Marlin Protocol Announcements

2022-01-13 17:22:29 Starts in less than an hour!

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2022-01-12 10:46:57 Supragya is presenting a case study of MEV on Low-Fee Chains at the Flashbots event tomorrow!

Specifically, MEV extraction on Polygon in 2021, including a focus on adversarial & non-adversarial spamming activity & how such activities exist on other low-fee chains.

Details regarding the event are available here.

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2022-01-10 18:24:05 Updates for the second half of December are here!

Dive in: https://blog.marlin.org/marlin-biweekly-2-dev-community-updates-december-2021

Highlights:

Began migration of the Marlin Network from Ethereum to Arbitrum.

Deployed the token, staking and governance subgraphs on Arbitrum.

Finished and released the Arbitrum bridge for both tokens and stashes.

A separate staking portal and supporting backend has been deployed corresponding to the Arbitrum staking contracts.

The staking subgraph now tracks bridged stashes and displays corresponding messages in the UI.

Added missing events in the staking contracts now that we have a clean history on Arbitrum.

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2022-01-10 13:08:09 Reminder - staking rewards are migrating to Arbitrum tomorrow!

The relay network will switch to using the staking contracts on Arbitrum at midnight UTC & the last POND staking reward distribution on Ethereum will happen in ~20 hrs.

To continue earning rewards:

Delegators need to migrate their stashes.
Operators need to register on the Arbitrum staking portal.

Guide: https://blog.marlin.org/migrating-the-marlin-network-from-ethereum-to-arbitrum

Reach out to us on Discord if you have any queries/require assistance.

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2022-01-01 06:52:21 Happy New Year everyone!

2021 has been incredible for Marlin and the work done over the past years has been crucial to the network's growth, setting the stage for what is going to be our best year yet!

Here's a brief look at some of the major achievements during 2021:

POND and MPond token contracts were deployed a little over a year ago.

POND is trading on major exchanges – Binance, Huobi, KuCoin, Uniswap, SushiSwap, CoinDCX, Gate.io, Bitvavo and more.

FlowMint, the incentivized stakedrop was a tremendous success with over $2 billion worth of tokens bonded at peak.

Over 290 validators & 2500 users participated from 7 chains: Polkadot, Fantom, Polygon, NEAR Protocol, Cosmos, Binance Chain & IRISnet.

Initiated Larvanet, the third phase of Marlin's development trajectory.

The larvanet already has characteristics of a mainnet - contracts on ETH mainnet, staking rewards, real tokens, etc. with gradual feature addition at each future phase.

Launched staking which has been live for +10 months.

+100 operators joined the Marlin network & run relays for Ethereum.

+115M POND & +745 $MPond (1 MPond = 1M POND) staked currently.

Launched Lagoon, a full-fledged testnet environment for operators to verify their setup before joining the Marlin network.

Using Lagoon, operators can attract more delegations by pointing to a track record of performance on the testnet.

OpenWeaver for Polygon.

Block producers & full nodes in the Polygon network can send & receive large blocks at latencies close to physical limits.

Provides DeFi traders, arbitrage & liquidation bots near immediate access to the txn mempool.

The POND DAO voted on three governance proposals.

Update staking undelegation time (passed)

Update MPond-Pond bridge parameters (passed)

Rebalance staking rewards (failed - insufficient votes)

MEV support for Polygon.

Target:

Validators in the Polygon network looking to increase their income by including MEV bundles.

dApp devs who want to protect user's txs from frontrunning.

MEV searchers interested in prioritizing bundles.

Released Loki, a dedicated Polygon MEV testnet for validators to smoothly transition to mev-bor on mainnet.

Loki allows validators to test the stability of mev-bor w/o affecting the mainnet.

Spread the word about Marlin through Binance's Learn and Trade POND promotion.

Check out our introductory video!

Initiated migration of the Marlin Network from Ethereum to Arbitrum.

This will allow for increased participation in Marlin's network, with the ecosystem being able to leverage Arbitrum's reduced gas fees while maintaining Ethereum's security.

Looking ahead...

Migrate fully to Arbitrum by early February.

Post-migration, launch FlowMint 2.0 + enable rewards for other chains starting with Polygon, Polkadot and Cosmos.

Flashbots (MEV) network for various chains.

And more...

A special thank you to our community and partners. None of this would be possible without your continued support.

Here's to 2022 and beyond!

Want to learn more about Marlin or just say hi? Pop into our Discord server.

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2021-12-24 14:53:59 Updates for the first half of December are here!

Dive in: https://blog.marlin.org/marlin-biweekly-1-dev-community-updates-december-2021

Highlights:

Add bridging functionality to StakeManager.

Staking subgraph has been updated to track bridged stashes.

POND listing on KuCoin.

Learn & Trade $POND on Binance with $100,000 in rewards.

Those who missed watching the intro video on Binance Learn and Trade can watch it here.

Added hardhat based deployment scripts for the staking contracts.

Added hardhat scripts for ERC20 transfers and MPond whitelisting.

Rebased mev-bor on top of v0.2.12 to work with the recent Polygon hard fork, in the midst of upgrading the Loki testnet.

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2021-12-23 13:53:54 The Marlin network is migrating from Ethereum to Arbitrum

This will allow for increased participation in Marlin's network, with the ecosystem being able to leverage Arbitrum's reduced gas fees while maintaining Ethereum's security.

Guide: https://blog.marlin.org/migrating-the-marlin-network-from-ethereum-to-arbitrum

Starting today, existing users & operators participating in the Marlin network by staking and running clusters can transfer their stashes over via the Arbitrum bridge.

Token holders can also transfer their POND/MPond from the Ethereum network to Arbitrum.

The migration will be done in phases with staking completely moving to Arbitrum by 10th Jan 2022 with the Marlin Bridge & Governance going live approx a month later.

Existing users will continue to earn rewards on the Ethereum network until staking goes live on Arbitrum.

Cluster operators will need to register on the Arbitrum staking portal before staking goes live in order to continue receiving tickets and rewards.

Reach out to us on Discord in case you have queries/require assistance.

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2021-12-07 09:49:52 Updates for the second half of November are here!

Dive in: https://blog.marlin.org/marlin-biweekly-2-dev-community-updates-november-2021

Highlights:

Developed and tested a token bridge UI to Arbitrum for POND & MPond.

Developed a staking bridge for delegators to migrate stashes onto Arbitrum, currently under final testing. Scheduled to be released along with the token bridge early next week.

Added L1 and L2 gateway contract pairs underlying the bridges.

MEV data on Polygon for most of 2021 has been backfilled on our dashboard, showing around $37.8M extracted in DEX arbitrages alone. Work is underway to incorporate more protocols.

Our mev-inspect-py fork has been updated to the new async architecture on upstream.

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2021-12-06 10:20:53 Learn and Trade $POND on Binance!

$100,000 rewards up for grabs!

Details: https://twitter.com/binance/status/1467754387636469760 Open / Comment

2021-12-01 11:08:56 $POND gets listed on KuCoin

https://twitter.com/kucoincom/status/1465953868521488385 Open / Comment