🚀 Introducing $stBAND, the first Liquid Staking Derivative of $BAND tokens, in collaboration with @stride_zone! This milestone lays the groundwork for #Bandv3, bringing our community greater utility, flexibility, and opportunities.

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#bandprotocolblog.bandprotocol.com/introducing-st… 2/ ✨ $stBAND = Security + Flexibility 💧
Liquid Staking allows you to stake your $BAND tokens and secure the network while maintaining liquidity. With $stBAND, you can earn staking rewards and utilize your tokens across DeFi applications.

1/ 🚀 We are proud to share the second article in our BandChain Phase 2 Whitepaper Digest series with our community which dives into how IBC will be implemented into Band Protocol and the network effects introduced into the system.

medium.com/bandprotocol/w… 2/ 🌟 Every day that passes is closer to the relaunch for BandChain Phase 2 (Laozi), the first decentralized data economy for institutional-grade data providers and blockchain applications. More details on the timeline are to be released shortly!

1/ 🌟 @Coin98_wallet, a leading decentralized wallet with native DeFi applications support, expands the integration of Band Protocol price oracles to create more transparent and stronger experiences for 260,000 users.

medium.com/bandprotocol/c… 2/ 👨‍💻 Expanding on the initial integration, Band Protocol price oracles now also provide secure feeds for more digital assets in various foreign exchange denominations such as USD, JPY, VND, CNY among others from the Band Standard Dataset.

1/ 🚀 Today marks the one-year anniversary of the BandChain Mainnet! To celebrate, we are taking a deeper look into one of the significant improvements in the upcoming Phase 2 Mainnet launch - streamed revenue for premium data providers.

medium.com/bandprotocol/b… 2/ 🏛 The streaming revenue features allow anyone to become a data provider on BandChain Phase 2 - including enterprises, DEXs, DApps. Revenue will be streamed in real-time to providers from consumers who will be paying per request on BandChain

1/ 🚀 @BalancedDAO, the first #DeFi application on @helloiconworld, has secured $225M without incident in the 5 weeks it's been live for reliable collateral, risk ratio, and liquidation mechanics using secure price oracles from $BAND.

medium.com/p/1cfbde8adaef/ 2/ 🌍 Balanced is based on the ICON Network, so interoperability and cross-chain capabilities will soon be available through BTP: a standard that enables all blockchains to be interoperable – regardless of their consensus model and algorithm.

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1/ 🚀 BandChain Phase 2 is coming! With the successful migration to Laozi Testnet #1, it is time for us to dive into what is ahead and the significant developments this brings to enterprises, institutional-grade providers, validators and $BAND as a whole.

medium.com/p/bd0bf6911dea 2/ 🏛 Including enterprises, DEXes, DApps, anyone can become a data provider on BandChain Phase 2 and create a premium oracle script for monetization. Revenue will be streamed in real-time to providers from consumers who will be paying per request on BandChain to ensure validity.

1/ 🚀 $BAND is excited to announce our collaboration with @AcalaNetwork, a cross-chain DeFi hub and stablecoin based on Substrate, to release the Open Oracle Gateway - an open oracle service for all @Polkadot, @kusamanetwork, Acala ecosystems and beyond.

medium.com/p/dcb18ee1db2d/ 2/ 👉 Secure and real-time decentralized price feeds for collateral such as DOT, BTC, and ETH will be provided by $BAND to Acala and any other blockchain connected to Polkadot.

All DeFi applications in the Polkadot ecosystem can now be secured with Band Protocol oracles.

1/ Today we're releasing #BandChain v1.0.3-alpha with many changes to make it closer to becoming a release candidate for BandChain Phase 1.

This is a part of bi-weekly $BAND tech release. A comprehensive list of features can be found in the changelog: github.com/bandprotocol/b… 2/ Notable changes to #BandChain Phase 1 include:

- Patch @Cosmos version to v0.38.4
- Update various components to use OBI standard
- Improve REST endpoints for better dev UX
- Support @GoogleCloud for OWASM executors
- Improve Oracle Script execution with @wasmerio