Here are the latest developments for the first half of April. Highlights: 🤓 Our Ethereum relay network successfully upgraded itself to the Berlin hard fork without interruptions. 💯 NEAR, IRISnet and Cosmos gateways have been integrated with marlinctl. 🎢 Developing a subgraph covering the MPOND <> POND bridge. Currently in testing before release. 🐟 15k strong on Twitter! 👀 Staking - more than 50 cluster operators to choose from. Dive in for more: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-biweekly-1-dev-community-updates-april-2021/ RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1383084348992147466

Update for the second half of March! Highlights: 🤝 Announced partner sale with Cere Network ✅ Isolated margin trading enabled on Binance 📃 Deployed new sub-graph covering the MPond token contract and the governance mechanisms. 🎯 New version of marlinctl released with better management interfaces and new commands. Includes Polkadot gateways ported from the old marlinctl. 🛠 Cosmos gateways updated to work with the new v0.34 Tendermint core. Currently testing before release. ...and more!! Dive in for more: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-biweekly-2-dev-community-updates-march-2021/ RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1377911601819381761

Here’s a quick recap of everything that unfolded during the first half of March! Highlights: 💯 Staking went live. Operators include P2P Validator, InfStones, Audit One, Stakely, HashQuark, and more. ✅ Listings on Binance and CoinDCX. 📊 Dashboard to track stats created by the community 🌏 Community-led regional chat groups 🎢 Bridge UI for POND to MPond conversion 🤓 Ethereum gateways updated to work with newer Eth protocol versions in preparation for the Berlin hard fork Dive in for more details: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-biweekly-1-dev-community-updates-march-2021/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1372111730113802243

Staking is LIVE! Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to stake and delegate your POND & MPond. Dive in: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-staking-for-dummies/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1368541539572404226

The second installment of our technical and community updates for the month of February is here! Highlights: 💯 Final testing and deployment of ticket feeder in preparation for staking rewards launch. 🛠 Stakedrop backends were updated to work with the new CosmosHub and IrisHub upgrade. ⚖️ New subgraph for governance was developed and is in the final testing phase before release ⚓️ Announced the Marlin Navy Ambassador Program 🤓 Released the geek's guide to the Larvanet’s economics Dive in for more details: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-biweekly-2-dev-community-updates-february-2021/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1366335917774958593

⚡️ Have you joined the Marlin Navy Ambassador Program yet? Here's your last opportunity to shine out by being an active proponent of the Marlin Navy and be an integral part of driving Marlin to the mainstream.💥 As a Marlin Marshal, you will get access to Marlin's ecosystem, ambassador-groups, and other special privileges. You'll be eligible for various rewards and recognition for driving the Marlin Navy. 🚀✨ If you're someone with fantastic social media management, content creation, community engagement, and partner outreach, we can't wait to have you on board. 🎯💯 Join us if you're keen on experiencing an exhilarating journey in the crypto space. Welcoming people across the globe. 🌎 Apply here: https://forms.gle/uxSovn4n7Ted4sk36 Read more: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/announcing-the-marlin-navy-ambassador-program/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1364516695604256777

The Binance Build for Bharat demo day finale is upon us! From over 300+ registrants, 8 teams have made it to the finale and will pitch their solutions built on Binance Smart Chain. We'll be joining the panel discussion on 'DeFi in India: from Seed to Giant sequoia' along with WazirX, Binance X and Ankr post the demo pitch by the finalists. Don't miss this! When: 4pm IST, 20th February 2021 Link: https://www.airmeet.com/e/bc98ca50-6524-11eb-89d4-271711c45c6b Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1363066339116666880

📣 Announcing the Marlin Navy Ambassador Program 📣 We’re looking for enthusiastic and creative individuals to sign up as Marshals in the Marlin Navy! If you’re looking to dive straight into the depths of the ocean of crypto, blockchain, DeFi, and Web 3, this is for you. Each Marshal will take on a set of responsibilities in tune with their skills and coordinate amongst one another, spreading the word across the high-seas. The program will provide each Marshal with an opportunity to represent Marlin in your local community, meet/interact with the core team, engage with other like-minded individuals and experts worldwide, educate and help new supporters find their way, and earn exclusive perks/rewards in the process. Our blog has the details: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/announcing-the-marlin-navy-ambassador-program/ Interested? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/2y7FG5do9XwAsRxB7 Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1362413854479716356

A Geek's guide to the Larvanet’s Economics 🤓 🐟 Marlin is a layer-0 scaling protocol that improves the performance of blockchains & dapps regardless of their consensus algorithm. As the network evolves, we'd like to explain the Larvanet's economics, staking mechanism & contract design. 📊 Economic Model Being a stake-based permissionless network, the economic model involves two key components: 1. Requiring nodes in the network to stake Marlin tokens. 2. Rewarding nodes for the work done. ⚒ Staking Contracts used in the Larvanet have 2 primary modules: 1. Cluster registry: An operator address is used to manage on-chain records 2. Delegation mappings: POND or MPond are delegated to the operator address which are recorded in the mapping contracts via Stashes 💼 Stashes are used to store POND, MPond or LP tokens & delegate to operators. Unbonding period is 30 days. A stash needs to be undelegated in whole. Partial undelegation using multiple stashes is possible. A stash may be redelegated to another operator without undelegation. 💻 Network design Marlin gateways find the closest nodes of the different clusters (with greater than 0.5 MPond in delegations) via a standard P2P discovery process. They are chosen using probability distribution. 💪 In the Larvanet, clusters are chosen with a probability proportional to sq root of the sum of delegations they receive. Only the first 3 clusters to deliver content to receivers are sent receipts which can be deposited for rewards. 💰 Tokenomics The Marlin token economy consists of two tokens POND and MPond. 1 MPond can be minted by swapping 1,000,000 POND in a bridge contract. Maximum supply of POND = 10 billion Total allocation towards staking rewards = 21.8% of POND’s total supply. 👀 There’s no difference between self-staking or external delegations in Marlin. Every cluster only receives delegations from holders of eligible tokens which includes POND and MPond initially. ⚖️ Token Distribution For a fair distribution of Marlin tokens and Marlin nodes, tokens were/are being distributed through: 1. Participation in the Eggnet. 2. FlowMint: Delegating DOT, ATOM, NEAR etc to validators who install Marlin gateways. 📖 Larvanet allocation 1️⃣ Initial rate of annual inflation (iROI): ~1.03% of POND 2️⃣ Tokens to be distributed over a year per iROI: ~102,766,667 POND 3️⃣ Tokens to be distributed daily per iROI: ~281,553 POND (102,766,667/365) 🎁 Reward distribution The 281k POND tokens are distributed once every epoch (24 hours). APRs for POND could hover around 900% in the beginning and settle between 30-60% depending on the scale of participation. Dive into our blog for more details: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/geeks-guide-to-the-larvanets-economics/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1362075788388880390

With so much happening, we’re moving to biweekly updates going forward to keep everyone updated on all things technical and community-related! Here are the highlights: 🤖 Probes have started giving out tickets to clusters in preparation for the staking rewards launch. 📝 Gateways have been integrated with marlinctl for easy deployment by end-users. 🤓 Staking contracts have been optimized to save 30-50% gas for common operations like staking and delegations. 🤝 Partnerships with Injective Protocol and Ankr 👀 POND to list on Probit Exchange 🗣 Keynote at the Binance Blockchain Week Dive in for more details: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-biweekly-1-dev-community-updates-february-2021/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1361268021642203142

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year! 🎊

Partnership Announcement 🤝 We’re delighted to announce our partnership with Injective, a Layer 2 protocol that gives traders unparalleled access to new decentralized derivatives markets. Marlin will help increase throughput and trading speeds of the Injective DEX. 🔓 Injective Protocol is the first layer-2 decentralized exchange protocol that unlocks the full potential of decentralized derivatives and borderless DeFi. 🌏 Marlin is an open protocol that provides a high-performance programmable network infrastructure for DeFi and Web 3. Features of the Marlin-Injective Partnership 💯 Marlin's integration with the Injective Chain will help increase the latter's trading speeds to unprecedented levels among DEXs. 🔥 This collaboration will help Marlin take one step closer to its dream of making DeFi scalable and ready for mass adoption. ⏲ Marlin will provide traders with a low-latency channel to communicate with exchange nodes providing HFT trading like experience in DeFi allowing users to place or revise orders in milliseconds. This will eliminate the difference between interacting with a DeFi v/s CeFi. 😎 Through this partnership, Marlin's native token POND will also be listed on the Injective chain. This will spur wider adoption, broaden exposure to newer markets, and increase the utility of the token. Dive in: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-partners-with-injective-to-enable-unmatched-trading-speeds/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1359835352957997058

Partnership Announcement 🤝 Marlin is partnering with Ankr Network to make make low-latency DeFi trading more accessible and provide Marlin users with 1-click node deployment options. 🎯 Focused on network layer optimizations, Marlin provides a high-performance programmable network infrastructure for DeFi and Web 3.0. 🧩 Ankr is an infrastructure platform and marketplace for Web3-stack deployment. Features of the Marlin-Ankr partnership ⛓ 1-click deployment options for nodes and gateways in the network. 🧐 This will make Marlin's node development process cheaper and affordable. 🌐 It will also allow for easy node deployment across geographies. 💯 As more Marlin gateways are deployed, there will be an influx of new nodes that interact with the Marlin network, increasing network effects. 💰 Full nodes operating on Ankr infrastructure will gain access to a low-latency transaction relay benefiting DeFi traders and arb bots alike. 👀 The Ankr integration helps us move one step closer to our vision of a decentralized web where applications secured via blockchain are indistinguishable in terms of performance to Web 2.0. Dive in: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-and-ankr-partner-to-make-low-latency-defi-trading-more-accessible/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1359109933493481474

📢 Excited for Roshan's keynote session at the Binance Blockchain Week 2021. Topic: The POND below the Bluesky Intrigued? Join us today (Feb 3) at 10:45am UTC to hear more about all things layer-0! Register at https://bit.ly/3oH6mDC Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1356854124608774151

Hello Marlin Community, We have explored endless possibilities and meaningful partnerships in recent months. We have been relentlessly working on the technological front to provide the community with the latest dev and community updates commencing from January 2021. Here are some of the highlights: 🤓 Developed Polkadot & Tendermint gateways 🎯 Successfully completed POND token launch ✅ Concluded Eggnet ⏳ Commenced Larvanet 🤝 Partnership with Stafi 🐟 Integrated POND on various exchanges for seamless accessibility There are many more things in the pipeline that will unfold in the coming days. Dive into more details: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-dev-community-updates-january-2021/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1356179632605655040

Marlin partners with StaFi Protocol to enable POND staking derivatives Marlin is thrilled to partner with StaFi, the first DeFi protocol unlocking liquidity of staked assets. Marlin and StaFi are collaborating with each other to solve the DeFi's scalability trilemma and develop wrapped rPOND tokens for Marlin's network. 🔥 Marlin is an open protocol providing high-performance programmable network infrastructure for DeFi and Web 3.0. 💥 StaFi solves issues of illiquidity caused by staking by creating derivatives of the staked tokens. This partnership will help create liquid staking derivatives of Marlin’s network token POND, as well as integrate Marlin's layer-0 scaling protocol onto the StaFi Platform. Read more: https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlin-partners-with-stafi-to-enable-pond-staking-derivatives/ Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1354059283600609280

Absolutely ❤️ the support that the Polkadot community is showing us! Participation by DOT stakers and validators in Marlin FlowMint has reached record highs! 🔥 💰 +$339m in total DOT bonded 🧙 100+ validators Stake DOT. Earn MPond. 💯 Just getting started? Our handy guide explains how you can participate in FlowMint with Polkadot and other supported chains - Binance Smart Chain, Cosmos, Fantom, IRISnet, Matic Network and NEAR Protocol. RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1351194794878504966

A lot of curiosity about Layer 0 & Marlin. 🧐 Hear Prateek talk about Marlin's incentivized network layer propagation, its role in solving networking bottlenecks for blockchains & how Marlin Cache accelerates DApp queries for DeFi at KBW2020. https://koreablockchainweek.com/watch/-MQQhpEz9IdPFjn-2FNq RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1347600024645996545

Introducing the next iteration of marlinctl based on feedback received from Eggnet participants 🤖 Support more runtimes (supervisor, systemd), platforms (Mac) 🧠 IaaC-like resource management for multiple instances 🖥 Multi-config instances on the same machine 🧊 Freeze prod version to prevent auto-updates 🔍 Integrity verification of binaries 🔧 Custom update policies 📓 Better logging and debugging support 🆘 Unstable channel support for testers 🧩 Better semantic versioning and easier upgrade path for upcoming versions https://www.marlin.pro/blog/marlinctl-2-improved-process-management-for-marlin-applications/ Get started at: https://github.com/marlinprotocol/marlinctl2 RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1347480501343277060

The bridge is open! 🎢 Here's a tutorial on how to convert POND to MPond for those looking to operate Marlin nodes in the Larvanet. A user-friendly interface is in the works and will be shared soon. https://www.marlin.pro/blog/converting-pond-to-mpond-using-the-marlin-bridge/ RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1346799712066621440

Happy New Year! 🎊 Our progress in 2020 👇 🕸 OpenWeaver 🐟 Marlin Cache 🥚 Concluded Eggnet 🌊 FlowMint Stakedrop 🎯 Token Launch Upcoming: ⏳ Larvanet ⚖️ The POND DAO and more... Here's to 2021 and beyond! Thank you for your continued support. ❤️ RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1344715808404983808

Over $140m in total stake bonded on FlowMint. 🤩 Delegators of whitelisted validators running Marlin gateways earn $MPond ⏲ 24-month stakedrop 💰 20% of genesis MPond 🛡 Stake directly on your native chain 🔓 No additional lock-ups Don't forget to RT: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1342893631586234369

⌛️ Larvanet's approaching 🛡 Nodes req tokens to stake 💰 Validators need to cover costs 🐟 Marlin's a base layer 0 protocol 📈 Economic guarantees req are high ⚖️ Governance has to cater to incongruous communities The POND / MPond design rationale 👇 https://www.marlin.pro/blog/introducing-mpond-the-marlin-network-tokens/ We introduce a dual token model comprised of a semi-transferrable MPond and completely transferrable POND with a bridge governed by token holders themselves. Inspired from Project Serum's MSRM/SRM model, Nexus Mutual's bridge design, and Fred Ehrsam's governance minimization. We think the design of MPond/POND is an interesting experiment in exploring security design and governance in PoS systems. While POND incentivizes validators and is a route to acquiring MPOND, MPOND's design ensures that economic security and governance aren't easily compromised. We invite you for further discussions on our Discord Channel Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1341014721042870273

FlowMint crossed $90m in total stake bonded from delegators of validators running Marlin gateways on Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, Fantom, Cosmos, Binance Smart Chain, Matic and IRISnet. 20% of genesis MPond to be distributed over 24 months to protocol communities adopting Marlin. 🤝 Spread the word: https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol/status/1340203804780707840

We're back on Twitter! 🥳 https://twitter.com/MarlinProtocol

📢 Support for non-foundation nodes in Matic has been added in FlowMint! 👀 Updated validator list: https://app.marlin.pro/flowmint/validators

🔊 The first proposal in POND governance by P2P Validator is up for discussion! 🔎 It suggests changing the reward function for a chain in FlowMint from a constant fraction to weighted by TVL 🤝 The proposal, if passed, stands to benefit Polkadot delegators 🧠 Brainstorm: https://research.marlin.pro/t/proposal-1-change-the-calculation-of-mpond-distributed-to-different-blockchain-communities