⚔️ 🦉 Gnosis Chain Weekly · 28 January, 2022
Taking Flight
As validators keep rolling in 🌊, we are rolling out 🌊 a new landing page for the Gnosis Beacon Chain (GBC ). The page is designed as an intro to help the consensus curious get to know the GBC and dip their toes into the consensus layer validator pool.
Best of all? Becoming a validator on the GBC only requires 1 GNO per validator! Validators can choose to follow a step-by-step process or use preconfigured hardware to run a node. It’s a great first step for beginners, seasoned Ethereum Beacon Chain validators, and anyone in between interesting in becoming a consensus layer validator.
Look for more resources and tools soon (we’re working to simplify the keygen process 🔑🛠) and check out v1 of the new website at https://www.gnosischain.com/
Speaking of the GBC….
The amazing crew at MigaLabs have put together a dashboard to view the latest Gnosis Beacon Chain statistics. It’s available at https://migalabs.es/crawler/gnosis-dashboard and we’ll be excited to watch chain expansion in real time. With current support from 2 clients, we’re already seeing balanced, distributed growth and usage of both Prysm and Lighthouse relative to the Ethereum Beacon Chain.
The community is also contributing to growth and decentralization. This week community member GLCstaked created an Easy Guide to running a Gnosis Validator with in-depth instructions for beginners. We appreciate our community looking out for each other and supporting the chain in an organic and decentralized way!
Current APY for running a validator can always be found on our Dune Analytics Gnosis Beacon Chain Dashboard.
GnosisDAO updates
TVL and GNO liquidity are on the rise! The GnosisDAO treasury continues to add funds to the Gnosis Chain. This week over 3.5M in liquidity (GNO/WETH) was added to various protocols include Honeyswap, Sushiswap, Swapr, Symmetric, and Elk. Currently the largest pool is GNO/WETH on Honeyswap.
A new proposal was added to the forum to create a GNO:1inch liquidity pool deposited on 1inch protocol, which deployed to the Gnosis Chain last week. Comments are now open related to this phase 1 proposal and your participation is welcomed!
The CowDAO and CowToken proposal moved to phase 3, voting is live and will expire Feb 4. If the vote passes, COW tokens will be airdropped to qualifying Cowswap users and GNO holders (holding on 9 January).
Allocation addresses for the airdrop (if you meet the eligibility criteria be sure to check both tabs of the document)
Project Updates
Token Engineering Commons is live on the Gnosis Chain! The TEC is the first DAO ever designed by & for the community using collaborative economics. Checkout the Convert App and their DAO garden to get involved with this innovative project.
The DAppNode incentive program relaunched this week with participants receiving 4 Gnosis validators for free when purchasing one DAppNode Xtreme. The program has been a big success, and stock is limited! Pick yours up today.
Proof of Humanity is coming soon to Gnosis Chain. PoH is a system designed to create a sybil-proof list of humans - important for ensuring safe metaverse travels. Learn more about their protocol and vision here.
WPSmartContracts provides contracts ready to deploy and use without coding! Their smart contract suite is now available on the Gnosis Chain.
On the Horizon
EthDenver is fast approaching and we are putting together some fantastic events and collaborations for BUIDL week and the conference (running Feb 11-20). Details 🔜
EthDubai is also coming end of March and Gnosis Chain is a Silver Sponsor. Stay tuned, we are working up some plans for this conference too.
Clear your calendars in late February, you might not getting much work done when 🪐 darkforest round 5 begins!
Thanks again 🙏 to our community of users, DAOs, builders, validators, projects and protocols helping expand the Gnosis Chain (execution layer) and Gnosis Beacon Chain (consensus layer) ecosystem. We’ll see you on-chain!
-The Gnosis Chain Team