Important updates from the core team 🦎
Welcome back to our monthly community update, the eleventh edition! 👋
This past month here at LI.FI has been an absolute cracker — we’ve upgraded our UI on transferto.xyz to bring huge UX improvements to our users while also launching support for new bridges, wallets, and DEXs.
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❓
New Integrations & Partnerships ⚙️
We’re glad to have partnered with the following projects over the past month:️
5. LI.FI 🤝 Pocket Partner
LI.FI team at Conferences ✈️
Over this past month, the LI.FI team has been attending multiple conferences around the world ✈️
It has been great meeting with our partners & community members — hope to bump into all of you bridgoors at some conferences in the future 👋
Our founder, Philipp Zentner, hosted a panel at Converge 22 speaking on how LI.FI is paving the way for the developers building cross-chain dApps 💡
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! 🤝
New and improved UI & UX ⚡️
One of the most requested improvements from our users was to improve our transferto.xyz UI, and boy did our devs deliver! Not only did we improve the UI, but we improved the back-end too so that we can provide you with the ultimate xchain UX 😌
One-Click Cross-Chain Staking into Polynomial’s Vaults
Turning cross-chain dreams into reality — with LI.FI’s xChain Contract-Calls, it’s now possible to bridge+swap+deposit into a staking contract in one transaction. Here’s an example of one-click cross-chain staking into Polynomial’s vaults, powered by LI.FI 👇
Introducing our Discord Partner bot 🤖
Our Discord Partner bot has officially launched 🎉
Now, projects integrating LI.FI can offer their users an easy way of checking their transaction status from the comfort of their own discord. Already integrated LI.FI and want to deploy the bot on your discord? Check out the instructions here (https://lifi.notion.site/Partner-server-bot-instructions-df6a3e4064e944a2948f18603d87bd52).
If the instructions look intimidating, feel free to jump into our discord and ping our support team for a live demo.
Marketing Mania! 🎉
We hosted OMNI on our Let’s Talk Cross-Chain Spaces and spoke about building in the cross-chain space, rebranding from Steakwallet to OMNI, superior UX & much more 🎙
This past month we have started our Arbitrary Messaging Bridges series, and have so far had Hyperlane, LayerZero & Axelar on our spaces to dive deep into what they bring to the AMB space ⚡️
LI.FI x Hyperlane AMB space ⚡️
LI.FI x LayerZero AMB space ⚡️
LI.FI x Moonbeam Workshop 👷♂️👷♀️
Our full-stack developer, Adrian Weniger, presented a workshop on how to integrate & build on top of LI.FI’s tech stack and SDK at the Moonbuilders Workshop.
It was well received with over 2000 listeners and we are excited for more buildooors to be building on top of LI.FI’s SDK 🔨
Future-proof with Philipp Zentner 🤝
Rubic x LI.FI NFT Birthday Giveaway 🎈
The Cross-Chain Insider 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 🚀
Our researchoors and xchain enthusiasts Arjun Chand & Mark Murdock have kept us up top date with all the latest news in the xchain/multichain eco over this past month 👏
You can read all editions of the CCI from the past month here: The Cross-Chain Insider 📖
Deep Dives + Ecosystem Overviews
Navigating Arbitrary Messaging Bridges 📖
Bridges are evolving; AMBs are expanding the scope of cross-chain communication, so we at LI.FI decided to bring you the ultimate AMB Comparison Framework — It’s your go-to resource for everything AMB.
A big shout out to our in-house chads Arjun Chand & Mark Murdock for putting this together — the cross-chain community salutes you two🫡
You can read ‘Navigating Arbitrary Messaging Bridges’ here
Hyperlane Deep Dive ⚡️
This article will explore the design, security, and trust assumptions of Hyperlane, an Arbitrary Messaging Bridge (AMB), that provides cross-chain developer tooling with a focus on security.
Check it out! 👇
Community Update (🦎,🦎)
30K Twitter Followers 🎉
In just over one year, we have crossed over 30 000+ Twitter followers — a massive shout-out to the team that continues to ship at LI.FI, and a massive shout out to all you lizards who have been a part of this journey.
A special shout out to you lizards who have been here since the very beginning! 🦎
Lizoord NFT challenge 🎨
We are currently running a challenge where community members get the chance to enter the Lizard DAO by creating the next Lizard DAO NFT Design 🦎
There’s still time for you to enter — what are you waiting for anon 😉
LI.FI 101 ☄️
Our first credential on Gateway, LI.FI 101, is now live — we are thrilled to announce that we have had over 20 000+ community members claim this credential so far 🚀
You community members continue to amaze us — keep collecting these sick credentials to enhance your decentralized professional identities 😌
LI.FI team meet-up in 🇮🇳
These are some of the legends behind what we do here at LI.FI 👋
They’re taking some time out to explore 🇮🇳 while building and strategizing for what’s to come in the next few months 👀
New hires 🤝
We are pleased to have welcomed some new team members this past month! 👋
We have hired Wencke Harder, as our interim CFO. Wencke brings in experience from Morgan Stanley, her own experience as a startup founder, and multiple years as interim CFO and consultant for other startups and grown companies. We’re pleased to have you join us Wencke! 👋
We have hired Daniela, she is from Ukraine, and has decent experience in development, including back-end, front-end, and mobile. Previously she proudly had a chance to be a part of various FORTUNE 500 companies with projects in healthcare, fintech, and AI. We’re looking forward to you here as a member of the LI.FI team Daniela! 😄
TL;DR — We love you guys and hope you tell your friends about LI.FI too.
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 27K+ 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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