Connext Weekly #12

(March11-18, 2022)

Welcome to a new week of multi-chain world Connexters!

Let’s take a look together what happened in the previous days of Connext Network:

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Last week in Connext

Connext Bridge Integrated Clover Wallet

Connext Ecosystem has integrated Clover Wallet to accelerate the adoption of trustless, generalized cross-chain communication.

• Clover Finance gives you access to a user-friendly multi-chain world, and now allows you to bridge across different chains with Connext Bridge.

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Rahul Sethuram attended Blockshots w/CoinCodeCap

Connext Network Founder/CTO Rahul Sethuram talked at the new episode of the podcast series ‘Blockshots’ hosted by CoinCodeCap.

• Cross-chain bridges, multi-chain dapps & UX challenges of current bridging solutions were discussed deeply. Listen here.

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Connext Network Partnered with Kava Network

Connext Network will be bringing $37M+ in cross-chain liquidity to Kava with its trustless bridge.

Kava is a Layer-1 blockchain that combines the interoperability of Cosmos with the developer support of Ethereum.

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Twitter Space Series ‘Burning Bridges’ Session 4 was live

• Twitter Space series called ‘Burning Bridges’ is created by Arjun Bhuptani to make the community learn more about interoperability and L2s. He and industry professionals discuss every 2 weeks on Twitter.

• Session 4 topic was ‘Rollup bridges’. Listen the recording below:

Arjun @arjunbhuptani

Burning Bridges session 4 tomorrow! We're going to deep dive into the core mechanisms behind the ORU Bridges on @arbitrum and @optimismPBC 🤠 Don't miss it! 👇 https://t.co/TbRcbrocKT

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Help Us Improve Connext Bridge

We have a new survey to improve Connext Bridge and need our Connextoooors to help by telling us a bit about your Bridge experiences :)

• You can check it out and answer the short questions here.

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WEEK #12 BY THE NUMBERS

• Total Value Locked (TVL): $44,681,402

• TOTAL VOLUME (V2): $793,592,888

• TOTAL TXS (V2): 664,008

PS: We've done $500m through our V1 and $500m through our V2. ConnextScan shows only V2.

Check out the full metrics dashboard and routers, leaderboard, and status on ConnextScan.

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From the Connext Community

Connext | We're Hiring! @ConnextNetwork

Cross chain apps that operate in the same domain and use natively verified bridges (Rollup entry/exits, Cosmos IBC, ...) are the most secure solutions. But, people want to move an operate across separate domains. And they are going to do it anyway. So what do we do?

polynya @epolynya

5. I'm truly scratching my head here. It's abundantly clear that cross-chain apps are far, far superior on rollups. Doing cross-chain apps across L1s is notoriously difficult, and will always have greater security risk, flexibility, and latency than rollups

0xRaz 🦇🔊👨🏽‍💻 @omw_to_the_moon

Crypto bros literally be watching burning bridges twitter spaces instead of burning bridges for toxic relationships Seriously though 👇👇

Arjun @arjunbhuptani

Burning Bridges session 4 tomorrow! We're going to deep dive into the core mechanisms behind the ORU Bridges on @arbitrum and @optimismPBC 🤠 Don't miss it! 👇 https://t.co/TbRcbrocKT

alex @KirbyLarp

pov: u crossing the @ConnextNetwork bridge to ape the next x100 and make it all back

Connext | We're Hiring! @ConnextNetwork

What is Moonriver? @MoonriverNW mainnet was launched in September 2021 and has already become a notable project among blockchains. 🧵 #InfraFriday

Nomad @nomadxyz_

Nomad and @ConnextNetwork create THE modular interoperability stack for all things cross-chain. 🪐 This model tackles important problems of security, robustness, and the bridge trilemma we see today. 🌉 @pranaymohan says it best during our conversation with @osmosiszone 🤝

Connext | We're Hiring! @ConnextNetwork

Connext is the growth catalyst for dapps to become cross chain interoperable. 🏗️🧠🚀

cdixon.eth @cdixon

The web3 playbook: interoperability as a growth mechanic 🧵

LI.FI - Any-2-Any Swaps (🦎,🦎) @lifiprotocol

ETH from Ethereum Mainnet to BNB on BNB Chain in 150 seconds 👀 and guess what? no gas fees needed on @BNBCHAIN ! We just launched destination swaps via @ConnextNetwork ! Check it out 🦎

EnneZeta.eth @EnneZeta

2. @ConnextNetwork / @xpollinate_io Another great bridge between EVM chains. ACTIONS: - Bridge assets between different chains

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GRANTS

Connext is looking for devs and apps that want to build great things for new cross-chain experiences through Connext.

If you have a team or working as an individual, both are welcome to contribute!

You can explore all grants here:

• Technical writers to help with docs,

• Community moderators for Portugal, UK, Russia, the Philippines, Kenya, Nigeria, and the US,

• Developers for several different applications

If you think you’re able to contribute, you can apply here.

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Did you know Connexters created their own unofficial local communities?

Find yours below to engage with other Contextooors in your own language:

• Chinese: https://t.me/connext_chinese

• Japan: https://t.me/connextJapan

• Korean: https://t.me/ConnextKorean

• Thai: https://t.me/Connextthailand

• Turkish: https://t.me/ConnextTurkey

• Russian: https://t.me/connext_ru

• Spanish: https://t.me/ConnextEspanol

• Italian: https://t.me/ConnextItalia

• Indonesia & Malasia: https://t.me/Connext_IDN_dan_MYS

• Vietnam: https://t.me/connext_vn

Also, have you joined Connext Discord Channel yet?

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For more:

• Website: connext.network

• System Overview, Guides, API Reference, and more:

https://docs.connext.network/

• Connext Explorer to view Routers and Transactions: https://connextscan.io/

• Follow us on Twitter & LinkedIn & Medium

and of course, try our CROSS-CHAIN SWAP: xpollinate.io

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