Axelar Blog

Following a grant from the Avalanche-X program, Axelar and Avalanche are joining forces to realize the shared vision of decentralized interoperability.

We are now excited to announce Axelar’s first NFT staking program! Here’s what the program will look like.

Everyday, we browse websites and interact with different content from dozens of servers, networks, and geographic locations.

Cosmostation supports Axelar, allowing you to send, receive, store and stake the AXL token from the wallet of your choice.

In advance of our mainnet launch in February, we held an AMA on Twitter with Pangolin Exchange.

An AMA With Divergence Ventures’ Calvin Liu & Axelar’s Sergey Gorbunov

Axelar is the universal overlay network, securely connecting all blockchain ecosystems, applications, assets and users to deliver Web3 interoperability.

One month ago Axelar announced that the signups for the incentivized testnet had opened, to incredible support from the community. We appreciate the overwhelming interest in Axelar and wanted to thank everyone who signed up!

In order to achieve the reality of an interconnected blockchain, Axelar works closely with various Cosmos chains to provide Cosmos-EVM cross-chain capabilities and link other non-IBC ecosystems to Cosmos-interconnected chains.

Prime Protocol does cross-chain DeFi lending with native assets, using Axelar GMP, allowing users to aggregate all their assets as collateral.

Sommelier is a leading example: the Cosmos-based protocol for intelligent vaults announced today it is building connections to Arbitrum using Axelar GMP.

Through Start Path Crypto, Axelar will strengthen our relationship with Mastercard, jointly developing access to Mastercard’s channels and customers, subject-matter expertise and opportunities for technical collaboration.

Elon Musk has a vision to turn Twitter into an all-in-one app, like WeChat. Turns out, permissionless and composable crypto platforms together form something better than the sum of its parts.

Cross-chain liquidity is imperative in building the future of Web3, but how do we achieve it?

Five projects graduated from the world’s first cross-chain accelerator, run by LongHashX in partnership with Axelar, after 12 intense weeks of venture building and mentorship.

Junkyard players throw their worthless NFTs into a smart contract on Ethereum. Junkyard uses Polygon to run a game that lets them "fish" the pile for rare NFTs. Axelar provides the secure connector.

A one-time deposit address allows decentralized projects to mimic the way centralized exchanges are able to handle deposits from any chain, by creating a monitored address for receiving tokens.

Blockchain interoperability is exceedingly important for DeFi to scale. Axelar's General Message Passing (GMP) capabilities help protocols and applications go cross-chain.

Cross-chain DEXs are thriving as they offer a seamless experience. With General Message Passing (GMP), Axelar is powering up the next-gen cross-chain DEXs.

Build with Axelar Virtual Machine: Interchain Maestro - orchestration, like Kubernetes for Web3; and Interchain Amplifier – self-service new-chain connections.

A brief introduction to axlUSDC, a wrapped token representing USDC in the multi-chain

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Axelar network today provides bulletproof security for cross-chain communication, but more projects connecting means more specialized needs, including the ability to adopt new security approaches as they emerge.

A permissionless, dynamic validator set controls validation of cross-chain transactions on Axelar network, and also governs most network parameters.

As most blockchains operate independently, cross-chain swaps become crucial to enable users to be a part of an engaging Web3 ecosystem.

Cross-chain is hard, but Osmosis makes it easy.

This article first appeared in VentureBeat as a contributed article by Sergey Gorbunov and Galen

🌊 A new Osmosis 3pool offers incentives for liquidity providers bringing Ethereum-based BUSD into Cosmos.

⚠️ Scammers are running fake Axelar channels and websites. Be careful! ⚠️

Now, bridges and other cross-chain dApps can make it simple for users to send native EVM assets cross-chain.

Quadratic voting increases decentralization and makes networks secure in dPoS, DAOs and other setups, too.

Today we are proud to announce the launch of Satellite, one of the first ecosystem applications powered by the Axelar Network.

Axelar announces support from leading blockchain and crypto industry players in accelerating the development of its network for complete blockchain interoperability

Axelar is excited to announce that Cosmostation will be joining their growing ecosystem as an official validator partner.

6th August 2021- Axelar has teamed up with Polygon – the leading Ethereum scaling network – in an integration that will allow users of Polygon to leverage assets from external blockchain networks, and increase liquidity between ecosystems.

Axelar is excited to announce the launch of the incentivized Quantum Community Program! This community-focused program aims to introduce participants to the Axelar network and provide the opportunity to create a variety of original content.