Important updates from the core team 🦎
Welcome back to our monthly community update, the tenth edition! 👋
As with all months in the world of crypto… August was hectic. And August at LI.FI was particularly busy: We launched support for new bridges, wallets, and DEXs, all while keeping up with increased demand in the wake of Arbitrum’s Nitro upgrade.
We designed these updates to inform you about these latest integrations, numbers, hires, partnerships, and anything noteworthy in the day-to-day operations — aka the juicy alpha from the core team!
In this article you will find:
- LI.FI Recap: What happened in the past month
- Dev Update
- Community Update
LI.FI Recap: What Happened Last Month❓
High-quality integrations ⚙️
Below are the juicy integrations and internal updates that occurred over the past month ⚡️
We have deployed Stargate to production! Stargate has quickly become one of the most used bridges in the ecosystem. Stargate has $2.4B in bridge volume & as per the team, have solved the Bridging Trilemma 💡
Happy bridging Lizoords! 🦎
2. LI.FI 🤝 Polygon DAO
We are thrilled to be partnering with Polygon DAO‘s in their Village Voucher initiative.
This initiative helps new projects by sharing knowledge and creating connections in their ecosystem, so projects can focus on building their products.
If you’re a project looking to go cross-chain, apply for the LI.FI voucher and let’s build on Polygon!
3. Twenty-four New Wallet Integrations 🤑
We have now made it easier for users to use the best bridge aggregator out there by increasing our wallet support to 27 wallets!
This past month, we have expanded our Fantom DEX options by integrating SoulSwap.
19 DEXs and counting. We continue expanding our stack to offer the best rates across all routes 🫡
Dev Update 🧑💻
Our devs have been working hard over the past month to improve existing features and to bring you, users, some new features too! 🤝
Here is what the Devs have been up to over the past month 👷♂️
1. Enabled 1000 additional Multichain routes
2. Updated Stargate and Arbitrum bridge
3. Optimised Superfluid upgrades/downgrades
4. Fixed failing swaps transactions after bridge transfers
5. Across Protocol released to production
Marketing Mania! 🎉
SpiritSwap AMA 🎤
Members of the LI.FI team was invited to an AMA with our friends & partners at SpiritSwap.
We had a great time discussing all things LI.FI & SpiritSwap.
Thank you for having us! We are looking forward to the next one 😏
Our founder Philipp Zentner was invited for a Q/A conversation with partners MoonBeam. We had a great time and enjoyed the time with both sets of community members — we especially enjoyed the trivia and prizes 😉
If you weren’t able to make it live, you can watch it here
Tools for Crypto Feature 📰
This past month we featured in Tool For Crypto’s newsletter 🤝
Thank you for sharing how our advanced bridge & DEX aggregation tooling will advance your communities multi-chain strategy!
Your favorite cross-chain podcast🎙
A massive shoutout to our two podcastooors, Arjun Chand and Mark Murdock, who hop on a weekly podcast to dive deeper into the latest developments in the ecosystem.
These podcasts take us on a dive deeper into the latest developments in the ecosystem — high-quality TL;DR.
Watch the latest of ‘’The Cross-Chain Insider’’ right here: 👇
The Cross-Chain Insider Lite 🚀
This past month we have introduced a new version of The Cross-Chain Insider to our audience — we call it the CCIL 🦎
Our gigabraains Arjun Chand & Mark Murdock touched on some interesting topics over the past month 👏
I know you want to read them all, so here ya go 😉
1) IBC and XCMP: Enabling Interoperability in the Inter-chain World
2) LI.FI's Declassified Bridge Survival Guide
Looking for a roundup of all things cross-chain anon? Look no further!
You can find the latest round-up of what’s been happening in the cross-chain ecosystem here below in the latest edition of the Cross-Chain-Insider 🔖
Deep Dives + Ecosystem Overviews
Yield generation is now a cross-chain experience thanks to Fractal Protocol. Developed by the Fractal Foundation, the dApp describes itself as an “Omni-chain fixed yield protocol.”
We dive deeper into Fractal here below 👇
Community Update (🦎,🦎)
This past month we hosted a quiz with our partner Etherspot.
It was incredible to see almost 400 community members engage and take part! ⚡️
Over 26 000 Twitter Followers 🥳
A big thank you to our Twitter and Discord communities for all the support and engagement over the last month!
LI.FI wouldn’t be the same without each and every one of you! — we look forward to welcoming more frens as the months go on 🎉
Powering Up The Community With Gateway 🚀
Our community members can now collect credentials for their on-chain & off-chain activity thanks to this partnership with Gateway.
Sign up to Gateway here: https://www.mygateway.xyz/
New Community Challenges Loading 👀
Maybe nothing, maybe alpha 👀
Coming Soon™
New Articles / Interviews — More deep dives for bridges and DEXs we’re integrating. Additionally, we’ll also be working on interesting topics related to the multi-chain ecosystem as we continue building our Knowledge Hub.
Partnerships — New integrations and partnerships are being worked on around the clock by our biz-dev maestros, we will keep you posted as they go live.
Our Discord — reached over 11k+ members. We are going crazy. Please head to Discord.gg/lifi to join the community.
Join our Discord here: discord.gg/lifi
Till next time LI.FI fam!
By Jordan Neary (Community Manager)
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