⚔️ 🦉 Gnosis Chain Weekly · 23 June 2023

Summer of Shapella

We are thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated Gnosis Chain Shapella upgrade has been officially scheduled for Epoch: 648704 Slot: 10379264 Time: August 1, 2023 11.34.20 UTC! This major milestone marks a significant step forward in the evolution of Gnosis Chain. Most notably, Shapella enables withdrawals for staked GNO.

To ensure a smooth transition and maximize the benefits of the Shapella upgrade, we strongly encourage all node runners to upgrade their nodes accordingly. Stay tuned for more detailed instructions and guidelines as we approach the upgrade date. We will be publishing comprehensive resources in the upcoming weeks, covering client updates and highlighting essential security measures to be implemented by node runners.

If you're eager to contribute to the network and support its growth ahead of the Shapella upgrade, consider running a node. We have prepared two comprehensive guides tailored to both beginners and experienced node runners: the Interactive Guide and the Step-by-Step guide. These resources will equip you with the necessary knowledge and tools to set up and manage your node effectively.

Let's jump into this weeks update!

🦉 Updates

🌉 GnosisDAO Community Call w/ Succinct Labs

Join us for the GnosisDAO Community Call w/ Succinct Labs and Gnosis team members to discuss the exciting security upgrade scheduled for the Omnibridge!

Please note, due to the security upgrade bridge transactions on the Omnibridge will take at least 20 minutes starting in July of 2023. Stay tuned for more detailed information soon!

In other bridge related news, karpatkey authored a post on the Gnosis Forum about depositing DAI bridged from the xDai bridge into Maker's DSR with interest being streamed to users who mint sDAI with their xDai holdings on Gnosis Chain.

The DSR or Dai Savings Rate is a special module in the MakerDAO smart contract system that allows DAI holders to receive a share of the revenue earned by MakerDAO. This share was recently voted to be set to 3.49% APY.

💸 agEUR-EURe Pool on Balancer

Angle Protocols agEUR stablecoin along with Monerium's EURe are yielding a whopping 29% APR in BAL on the agEUR-EURe pool on Balancer!

🙌  Praise Reward System Demo

Join us on the Gnosis Chain Discord this coming Monday June 26th 2023 at 3PM UTC for a demo of the Praise Rewards System. We'll be joined by Kristofer Lund, Praise co-founder who will walk us through the new features of the recently updated Praise bot!

💻 Autonolas x Gnosis Chain

Autonolas allows developers to own & decentralize off-chain processes with their open-source software stack. They integrated Gnosis Chain this week and there's already an incredible project being built with their tech stack on Gnosis Chain, which incorporates AI. The project is funded by Balancer and offers users the ability to deposit funds into an AI managed index fund. The fund is intended to change its allocations based on the Crypto Fear and Greed Index. The fund will change is allocations autonomously based on the current rating, which ranges from Extreme Fear, Fear, Neutral, Greed and finally Extreme Greed. To learn more, click here and here!

⛰️ DefiLama & Fuji Finance

The DeFi analytics platform, DefiLama is now tracking Fuji Finance's v2 on Gnosis Chain. Fuji V2 Himalaya is a cross-chain layer on top of lending markets. It analyzes lend and borrow terms across multiple lending markets, protocols and chains to provide users with the best rates.

🐇 HOPR Web3 Faces

Gnosis co-founder, Friederike Ernst, recently sat down with the Hopr team for a discussion about credible neutrality, resilience, Circles UBI and Gnosis Chain. Check out the recording here.

Whether it’s individuals, companies or institutions - the HOPR protocol provides full control over privacy, data and metadata. HOPR lays the groundwork for a more sovereign and safe internet. For everyone. Read more about HOPR’s vision, tech, and DAO here.

🎰 New Layer3 Quest with Azuro

Azuro Protocol is an infrastructure and liquidity layer for on-chain betting. Learn how to place your first bet on Gnosis Chain in this immersive on-chain experience with Layer3! Layer3's interactive Quests make learning and exploring crypto fun, engaging, and rewarding.

🚜 WhatToFarm

The DeFi and NFT market scanner, WhatToFarm integrated Gnosis Chain this week. Find the best yields on Gnosis Chain with WhatToFarm's all in one DeFi dashboard!

📠 NFTScan x Gnosis Chain

NFTScan is the world's largest NFT data infrastructure, supporting 14 blockchain networks and NFT APIs for developers. Gnosis Chain is live on NFTScan!

⛓️ B4B x Gnosis Chain

B4B has launched on the Chiado testnet! Allowing influencers to monetise channels and help boost user and community growth for the Gnosis Chain ecosystem. B4B is a web3 marketplace for Ad promotion with influencers.

🧑🏾‍💻🥷⛓️Events & Hackathons

ETHWaterloo

Gnosis Chain is at ETHWaterloo this weekend. Come stop by and say, hello! Even better, come hack away with us! Check out the Gnosis Chain awards.

Most innovative dApps on Gnosis Chain:

1st place: $6,000 2nd place: $5,000 3rd place: $2,000

Plus, special prizes for innovative dApps on Gnosis Chain:

Best AI project on Gnosis Chain — $3,000

Best project on Hashi — $2,000

Best project on Safe — $2,000

See you there!

Stanley Alexander from Gnosis Chain delivered a talk titled, "Building on Gnosis Chain: The What, Why, and Where" at ETHWaterloo. Stay tuned for the recording.

🗼Friederike Ernst at ETHCC

Gnosis will be at ETHCC along with Gnosis co-founder, Friederike Ernst. Friederike will deliver a talk about Gnosis Chain and scaling Ethereum at ETHCC on July 19th 10:00 am - 10:25, Eiffel Stage. See you in Paris!!!

🇵🇹 Stefan George at ETHPorto

Ever wonder why Gnosis Chain is called the sister chain to Ethereum? Or why it's a community-run chain? Check out Gnosis co-founder, Stefan George's recent talk at ETHPorto where he breaks it all down and talks about the Gnosis Chain roadmap.

Stefan also chatted with the SimpleSwap team at Epic Web3 conference. Check out the recording here!

♾️ Ecosystem System Wednesdays w/ Cryptio

Every month on the Gnosis Chain Discord we invite teams building on Gnosis Chain to join us for a product demo. This month the crypto accounting company Cryptio walked us through their product.

Cryptio allows you to track your assets & transactions from DeFi protocols, wallets, exchanges, and institutional custodians to construct a complete picture of your digital asset activity ― without the hassle. Check out the recording if you missed the call!

Solo Staker Corner ✨

❤️ GnosisVIP

Calling all Validatoooors 📢 As we get ready for the upcoming Gnosis Chain Shapella upgrade, we have now INCREASED the amount of rewards for everyone participating in the GnosisVIP programme. Click here to learn more!

🙏 Thank you

Come say hello in the Gnosis Chain Discord. Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call on Thursday June 29th, 2023 with the Gnosis Chain Bridge Team and Succinct Labs at 3PM UTC / 5PM CET on the GnosisDAO Twitter Spaces.

See you on-chain!