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Bungee - bridge your assets through the best route!
Bungee moves assets between chains in the most efficient way by plugging into the Socket Liquidity Meta-Layer What is Bungee?Bungee (previously FundMovr) is the Google Maps for the multi-chain world! Just like Google maps, Bungee helps you discover the best bridges and move your assets between chains via the best possible route! With Bungee, you can choose a token on Chain A and seamlessly find the best route to move that token to Chain B. No need to worry about manually swapping tokens or finding the best bridge! For more on Bungee, checkout our Medium blog(prev FundMovr).We also allow users to optimize their route based on:- Maximum output on the destination chain
- Minimum GAS fee
- Lowest Bridging Time
- Security (coming soon)
How does it work?Bungee at its core, is a bridge aggregator. It can be thought of as 1Inch, or Paraswap for cross-chain swaps. By also integrating DEXs & DEX aggregators, Bungee enables easy & efficient cross-chain swaps for users. |
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Socket is a complete interoperability stack which allows asset & data transfer across chains, enabling developers to build truly cross-chain apps
Socket is an interoperability protocol for secure & efficient data and asset transfers across chains. Socket is not a bridge, or a cross chain app - it is an infrastructure that allows developers to build these things easily. Developers can use Socket to build apps with interoperability as a core part of app infrastructure.
Every approach to interoperability optimizes for different objectives & trade offs (trust, latency, generalizability etc.). No one approach is best for every type of use case. Our goal is to empower developers to optimize for their use case & objectives SocketLL Overview Socket’s liquidity layer enables seamless cross-chain asset transfers. It unifies liquidity across chains by aggregating all asset bridges & DEXs.
The result is ultra-efficient cross chain swaps powered by an advanced routing mechanism that dynamically selects the best bridge/route & optimizes for developer preferences like cost, latency or security.
Learn more about how you can use Liquidity Layer in your application, or how Liquidity Layer works. You can try out Liquidity Layer in action on Bungee. Socket DL overview SocketDL enables cross-chain generalised message passing
Data movement is the next step in enabling true composability across chains. It allows apps to extend beyond the boundaries chains & build protocols in a chain agnostic way.
SocketDL enables smart contracts to read state & perform arbitrary communication with other contracts across different chains. For example, a protocol on Polygon can read Aave’s APY on Arbitrum; or a protocol on Fantom can deposit funds into Aave on Optimism via Socket.
SocketDL is coming soon to a chain near you and will open doors to a broad variety of interesting & truly multi chain use cases for the ecosystem!
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Our mission is to create universal and fair access to decentralized assets for billions of people.
Aptos is a new, independent project to fulfill our vision of delivering the safest and most production-ready blockchain in the world. Aptos was designed with an emphasis on absolute safety, extensible scalability, and credible neutrality — values that we know firsthand and viscerally understand. We are the original creators, researchers, designers, and builders of Diem, the blockchain that was first built to serve this purpose. While the world never got to see what we built, our work is far from over.
We have had the luxury of thinking about these problems alongside some of the brightest engineers in the world for years. Since departing Meta (formerly Facebook) we have been able to put our ideas into motion, ditch bureaucratic red tape, and build an entirely new network from the ground up that brings them to fruition. We’re now ready to socialize those ideas more broadly and start shipping the infrastructure that we’ve been perfecting. We have years of experience developing and deploying systems at scale, and our entire team has dedicated our careers to this calling. My cofounder, Avery Ching, is one of the world’s leading experts in building distributed systems and scaling them for billions of users. The rest of the founding team at Aptos consists of an impressive group of PhDs, researchers, engineers, designers and strategists including Alden Hu, Alin Tomescu, David Wolinsky, Greg Nazario, Jake Skinner, Josh Lind, Max Kaplan, Mo Ahmed, Neil Harounian, Rati Gelashivili, Rustie Lin, Sasha Spiegelman, Sherry Xiao, Sital Kedia and Zekun Li. |
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Saddle is the easiest way to trade and earn with pegged value crypto assets, beginning with tokenized bitcoin.
Saddle is an automated market maker (AMM) designed to enable efficient trading between pegged value crypto assets. Saddle is launching with a tokenized bitcoin pool, allowing users to trade between and provide liquidity for tBTC, WBTC, sBTC, and renBTC.
Swap on Saddle Step 1: Select “Swap” on the top navigation bar.
Step 2: Select the currency you’re exchanging, and the one you want to receive.
Step 3: Enter the amount you’d like to exchange.
Step 4: Click “Advanced” to select options like slippage, gas, or transaction deadline.
Step 5: Click “Swap”, review the details, and confirm the transaction. Deposit on Saddle Step 1: Select “Deposit” on the top navigation bar.
Step 2: Enter the amount(s) you’d like to deposit of one or more of the assets listed on the Saddle BTC pool. (Tip: deposit underweight assets to get an LP token bonus).
Step 3: Click “Advanced” to select options like slippage and gas.
Step 4: Click “Deposit” review the details, and confirm the transaction.
Step 5: After the transaction is confirmed, stake your LP tokens on the KEEP Liquidity Rewards Dashboard in the Saddle Pool to start earning KEEP rewards.
Step 6: Keep track of your rewards! |
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Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points.
About Covalent
Blockchains provides a new frontier of development for enterprises, consumers and software developers. Due to its decentralized architecture, immutable ledger and highly secure framework, applications of the technology will impact industries ranging from finance and retail to personal identity and cryptocurrency.
Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points. |
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Playing for KeepsUntil the stakedrop, we’ll be running an incentivized testnet called Playing for Keeps. Playing for Keeps is a chance for people to learn to stake before the stakedrop, and win themselves KEEP by contributing to the community.
We’re gathering on Discord to stake on testnet, kick the tires, improve the docs, and learn from one another.Join Discord to start Playing for KeepsWhile the game is on, contributions will be recognized bi-weekly by a panel of community judges, and be eligible to receive KEEP. There’s no contribution too small, as long as it supports the network.
Here are some projects we would love to see:- Documentation “for humans”. Help more people stake!
- Bug & security reports
- Improvements to the Keep client & contracts and the tBTC system
- Translations of documentation and websites
- Extensions to the Keep token dashboard
- Staking guides for different kinds of hardware
- a tBTC deposit explorer
- a tBTC liquidation auction dApp
- tBTC on Tornado Cash
- tBTC on DEXs, especially newer DEXs like Loopring
- a tBTC deposit widget based on tbtc.js, simplifying integration for new devs
On the translations side we‘d like to see:- The actual i18n code done on tbtc.network and keep.network
- We’d like to see Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, and Cantonese.
- Translations of Keep blog posts, community guides, and content.
We’re interested in the following user research contributions:- A more extensive brand media kit, based on current Keep Brand Kit. Ideally one that hosts downloadable variations of all logomarks on the Keep press page.
- Keep swag mockups (any kind of swag!)
- Animations. For example, transitional animations for the product itself, illustrating use of dApp, etc.
- Instructive videos or instructive GIFs using the dApp.
While the above is all great, it’s certainly not an exclusive list! Ultimately, the judges will be the ones deciding which contributions are valuable. The panel will meet bi-weekly, and decide which participants they believe should be granted KEEP. They’ll also decide the value- 1,000, 10,000, or even 100,000 KEEP — enough to participate as a full staker / signer at mainnet. Each will make their decision based on what they think is good for the network, as well as their own particular interests.How do you “Play for Keeps”?Join our Discord: In order to qualify your submission for Playing for Keeps prizes, you must join our Discord server and give us a quick overview of who you are in the introduction message. We want to get to know everyone and make sure we don’t miss any submissions, so make sure you join the Discord. Please note: you can make your submission post in #introduce-yourself anytime — it does not have to be immediately after joining the server. However, a message on Discord is required for entry.Submit a Play for Keeps entry message in #introduce-yourself which includes:- A name by which to address you in the channel
- Why you’re interested in Keep or tBTC
- What you are submitting for Playing for Keeps prizes — This can be an idea if you aren’t ready with a fully formed idea!
- If you’ve already produced something you want to submit as an entry
We have specific terms and conditions for Playing for Keeps.
Run Random Beacon in KEEP Network Testnet (video guide)Walkthrough to create Keep-ECDSA node for either mainnet or testnet (video guide) |
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 A KEEP is an off-chain container for private data. Keeps help contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain — enabling deep interactivity with private data.
Privacy and scalability are the two biggest hurdles to mainstream adoption of public blockchains. We’re tackling privacy by building a bridge between public blockchains and private data. We use keeps, or small off-chain containers, to secure and store this data. Keeps enables entirely new ways to work with private data. Decentralized finance (DeFi) is one of the most exciting sectors to watch in 2020. Over the past year the amount of ETH locked in DeFi applications has grown from roughly $300 million to over $1 billion. Major names including Facebook, Walmart and JPMorgan are beginning to enter the market, and opportunities to earn returns on cryptoassets continue to multiply.
But many Bitcoiners are reluctant to get involved in the various DeFi projects being built on chains such as Ethereum. Some are put off by the complex and sometimes alienating technical language and concepts that surround them, which can make altcoins and DeFi seem like a black box. Keep is one of the three projects contributing to tBTC, which will launch April 27 and allow Bitcoin holders to use Ethereum decentralized finance applications for the first time. Keep, Summa, and Cross-Chain Group are each responsible for at least one of the technical elements of the open-source project, which enables users to earn safely on Ethereum with their Bitcoin. Keep’s specific contribution is the random beacon that selects the signers for deposits of TBTC, which are ERC-20 tokens. tBTC needs a system with its own work token for Sybil resistance. The signers themselves are also selected from among a pool of candidates on the Keep network.
Keep is about privacy
Keep is designed as a privacy solution. Specifically, Keep enables privacy around essential network components. Signing groups can’t operate unless they’re signing from a key that nobody knows; this applies to the random beacon as well. At the core of Keep’s solution is the ability to keep small amounts of data (such as a private key) actually private in order to do things with that data. This is why true randomness is so important in Keep. All parties would have to collude to know what a user is working on, and collusion becomes almost impossible when signer selection is truly random. Threshold ECDSA “keeps” protect users’ Bitcoin
The distinction between on-chain and off-chain is important here. tBTC is entirely on-chain. But Keep stores private information, such as keys, in off-chain “keeps” that use threshold ECDSA — which is audited and used by top crypto wallets and exchanges including Binance. These “keeps,” which are named after the most secure part of a castle, communicate via the Ethereum chain but exist apart from it. tBTC’s smart contracts interact with the smart contracts on the Keep network, which touch the off-chain keeps.
The concepts Keep employs aren’t new. What’s novel, and special, about the way Keep acts within tBTC is the specific assembly of the concepts. The ideas are put together with smart contracts in a defined and secure way. The design is rooted in an ethos that prioritizes giving the token holder the maximum degree of autonomy. Holders and operators can decide where they want to put their risk and how to manage it, rather than the network deciding for them. All of this is done in a trustless environment.  Use Bitcoin to leverage the power of EthereumIt’s true that Bitcoin has clear dominance in terms of overall crypto market capitalization, with a combined value greater than that of all other tokens put together. But it’s Ethereum that has managed to attract the largest developer community. Until now this has meant that the largest pool of crypto capital has been effectively cut off from many projects that push the boundaries of what is possible with blockchain and promise to rewrite the way the world looks at finance and other crucial areas.
Now, tBTC combines the stability and liquidity of Bitcoin with the innovations and developer momentum of Ethereum. When the token launches on Ethereum mainnet it will offer people a transparent, decentralized, and safe way to put BTC to work. Users of tBTC will be able to use their Bitcoin to take part in the innovative projects and opportunities being developed by Ethereum’s passionate community.Follow tBTCBitcoin accounts for most of the crypto assets in the world on a value basis, and now there’s a safe, decentralized, transparent way for that BTC to be put to work supporting promising DeFi use cases and other projects on Ethereum. Our team has identified a number of DeFi use cases for tBTC in particular, and will be sharing additional information and announcements soon. As of today, tBTC is live on the Ropsten Ethereum testnet. To learn more about tBTC’s technical design, read the technical spec.
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Virtual reality is interesting to many people. Here is progress in technology and the new generation has already adapted to a peculiar game-type of thinking and wants to translate it into a greater reality. Otherwise, some facts are alarming. Loudly announced VR projects (like Arena Space) suddenly fail. Within two months, suddenly the sales of Vive and Oculus slow down and agitated Youtube bloggers are building hypotheses about the reasons for this. I was always interested in VR and there are such a cool parks which is called The Void. To be a part of The Void games is a whole-body, fully immersive VR experience. There is a lot of interesting projects already showed up. Decentralandhttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2065128.0  DMarkethttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2041720 Are such an interesting VR projects showed up a huge potential with raising a good money on ICOS. But one of the new projects i keeped my eyes on is called VRT. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2485249.0 https://vrt.world/ A functional feature of VR-game spaces is that the entire team of players is transferred to the virtual reality thanks to Full Body Tracking VR technology at a time. At the same time, all participants see each other and fully interact. This technology is a real step forward for VR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOWKiZyuTzI |
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Qchain is built on two next-generation blockchain technologies, Ethereum and NEM. Each blockchain will have its own Qchain utility token: the EQC token for Ethereum, and the XQC token for NEM. And Why Are We Developing For Two Blockchains?
We are convinced that Ethereum and NEM are the two most promising blockchain technologies for enterprise in development right now, both for their tech visions and robust developer communities. They have different strengths and focuses: Decentralized smart contracts are currently a bit easier to develop on Ethereum, while NEM offers the Proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm and the Eigentrust++ reputation system to encourage transactions. We believe that giving our users choice and flexibility can only benefit them, as they can opt for the blockchain that best suits their needs.
It’s important for us to note that working on two blockchains is not something we have haphazardly thought up as a cash grab that will split our efforts and attention. Dual chain support was integrated into our planning from the very beginning, as we are driven to create a responsive and encompassing product.
Additionally, we are prioritizing development on both blockchains with equal weight. We are doing this by building development teams dedicated to each blockchain, rather than having developers flit between both. Following our crowdsale, we will further solidify and expand the size of the teams in step with each other.
https://qchain.coIt is a great idea. Why is it so little discussed? |
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