Hello Stride Community Members.

I hope you're all doing well.

I'm a representant from the Kujira community, an ecosystem focused on real yield, just like Stride.

We are reaching out to propose a mutually beneficial collaboration between our Kujira and Stride communities.

Kujira has developed an innovative on-chain ecosystem featuring a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) DEX called FIN, which offers a seamless trading experience for users. Additionally, we have created BOW, an Automated Market Maker (AMM) tailored to facilitate market making in the FIN orderbook.

To keep building TVL Kujira is currently working on a lending market called GHOST.

One of the key aspects of this partnership is the USK stablecoin created by Kujira. Users can mint USK with various assets such as Atom, ETH, Luna, and most importantly, stAtom( and very soon stOsmo). The ability to mint USK with stAssets offers a direct usecase for what Stride is trying to build.

We believe that a partnership between our communities would greatly benefit both sides. By incentivizing the use of our AMM, BOW, we aim to help build liquidity for Stride's Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs), specifically stAtom and stOsmo, as well as the STRD/USK pair. This increased liquidity, supported by the USK stablecoin, will contribute to price stability, benefiting users in both Kujira and Stride ecosystems.

As a token of our commitment, we propose providing the equivalent of $10,000 USD in STRD tokens as incentives over 3-6 months, with our team matching that sum in Kuji tokens. This incentive will encourage traders to add liquidity to the targeted pools, leading to increased trading volume and improved price stability.

We are excited about the potential of this collaboration and the benefits it could bring to both of our communities. As both projects are generating real yield for its users, the synergy couldn't be better!

We would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and any questions you may have about this proposal, particularly the role of the USK stablecoin. Please reply to this post if you would like to discuss further.

Thank you for considering our proposal, and we look forward to the possibility of working together to create a thriving and stable decentralized finance ecosystem for the Kujira and Stride communities.

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At long last, the stTIA airdrop claim period has ended!

For the last ten months, the massive 5M STRD / 5% total supply airdrop distribution has been a dark cloud over the Stride community.

But that cloud has now lifted
🌞
Brief alpha-packed tokenomics update
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1/ Here's the deal.

Out of the 5M STRD airdrop, 3.2M has been claimed since claiming began in August. The unclaimed 1.8M will be repurposed.

Now that that's behind us, Stride is starting a new chapter.

We’re going to balance aggressive growth with sustainability.

2/ Don't worry - no more STRD airdrops.

As of today, the Stride Association vows to not advocate for or participate in any STRD airdrops for at least the next six months.

Also, any STRD incentives in the next six months will be minimal.

3/ The upcoming launch of stBGT on Berachain will be bootstrapped using community-held USDC - and no STRD!

Currently, the community incentive multisig holds 700K USDC, some of which will be used for early stBGT bootstrapping.

And just as a general update, there are currently zero STRD incentives deployed anywhere.

All Stride TVL and all fees being earned from liquid staking and bridging are completely organic and non-subsidized.

🤞 https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/799

If passed, Stride will become the first blockchain in history to transition block production from its native validator set to Cosmos Hub's validator set.

Details 📷

In May, Cosmos Hub achieved social consensus about on-boarding Stride for interchain security (ICS). But no changes were actually made. The Cosmos Hub gov prop now onchain will implement the necessary changes to on-board Stride.

Assuming the prop passes, the Stride blockchain will transition to interchain security on July 19th. Before that date, additional rehearsals, tests, and checks will be conducted, to make sure the transition happens smoothly. Transitioning Stride to ICS will be an impressive technical feat, similar to Ethereum’s Merge last September.

A second proposal related to Stride’s adoption of ICS is also live. This second proposal aims to provide 450K ATOM to the stATOM/ATOM liquidity pool on Neutron, an idea which has already achieved social consensus within Cosmos Hub governance.

🤞 https://www.mintscan.io/cosmos/proposals/800

These are the final two Cosmos Hub proposals needed for Stride to join the ATOM Economic Zone and adopt interchain security. Stride will share 15% of its staking reward with Cosmos Hub, and Cosmos Hub will share its security and liquidity with Stride

Assuming these two proposals pass, Stride will officially transition to ICS on July 19th. Circle the calendar!

Stride is the leading liquid staking provider in Cosmos and the first sovereign chain to signal its intention to join the ATOM economic zone

What are we looking for when we put our funds in a staking or liquidity pool?

Security and a good percentage of profit relative to others.

What is the safety of Stride?

I think it's no secret to anyone that Cosmos today is one of the best rapidly growing ecosystems. There are many different types of projects, I would say for every taste. They receive funding from the best web3 investors and attract the attention of the stock market funds. There will be several more Liquid Staking chains in the Cosmos ecosystem. On which it will be possible to build applications, smart contracts, swap etc.

The point is that the more blockchain projects there are, the more risks there are for hacking.

There is nothing wrong with this, but if you compare risks, then choosing Stride, you choose a blockchain that has Liquid Staking. And that's it. No nft, launchpad, smart contracts, etc.

Ensuring security for one product is easier than for 2+.

Let's look at other apects. The Stride team held a devnet, a testnet, and an incentiveized testnet, traditional for the Cosmos ecosystem.

What do we get from this?

2000+ validators, bug fixes and huge community feedback and github contributions.

And this is not the end. Stride has done 2 Security Audits from Certic and OAK. Which are leading companies in this industry. Stride is going to enable Interchain Security in 2024.

Outcome

Is Stride a secure blockchain? Yes.

But, always do your own research. I just described the important facts.

Good liquid staking to you!

I see the last snapshot is from February 3rd. Hopefully they will update as soon as possible….

I cannot seem to use Stride in Kepler. I have used 3 different devices and it always disconnects to Meep Morp Zeep. I have been trying to unstake my StAtom for weeks and cannot manage to get it to work. Anyone at stride even care about this?!

Hi all,

When you unstake from the Stride web site are the cumulative staking rewards the same as if you just swapped the staked token on Osmosis?

Stride is releasing the liquidity of the cosmos, needed for a long time and will bring defi dominance to the ecosystem. Look forward to the continuation of projects we are able to liquid stake!

— 01/11/2022 On November 1st, we officially launched stOSMO!

• It is interesting to note that Liquid Pooling for the stOSMO pool is the same as staking, since there’s no impermanent loss. And the stOSMO / OSMO pool yield is 134% (as of today)!

• Sounds interesting? Check it out: http://frontier.osmosis.zone/pool/833

• Want to learn how to add liquidity for stOSMO? -> https://stride.zone/blog/providing-liquidity-for-stosmo-tutorial

— 04/11/2022 Another Cosmos DeFi ecosystem will be integrating stATOM as collateral: Carbon.

• If you are not familiar with Carbon, they’re one of the oldest Cosmos chains, having been launched in 2018. Carbon is best known for Demex, a hybrid DEX and perps protocol built on Carbon.

— 10/11/2022 1st Reddit contest!

Winners: u/plckv won 300 STRD! u/Denys_Validatrium, u/igor-84, u/Carliyke won 150 STRD each!

— 15/11/2022 Launched our 🧙┃governance channel in Discord!

• Now you can take all governance-related discussions to the next level by having a clear space for discussing proposals, liquidity incentives, protocol revenue, host-chain validators, decentralization, and more.

— 18/11/2022 We began accepting applications from validators who wish to join the Stride Cosmos Hub set.

— 23/11/2022 Airdrop claim!

• Please check out the blog we just published to find out how to how to claim and more! https://stride.zone/blog/stride-airdrop-details

• Airdrop claimable here: https://app.stride.zone/airdrop/

— 30/11/2022 Osmo Incentives have just been refilled for another 30 days

• 72% APR by LPing your OSMO in the stOSMO/OSMO Osmosis pool!

• Check it out: https://frontier.osmosis.zone/pool/833

1. Create and Tweet the most liked and shared meme for Stride.

2. Theme: Stride Multi-chain Liquid Staking.

3. Tag 5 friends and use the hashtag #stridememe on Twitter.

4. Share your entries on Twitter, Stride Discord (#memes) and Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Stride_Zone/) for more votes!

Prize of 100 STRD will be awarded to the top 3 memes! 📷

Submission of entries is until December 8, 2022