Onboarded Zones, Conferences, and more...
Killer Queen Comes to an End đ
Last week, Quicksilverâs Incentivized Testnet, Killer Queen, came to an end after being live for almost a month. Co-founder Roea Mortaki summarized the results of the testnet here:
The Quicksilver team is extremely grateful for all the community support we received, as well as to those of you who participated.
Quicksilver is landing on the Cosmos Hub, Juno and Osmosis đ
Quicksilver will be onboarding the Cosmos Hub, Juno, and Osmosis at Genesis. Eligible stakers on the Cosmos Hub, Juno, and Osmo will receive QCK airdrop at launch. Snapshots have been taken, and Cosmonauts will be able to look up their allocations soon. No more information on the airdrop will be revealed in order to prevent gaming future airdrops. After Genesis, the Quicksilver community will be able to vote to onboard any other IBC-enabled, ICA-connected Zone.
Co-Founder Joe Bowman will be speaking at Cosmoverse âď¸
The Quicksilver team will be making their way down to Medellin, Colombia for Cosmoverse 2022, where co-founder Joe Bowman will be speaking about all things Quicksilver. The entire Quicksilver team will be flying out as well for the 3 day conference⌠Who else will be there?
Juno ExpansionđŤ
There is currently a draft proposal up on Commonwealth to increase Junoâs validator set from 135 to 150. Citing decentralization as the main focus of the proposal, the writers also encourage Juno stakers to delegate to smaller validators, should the draft become a proposal and pass.
Register ERC20 for Osmosisđ§Ş
Last week, a proposal on Evmos passed to make an ERC20 token contract representation of Osmosis. The two main goals of the proposers, according to their commonwealth post, is to allow Osmo holders to buy Evmos with Osmo, and to grant ERC-20 tokens access to the Osmosis ecosystem.
Hackatom 2022đť
Cosmonauts are requesting that this yearâs Hackatom, scheduled for July 29-31 in Seoul, Korea, be funded by the Cosmos Hub. Seeking 37500 Atom from the community pool, these funds would cover the prizes for the challenges, as well as the bulk of the costs of the organization.
Axelar đ¤Â Secret Network
Axelar Network and Secret Network have announced they are working together to offer users private, cross-chain messaging and NFT transfers. This will mean that Secret Network users will be able to execute transactions such as private voting on DAOs, private NFT trading, and more. In their announcement, the Axelar team wrote that this partnership will allow Secret Network to extend privacy benefits to developers on other ecosystems, such as EVM chains or Polkadot via Axelar.