This Week in Cosmos with WhisperNode

Earning Opportunities, Testnets, Airdrops, Grants, Hackathons,Highlights, Career Opportunities, and more.

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June 24, 2024

This Week in Cosmos with WhisperNode

Welcome to This Week in Cosmos, brought to you by WhisperNode, your go-to roundup of the most compelling developments in the Cosmos ecosystem. 

What did we cover this week?

  • Cosmos ecosystem highlights: Injective, Axelar, Dymension, Sei, Jackal and more

  • New earning opportunities

  • Galxe of opportunities: Career openings, Bounties for devs, Hackathons, and more

  • Missed last’s week highlights? Read Here


Earning Opportunities! Galxe quest, Giveaway and NFTs

  • Archway's Friends with Benefits Campaign is Live!

    Join Archway's Friends with Benefits Campaign on Galxe and earn exclusive NFT badges and USDC rewards.

    Complete quests to enter monthly raffles with $1,000 USDC up for grabs, participate in weekly meme contests for a chance at $300 USDC, and compete for up to $200,000 USDC in bounty rewards for token listings. The campaign runs from June 19 to September 19, 2024—start earning today!




  • A new way to earn on Sei

    Symbiosis is a cross-chain AMM DEX that pools together liquidity from different networks: L1s and L2s, EVM and non-EVM. With Symbiosis, you can easily swap any token and move your assets across different networks.

    Bridge Stablecoins with Symbiosis and earn upto 10 $SEI token, In this quest, you'll swap stablecoins (USDT or USDC) from any network into Sei.



  • Make your InterSwap Union expedition more rewarding!

    Join the new quest with Superboard and InterSwap Union for rewarding experiences! Visit the Superboard quest page, complete tasks, and earn Interpoints, 100 SUPR Tokens, and an exclusive NFT.

    Learn more about Interpoints and how they contribute to community rewards at their detailed guide link. InterSwap is the first omnichain liquidity unification layer on Axelar.




  • Memes on Initia

    Create and share your Initia Gatcha machine meme on X, and tag @0xMista and @InitiaFDN to enter.

    Win up to $100 USDC and 1,000 Initia XP. Winners announced June 26, 2024, at 7:00 PM.




  • Helix 2.0 Reward season

    To celebrate the launch of Helix 2.0, Helix is launching an exclusive campaign to reward the best Helix 2.0 launch supporters. By sharing news on Twitter, referring your friends, and trading on Helix, you have the chance to get a share of the $10,000 prize pool.


    The $10,000 USDT will be distributed proportional to the number of points you earn. The Top 10 on the leaderboard might get something special!


What's New in Cosmos, Interchain and IBC

  • DEGA Becomes the Gaming Layer for Injective

    Injective is teaming up with DEGA to expand into gaming, offering new opportunities like airdrops, game development, and community events. This collaboration aims to enhance user experience across both ecosystems.

    The collaboration between DEGA and Injective aims to offer the Injective ecosystem a new path into gaming. DEGA will enable builders to rapidly design and publish games using Injective's infrastructure.

  • SEI Ecosystem Week in View

    Sei v2 sees widespread integration with platforms like Stargate, Rabby Wallet, and DeBank, boosting its TVL to over $80M.

    Key developments include Yei Finance's new points system, DragonSwap's $11M TVL, and Antswap's 300k $SEI in liquid staking. Additionally, MRKT's 404 launchpad, Hypernative Labs integration, and Flipside's new quest highlight the growing Sei ecosystem.


  • Introducing Minity on Initia

    Minity simplifies asset tracking across all your wallets and networks, ensures your Jennie's health and progress, and keeps you updated on the latest ecosystem developments.

    Initia and Minitia Native Portfolio Tracker, Gateway to DeFi Position, Jennie XP, Quest, and Beyond. Access Minity on your phone now, with desktop support coming soon.


  • A consumer-first chain abstraction L2 Integrated with Injective

    Tria is launching on Injective to enhance UX for dApps and users. Tria's Unchained tech enables complete gas abstraction and cross-chain liquidity unification, allowing users to have more control over payments and assets with their wallet.

    Tria is a Consumer-first AVS L2 – abstracting gas and unifying liquidity from Web3 ✤ Unchained.

  • The SEDA Founders Vision Paper

    SEDA's beta mainnet has reached 100 validators with over 134 million tokens staked and 110 million FLX tokens upgraded and burned. The new roadmap outlines SEDA's journey to becoming a Web3 data standard, addressing industry fragmentation and scalability issues.

    SEDA is poised to become a fundamental building block for Web3, enabling data access and interoperability across 240+ active chains. The network’s modular design and one-contract integration promote widespread adoption, driving the industry towards a cohesive and efficient Web3 ecosystem.

  • Osmosis at 3

    Osmosis celebrates its third anniversary on 19th June, 2024, having achieved over 43,000 code commits, a total trading volume exceeding 34 billion, and more than 15 billion in total IBC transaction volume.

  • Secret Network’s Confidential Computing Layer is now integrated with Optimism’s OP Mainnet

    Secret Network announced a partnership and integration of Secret’s Confidential Computing Layer with Optimism’s OP Mainnet, a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum powered by the OP Stack!

    Through this partnership, Secret Network will provide OP Mainnet with decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) tooling, documentation, and support. This will unlock powerful new capabilities for applications in the OP Mainnet ecosystem!

  • Akash featured on StorageReview 

    StorageReview.com is a world-leading independent storage authority, providing in-depth news coverage featuring Akash, highlighting the network's unique open architecture and the massive potential of decentralized compute networks.

    "Akash Network is poised to disrupt the status quo and usher in an era of transparent, resilient, and democratized cloud computing services by harnessing the power of blockchain technology and decentralized architectures."

EVERYTHING TESTNET

  • Crynux DeAI Testnet is Live

    Crynux is the truly permissionless AI infrastructure everyone can join and use right away. The key component of Crynux is a robust consensus protocol that enables the permissionless joining and using of the decentralized network by millions.

    The ability to identify and penalize all malicious behaviors ensures the ecosystem's sustainability and facilitates healthy growth in the long term. Begin Testnet here


Reminder on ongoing Testnet

A Galaxy of Opportunities

  • Careers at Interop Labs

    Interop Labs is the initial developer of Axelar network. Inviting you to Build the interconnected future of Web3 together.


    Open Roles at Interop Labs: AI/ML Distributed Systems Engineer, Head of Marketing, APAC Marketing & Community Manager, and Smart Contract Security Engineer


  • Develop a functional Minimum Viable Product on Sei

    Looking to go super seiyan and leave your cushy Web3 job to build a startup?

    The Sei Foundation is offering a three-month stipend to help builders develop a functional Minimum Viable Product on Sei. If you're interested, DM Head of BD Justin Barlow to introduce yourself or tag potential applicants. You can be awarded $25k for successful referrals who complete the program and go on to raise external funding.

  • Secret Network HackSecret III EXTENDED

    Secret Network enables developers to build decentralized applications with encrypted data, both natively on Secret and other blockchains through cross-chain communication, unlocking powerful new use-cases for Web3. This is known as Decentralized Confidential Computing, or DeCC.


    This hackathon includes two tracks, one for cross-chain applications, and one for native Secret applications. The choice is yours!


  • Berachain Careers

    Berachain is a high-performance, EVM-compatible L1 Blockchain, looking to challenge the traditional Proof-of-Stake ethos.

    Open roles: Indonesia Growth Lead, Japan Growth Lead, Liquidity Lead, Philippines Growth Lead, Singapore Growth Lead, Thailand Growth Lead, Marketing Lead, Developer Relations Engineer (DevRel), Senior Software Engineer | Core, Staff Software Engineer | Backend, Staff Software Engineer | Smart Contracts, APAC Growth Lead.



  • SEDA Protocol is on the lookout for a Business Development Associate to enhance and expand its ecosystem. This role involves building new partnerships and strengthening existing ones across leading blockchain projects, utilizing SEDA's multichain, permissionless protocol that connects real-world data to blockchain networks. 

A Universe of Airdrops

The cosmos is alive with airdrop excitement.

  • The Penumbra airdrop has been extended till June 27th, rewarding contributors and decentralizing token ownership. Check your eligibility on penumbra.claims and claim your tokens using a PRAX wallet or the Penumbra Command Line.

  • Vault Two of the Power Level Over 9000 campaign is rewarding $SAGA stakers with exclusive NFTs and tokens across three categories: All Stakers, 25K Tier Stakers, and 5K Tier Stakers based on stake increase percentages and loyalty bonuses. Partnerships with Rogue Nation, Forest Knight, SmartMoney, Bullieverse, and Iskra offer unique rewards.

  • The Sei Foundation’s Airdrop #2 will distribute 34,435,600 SEI to 44,445 unique addresses for active participation in the Sei ecosystem since launch. Visit https://airdrop.sei.io/ to check eligibility and agree to the terms by connecting your wallet before Phase 3 of the Sei v2 launch.

  • RSTK Airdrop Phase 2 - RSTK airdrop for holders of ampWHALEt and bWHALEt on Migaloo and Mad Scientists on Osmosis. RSTK will airdrop ampWHALEt and bWHALEt holders. 6 snapshots were taken at random intervals over the past 6 weeks to determine eligibility.

  • The $ELE Airdrop now includes $DYM active users from dymension, joining the list of eligible active users from $NTRN, $ATOM, $OSMO, $DYDX, $AKT, and $TIA.

  • Sunrise Airdrop's Wave 1 targets Gluon stakers, with Wave 2 now including Celestia, Milky Way, and Stride holders, all with a snapshot on June 14, 2024, at 6:00 UTC, while Wave 3 and 4 details remain undisclosed.

  • Are you staking $NIM? The first airdrop is coming. Snapshot has been taken

  • Kartel Kombat airdrop allocation update, Kartem will airdrop 1% for $KUJI stakers and 2% for winners of the upcoming "Kartel Kombat" competition.

  • SwissTronik will also provide $1M worth of its SWTR tokens to the Secret Community, out of which $700K will be distributed as an airdrop to the community members, and $300K will be distributed through development grants for implementation of SwissTronik decentralized identity applications on Secret. 

Cosmos IBC Analysis

Over the last 7 days, IBC value transfers peaked at $26.6 million on Osmosiszone, followed by $13.2 million on Cosmoshub, $12.2 million on Axelarcore, $4.9 million on Akashnet, and $4.2 million on SecretNetwork.

Best Cosmos performers this week: $DAWN +88.18%, $MIR +8.18%, $XPRT +3.44%, $ANT +1.42%, $ANC +1.3%. Which coins are you holding?

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