🦉Gnosis Chain Weekly · 16 July 2024
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The Shutter protocol is LIVE on Gnosis Chain mainnet, featuring an encrypted mempool powered by the Shutter Network. This integration revolutionizes transaction security and decentralized finance (DeFi) on Gnosis Chain.
The launch of the Shutterized Gnosis Chain is a significant milestone and a major innovation in blockchain technology. Martin Köppelmann, co-founder of Gnosis, was instrumental in developing the Shutterized Beacon Chain concept, which serves as the foundation for today's advanced Shutter technology.
Miner-extractable value (MEV) and front running are widely acknowledged as fundamental challenges in the blockchain space. The term MEV was coined by Phil Daian et al. and describes revenue that block producers can extract by selecting, injecting, ordering, and censoring transactions. MEV is extremely harmful for users and poses a major obstacle to mainstream adoption.
A key subset of MEV is revenue from front running, an illegal practice in traditional markets but uncontrolled in crypto. In short, front runners monitor the network for valuable transactions, then send their own transaction first by paying higher gas fees.
The Shutterized Gnosis Chain allows users to send encrypted transactions that protects them from front runners. By encrypting transaction details, the Shutterized Gnosis Chain ensures that all transactions are treated equally. Validators cannot see the details of pending transactions, which prevents any form of preferential treatment or manipulation.
By mitigating the risks associated with MEV, the Shutterized Gnosis Chain enhances security and improves the user experience. Users can confidently engage in trades, knowing their transactions will be processed fairly and securely. This trust is crucial for the continued growth and adoption of Gnosis Chain, as it encourages more users and developers to participate in the ecosystem.
The launch of the Shutterized Gnosis Chain furthers the Gnosis 3.0 vision of creating a collective of aligned projects revolutionizing payment infrastructure to make decentralized financial tools accessible and usable for all. This release fits within a long line of tools developed by Gnosis that protects users from malicious MEV, such as the Agnostic Relay and MEV Blocker.
The First Beta Release of the Shutterized @gnosischain Is Now Live!
— Shutter 🛡️⚔️ (@ShutterNetwork) July 11, 2024
The @GnosisDAO, @NethermindEth, and Shutter teams are thrilled to announce that threshold encrypted transactions are live on Gnosis Chain mainnet!
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🦉Updates
💳 🦉 Decentralized Payments x Gnosis Pay
Onchain payment rails powered by Gnosis Pay are freely available to anyone at a very low cost. As outlined in the steps below, the only imposed fee on a user for off-ramping USDC to Euros is from mainnet. Everything else is sponsored, including the cost of a Gnosis Pay Card, the world's first self-custodial Visa® Debit Card, linked to a Safe Smart Account. Sign up today and get yours!
potential route for decentralized EU payments:
— fgimenez.eth (@frgnieto) July 10, 2024
* receive USDC in ethereum 💰
* bridge to @gnosischain 🦉
* swap to EURe on @CoWSwap 🐮
* offramp to EU bank on @monerium 🏦
besides negligible fees on step 1 the rest is sponsored! do you know any other options?
🐮🦉 CowSwap x Gnosis Chain
karpatkey, the treasury management team for the GnosisDAO, started a rewards program in April 2024 to incentivise CoW solvers on Gnosis Chain. The iniative is aimed at increasing DeFi activity on Gnosis Chain via CowSwap.
In early April we announced a 180k xDAI rewards program to incentivize @CoWSwap solvers on @gnosischain. Our primary goal was to help users by reducing slippage on swaps. Secondary goals included increasing swap aggregation and attracting more external solvers to Gnosis Chain.… pic.twitter.com/qNZCvw5UGs
— karpatkey (@karpatkey) July 15, 2024
✔️ validategnosis.com Relaunch
validategnosis.com is LIVE! The site is a comprehensive guide for beginners, intermediate and advanced node runners who want to secure Gnosis Chain while earning rewards. Get started at validategnosis.com!
Hoot Hoot! 🦉
— Gnosis Chain 🦉 (@gnosischain) July 15, 2024
We’ve updated and relaunched https://t.co/lEmwLVXODQ
This website will guide you in finding the optimal setup methods and offer detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to spin up a Gnosis Chain validator node.
✅ Staking Options @stakewise_io @ChorusOne… pic.twitter.com/YhgtjK4rpI
⚖️ GnosisDAO Delegate Program V0 Applications
Calling all Gnoseers and governatorrrrrs! The GnosisDAO Delegate Program, iniaited by Stablelab and karpatkey, was launched by GIP-101 and designed to increase governance participation. If you are active in GnosisDAO governance or any other DAO, please consider becoming a delegate. Application instructions are here. Each selected delegate will receive 5,000 GNO from the DAO Treasury for a 6 month period, empowering them to represent the community's interests and contribute actively to the governance of the GnosisDAO.
📣🦉Calling all Gnoseers!
— GnosisDAO (@GnosisDAO) July 15, 2024
The GnosisDAO Delegate Program V0 application deadline is Midnight UTC on July 18th 2024.
Apply here 👉https://t.co/jum7324m7Y
This program, facilitated by @karpatkey and @StableLab, will delegate 5k GNO from the GnosisDAO treasury to ten delegates… https://t.co/gxyJaGyx6I
🦉🎤 GnosisDAO Community Call Featuring the Shutter Network
The Shutter Network joined the GnosisDAO Community Call last week to discuss the launch of the Shutterized Gnosis Chain. Shutter is free, open-source software designed to protect the crypto community from those manipulating the blockchain for their own gain. It uses threshold encryption to ensure base layer neutrality, information symmetry, and accessibility in trading, voting, and gaming. Check out the recording below!
✍️ Gnosis is Hiring!
🦉 GnosisDAO
Legal Associate (also remote from Europe or the UK)
Freelancer, Full-time United Kingdom, Germany (Berlin), Gibraltar
💿 Erigon Recruiting
Blockchain Core Developer (Erigon, Go)
Freelancer, Full-time · Remote
More info -> here
🙏 Thank you
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See you onchain!