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 more than 100 active deployments on the decentralized cloud!
Akashcraft, Minecraft's first scavenger hunt ever for a cryptocurrency, reopened on the 19th after a round of stress testing.
NBA Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta becomes an investor and validator of Akash.
The native token AKT is listed on BHEX Official. It was also listed on the first decentralized exchange Osmosis on the 19t. Learn how to access AKT to provide liquidity on Osmosis. Osmosis has also been hosted on the Akash decentralized cloud!
Akash Network and Skynet Labs cooperate to provide a full stack option for developers to host their applications!
Website update.
For AKT holders, Forbole has prepared a simple tutorial to guide you on how to use Ledger to manage your $AKT on Big Dipper!
Launched Faces of Crypto at the BTC Miami 2021 conference, the first initiative to celebrate and capture people’s unique stories in the cryptocurrency world, and showcase blockchain as an equalizer.
Revisit Akash CEO Greg Osuri, Deep Network's Eric Ma, and Nuri's Mona at the Defi Summit Conference discussing whether decentralized cloud can replace Amazon and CTO Adam Bozanich's demonstration of deploying applications on Akash; A guide teaching you how to deploy Solana node on Akash.

Band Protocol

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Band Protocol, a decentralized data oracle project, Rebranded. Now it repositions as scalable Oracle technology for enterprises and DeFi.
The BandChain mainnet is about to upgrade to the second phase Laozi . The team has submitted a proposal and is now in the voting period! If the proposal is passed, BandChain will be upgraded on July 13.
To celebrate the first anniversary of the BandChain mainnet, the team deeply studied one of the major improvements of the upcoming second phase of the mainnet-how to earn as a Premium Data Provider; before upgrading to the second phase of BandChain, the team publish a series use-cases for DeFi.
Balance Network and Band announced the establishment of a strategic partnership and launch review; Coin98 wallet expanded Band Protocol Oracles integration to create a more transparent and better experience for users; Mirror Protocol V2 launched on mainnet, expanding Band Protocol Oracle integration.

Celo

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Cosmos Hub

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The Cosmos ecosystem, which aims to build a million block chain, announced Roadmap 2.0. New functions such as bringing DeFi into Cosmos' cross-chain protocol, inter-chain pledge to protect new chains, NFTs, cross-chain accounts… etc. will be launched.
Osmosis, the first DEX to enable IBC based on the Cosmos blockchain launched.
Cosmos Hub latest data: more than 100,000 ATOM delegators, 330,000 ATOM accounts.
Cosmos SDK is the most popular blockchain framework in the world, and its ecosystem is worth more than 75B USD. See more about the pros of using Starport to build a blockchain!
The team launched Gaia, Cosmos Hub v 5.0.0, this version includes the Gravity DEX protocol; Informal Systems released Hermes v0.4.0: Use multiple repeaters to improve performance and more!
Proposal 48 “Increase the inflation rate change variable” passed.
The Cosmos Video Contest has started! Use your creativity and talents to produce high-quality educational videos. Theme: Cosmos Hub & ATOM, the core of Interchain, prize pool: 5000 $ATOM.
HackATOM HCMC has opened, and the event will end on July 2nd.
Check out Interchain Foundation's first quarter Cosmos funding.
Tgrade shared their draft constitution; Juno has launched a testnet; read about Althea, the team behind Gravity Bridge.
The first episode of the privacy-focused series "Privacy in Cosmos" will be held on June 30th, coordinated by Zero Knowledge Validator and sponsored by ATOM holders!
CoinGecko has updated the ATOM supply; Mintscan now provides consolidated transaction records for the Cosmos Hub.
Uptick Network announced new institutional investors: including Tendermint and Iris Network.
The Starname IBC mainnet launched and successfully caught up with the Gravity DeX protocol release; Regen Network inter-chain transmission has been activated! ; Persistence has enabled IBC transmission!
Sentinel introduced Ambassador program; Secret Network announced the Secret Terra Bridge; introduction to BitCanna; Starname is about to launch a short Starname name service; Persistence introduced pStakeFinance: unlocking liquidity of staked assets.

Desmos

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Desmos, a decentralized social network platform project, had their first Morpheus "Apollo" chain upgrade, and the first community update was carried out on the 22nd, revisiting the livestream and review of the day.
Desmos technical leader Riccardo Montagnin showed at HackATOM HCMC how to interact with other blockchains in Cosmos with IBC and relayer.

Flow

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Flow, a decentralized game applications blockchain platform project, has their first stablecoin FUSD launched! Some of the benefits brings to the Flow ecosystem including: 1:1 USD support for global audiences, convenient credit card payment options, and simple Dapp integration.
Flow collaborates with AppWorks Accelerator #23. This cooperation will focus on supporting the founders and teams of the Greater Southeast Asia region who are using blockchain technology to build an open world on Flow.
Dieter Shirley, Flow Blockchain Architect, explained why they developed their own smart contract language Cadence?
Fantastec SWAP will land on Flow this summer. Fantastec has been producing NFTs for teams including Real Madrid C.F., Borussia Dortmund, and Arsenal.
The latest NFTs on Versus in June include: "Jaime el hortaliza" released by artist zigor; "The Conductor" by skansrisuwan. His works have appeared on the covers of companies such as Marvel and DC.
Welcome to nWayPlay to join Flow! They will commemorate the 125 years of Olympic Games heritage through the 3D NFT collection badge and plan to launch a multiplayer game before the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Introducing the Flow Client Library (FCL), just as you need a browser to access content on the Internet, you need an encrypted wallet to access, store, transfer, and interact with assets on the blockchain.
You can now display your MotoGP Ignition collection on Blocto.
After Venrock and CoinFund led the US$14 million in Series A financing, Rarible announced a partnership with Flow.
Mynft joined Flow to provide localized experiences for Chinese and Asian communities.

Iris

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IRIS Network, which aims to build Interchain Service Hub for next-gen Decentralized Apps, announced that Coinswap and StaFi would cooperate to bring rATOM into the Cosmos ecosystem and unlock: rToken exchange on Coinswap, mutual incentive plan on Coinswap, "double" rewards and improve the security of IRIS Hub and Cosmos Hub.
Uptick Network, an NFT business platform focusing on the global creative economy, is pleased to announce the completion of the first round (seed and strategic) of fundraising. Institutional investors participating in this round include: Dragon Roark Venture, SNZ, Tendermint Venture, IRIS Foundation, PreAngel Fund.
New function of Rainbow Wallet: Enable IBC transfer between Cosmos Hub and Iris Network.
Proposal #5 to reduce the token issuance fee on the IRIS chain passed.
The Bianjie team won the first prize in the 2021 Yangtze River Delta City Group Blockchain Innovation Contest with IRITA blockchain.
Transcription of IRISnet Research Director Jeffrey Hu in the Cosmos sub-Reddit AMA.

Kava

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Kava, a decentralized financial platform project, completed Coinbase Rosetta API integration to simplify interoperability and improve developer efficiency.
Tidal Finance partners with Kava to provide decentralized insurance for digital assets.
KAVA's HARD decentralized money market yields for KAVA now live.
KAVA's token issuance module code is SAFE! Proved by CertiK audit.
Simplex cooperates with Kava. In the future, the public can use credit or debit cards to purchase KAVA and access all assets on the Kava chain.
USDC will be issued on the Kava DeFi platform.
Prop 47 “Removes KAVA rewards for USDX minters and redirects those rewards to Hard protocol” and Prop 48 “Complete SAFU fund funding by reducing community pool and inflation” passed.

LikeCoin

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LikeCoin, a decentralized publishing infrastructure project, will upgrade their mainnet Sheungwan to Fotan soon. Validators can read the testnet setup guide & upgrade procedure from sheungwan to fotan (alpha v0.1.0).
LIKE holders can now choose to use different wallets (including Keplr wallet) to manage LIKE through stake.like.co!
Proposal 12 Delegate the like in the ecological pool passed. The first round of validator community funding application is completed. 17 validators confirmed that they can receive 22.5 million LIKE from the community pool. The second round of applications has started, and the deadline is July 15 1200 UTC+8. Details please refer to Discord.
Like Grants program has started, and there are already two granted proposals!
The 10th round of GitCoin Grant has been completed!
Version 0.21.0 of the Liker Land app is released! This version includes brand new and various bug fixes; the LikeCoin resource page and FAQ page are updated.
Phoebe, LikeCoin Partners talked about LikeCoin at the DeFi Summit Conference, watch it!
LIKE token is listed on ZB.

Solana

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Solana Labs Inc. said it raised 314 million US dollars in new fundings to develop technologies in the fast-growing field of the cryptocurrency market known as decentralized finance or DeFi.
Solana Season Hackathon has ended! More than 13,000 developers, designers, marketers and operators submitted a series of impressive projects to the judges. List of winners.
The Solana Foundation announced the establishment of the Squid Award, the first on-going community award! The Squid Award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Solana community.
Solana blockchain joins Atomic! SOL can be used to store and exchange in desktop applications.
Saber Labs announced that the first low slippage AMM StableSwap for trading linked assets has officially launched on the Solana mainnet!
HAPI builds a new Solana IDO platform-BocaChica on Solana.
Metaplex Protocol, a new approach to NFT and NFT storefronts is launched on Solana!
The Solend team announced the launch of Solend, Solana's autonomous interest rate machine. It is an algorithmic, decentralized protocol for borrowing and lending on Solana.
The Moet Finance team announced the launch of Moet Finance: the first decentralized permanent and option agreement based on Solana and ProjectSerum, with a hybrid virtual AMM and order book.
DODO is coming to Solana!
RenVM integrates with Solana to achieve interoperability and build a direct bridge for BTC and others in Solana.
Circle has partnered with Maps.me to make Solana's USDC available to 140 million users.
The US Space Force issued the first ever official US Space Force NFT on Start Atlas to commemorate the Neil Armstrong satellite successfully launched by SpaceX on June 17.
CryptoKickers introduces the season 1 of Sole Selector-create, customize and mint your own NFT sneakers directly on Solana.
Figment launches Solana Pathways, gain knowledge, complete tutorials and earn SOL.
Sol is live on Serum swap! Easily integrate Serum Swap and exchange directly on the deep liquidity of Serum DEX.
Digital Assets AG has launched free-floating tokenized stocks, including Apple, Google, Netflix, Tesla and more than 50 other stocks, providing near-instant settlement time and 24/7 trading hours.

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