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StaFiHub now on Commonwealth

StaFiHub now on Commonwealth Commonwealth is excited to announce a new partnership with StaFiHub to officially launch their governance forum. StaFi has previously worked with Commonwealth to facilitate their DAO governance within the Stafi Community. StaFiHub is a parallel chain developed by StaFi based on the Cosmos SDK. As a decentralized protocol that empowers liquidity in other crypto projects, we’re excited to see how their community uses our governance platform to grow! StaFiHub: Liquid S

Community Spotlight: Stargate Finance

Commonwealth is excited to spotlight another one of our communities: Stargate. As a project seeking to solve the rising demand to transfer assets between blockchains, we’ve been excited to see Stargate use our all-in-one governance platform. Stargate: Welcome to the Omnichain Future There is currently no fail-safe solution to bridging native assets between chains. Existing cross-chain bridges either rely on intermediate or wrapped tokens, support only a limited network of chains, or cannot be c

TreasureDAO x Commonwealth

Commonwealth is excited to spotlight TreasureDAO, one of our top communities. As a decentralized gaming ecosystem with an ever-growing roster of supporters—even throughout the bear market— we’re excited to see how they continue to use our governance platform to involve their community in decentralized decision making! TreasureDAO: The Decentralized Game Console Treasure is building the ‘decentralized game console’ to connect games, builders, and players together through bottom-up driven IP and

October 5 Partner Call: Building Together to Streamline Your Governance Process & Community Platform

In case you missed our partner call last, we’re sharing our updates here for our community to stay in touch with everything we have in Common. Last month, Common's top post received 35k unique visitors and incredibly strong engagement all around. This was driven largely by discussions on Treasure DAO, Osmosis, Ion, Evmos, Stargate, and Terra. We wouldn’t be here without these communities! Improving Moderation We put together a list of the top five moderation features we think should be added to

The Top of the Standard

On Wednesday, September 21, Commonwealth, dYdX, and HASHED celebrated the kickoff of Messari Mainnet. At The Standard, we served hors d'oeuvres with an open bar at the Boom Boom Room, a venue the event invite described as “inspired by the smooth, classic craftsmanship of a Bentley, combined with the tasty yumminess and pureness of honey.” The Top of the Standard is iconic for its famous afterparties following events such as the Met Gala and NY Fashion Week. Over 900 guests came to the party, pa

Commonwealth x Stanford DAO Workshop

On September 1, 2022, Commonwealth sponsored the Stanford DAO Workshop at the University’s Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center. The workshop facilitated collaboration between academic and industry leaders by bringing them together for a day of intimate, curated workshops designed to accelerate DAO functionality. We’re excited to have had Zak Hap, Head of Product, represent Commonwealth at this event. He discussed Commonwealth’s role in facilitating good governance and worked with other industry l

Oraichain Now on Commonwealth

Commonwealth is excited to announce a new partnership with the world’s first AI Layer 1 for Data Economy and Oracle Services: Oraichain. Oraichain is working towards creating a complete AI ecosystem on blockchain while supporting a new generation of smart contracts and Dapps. We’re excited to see how they use our governance platform to grow their project. Oraichain: AI Layer 1 for Data Economy & Oracle Services Oraichain is the world’s first AI-powered oracle and ecosystem for blockchains. Beyo

August 24 Partner Call: Increased Participation & Governance Research

In case you missed our partner call yesterday, we’re sharing our updates here for our community to stay in touch with all things Common. Thanks to initiatives being discussed on community hubs like Stargate, Osmosis, Juno, Evmos, Agoric, and Terra, Commonwealth’s monthly active users grew by 15% last month. Community Highlights Terra: Terra received 11k views on a proposal [https://commonwealth.im/terra/discussion/6647-proposal-terra-phoenix-airdrop] to airdrop eligible users a total of 18,709

July 27 Community Call: 2300% Growth

We had some huge announcements on our partner call yesterday! In the past year, Commonwealth has seen 2300% growth in its engagement: monthly active users have gone from 3,466 to 83,263 between June 2021 and June 2022. We’re most in debt, as always, to dYdX, Axie, Element Finance, Stargate, Osmosis, Juno, and Evmos, whose communities have done the most to drive up this engagement and find ways to use our platform effectively in order to develop their projects. Not only have our MAUs gone up, bu

Commonwealth Raises $20M in Series A Lead by Spark Capital

We are excited to announce our $20M Series A fundraising! This round is led by Spark Capital and we will be adding Nabeel Hyatt from Spark to our Board of Directors. Additional investors in the round include Polychain Capital, Wintermute, A&T Capital, Jump, Global Coin Research, Fire Eyes, Figment, Vessel, Sarah Meyohas, Reverie, Charles St. Louis, Will Villanueva, amongst others. This adds to our current list of investors. > We're excited to announce our latest round of funding for Cow Moon,

Common Protocol Whitepaper v1.0 User Owned Communities

Introduction Crypto protocols are default-open. This means that important strategic decisions are discussed, funded, and ratified in public. Common is default-open: transparent threaded discussions, not anonymous Discourse forums, full-spectrum voting not backroom deals, and user-controlled capital to help create and grow any project or interest. Common uses an on-chain social graph to provide an intuitive interface for any tokenized community--Layer 1, DeFi protocol, NFT holders, or investment

Chihuahua Now on Commonwealth

Chihuahua, a meme coin and community-driven project, is now on Commonwealth. We’re looking forward to seeing how they use our all-in-one governance platform to grow their project. Chihuahua: The Cosmos Meme Coin Chihuahua is an eco-friendly Proof-of-Stake blockchain built using the Cosmos SDK and Tendermint consensus: the estimated yearly consumption of the Chihuahua blockchain is less than the daily energy consumed by Dogecoin or Ethereum. Chihuahua communicates with over 30 Cosmos chains via