Editor/Author: @Shilin

On August 5th, we released our new logo!

DesignerLaura Nori

The Big Dipper, or the Big Dipper, consists of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major arranged in a bucket (or spoon) shape in the northern sky. Because these seven stars are easier to identify by stargazers, they are often used as important signs to indicate the direction and recognize the constellations. @Forbole The team's contact with the blockchain started from the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem. Cosmos has the meaning of the universe. Therefore, the origin of the name Big Dipper is to point out a direction and a clear path for exploring the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem.

The new logo together is in the shape of a bear, which means Ursa Major. Left and right are the letters b and d, the initials of Big Dipper. The use of sharp borders and a boxy pattern was designed to emphasize the foundation of the team and the values it espouses: trust, bravery, strength. The main color of red is chosen to highlight the qualities of strength, leadership, enthusiasm, courage, and reliability. The text font selected is Red Hat Display - Medium, which is concise and clear, in line with the aesthetics of the technological world.

The new Logo opens a new journey. As the earliest, most well-known and widely used blockchain browser in the Cosmos ecosystem, Big Dipper has successively developed suitable browsers for multiple ecological projects, including Cosmos Hub, Irisnet , e-Money, Kava, Band, @Appreciate Citizens Republic, Akash, Desmos, etc. It has been forked more than 90 times on Github, providing source code support for dozens of blockchain projects.

Please continue to pay attention to us. In the foreseeable future, we will launch new versions, add more content, and expand our audience and service scope.

Explore the universe, starting with Big Dipper!

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Tendermint / Cosmos Hub

• Explore DAO solutions in the Cosmos ecosystem;
• A proposal to establish a working group to help the development of the Cosmos Hub;
• Interchain Foundation released the second quarter financial report of this year, including the assets held by the foundation, how the assets are priced, investment details, etc.;
• Details of the ATOM2021 motion ;
• CEO Peng Zhong explained in detail the long-term strategy of the Tendermin team to create a blockchain network;
• The latest developments in Stargate development;
• Cosmos Russian community meetup to discuss the Cosmos ecosystem;
• The Interchain Foundation has formed a technical advisory group composed of experts from the ecosystem who will share their experiences and add important guidance to Cosmos and Interchain-funded projects.

The latest news of the Cosmos ecological project

• Althea Network: Cosmos <-> Ethereum bridge developed by network infrastructure project attracts attention;
• Akash : Decentralized serverless computing project released Supermini product prototype ;
• Band Protocol : The decentralized data governance protocol project has launched a token reward project with Coin Marketcap; its BigDipper browser has been successfully launched; the native token BAND is ready to be listed on Coinbase Pro ; Guan Yu testnet No. 2 is launched;
• Certik : A project focusing on blockchain smart contract security announced a new award-winning testnet project ; plans to enter the field of decentralized finance in the future ; Certik gave a trust evaluation to the security audit report issued by Kava;
• Desmos : The fifth phase of the blockchain-based social network project Primer has ended , and the validator summer project has begun ;
• IOV : The last testnet before the mainnet launch of the Common Name Service project;
• Kava : The decentralized finance project has reached a cooperation with bnb48club, the main investment team of the Binance community; ranked 17th in the DeFi projects of Coin MarketCap;
• Secret Network : Projects focusing on blockchain privacy create network privacy effects and make up for an important link for the large-scale adoption of DeFi; the proposal to modify the downtime token destruction from the second phase of the rewarded testnet was approved.

Cosmos validators, developers, community dynamics

• Programming Together Series: Sai Sunkari & Sistla Abhishek explain how to create a Cosmos SDK blockchain, install NFT modules & use Cosmos IBC to create personalized NFTs; use Starport to develop Cosmos apps
• CosmWasm goes live on Cosmos' first smart contract testnet;
• Figment Networks' DataHub allows Cosmos developers to directly access Tendermint's RPC & Cosmos REST API through their highly available full node facility;
• CosmWasm launches a long-term game version of the network (named ** coral **), which can test smart contracts and validator architecture, etc.; version 1.0 is released , which is a permissionless testnet.