🦉Gnosis Chain Weekly · 5 March 2024

Last week marked a significant milestone for Gnosis Chain when the network clocked in over 200,000 validators securing the network. Gnosis Chain is the second largest proof-of-stake blockchain by active validator count right behind Ethereum. The achievement marks a major step forward for Gnosis Chain in its mission to advance Ethereum’s core tenets around credible neutrality and censorship resistance. By enabling accessibility to a wide demographic of at-home validators, Gnosis has cultivated a flourishing ecosystem that spans over 70 countries and 5 continents.

Looking forward to 2024, Gnosis is leveraging the decentralisation of Gnosis Chain to launch and grow Gnosis Pay,  a self custodied electronic cash system that is built on the core values of crypto. Additionally, Gnosis Chain is scheduled to perform the Dencun upgrade on March 11, 2024 - two days ahead of Ethereum, a notable achievement that secures Gnosis Chain’s 1:1 parity with Ethereum. Dencun will significantly increase the scalability and efficiency of both Gnosis Chain and Ethereum. 2024 will also see the launch of the Shutterized Gnosis Chain, an encrypted mempool on Gnosis Chain, marking a huge step towards making Gnosis Chain fundamentally more censorship and MEV resistant.

Gnosis Chain Hits 200K Validators, Now 2nd Largest Staking Network - Blockonomi
Ethereum scaling solution Gnosis Chain has cemented itself as a paragon for decentralization by amassing over 200,000 validators, trailing only Ethereum

Node runners ~ please upgrade your EL/CL nodes ahead of the upcoming Dencun hard fork on 11 March 2024 at 18:30:20 UTC, Slot: 14237696 Timestampe: 1710181820!

Join us for the Dencun Hard Fork Livestream with Gnosis core devs, client teams and special guests! More details below.

Nethermind will host Ethereum's Dencun upgrade live on March 13 at 11:00AM UTC with a great set of special guests. Tune in live with Nethermind!

Let's jump into this weeks update!

🦉Updates

🎟️ DappCon 2024 Ticket Sales

Dappcon is a global developer conference for Ethereum Dapps and infrastructure, organized by Gnosis. Join us for DappCon 2024 in Berlin, Germany May 21st to the 23rd. Ticket sales kick off next week!

Ticket sales are officially live! See you in Berlin!

🦉💳 Gnosis Pay Architecture

Curious how the Gnosis Pay stack is built to handle large transaction volumes? Gnosis Pay is powered by a custom L2 based on Polygon's zkEVM and SAFE technology. Check out the thread below to learn more and sign up for the Gnosis Pay card today!

🤝 Gnosis x Gnosis Pay

Staking GNO or earning a native DAI yield with sDAI are just two ways to earn income on Gnosis. There's plenty more novel ways and the Gnosis Pay card unlocks the ability to spend them!

🥩 Gnosis Pay Analytics w/ Steakhouse Financial

Steakhouse Financial is a crypto-native financial advisory for DAOs. The team created a great report and Dune dashboard about Gnosis Pay this week. Launching merely a month ago, Gnosis Pay has sold ~2,000 cards, 463 used for 1,109 transactions representing 77k€ of volume. The full report is linked below!

💭 ⛓️ Limits on Leveraging Decentralization

Gnosis Co-Founder, Martin Köppelmann, wrote a post on the limits of leveraging decentralization. Köppelmann makes the argument that a geographically diverse set of validators is not the only key to making Ethereum (and by extension Gnosis Chain) decentralized - it's about coordination. He states that decentralization, "can only come from a diverse set of actors that all have to coordinate and agree to opt-in to a proposed change(s)."

🕵️ Gnosis Guild's CRISP

Gnosis Guild is a society for interdependent software & keeper of the Zodiac open standard. They announced a new product last week called CRISP - a protocol for private, collusion-resistant voting. The announcement reinforces Gnosis Guild's reputation as an industry leader for DAO tooling.

🔥 Diva Staking x Somm Finance's Turbo divETH

Diva Staking is Ethereum's first Liquid Staking solution powered by Distributed Validators (DVT). Somm Finance offers automated vaults to find the best-in-class yields while mitigating risk. The team worked together to launch the Turbo divETH initiative with support from karpatkey and the GnosisDAO. Click below to learn more.

🐇 Hop Protocol x Gnosis Chain

Hop Protocol enables trustless, safe, fast, and cheap cross-chain transfers. Hop offers extremely cheap DAI transfers into Gnosis Chain.

🐦‍⬛ Rotki App x Gnosis Chain

Rotki is a fantastic open source portfolio management app that protects your privacy. Track your DeFi usage across Gnosis Chain directly in the Rotki app!

🔒 1RPC's Privacy Signal

1RPC is a web3 relay by AutomataNetwork with 6.3 million monthly active users.
1RPC protects users from metadata harvesting and phishing. Automata Network is thrilled to introduce Privacy Signal, a month-long Galxe campaign with a 10,000 $ATA prize pool, featuring projects building on and with 1RPC. Working in collaboration with Oasis Network, Secret Network, Gnosis, and imToken, Privacy Signal emphasizes how privacy guides the norms of building within web3 for both philosophical and practical reasons.

🤖 Gnosis AI

🦾 Origin Trail

OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph combines knowledge graph and blockchain technologies to enable a universe of AI-ready Knowledge Assets, allowing anyone to take part in trusted knowledge sharing. Gnosis Co-Founder, Martin Köppelmann joined Origin Trails On TRAC(k) podcast Episode 2: Delegated staking, AI agents & more! Check out the full recording below.

🧑🏾‍💻⛓️Events & Hackathons

🤖 Gnosis AI w/ Gnosis Labs

Join us for the Gnosis AI call with the Gnosis Labs team featuring a demo of the new AI Omen prediction market platform at 4PM UTC on March 6th, 2024 on the Gnosis Chain Discord.

Join the Gnosis Chain🦉 Discord Server!
Check out the Gnosis Chain🦉 community on Discord - hang out with 21109 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

💿 Validator Meetup #13

Once a month on the Gnosis Chain Discord, the validator community gets to troubleshoot issues with their hardware and connect with each other. We'll talk about the Dencun upgrade and how to prepare. Join us on March 7th, 2024 at 4PM UTC on the Gnosis Chain Discord.

✍️ Gnosis is Hiring!

🦉 Gnosis Chain

Senior Dapp Developer

Freelancer, Full-time Remote

💳 Gnosis Pay

Compliance Officer

Permanent employee, Full-time · United Kingdom

Backend Software Engineer

Freelancer, Full-time · Remote

Customer Relations Agent

Permanent employee, Full-time · United Kingdom

Erigon Recruiting

Blockchain Core Developer (Erigon, Go)

Freelancer, Full-time · Remote

More info -> here

🙏 Thank you

Come say, hello in the Gnosis Chain Discord! Join us for the next GnosisDAO Community Call on Thursday March 14 , 2024 at 4PM UTC / 5PM CET

See you onchain!