ZooDAO’s innovative approach towards powering NFTs with utility allows them to go beyond the traditional reward mechanisms of yield farming to introduce an exciting new element of NFT ownership: NFT Battles.

Introducing NFT Battles

NFT Battles are the flagship feature of ZooDAO, enabling users to generate a yield from their digital assets through gamification.

Battles are divided into 5 stages, detailed below. Each stage of the flowchart indicates which individuals are involved — NFT Holders, or NFT Voters. In some stages, both NFT Holders and NFT Voters have a role to play. Here’s a full round-up of each of the 5 stages.

ZOO is Coming to Moonbeam’s Pulsar

StellaSwap is excited to launch ZooDAO’s farm on Pulsar, which has proven to be the most efficient AMM in DeFi.

StellaSwap is excited to launch ZooDAO’s farm on Pulsar, which has proven to be the most efficient AMM in DeFi. ZOO is the native token of ZooDAO that offers holders a broad range of utilities and benefits.

ZOO Launch Details

Given the success of Pulsar, StellaSwap will list ZOO on the first concentrated liquidity AMM on Polkadot. This ensures maximum capital efficiency and sufficient market depth for ZOO.

Here are the details for the upcoming ZOO farm launch

• Farm Launch: ZOO— FRAX
•  AMM: Pulsar
•  Bridge: Native ZooDAO Bridge (Powered by LayerZero)
•  Farm Type: Multi-Rewards
•  Reward Token: STELLA + ZOO
  
• Launch Date: 8 March

ZooDAO will launch their bridge in a few hours, so users can bridge their ZOO tokens from Ethereum to Moonbeam once it is live!

Additional Bonus: Stake xSTELLA for ZOO Airdrop!

In order to foster next-level NFT utility on Moonbeam, Stellaswap decided to add ZooDAO into its xSTELLA partner program that allows xSTELLA holders to get ZOO tokens for free!

The launch of the ZOO pool under xSTELLA will facilitate greater traction of ZOO across our community.

Here are more details:

• Bonus: ZOO Airdrop
• Venue: ZOO Pool in xSTELLA
• Qualifications: Stake xSTELLA into ZOO pool
• Duration: 2–3 Weeks

ABOUT Stellaswap

StellaSwap is a hybrid DEX that features a standard, stable and concentrated liquidity AMM to facilitate the most optimal price discovery for assets on Moonbeam.

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ABOUT ZooDAO

ZooDAO is the first community-governed platform to enable users to generate passive income from NFTs, through gamification. ZooDAO introduces exciting new elements to NFTs and DeFi via its innovative No-loss NFT Battles.

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Beamswap is proud and excited to announce its strategic partnership with DAM Finance and GLMR Apes DAO. The Beamswap DEX was chosen by both partners’ communities to sustain the staking of the $GLMB — $d2o pair and deliver yields to token holders.

DAM Finance is a decentralized liquidity solution for seamless value transfer across blockchains. DAM’s decentralized infrastructure enables a scalable flow of assets between places. It makes the liquidity surplus flows easily and fast from liquidity-rich into liquidity-deprived platforms. It does so through its first dapp, d2o.

Together with dReservoir and dGuardian, DAM Finance delivers a secure transfer of value between blockchains, starting with Ethereum and Polkadot, and protects against potentially catastrophic events during burn and mint events.

What is $d2o?

DAM Finance’s native stablecoin, $d2o, is an omnichain token pegged to USD $1 in value. It aids emerging networks to scale native liquidity so they can reduce reliance on traditional bridging solutions.

$d2o acts as a liquidity pipe as it delivers liquidity from highly liquid places to where it’s needed more. It can be minted on Ethereum and is backed by existing stablecoins, such as USDC, at a 1:1 rate. It supports the scalable moving of value between networks and is teleportable from Ethereum to Moonbeam. Besides, it’s secured in real-time to prevent potential exploits and unbacked minting.

What is GLMR Apes DAO?

In January 2022, GLMR Apes kicked off as the first-ever sold-out NFT collection on the Moonbeam Network. Soon after, the community of pixel art GLMR Apes established a DAO, the first on the Moonbeam Network, to nurture on-chain governance through a so-called apemocracy.

GLMR Apes holders can stake to earn GLMR Bananas ($GLMB), vote with their NFTs, or play to earn in “The Great Escape,” a game that set a new milestone on Moonbeam as the first Web3 game on the network.

What is $GLMB?

$GLMB or GLMR Bananas is the native token of the GLMR Apes DAO and its ecosystem. It can only be produced through staking GLMR Apes NFTs and earned from the GLMR Jungle collection in the P2E game “The Great Escape”. This incentivizes holders to keep holding, participating in the ecosystem growth, and boosting the NFT’s value long-term.

Beamswap DEX launches $d2o — $GLMB yield farm

In late January, GLMR Apes DAO and DAM Finance joined forces to set up a $GLMB — $d2o pool with LP rewards in $GLMB. The partnership was established to benefit both sides. DAM Finance would profit from a higher utility for the $d2o stablecoin on the Moonbeam Network. On the other hand,  GLMR Apes will harness more liquidity for the $GLMB token in the native stablecoin.

About Beamswap

Beamswap is a DeFi hub built on the Moonbeam Network. It features a decentralized exchange (DEX) and an automated market maker (AMM). It gives users the freedom of adding liquidity, performing peer-to-peer transactions, swapping fungible tokens, and earning passive income from staking and yield farming.

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The end-point integrations offered by Unmarshal include APIs, Webhooks, and Websockets, to accelerate product development. Unmarshal also offers subsidiary products such as data visualization dashboards and real-time notifications, which will assist businesses, institutions, and individual investors in harnessing the power of Web3 data and making smarter market judgments.

Moonbeam combines the best of both worlds. The familiar and easy-to-use tooling of Ethereum and the scalable, interoperable architecture of Polkadot. It is a Substrate-based platform, meaning that it’s based on the interoperable Substrate blockchain.

As a flexible, customizable framework, Substrate allows for forkless upgrades, allowing developers to create blockchains best suited to their needs. The ability to fully customize Moonbeam allows for features like on-chain governance, EVM implementation, and staking.

Unmarshal’s Moonbeam integration

These are the key endpoints that are part of the integration with Moonbeam Network.

1. Smart Notifications API to give at-a-glance alerts of transactions on smart contracts across devices.
2. Wallet Balance API to query users’ asset balances.
3. Transaction History API to query all asset transfer events within the Moonbeam blockchain.
4. Decoded Transaction API provides an in-depth description of a particular transaction.
5. Token Store API searches by token contract address, this endpoint fetches exhaustive information about the token.
6. Tracking/Event Stream tracks transactions in real time without data loss.

​​Why BUIDL on Moonbeam with Unmarshal

Unmarshal’s tech integration includes a variety of features such as Smart Notifications, Private Nodes, Event Logs, Address Tracking, and much more through an array of endpoints like RPCs, Websockets, Webhooks, and so on.

ABOUT Moonbeam Network

Moonbeam is a smart contract platform for building cross-chain connected applications that can access users, assets, and services on any chain. By uniting functionality from Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot, and more into a single platform, Moonbeam solves today’s fragmented user experience — unlocking true interoperability and paving the way for the next generation of applications.

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ABOUT Unmarshal

Unmarshal is a Multi-chain Web 3.0 data network aiming to deliver granular, reliable & real-time data to dApps, DeFi protocols, NFTs, Metaverse, and GameFi solutions.

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Meson users may now swap their stablecoins (USDC, USDT, and BUSD) in and out of Moonbeam for xcUSDT. The xcUSDT is an XC-20 token issued by Tether on Statement, a Polkadot parachain. The XC-20 token is a unique asset class introduce on Moonbeam and Moonriver. It is an Ethereum-compatible parachains for building cross-chain connected applications on top of Polkadot and Kusama, respectively.

With Meson, users can now enjoy a fast, costless, and secure experience to bridge. In, and out xcUSDT to Moonbeam, and the Polkadot ecosystem at large. You may also trade your xcUSDTs for any coins on our partner, Stellaswap.

Why Stellaswap?

StellaSwap is one of the first automated market-making (AMM), decentralized exchange (DEX) for the Moonbeam parachain network. The unique value proposition of StellaSwap commits to establishing a strong foundation with its native token, STELLA.

StellaSwap’s main objective is to create a broader range of network effects. To address the issues of liquidity in the DeFi space, instead of limiting to a single solution like many DEXs are doing now. Its products are structure in such a way that facilitates decentralized governance of STELLA holders while continuing to innovate on the collective foundations by design.

Why Moonbeam?

Moonbeam is slated to be the biggest parachain on the Polkadot network. After securing over 35 million DOTs valued at approximately USD 1.4 billion in the second round of Polkadot’s parachain auction.

At its core, Moonbeam designs to tackle cross-chain interoperability challenges by making it easier to deploy decentralized applications on Polkadot. As an Ethereum-compatible smart contract parachain, developers don’t need to rewrite their entire code.

It provides Ethereum developers a chance to use their favorite Ethereum developer tools to either build new projects on Moonbeam and Polkadot or redeploy their existing Solidity projects through minimal changes.

ABOUT Meson

Meson is the faster and safer way to execute low-cost, zero-slippage stablecoin cross-chain swaps across all leading blockchains and layer-2 rollups. And now Meson is the fastest and cheapest way to move stablecoins to Moonbeam and the Polkadot ecosystem.

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Connected contracts allow smart contracts to communicate with each other across chains, opening the possibility for multichain-aware dApps. Moonbeam’s first integration for connected contracts was Axelar.

LayerZero is designed to be a lightweight interoperability protocol for cross-chain message passing. Benefits of LayerZero’s connected contract design include nonce-ordered messages and configurable trustlessness. In addition, by using LayerZero’s connected contracts solution, developers can build dApps that can tap into functionality from Polkadot, Ethereum, Avalanche, Swimmer, and beyond.

Multichain dApps are currently unified interfaces for protocols duplicated across multiple EVMs. Protocols will be able to connect their contracts cross-chain using LayerZero’s message passing to become multichain-aware, allowing for advanced interoperability and functionality between what would otherwise be isolated ecosystems.

Intro to LayerZero

LayerZero is a trust-configurable protocol that provides secure cross-chain communication. Ultra-light nodes (ULN) in the form of smart contracts. Provide chains with the block headers of other bridged chains, but only on-demand for efficiency purposes. The LayerZero endpoint, which is a smart contract that houses the ULN, communicates with an oracle and a relayer.

Furthermore, the Oracle component provides and receives block headers. Applications can select from a marketplace of oracles, including Chainlink, and design the oracle component to require agreement from multiple entities.

Furthermore, block headers are published to destination chains, which allow for the on-chain verification of messages. The Relayer receives and provides proofs of cross-chain messages, which can be verified by block headers. Allowing for messages to be completed on destination chains. Relayers can be maintained by anyone. In practice, however, LayerZero manages a relayer service that applications can leverage today.

Over the next few months, an open-source implementation of the relayer will create a marketplace of relayers for applications to select from and design further decentralized relayer systems similar to that of the Oracle component. The safety of the system relies on the separation between the oracle and relayer systems, and thus the trustlessness of the system is inherited from how much trust is required from the relayer and oracle actors.

This simple smart contract example will only be concerned with one smart contract, NonblockingLzApp. This smart contract will interact with the LayerZero endpoint to receive and send messages, and also stops failed transactions from blocking future messages from being received.

Connected SimpleGeneralMessage Contract

Notice that NonblockingLzApp inherits from LzApp. To understand the difference between these two contracts, first know that if any connected contract receives a message from LayerZero, and when receiving that message, an uncaught exception occurs, no other messages can be received from LayerZero.

In such an instance, the message that causes the exception is blocking other messages from being received, and will not stop blocking until the message stops causing an exception. Failed messages are blocked when inheriting from LzApp, but by using NonblockingLzApp, all exception-causing messages are elegantly caught automatically.

ABOUT Moonbeam

Moonbeam simplifies the developer experience by combining full Ethereum compatibility with the power of Polkadot, including scalability, cross-chain integrations, and on-chain governance.

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ABOUT Layer Zero

Layer Zero is a user application configurable on-chain endpoint that runs a ULN.  The platform relies on two parties to transfer messages between onchain endpoints. The Oracle and the Relayer.

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Bifrost’s token can now be used as xcBNC, an XC-20 representation of BNC, across the Moonbeam ecosystem, and the GLMR token is now available on Bifrost.

Bifrost exists as a parachain on both Kusama and Polkadot as Bifrost Kusama and Bifrost Polkadot. Both parachains are DeFi protocols that provide staking derivatives and liquidity to bonding assets. Bifrost powers vTokens (Staking Derivatives Voucher Token), which allows users to exchange PoS tokens for vTokens and obtain liquidity and staking rewards through the Bifrost protocol.

The underlying technology that enables the XC-20 standard, XCM (Cross-Consensus Messaging) is uniquely made possible by the Polkadot architecture. XCM is a language that enables asset transfers from Bifrost, and other parachains to Moonbeam represented as standard ERC-20s.

This format provides flexible interoperability within the Polkadot ecosystem and beyond – a key building block of the cross-chain connected future. Moreover, XCM allows one parachain to perform remote calls on the other, a key element that will power the GLMR liquid staking solution that Bifrost provides through XCM. The recent activation of the XCM SDK makes it easier than ever for developers to use these features in the design of cross-chain applications on Moonbeam.

Moonbeam continues to support the building of cross-chain applications that provide a better user experience and superior interoperability than historical multi-chain approaches. XCM and XC-20s are tools that support Moonbeam community goals by providing technology for accessing the functionality of remote blockchains.

ABOUT Moonbeam

Moonbeam is a smart contract platform for building cross-chain-connected applications. It can access users, assets, and services on any chain. By uniting functionality from Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot, and more into a single platform, Moonbeam solves today’s fragmented user experience. Unlocking true interoperability and paving the way for the next generation of applications. The Moonbeam platform uses integrated cross-chain messaging. It allows developers to create smart contracts that access services across many remote blockchains. This approach, plus Moonbeam’s developer-friendly EVM platform, vast tool support, and modern Substrate architecture, creates the ideal development environment for building connected application

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ABOUT Bifrost

Bifrost is a web3 derivatives protocol that provides decentralized cross-chain liquidity for staked assets. By leveraging on the cross-consensus message (XCM), it can provide cross-chain liquid staking services for multiple chains.

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Moonbeam, the top destination for cross-chain connected applications, has extended its interoperability capabilities through the addition of Hyperlane, an interoperability platform for building interchain applications.

CROSS-CHAIN MESSAGING 

As a smart contract platform optimized for cross-chain scenarios. Moonbeam is designed to serve as an ideal deployment destination for applications that live across many chains. The addition of Hyperlane gives builders on Moonbeam even more cross-chain messaging capabilities and extends the number of networks connected to it, enabling developers to better construct all-in-one applications that securely communicate across many blockchains.

CONNECTED CONTRACTS

Cross-chain applications rely upon two core components to be effective: a number of smart contracts on various blockchains and a way to securely message between each of these instances. Moonbeam’s design allows it to be the hub of these many smart contracts, where connected contracts often act as “the brain” of the application and coordinate between many contracts on many chains.

The introduction of Hyperlane adds a valuable component to this approach, allowing developers to send secure messages between chains with varying architectures, regardless of whether they are rollups (app-specific or general), app chains, or heterogeneous monolithic chains. Hyperlane allows developers building on Moonbeam to access seven networks, including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, Arbitrum, BNB, and Celo.

MESSAGE FROM Development Team Building On Moonbeam

“Messaging protocols like Hyperlane provide the critical capability that allows Moonbeam to serve developers building cross-chain applications. The Hyperlane integration provides Moonbeam developers access to unique destinations and novel features such as Sovereign Consensus, which gives developers fine-grained control over the security architecture of their applications. The addition of Hyperlane strengthens the ability of Moonbeam to support cross-chain connected protocols.” — Derek Yoo, CEO of PureStake, a development team building Moonbeam

Hyperlane has a unique focus on future-proofing and was built with flexibility in mind. As part of this mission to evolve with developers and their applications, Hyperlane uses an approach called Sovereign Consensus.

It lets developers configure their own security model utilizing Interchain Security Modules (ISMs). These ISMs let a developer mix and match their approaches to economic security. These are optimistic security, proof of authority, and any other security model they’d like to enable.

“Our mission at Hyperlane is to connect blockchains with seamless interfaces for developers so that they can serve users on any chain. This vision is so clearly aligned with Moonbeam, and we’re thrilled to collaborate in this growing ecosystem,” — Jon Kol, co-founder at Hyperlane

Moonbeam Offers Broad Protocol Support

Moonbeam offers broad protocol support for a variety of message-passing protocols, including LayerZero, Axelar, Wormhole, Polkadot’s XCM, and now Hyperlane.

By offering a variety of messaging standards and formats, Moonbeam gives builders ultimate control over their cross-chain application design. Allowing them to optimize for efficiency as well as optimal user experience.

As cross-chain-connected contracts, applications can communicate and interact across blockchains using native assets on other chains. Without needing to move them, effectively makes Moonbeam DApps into access points from which a user can tap into many tokens and chains at once.

ABOUT Moonbeam

The Moonbeam platform uses integrated cross-chain messaging to allow developers to create smart contracts. Access services across many remote blockchains. This approach, plus Moonbeam’s developer-friendly EVM platform. It has vast tool support, and modern Substrate architecture creates the ideal development environment for building connected applications.

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ABOUT Hyperlane

Hyperlane is an interoperability platform empowering developers to build interchain applications. These applications can communicate between blockchains and serve users regardless of the chain they are on. Hyperlane is building the simplest and most secure way to communicate between blockchains. It also allows developers to spend time focusing on their applications instead of on blockchain infrastructure

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This architecture is a significant departure from today’s multi-instance approaches. Many siloed implementations of an application exist across chains but aren’t able to communicate with each other. With connected smart contracts on Moonbeam, Prime can allow users to borrow against their existing portfolio of assets on other remote chains. It doesn’t need to bridge those assets to Moonbeam.

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This represents a major shift forward for Web3 usability. Teams can now offer unified access to assets and services from a single application. Preventing the fragmented user experiences, liquidity, and functionality that is inherent in decentralized applications today.

“Current multi-chain deployments with isolated smart contracts result in a fragmentation of liquidity, features, and user experiences. The connected contracts approach that the Prime team has taken directly addresses this fragmentation. IT gives them the ability to provide superior protocol efficiency and user experiences. I believe we are at the beginning of a big shift in how DeFi protocols are built to handle multi-chain requirements in a unified way. Prime is a leading example of this shift.”—Derek Yoo, Founder of Moonbeam

“Moonbeam has positioned itself to be a gateway for cross-chain connections, joining functionality from remote chains within the EVM universe and the rapidly-growing Polkadot ecosystem. We are extremely excited to collaborate and join the incredibly strong community Moonbeam has built.”—Colton Conley, founder of Prime Protocol

Cross-chain connected applications like Prime are part of the Moonbeam team’s broader vision to create more compelling user experiences by removing the constraints of solo chain development and unlocking true interoperability. Ultimately, built-in interoperability reduces the reliance on traditional bridges as a means of moving assets from chain to chain. Instead, it allows users to tap into functionality from many blockchains through a single application.

This initiative comes on the heels of Moonbeam’s announcement of Harvest Moon, a campaign designed to expand DeFi activity and attract the next wave of connected applications to come build on Moonbeam. The Moonbeam Foundation has indicated that it has allocated up to 1.5% of its native token (GLMR) genesis supply to fund grants as part of the Harvest Moon campaign.

ABOUT Moonbeam

Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications. This Ethereum compatibility allows developers to deploy existing Solidity smart contracts and DApp frontends to Moonbeam with minimal changes. Moonbeam is expected to accumulate developer and user activity from the 80+ projects building DApps and protocols on the network.

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ABOUT Prime Protocol

Prime Protocol is building the first natively cross-chain prime brokerage. Similar to margin loans in traditional finance, Prime offers over-collateralized stablecoin loans. Backed by investors’ entire digital portfolios, regardless of asset type or blockchain.

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