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, announced the AKT/ATOM and AKT/OSMO pools on Osmosis will be the first pools to provide additional liquidity pool rewards (AKT) for 28 days starting from 18th.
• Akash has increased the number of validators to a maximum of 75. New validators include AUDIT.One, full list.
• The proposal to reduce inflation passed. The latest inflation rate change is 100%, the maximum inflation rate is 40%, and the minimum inflation rate is 25%.
• The Solana Season Hackathon ended successfully, and all seven challengers who submitted the Akash challenge won, check out their works.
• Akash CEO Greg Osuri was on NewYorkTimes.
• Emeris will support Akash.
• Akash announced its cooperation with Simply VC, and recently interviewed them about what makes Simply VC unique and their vision for a decentralized network.
• Filebase cooperates with Akash, now enter the promo code AKASH to get 1TB free for the first month and $100 Akash credit.
• Integrating with Citadel.one, AKT holders can now enjoy non-custodial one-seed wallet, hardware wallet support, staking & multi-asset delegation, analysis dashboards, reward notifications and public address tracking functions.
• Providing $10,000 rewards to developers or teams who develop the best applications integrating Akash and Skynet Labs.

Band Protocol

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• Band Protocol, a decentralized data oracle project, a problem was discovered when the mainnet was upgrading on the 13th. Read the Post-Mortem.
• The Band oracle has been integrated into Cosmos through Starport to further realize the internet of blockchains.
• Omm Finance and Band Protocol are cooperating for the mainnet launch of the open money market.

Celo

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• Celo, a decentralized digital payment platform, announced that Wrapped ETH is now on the Celo blockchain! Celo users around the world can now trade and hold ETH, and use it to interact with the DeFi platform in the entire Celo ecosystem.
• A major update of Celo Wallet. In version 1.3.0, you can now manage as many Celo accounts as you need and switch quickly. You can mix and match imported, created, derived, and Ledger-based accounts.
• Valora becomes an independent company; a16z backs US$20 million round for Valora.
• The farming rewards of POOF/UBE and rCELO/CELO on Ubeswap are live.
• TrueFeedBack will develop their project on the Celo.
• Batch 4 of Celo Camp begins, and the application deadline is August 24.
• PayU purchased CELO tokens to initiate stable currency payments and launched cUSD payments to 450,000 merchants in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia.
• The Celo Foundation participated in EthCC; DeFi with Celo and Etherum.
• D'CENT Wallet is integrated with Celo.
• Celo is returning to the DeFi Alliance Ecosystem Partnership Program to enable Celo-specific programming for their accelerator program.
• Celo Education is now available in Japanese! Learn how to build Celo in Japan!

Cosmos Hub

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• The Cosmos ecosystem, which aims to build a million block chain, had the governance proposal implementing the Gravity DEX protocol passed!
• Tendermint announced Emeris, a cross-chain portal for all cryptocurrency applications. Emeris Beta will be the first end user interface to integrate the Gravity DEX protocol. Want to try DEX before Emeris launches? Try the CLI! IBC Gang is coming to Emeris.
• Proposal 52 [ATOM x Osmosis] failed! Sikka requests that 100,000 ATOM be allocated from the Cosmos Hub community pool to be used as an incentive for ATOM liquidity mining on Osmosis DEX.
• Hermes v0.6.0 has been released! Hermes tailored to launch Gravity DEX on Cosmos Hub!
• Juno Network’s HackJuno will start on August 1st.
• The Starname IBC mainnet is live; the proposal of Secret Network to connect to IBC on September 1 passed; Sifchain has recently concentrated on integrating IBC and hopes to increase support for all cosmos IBC assets.
• The deadline for the Cosmos Video Contest has been postponed to August 31!
• Cosmos will usher in a green future! Read about the Interchain Foundation and its mission to the sustainable development of Cosmos!
• OmniFlix Network launched their first public testnet, with 697 active validators out of 897!
• The world's first private voting application on the public blockchain is now on the Secret mainnet! SEFI governance is now online!
• BitSong mainnet-Ethereum bridge-CASSINI's stimulus testnet is here!
• Watch the keynote of the Gravity DEX protocol with Peng Zhou; learn more about the Starport, IBC, and Gravity DEX protocol in the latest episode of the Code with Us workshop.
• B-Harvest introduces how to bring DeFi into Cosmos and the roles of Gravity DEX, Emeris and Gravity Bridge.
• Congratulations to the HackATOM HCMC winners!
• Osmosis has been online for more than a month: 85 million total lock value, 3.7 million daily traffic, ATOM-OSMO is the pair with the most liquidity; Forbole wrote a detailed Chinese guide on how to use Osmosis.

Desmos

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• Desmos, a decentralized social network platform project, The second on-chain upgrade of Morpheus "Apollo" went smoothly. Desmos automatic upgrade to v0.17.4 has been successfully completed.

Flow

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• Flow, a decentralized game applications blockchain platform project, officially available on Alchemy.
• VIV3.com now supports the use of third-party wallets with FCL; VIV3com now supports NFT for MotoGP Ignition cards and packs! (Listing/ Buying in Flow only)
• NBA Topshot announced that it will send eight collectors of the Phoenix Suns to the first NBA TOP SHOT SUITE in Game 5 of the NBA Finals and the once-in-a-lifetime experience Rally The Valley.
• The Chicago Bulls Legacy Series, celebrating their run from 1991 to 1998, was launched on July 26 and sold out within three minutes.
• Sacramento Kings chose to use Flow to launch their smart ticket NFT experience pass!
• NBA G League launches G League Ignite NFT!
• The Common Box for the nWayPlay 2020 Tokyo Olympics sold out in limitedtime.
• The Chainmonsters team has reached a huge milestone! For the first time in history, it runs on the mainnet!
• GigLabs' CNN Vault is released for the second time! It's the 2016 and 2020 presidential election calls from CNN.
• Blockparty (2.0) comes to Flow and will provide you with a premium NFT marketplace.
• The new episode Inside Flow introduces Cadence, a language made for digital assets.
• Decentology is hosting the Flow Developer Bootcamp, a three-week free training camp!
• FLOW is listed on Binance.

Iris

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• IRIS Network, which aims to build Interchain Service Hub for next-gen Decentralized Apps, announced cooperation with Persistence in multiple areas. The two teams are working on network security, NFT, DeFi integration, cross-regional community development, and promoting the development of the Cosmos ecosystem.
• Proposal 6 "Community Pool Expenditure-Video Content Creation and Promotion"  passed.
• Chjango and Jeffrey Hu discussed the IRIS network's corporate plan, NFT module, and work with China's blockchain-based service network BSN at Interchain.FM.
• WeTeam's incentive token WDT launched on the Iris network. WeTeam is also the first project to launch a token on the IRISnet chain.
• You can now create GIF-based NFTs on Uptick.
• Emeris will support the Iris network.

Kava

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• Kava, a decentralized financial platform project, had their proposals 49 to 58 passed. Check out the results. Proposal 54 is passed. Now you can go to app.kava.io to open your CDP on Kava, load BUSD, and mint USDX with zero interest.
• The Kava Swap testnet was successfully launched on the 28th.
• Centre, the consortium supporting the USDC stablecoin and founded by Circle and Coinbase, announced that they will issue USDC on Kava.
• The token KAVA is listed on SimpleSwap.

LikeCoin

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• LikeCoin, a decentralized publishing infrastructure project, announced the upgrade overview and schedule of LikeCoin Chain Fotan upgrade! Prepare for decentralized publishing. FoTan will launch Cosmos Stargate, new features ISCN and more through IBC! The testnet has been successfully upgraded, one step closer to the mainnet upgrade!
• Product update: You can now register a Liker ID using Keplr wallet. The function of Liker ID is similar to Starname in the LikeCoin ecosystem. Use your Liker ID to easily receive, send and transfer LIKEs between friends.

Solana

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• The Solana Foundation has joined forces with Metaplex and Audius Project to launch a creator fund, which aims to bring the next wave of musicians, artists, and others into the crypto space!
• The stake pool is coming to Solana! A liquidity staking solution that promotes anti-censorship, decentralization, and DeFi growth.
• The proposal “Bring UST to Solana]”proposed by Mercurial Fi passed; Check out how to use Wormhole to transfer UST (or any ETH assets) to Solana guide.
• Phantom is available for Brave, Chrome, Microsoft Edge and now Firefox; Phantom has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by A16z; no invitation code is required to enter the Phantom Wallet beta.
• The Solana Foundation announced that other stakeholders in the community are now working on their own delegation plans and planning to delegate SOL to different validators wisely.
• Solana now has SDKs for the following languages: C#, JS, TS, Java, Python, Swift, Anchor, Dart Flutter, Unity, and Go (in progress).
• Marinade.finance launched a liquidity staking program for Solana.
• FTX and IEX, cryptocurrency exchanges, will join the Pyth network to provide institutional-level market data and power the DeFi world!
• Sabre, a stablecoin exchange on Solana, raised $7.7 million from Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital and others.
• The Lollapalooza NFT market has come to Solana with upcoming works by artists such as Steve Aoki, Modest Mouse and Band of Horses.
• Solana Season demo day.
• Neon Labs brings EVM support to Solana, which will be deployed on the mainnet beta in the third quarter. The Solana Foundation will continue to enable Solana-specific programming for the next batch of DeFi Alliance accelerator programs.

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