This is Big Dipper's monthly review series. We will take a look at our partner projects' progress in the month and what we have contributed.

Akash

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The Akash Network, a decentralized cloud platform project, has successfully enabled IBC Transfer on Akash! Through IBC, Akash initiates ATOM <> AKT transactions and multi-currency settlement through Cosmos Hub.
Launched Akashcraft, scavenger hunt ever for a cryptocurrency in a Minecraft server. Look for the hidden $AKT, and explore the possibility of running the game on Akash.
The Cosmos ecosystem Offline Meeting hosted by Akash and Iris was held successfully.
The Unstoppable Update Q1 2021; Partners with the world's largest staking service provider HashQuark; Cooperation with CertiK. The CertiK node is now on Akash.
CGO Maly Ly and Senior Marketing Manager Michael Gushansky shared the results of building DeCloud in one year and the development of Akash's global marketing in the sQ2 of 2021 in Wen Marketing? livestream.
Listen to Chjango and Akash CEO Greg Osuri discussing the future of decentralized networks at interchain.fm.
Cosmic Validator joins Akash as a validator.
Forbole wrote a tutorial on how to Use Ledger to stake AKT on Big Dipper.
Forbole has deployed two applications on Akash: Big Dipper Akash mainnet 1 and Desmos account.

Band Protocol

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Band Protocol, a decentralized data oracle project, integrates with Google Cloud public data and can analyze financial time series data immediately and accurately. With Band Protocol, Oracle data can be stored in real-time on Google Cloud public data; traditional hybrid blockchain and cloud applications can be built, using the unique data feed of decentralized oracle services.
ICONFiWorld announced its support for ICX and BAND pledge and the integration of a wide range of price oracle provided by Band Protocol.
OneGraviton has co-organized cross-chain events and price predictions with BAND. Band Protocol also acts as a Graviton multi-signer to release inter-chain liquidity with other leading DeFi projects such as 1INCH, Waves, and Binance Smart Chain.
Injective Protocol announced the operation of BandChain validator nodes to support the decentralized oracle network, thereby expanding its strategic partnership with Band Protocol. In return, Band Protocol has set up an Injective node and started to participate in the Equinox staking, Injective testnet incentive staking competition.
After Coinbase's IPO is completed, Band Protocol supports COIN to synthesize assets on Mirror Protocol. The total value secured by Band Protocol now exceeds $2.1 billion.
Band Protocol integrates with NEAR Protocol to support its emerging DeFi ecosystem with secure, decentralized oracles. BAND is one of the first projects to integrate using the native WebAssembly runtime on NEAR.
CTO Sorawit Suriyakarn and Head of Technical Integration Sawit Trisirisatayawong joined Delphi Digital and IDEO CoLab as a mentor and Oracle partner of DeFi Connected, one of the largest online Hackathon and incubation programs.
Yieldwatch integrates BAND oracle to provide a summary of more than 15 legal currency prices to enhance user experience, reliability and product range.
The native token BAND is listed on BitMart.

Celo

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Celo, a decentralized digital payment platform, Celo cEUR (Celo Euro) launched on Earth Day on April 22.
Make It Mobile Hackathon ended successfully, more than 610 participants from 75 countries submitted more than 60 proposals. Summary.
The Kuneco Celo community meeting was successfully held from the 21st to the 22nd.
Introduced Optics: A Gas-efficient Interoperability Standard for Cross-chain Communication. Celo <> Ethereum bridges will be built soon.
The Graph hosting service now supports Celo, and the Celo Foundation has provided 150,000 grants to the creator of subgraph.
Collaboration with wrapped.com to bring Bitcoin (cBTC) and Ethereum (cETH).
In cooperation with Celo, Devfolio will support more than 100 community Hackathons, host Celo Indian Hackathons, and launch Celo India Fellowship in the future.
PoolTogether is coming to Celo; DeFi Alliance and Celo are integrating to promote Celo's DeFi ecosystem.
Deutsche Telekom AG invested in Celo.
2021 Celo Grants Recipients; Celo community funding accepts registration. The proposal needs to address four major categories: on/off ramps, community tools, research, and education.
Celo Foundation Annual Report 2020; former Citigroup chairman Dick Parsons joins the Celo Foundation.
Three new Celo tutorials are on Figment Learn.
Uberswap launched Ubeswap Analytics to provide Celo users with valuable insights. Users can browse all tokens that can be used for transactions on the network and view historical price information.

Cosmos Hub

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The Cosmos ecosystem, which aims to build a million block chain, introduces Gravity DEX testnet competition with a prize pool of up to $200,000. Gravity DEX is built in IBC, which can realize inter-chain transactions, while using its equivalent swap price model to effectively integrate the liquidity pools of dozens of agreements.
IRIS network and Akash network have enabled IBC transfer. Check the schedule of supporting IBC transfer for different projects. The era of IBC is coming!
HackAtom RU 2021 has ended successfully. Congratulations to the winners of HackAtom RU 2021.
Cosmos and Kryptoseoul will host Southeast Asia's first face-to-face HackAtom in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on June 4-6!
Gravity Bridge-the decentralized bridge connecting Etherum and Cosmos’s testnet is coming soon.
The Secret Plasm bridge that connects Polkadot to Cosmos has been deployed on the testnet, a big step towards live.
Tendermint announced the Cosmos flagship NFT blockchain: Pylons, which will be the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to launch large-scale NFT products.
Proposal 42 holds privacy events, Proposal 44 promotes Ethermint: GTM and engineering plans, Proposal 45 Gravity Dex prize pool funding. The above three governance proposals passed; Proposal 46: The continuation of Proposal 34, extending the time for allocation of funds to other $ATOM-focused priorities is now in voting period.
Tendermint announced a new round of ATOM delegation, Forbole successfully obtained the highest level (600,000 ATOM) delegation.
CosmWasm v 1.0 path and tentative roadmap.
The Cosmos Rust team released the Cosmos SDK for the Rust programming language (cosmos-sdk-rs).
Cosmos SDK v0.39.3 released.
The XPRT Stake Drop program by Persistence for Cosmos StakeDrop participants has launched. Remember to collect your XPRT.
Tendermint acquired B__Harvest, a team focused on building Gravity DEX.
Congratulations to all the winners of the ATOM Meme contest.

Desmos

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Desmos, a decentralized social network platform project, the last testnet before the mainnet, Morpheus Apollo, has been launched. This testnet may be the largest non-incentivized testnet with the most active validators; click here to see why Morpheus Apollo is a non-incentivized testnet.
The brand new Big Dipper for Desmos is up.
The first Desmos AMA will be held on May 6, click here to join.
Desmos sponsors the Gravity DEX testnet competition.
Check out the updated scoreboard in April 2021. Almost 1 million DSM has been allocated!

Flow

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Flow, a decentralized game applications blockchain platform project, announced the next NFT market plan after NBA Top Shot: GENIES.
Dapper Labs CEO Roham discusses NFT in the Business Casual podcast.
Dark Country NFT TCG is coming to Flow. Their innovative NFT trading card game combined with Dark Country Land will enable users to play, collaborate and fight in multiple worlds.
Versus joins Flow. It is a unique encrypted art auction system, completely on-chain and non-custodial.
Basic.Space and NaomiOsaka have partnered with Dapper Labs to reduce the carbon footprint of the NFT on the platform through the establishment of Flow.
doublejump.tokyo Inc. joins the Flow ecosystem.
Rox NFT Beta version is released on nft.rox.gg! Take the lead in using the largest real-time streaming media NFT platform-Rox.

Iris

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IRIS Network, which aims to build Interchain Service Hub for next-gen Decentralized Apps, successfully upgraded to Mainnet 1.1 in about 40 minutes! Mainnet 1.1 can better support Coinswap and other applications. IBC transfer was enabled the next day. IRIS Hub has completed the first cross-mainnet token transfer with Cosmos Hub through IBC.
Proposal 3: Increase the maximum number of validators in IRIS Hub to 108 failed. Proposal 4: Governance Efficiency passed.
Announced the IRIS Foundation new ecosystem development program. The new 1-year's plans include: Application Ecosystem Support Plan, Eco-Development Funds Community Management Plan, the Validator Reward Program and Technology and Community Grants Programs.
The IRISnet-Bianjie validator team has received a new round of ATOM delegation from Tendermint. The team said it was a great honor and gratitude to receive Tendermint's recognition and support.
Coinswap Web App launched and is ready for trial! The current version provides functions such as token exchange, adding/removing liquidity and yield farming; read the Coinswap Web App Guide and FAQ.
A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in Tendermint Core, which affects the Tendermint Lite client. irishub v1.1.1 was released and please upgrade as soon as possible.
Bifrost testnet NFT badge and reward distribution plan.
Uptick launched a user incentive plan.

Kava

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Kava, a decentralized financial platform project, upgraded to Kava 5 successfully; HARD Money Market Madness Competition Round 2 is completed. Check the list of winners.
Launched Kava SAFU Fund - Security of Assets Fund for Users.
Proposal 42 to increase the minimum pledge inflation parameter passed; Proposal 43 to reduce the HARD reward for KAVA principals passed; Proposal 44 to increase the KAVA reward for Hard Protocol USDX providers passed.
You can now deposit and transfer KAVA on the Crypto.com app.
Binance uses the KAVA API to directly integrate the Hard Protocol currency market.

LikeCoin

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LikeCoin, a decentralized publishing infrastructure project, welcomes ISCN, an immutable content registry.
Proposal 11 passed, and the number of valid validators is now increased to a maximum of 50.
LikeCoin progress update; integration with Keplr wallet is about to complete!
The "The Sociology of Blockchain" course S2 organized by LikeCoin founder Kin Ko has now started; "The Sociology of Blockchain" can now be borrowed from the Hong Kong Public Library.

Solana

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Solana is hosting the Solana Season Hackathon, and more than 3,000 developers from all over the world have registered! This time they added regional prizes. To win up to $1 million in prizes or seed funding, please remember to register on or before May 15th.
Solana Lisbon, will be held from November 5th to 10th, and the performance is about to begin.
Nerve Finance joins Solana; view other new projects built on Solana: Part 1 and Part 2.
Want to know what projects are on Solana? Click here to view.
The use of stablecoins on Solana has exploded. At present, the circulating volume of USDC-SPL exceeds 320 million U.S. dollars, and the circulating volume of USDT-SPL exceeds 190 million U.S. dollars.
The foundation sponsors Josh Triplett and his work on the Rust language. The Rust language is a widely adopted modern language suitable for writing high-performance, safe code.
The first Solana Community Town Hall event, listen to Solana core team members, several invited speakers and Solana community members, share updates and demonstrate.
Two articles to help you construct in Solana: " An Introduction Programming on Solana " and “Anchor is a framework for Solana's Sealevel".
Bi-weekly Solana Ecosystem News .
The withdrawal and deposit function of the native token SOL on crypto.com.
Media Foundation became Raydium's first AcceleRaytor project, which was launched on April 29th! Media Network is a privacy-first CDN that allows decentralized P2P content delivery.
Phantom was funded for its outstanding development of the Solana / Serum ecosystem. It is believed it will be the main wallet of the ecosystem.
The Solana podcast S3 has already started, listen to it on Spotify.

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