Cipher Knowledge - 28 November 2022

Weekly Algorand Digest - Decipher /22 Edition

I am pleased to announce the launch of Hachisita Technologies, a development house for dApps on the Algorand Ecosystem.

We are based in the Middle East and are keen to work with the rest of the #AlgoFam community, particularly on open-source projects. Get in touch if you are looking to partner!

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Ecosystem

• Algorand’s annual event Decipher kicks off at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai today featuring 2 days of keynotes, networking, and discussions. Tune in to the live-stream. (link)

• Christen Ager-Hanssen leaves Algorand, blames slow leadership. (link)

• London Bridge — Algorand’s State Proof bridge with Ethereum — will launch in Q3 2023. (link)

• NOWNodes now offers full Algorand nodes and block explorer. (link)

• D13 collective launch world cup lottery sweepstakes on Algorand. (link)

• Thread: quadratic voting as a robust system for xGov. (link)

Development

• go-algorand v3.12.2-beta released. Multitude of new enhancements and bug fixes. catchpointdump now supports tar.gz. (link)

• Tinyman announce Tealish, a readable language for the Algorand Virtual Machine. (link)

• Tinyman open-sources AMM v2 smart contracts. (link)

• Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 participation node with a Ledger device. (link)

Monthly NFT Sales lowest since December 2021. Source: nftexplorer.

Research

• Modeling Resources in Permissionless Longest-chain Total-order Broadcast. (link)

• Resilience of Hybrid Casper under varying values of parameters. (link)

• The optimal blockchain asset trading settlement based on PoS protocol. (link)

Security

• Runtime Verification has completed its audit of Tinyman’s AMM v2. (link)

• Runtime Verification has completed its second audit of Blockswap Stakehouse. (link)

Standards

• [Updated] ARC-0021: status updated to Last Call, and introduce get_closest and must_get_closest functions to datafeed oracles. (link)

• [Updated] ARC-0028: status updated to Last Call and improvements to readability. (link)

dApps

• Tinyman: announces v2.0 of their AMM Protocol. (link)

• AlgoDex: recap of the last two weeks. (link)

• Folks Finance: launch a new data feed oracle. (link)

• AlgoRai Finance: weekly DOV vault performance update. (link)

• Cometa: now support Defly. (link)

• Venue One: predictive markets on Algorand. (link)

• Polynize: Decipher 2022 innovation tournament, win ALGO and NFTs for participating. (link)

• Lofty: new property in Cleveland, Ohio with projected yearly return of 11.4%. (link)

DeFi

• Opulous’ TVL is down 76.43% week on week. (link)

• Silo Protocol’s TVL is down to $247, a drop of 68.76% week on week. (link)

  

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