 🧵
Gnosis Chain Core Devs Call 🧑🏾💻⛓️
Another week and another round of the weekly Core Devs Call ~ the recording of the call is linked here.👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Latest Gnosis Chain Core Devs Call record is out! 🦉
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) May 10, 2023
Watch on YouTube 👇👇👇https://t.co/OBij8JgLUw
Events & Hackathons 🧑🏾💻🥷⛓️
Encode x Gnosis Chain Hackathon
Sponsored by Gnosis Builders, the Enconde hackathon is a four-week online hack designed to empower developers to explore and build on the Gnosis Chain.
Start Date: Tuesday, 2nd May 2023
Submission Deadline: Sunday, 28th May 2023
Finale and Prizegiving: Wednesday, 14th June 2023
Find out more in the official announcement and register here!
📢 The @encodeclub x @gnosischain Hackathon entered its second week and we'd like to remind you of some thrilling challenges from our incredible sponsors!
— Encode Club (@encodeclub) May 11, 2023
This is your chance to build, learn, and win great prizes!
Are you ready to create? 🧵https://t.co/7DYK6j506W
Gnosis co-founder, Stefan George will also join the Encode team for an AMA on June, 1 2023 @ 5:30PM GMT+1. Register below!
Hey Builders 👋 @StefanDGeorge will be joining @encodeclub to speak about all things Gnosis as part of their AMA series! Register now🦉
— Gnosis Builders (@gnosisbuilders) May 12, 2023
🗓1st June 2023
🕠 5:30pm GMT+1 | 4:30pm UTC
🔗 https://t.co/B8sRofiUcv pic.twitter.com/InrbKnem5U
ETHGlobal Lisbon + Gnosis Chain
Gnosis Chain will be at ETHGlobal Lisbon this year ~ May 12-14th, 2023. See you there!
Bom dia! ☀️@ETHGlobal Lisbon is just around the corner. Check out the Gnosis Chain awards!
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) May 8, 2023
🦉 Most innovative dApps on Gnosis Chain:
🏅 Gnosis Chain Gold Prize: $6,000
🥈 Gnosis Chain Silver Prize: $5,000
🥉 Gnosis Chain Bronze Prize: $2,000https://t.co/czhHmbgBSa
DappCon Berlin Speakers!
Speaker announcements for DappCon Berlin are rolling in! The conference, hosted by Gnosis, will take place on September 11-13th 2023 at Radialsystem, Berlin!
🥁🥁🥁
— DappCon Berlin (@dappcon_berlin) May 11, 2023
We are thrilled to announce the speakers who will be taking the stage at #DappCon23 this year!
Let's gooooo! 🚀🤘
First speaker;
🎙@hilmarxo from @gelatonetwork will give a talk on ‘’Decentralizing your web3 backend’’
🔗https://t.co/EuTy0ogv0z pic.twitter.com/Gic2YhLgy7
GnosisDAO Community Call May 2023
The GnosisDAO Community Call took place this week. Team members from Linen, CowSwap, Agave, and Gelato joined for a great discussion about the Gnosis Chain DeFi ecosystem! The recording is linked below. 👇👇👇
Wise Owls! 🦉🦉🦉
— GnosisDAO (@GnosisDAO) May 3, 2023
Join us for the GnosisDAO Community Call w/ @GetLinen, @CoWSwap and @Agave_lending
⏰ 3PM UTC
📍@GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces
🗓️ Thursday, May 11th, 2023
Set Reminder 👇👇👇https://t.co/IP7oj5WW6w pic.twitter.com/7jnP8DGxCJ
🙏 Thank you
Come say hello in the Gnosis Chain Discord. Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call on Thursday, June 8th, 2023 at 3PM UTC / 5PM CET on the GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces.
See you on-chain,Gnosis Chain Team