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stUMEE is Stride's 8th LST! Excited to see what people do with it.
LFG
Stride's latest liquid staked token is - stUMEE! 🎉
Umee's high staking APR of 17.5% makes it a great candidate for liquid staking. With stUMEE, no more forfeited staking rewards.
Check it out 👉
An stUMEE/ATOM liquidity pool is expected to appear…
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The future is modular!
@CelestiaOrg
is leading into 2024, and TIA will be modular money, powering 1000s of rollups.
But what about stTIA - how should it be built? And how will it be used?
I posted thoughts to the Celestia forum - join the discussion
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Happy ICS day! Stride is now officially an ICS chain. This is a big moment for Stride and the Cosmos Hub. Everyone who helped make this happen should feel very proud today.
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wen stTIA? 👀
@susevans
@sampocs13
and I just created a CIP (Celestia improvement proposal), outlining the implementation of ICA on an accelerated timeline.
See you all on the next CIP call!
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Liquid staking tokens will become the base tokens of DeFi
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stTIA everywhere ↔️
1/5 In recent weeks, Stride announced a
@Hyperlane_xyz
partnership, and that
@EclipseFND
would be the first rollup to connect to Stride.
Today we're announcing that the
@AstriaOrg
rollup network will also be connecting to Stride 🎉
Why this matters 🧵
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This is one of the most important
@stride_zone
proposals to date.
The key question: should Stride adopt interchain security? Should the
@cosmoshub
onboard Stride as a consumer chain?
Should Stride blockchain join the ATOM Economic Zone and adopt interchain security?
A proposal has just been posted to both the Stride and Cosmos Hub gov forums.
Stride gov forum 👉
Cosmos Hub gov forum 👉
Check it out!
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Cosmos is dead
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And just like that, stDYDX is live!
Hard to keep track of all the new launches in Cosmos, between
@dYdX
,
@CelestiaOrg
,
@berachain
,
@namada
,
@penumbrazone
.
And they'll all have LSTs.
Wonder when we'll see the next one? 😉
1/5 Announcing Stride's first new LST of 2024 - stDYDX 🎉
Say goodbye to the 30 day unbonding period of DYDX. Now, you can be fully liquid while still earning staking rewards.
Notably, stDYDX auto-converts USDC staking rewards to staked DYDX.
Details 🧵
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many such cases
people think the kimchi arb was the greatest arb in crypto but you can make a lot of money just taking ideas from cosmos and implementing them on ethereum a few months later
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the UX of using multiple chains should feel like using a single chain
just sign once and have the chains figure out what you want on the backend
@stride_zone
and
@osmosiszone
are both about to launch versions of this
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Modular Expansion ↔️
The launches of Celestia, Hyperlane, Dymension, Eclipse, and many more will mark the start of a new era for Cosmos.
And stTIA is Modular Money!
Announcing the launch of stTIA 🎉
stTIA is
@CelestiaOrg
's most neutral & secure LST — stTIA is modular money 🧱
In an unprecedented move, 5M STRD (5% of max supply) being airdropped to early stTIA holders.
Details 🧵
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Stride is the routing hub for modular money 🧱
Celestia ➡️ Stride ↔️ rollups
stTIA Expansion is Coming ↔️
We're hyped to announce that
@stride_zone
, the leading Cosmos liquid staking hub, is expanding to the modular ecosystem.
Connected by Hyperlane ⏬
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Instantly liquid stake your ATOM. No more unbonding period.
LSM 🤝 ATOM liquidity
Secure and easy to use. Stride does one thing, and it does it well 😉
The Liquid Staking Module is now LIVE ✨
For the first time ever, instantly convert your staked ATOM into stATOM.
👉
How to liquid stake with LSM, as easy as 1-2-3 👇
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All of Cosmos needs to be 1-click away
No excuses
1/ One-click to the dYdX Chain 💪
We’re excited to announce that the dYdX Chain will integrate with
@squidrouter
x
@axelarcore
.
Users can now integrate with dYdX Chain from Ethereum, app-chains, or supported L2s w/o the hassle of bridging 🧵
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Who says Cosmos is just inflationary yield farming?
After ~1 year of being live,
@stride_zone
's real rewards are high enough to secure the chain. Pretty neat!
If you're curious what tokens make up the rewards, check out
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I’ve recently come to appreciate the value of simplicity much more
simple writing
simple code
simple business models
simple design
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I try to ignore crypto prices - progress is up and to the right, but the road is windy.
Still, it feels good to have spent the last two years building through the uncertainty with everyone here, while the market told us we were wrong.
Excited for the future.
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Is it possible to trustlessly bridge to BTC from... anywhere?
Have not found a route from Cosmos or Ethereum 🤔
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This is pretty insane
Protocols can govern the FE code on
@gitopiaDAO
and deploy it on
@akashnet_
using interchain accounts! Excited to see the first chain that does this.
@dYdX
has talked about central points of failure in the past and has a big eng team...
@octalmage
@mappum
@nomicbtc
@cosmos
Yeah, moreso this. The frontends governed by governance can be done now via
@gitopiaDAO
!
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A live
@stride_zone
testnet (with liquid staking hooked up to two other live testnets) successfully migrated validator sets today as part of an ICS rehearsal 🕺 💃
What a day!
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Stride is the child of a bear market. Launched in September of 2022, Stride has experienced adversity for its entire existence.
But that adversity forced the protocol to create real utility, real rewards, and a real community.
Going into 2024, Stride will continue supporting…
With $57M TVL, Stride is the main liquid staking provider in the Cosmos ecosystem and a pillar of Cosmos DeFi.
What lies in store for the coming months?
stDYDX, stTIA, and so much more 👀
Check out this blog post 👇
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New prop: Stride to acquire bad kids for future contributors
I love it 😈
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fun fact: 5 months post-launch,
@stride_zone
now provides more LSDs (6) than any other platform! each new LSD onboarded inherits the same security, with minimal overhead/maintenance costs
demonstrates the scaling power of IBC, excited for the next 100 🪟
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still don’t know what an L3 is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask
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Good question...
LSM on the Cosmos Hub should do a lot to speed up the adoption of liquid staking! Adds safety features for the Cosmos Hub, too.
1/ Liquid Staking Sector has grown to become the largest capitalized sector in the crypto market.
But its presence within the
@cosmos
ecosystem has been relatively small. why is that?
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Very interesting PoS experiments going on in Cosmos
@StargazeZone
NFT staking
@berachain
proof of liquidity
@cosmoshub
ICS
@osmosiszone
Mesh security
@stride_zone
integrating LSTs
Proof of stake is alive and well
Integrating NFTs into proof of stake to secure the chain is something that’s only possible on an app chain.
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Punks and Pengus the OG crypto barbell.
Mad Lads and Bad Kids the integrated + modular barbell.
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#1
Cosmos KPI - make buying Bad Kids easier!
It's way too hard today.
If buying
@badkidsart
is easy, Cosmos is more fun for new entrants and we'll have made a big UX leap as an ecosystem.
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9 months since
@stride_zone
first block
9th LST went live today
Infrastructure for the interchain
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The most interesting questions in the most interesting ecosystems
Ethereum: How do we scale?
Cosmos: How do we secure?
Solana: How do we decentralize?
h/t
@MikeIppolito_
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projects I’m most excited about coming out of this week
*
@squidrouter
*
@CosmWasm
*
@babylon_chain
/
@eigenlayer
what’s the trend? ⛓️ ⛓️ ⛓️
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IBC is write once, scale anywhere
Predict this trend to continue outside of Cosmos (not dunking on OS, managing multiple cross chain deployments is just really hard)
Last year we added several chains, including BNB Smart Chain (BSC), after seeing excitement from the wider NFT ecosystem.
But as our space evolves, we need to align resources with the most promising efforts. We’ve decided the cost to continue supporting BSC outweighs the impact.
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On the one hand, Cosmos (IBC connected chains) has lots of governance debates/drama
On the other, *individual* chains in Cosmos are typically very aligned and execute quickly, and groups of chains are often more aligned than in other ecosystems
So the comparison isn’t quite…
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Wtf is modular money?
Should LSTs be enshrined?
What are the nitty gritty details of STRD's tokenomics?
Look no further, Jon tells all. Hands down the most comprehensive report on Stride, maybe the most comprehensive on LSTs, ever.
Bravo!
New post is LIVE!
- LST design considerations, including the LSM & ETH variants
- LST market structure & incentives across ecosystems
- How
@stride_zone
offers the leading multichain LSTs
- Unique
@CelestiaOrg
LST considerations
- Why stTIA is modular money 🧱
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Signing transactions using ledger and Javascript is the most cursed part of the SDK
Hundreds of dev hours across many teams burned trying to make this work
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wild that IBC is just two years old
safe to say it's 10x better than any other blockchain interoperability standard
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Cosmos specializes in protocol owned
protocol owned liquidity
protocol owned block building
protocol owned governance
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Strongly agree
Cosmos makes this easy with blockly invariant checks
@stride_zone
will take this one step further, checking protocol invariants after transactions
most defi protocols have a single invariant at their core
and most aren't checking it for each call
(uniswap does and imo is why it has never been hacked)
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you’re welcome
@cosmoshub
😉
1/ Cosmos Hub provides
@Stride_Zone
with security through ICS, which is a form of restaking.
Staked ATOM simultaneously secures both the Hub and Stride.
But how much does Stride currently pay the Hub for security? Let's take a look 🧵
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Getting faster, stSAGA live just a few hours after mainnet launch
No chain will be without an LST
1/6 Announcing the launch of Stride's 14th LST - stSAGA 🎉
stSAGA is now live.
Saga mainnet launched earlier today, with 6% of the SAGA supply airdropped.
Liquid stake your SAGA airdrop to receive an STRD airdrop! It doesn't get any better than that 🧵
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@EffortCapital
why don’t people build more social consensus before putting these up? gov props should be a formality by the time they’re up
convinced most gov drama is caused by people yeeting gov props and forcing discussions
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@stride_zone
could be the third founding member of the ATOM economic zone
stATOM can become the best money and collateral in the Cosmos
Please vote!
Stride's AEZ + ICS prop is live on Cosmos Hub 🎉
Should Stride join the ATOM Economic Zone and adopt interchain security?
It's up to ATOM stakers to decide.
🗳️ 👉
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I think the most successful crypto games won't be games with crypto bolted on
Instead, it'll be crypto, with games bolted on
Crypto is a massive MMORPG blending physical and digital reality
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three upcoming
@stride_zone
features I'm personally most excited for
* interchain skips ⚡️
* protocol-owned arbs 🔃
* bonded liquidity market 💵
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@moskov
@matt_levine
so the theory is: he’s trying to pump a 600b asset, burning his reputation in the process? 🤔
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Break the curse, airdrop to stTIA
the cosmos curse: tradition of airdrops that only go to (non-liquid) stakers + exclude defi users are sabotaging the ecosystem
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genuinely think there's a lot of alpha on github, traders rarely seem to look for signals in repos and devs often just don't care enough to trade on them
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an underappreciated way to increase decentralization is making it easier to run nodes
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@thal0x
@tarunchitra
fun fact, when we were sprinting on
@stride_zone
last summer,
@interchainriley
@shellvish
and I were drinking so many sugar-free red bulls amazon thought we were a distributor and banned us
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The alpha is in Cosmos!
We discussed
- Who invented LSTs, from the godfather himself
- What's the perfect validator set?
- Liquid staking limits
- Principal-agent problem with validators/LSPs
This was a fun one
@MikeIppolito_
@MylesOneil
@FelixLts
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What if… Stride just copied what native stakers do?
Enter copy-staking.
It’s the method Stride uses for stTIA, and will likely be expanded to other chains soon.
h/t
@sunnya97
@valardragon
for the idea
1/7 Stride's host-zone delegation policy is about to get a lot more flexible 👀
Today we're introducing copy-staking, a neutral approach to delegations where Stride delegates to the entire host-zone validator set, mirroring existing stake distribution.
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BTC + Cosmos
Ethereum + Rollups
This feels like the most natural fit
Our dear friend and co-host
@sreeramkannan
from
@eigenlayer
speaking at the
#SharedSecuritySummit2023
.
#Bitcoin
and
#Ethereum
are the two main sources of security in the blochchain ecosystem.
@babylon_chain
shares security from
#Bitcoin
and
@eigenlayer
shares security from…
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A really cool use case for LSM will be going directly from cold, hard, staked ATOM to buying an NFT
If
@StargazeZone
had ibc-hooks this could happen in one-click!
Would be a really cool Cosmos Hub / Stride / Osmosis / Stargaze collaboration ✨
h/t
@hxrts
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Forma is a bet on two of the most exciting
@CelestiaOrg
trends 🎭
First, pricing assets in TIA (modular money)
Second, on the idea of the sovereign rollup
High conviction that both of these ideas will see more adoption this year
Announcing Forma 🎭, the sovereign network for onchain creations
built on
@AstriaOrg
with
@CelestiaOrg
underneath ✨.
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is it possible to decentralize rollup sequencers?
(without introducing a new PoS token)
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Prediction: in a few years, nearly 100% of transactions will be processed with protocol-enforced proposed commitments
On Ethereum with
@eigenlayer
, on Cosmos with ABCI++
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IBC is the heart of Cosmos and just got huge a rebrand 🔥
Here’s a quick look at the before / after
Before:
After:
Best-in-class tech deserves best-in-class marketing!
The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol is evolving 🧬
Today, over 100 chains are IBC-enabled, and IBC’s reach goes beyond Cosmos, including ecosystems like Polkadot, Kusama, Hyperledger, and Corda.
A rebranded
#IBC
logo/website marks the new era:
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@itsdevbear
what a rebrand might look like
cosmos -> fades into the background (SDK, IBC)
atom -> alignment around a shared vision
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“minimal viable enshrinement”
very useful mental model for protocol designers
Cosmos Hub’s LSM is the most advanced example of this in the wild
Should Ethereum be okay with enshrining more things in the protocol?
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ATOM’s primary use case is money for the interchain
Second is providing security
@CosmosDefi
@youssef_amrani
@RoboMcGobo
@culturalobjects
@noamwithveto
Unfortunately, you can’t get blood from a stone.
Anyone expecting meaningful revenue in the first 2-3 years is probably going to be disappointed.
DeFi has a cold start problem, and an influx of ATOM establishes it as the reserve currency and helps accelerate economic activity
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This is very similar to
@stride_zone
internal culture
But much more impressive that Nvidia is doing it at scale 🤯
The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild:
40 direct reports, no 1:1s
- Believes that the flattest org is the most empowering one, and that starts with the top layer
- Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting
- Does not give career advice - "None of my…
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@noamwithveto
The biggest problem with this prop is that no one is aligned on what's being voted on
Sure, there might be good reasons to add CW. But the proposal was clear: make the hub a dapp store by adding CW
If some people vote Yes CW/No dapp store, and others vote Yes CW/Yes dapp store,…
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If you need proof - look at LST growth in DeFi protocols
stETH vs WETH
stETH as DAI collateral
LST vs. DEX TVL
list goes on
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stTIA holders are early adopters, very onchain, and believe in the modular vision
Pretty good users to acquire
Anyway,
Monolithic: one token for the entire system = accruing all the value
Modular: one token for every part of the system = endless airdrops acquiring new users
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@MikeIppolito_
@sovereign_labs
blog - sovereign rollups using celestia for da + consensus and zk ibc for interop could enable a large number of interoperable and secure chains
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@fabo_web
@stride_zone
I'm not interested in getting in personal disputes, tried to stick to the facts of Milky way / Stride.
Will respond in the thread.
If you want to chat about our respective products, happy to engage.
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masterstroke by
@badkidsart
anyone who wants the punks/pixelated aesthetic, doesn’t have to compromise on the soul of badkids!
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CoFi summary from
@buchmanster
's talk last night
TradFi: clearing for me, settlement for thee
Blockchains: settlement for all
CoFi: clearing and settlement for all
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@sg1_online
The hub should be simple and minimal, push new features to consumer chains
This is what makes the hub special and unique
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@GarrettHarper_
@cosmos
@stride_zone
@osmosiszone
@LidoFinance
Stride is very aligned with Osmosis today! Both in terms of vision (appchain) and liquidity (majority of external incentives on Osmosis come from Stride)
I’d expect Lido to bootstrap on Neutron - what’s your thinking around them going to Osmosis?
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@etereomatic
@gadikian
@TeamKujira
If a select few know everything, only they can attack! We need transparent systems that are resistant to attack, not closed systems that we hope won't be attacked.
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@stride_zone
has always been at the forefront of IBC
I expect combining IBC transfers with other transactions will be a common UX pattern in Cosmos, as more chains launch.
Route tokens to a chain, do something, route them further, do something else, etc. But only sign once!…
One-click liquid staking now live at 🎉
Now, a single click will:
• IBC a token from its native chain to Stride
• And automatically liquid stake
This helps abstract away IBC, so the Cosmos feels like a single, seamless chain. Key to mass adoption 😉
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