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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Cosmos-based DEX Osmosis raises $21M in from a consortium of investors

Osmosis joins investment firm Paradigm’s other DeFi portfolio members such as Maker, Synthetic, Uniswap, Optimism, FTX, Coinbase, and BlockFi.

Osmosis, a decentralized exchange, or DEX, on the Cosmos blockchain, raised $21 million dollars in a token sale led by VC fund Paradigm along with a consortium of investors including Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, and Figment.

Osmosis allows developers to build customized Automated Market Makers, or AMMs, with sovereign liquidity pools. The DEX uses a native token called OSMO for governance and staking, and currently contains a total of $544 Million.

The project alleges to provide superfluid staking and instant block confirmation. Superfluid staking lets liquidity holders stake their LP tokens to earn pro rata staking rewards in OSMO. This gives token holders the ability to compound staking and liquidity yields while keeping the network secure. Instant block confirmations create Miner-Extractable-Value, or MEV resistance, which keeps traders from cherry-picking transactions on the network.

Paradigm, an investment firm known for its focus on DEX platforms, brings Osmosis into its DEX portfolio alongside Maker, Synthetic, Uniswap, Optimism, FTX, Coinbase, and BlockFi. The company’s stake in Osmosis is its first investment into the Cosmos ecosystem. All of its other holdings have been in Ethereum-based DEX platforms.

"Osmosis is our first AMM investment outside of the Ethereum ecosystem. The Osmosis contributors are a world-class team of engineers, product innovators, and operators bringing the right product to market at exactly the right time," stated Charlie Noyes, investment partner at Paradigm:

"The launch of IBC, Cosmos' cross-chain interoperability protocol, kicked off a Cambrian explosion of developer activity and experimentation. Osmosis is the natural center of gravity for liquidity in Cosmos' emerging Defi ecosystem."

The platform’s successful fundraise follows a rise in traffic growth that has occurred on the Cosmos network since the launch of its new Inter Blockchain Communication Protocol in March. The new protocol allows for digital assets to be transferred between chains in the network. In the last month, Osmosis has had the largest number of token transfers through the IBC protocol in the last month.

The main design concept behind the Cosmos blockchain was to create an “Internet of Blockchains,” according to the project’s whitepaper. The Cosmos Network is made up of its main chain called the Cosmos Hub which is the backbone to a network of decentralized, interconnected blockchains which includes the Binance Smart Chain.

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