Introducing Made in Block
Hello World! We are new, but not that new 🧑🚀
Today I'm pleased to announce a new reality: Made in Block (MiB). We are a startup, a group of passionate Cosmonauts, developers and Bitcoin-addicted people based in Italy 🇮🇹 and Switzerland 🇨🇭.
MiB has one objective: contribute to the mass adoption of crypto worldwide by educating users, training new developers, building decentralized applications and securing the networks we operate on.
Learn more about our projects, continue reading!
Validator
We ran validators around the Interchain since early 2019. We first started from Cosmos Hub 2 but fell out of the set very quickly. Starting a validator, especially on the Hub, is not easy if you don't have a lot of funds. So we began taking part in testnets, trying to get some genesis tokens allocations and prizes. After 3 years, we are now active on 8 networks with many funds delegated to us, great uptime and without ever being slashed.
Our validator name initially was ITA Stakers; since we don't want to limit our operations to Italy, we decided to rename it to Made in Block. If you are our delegator, no worries! No action is needed from you.
MiB Academy - Blockchain from scratch
Cosmos, and the blockchain field in general, are growing at an insane speed. There is a severe lack of developers and other professional figures in the space, but there are also many people willing to learn and motivated to build; they only need some guidance and help. That's why we decided to create the MiB Academy, an intensive async training composed of six levels, each with specific objectives. You will learn from the basics of blockchain, like wallets and cryptography to more advanced skills like WASM Smart Contracts development and customization of Cosmos-SDK modules. in addition to our knowledge and experience we incentive active participation with a small prize at the end of every level. The most talented devs will also have the possibility to do a stage with our team and get your hands dirty with real world applications.
The Academy will be free for everyone and accessible permissionlessy through our Discord. More details will be shared in a dedicated article.
Space Merch DAO
We all love merch, right? We are tired of super-low quality t-shirts that lose color after the first wash. We want to shill our favorite crypto and memes to all our friends, without looking too nerdy and being cool at the same time. Space Merch will be a DAO hosted on Juno Network using DAODAO tooling. It will combine the skills of different designers, stylists, and manufacturers to achieve the best-in-class merchandise for any crypto project or brand. We are already collaborating with many chains across Cosmos... follow us to not miss any drop!
You can find some previews on Space Merch Twitter.
Cosmos Arcade
Built by our devs primarily for learning purposes, it's now becoming an actual project with a complete roadmap ahead. Cosmos Arcade will be a collection of online fun games, all crypto-related and connected with a common tokenomics. A few examples of what you'll find once live: NFT Card Games, price prediction contracts and chihuahua racing dogs. Even the first airdrop for the token $LUCK will be a game itself, where people will be able to bet on their random allocation.
If you want to learn more about the Airdrop, and the future games follow us on Twitter.
CosmoApi
As a dAPP developer, you don't really want to mess with Blockchain infrastructure, especially while creating MVPs or fast-developing projects. That's why we think a dedicated set of APIs to access data of various cosmos chains would help developers focus more on protocol logic and waste less time on tedious node setup and maintenance. We will provide free standard access to Cosmos RPC and gRPC endpoints, with the possibility of buying guaranteed requests per second and scale as your project grows. You can also customize APIs to index data and provide it back in your preferred format.
We are already providing RPC endpoints for some projects on JunoNetwork, handling overall more than 500M Requests per week during the bear market.
Closing remarks
We want to thank all members the Cosmos community for the amazing support you always gave us, we will do our best to contribute back. Hope to see you soon, maybe at the Cosmoverse!