Important updates from the core team 🦎
Welcome back to our monthly LI.FI Update, the thirteenth edition! 👋
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:️
1) LI.FI x Alpaca Finance
3. LI.FI 🤝 BlockWallet
9. LI.FI 🤝 Diamond Protocol
LI.FI sponsors ETH India Hackathon 🇮🇳
We’re proud to have sponsored our first hackathon and give back to the community!
Cross-chain infra is a prerequisite for every modern-day dApp — it was great seeing all the buildoors & hackathonoors build ETHIndia ’22 & take part in our first sponsored hackathon
ChainPe are our 1st Hackathon winners 🎉
Congratulations to the ChainPe team for winning our first Hackathon!
ChainPe is a non-custodial wallet that lets you pay to any UPI ID via your cryptocurrency balance.
Now you can buy a chai via crypto ! 🇮🇳
Made by: @msqu4ree @adityag73681230 @Ak_Phy01
Attendees were able to head to our booth and get merch + earn some rewards by taking part in LI.FI Buzzwire Game ⚡️
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! 🤝
Besides the tons of integrations mentioned above, the devs have also been busy with:
1 Testing new routing on staging
2 Bug fixes shipped to production
3 We reenabled destination calls for most chains
4 Overall optimisation
Marketing Mania! 🎉
Visualizing flows in crypto CryptoStats
We hosted a space with the CryptoStats, who provide frameworks for assessing the trustlessness of bridges 🔎
Weren’t able to be there live? Check it out here 👇
LI.FI x Etherspot Hackathon Spaces 🎙
We were joined by our partners, Etherspot, to discuss what opportunities present themselves at Hackathons.
This space was HQ & Insightful ⚡️
Our research lead here at LI.FI, Arjun Chand, was interviewed by ViewsDAO team over the past month.
Arjun, spoke about the future of bridges in DeFi — v bullish 🦎
Shout out to ViewsDAO Community! Was great being with you all 🤝
Empowering Devs in Web3 with Revise 🔧
We discuss how to empower the Web3 dev community and all things ETH India 22'.
It was great to have Akshay from the team join Revise for this! We can’t wait for the next one 👏
Weekly CCI Spaces 🎙
The Cross-Chain Insider has made its way to our Twitter spaces & it’s here to stay! 🎉
These are meant to provide a weekly overview of the bridging ecosystem. This past month we were joined by the CEO of LayerZero labs, Bryan Pellegrino, who provided us with took us on a deep dive into OmniChain Fungible Tokens (OFTs)
Missed it? No, you didn’t, tune in here 😉
We’ve partnered with OpenOcean with their world cup campaign ⚽️
LI.FI X RociFi GALXE campaign 🌌
We launched a GALXE Campaign with RociFi this past month — it was great to see thousands take part and claim their OAT! 🚀
https://galxe.com/LIFI/campaign/GC39BUwghg
Discord Stage with Jwallet 🚀
We explored the cross-chain ecosystem with our friends at Jwallet.
It was great to see close to a thousand community members listen in.
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 below 📖
The Cross-Chain Insider Lite:
Deep Dives + Ecosystem Overviews
With Bridges, Trust is a Spectrum: A Quantified Framework
The framework is being used to classify bridges on CryptoFlows.com, “a visualization tool offering the complete map of the ecosystem: charting the relationships between all major chains, and the bridges that connect them together.”
Give it a read — it’s worth every second 💡
https://blog.li.fi/with-bridges-trust-is-a-spectrum-a-quantified-framework-57d2dd622cfd
Celer IM — A Deep Dive 💡
This article will explore the design, security, and trust assumptions of Celer IM, an arbitrary messaging bridge (AMB) enabling users and developers to transfer both simple messages and complex data across chains.
Definitely worth a read 😉
https://blog.li.fi/celer-im-a-deep-dive-d1aefe6052af
Community Update (🦎,🦎)
AMB Gateway Credential 🔥
AMB Credential
We launched our latest credential on Gateway — The AMB credential.
To claim this credential, users need to: i) Have a comprehensive overview and understanding of LI.FI’s Navigating AMB’s article ii) Complete the quiz iii) Enter the correct verification code (found in our Discord 😉)
Haven’t completed it yet anon? Head to this link: https://bit.ly/3he505S
Twitter 40K+ Followers/Discord 35K+ 🎉
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 🎉
LI.FI Merch 👕
We were also able to launch official LI.FI merch at ETH India! 🇮🇳
Community members who visited our booth were able to pick up their merch & start rocking the Ser Bridgealot shirt 😎
New hires 🤝
We are pleased to have welcomed some new team members this past month! 👋
Edan Laniado is joining us as Head of TradFi Sales. He was previously Sales Director at Fireblocks and will be pushing forward our go-to-market for TradFi while also supporting the DeFi sales side.
Mateusz is coming in as an experienced Senior Designer. He has extensive experience with complex UX/UI Design, also in the blockchain space and other issues such as healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, SaaS (here you can see some of his latest work). In recent professional years, he mostly focused on projects from the world of web 3.0, blockchain, crypto, metaverse.
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 35K+ 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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