Every now and then people need a helping hand navigating the treacherous seas of decentralized finance so they can coexist peacefully with the giant whales 🐋 and other sea life lurking beneath the surface. As we help steer the Kujira community through saccharine and bitter times alike, we guide our constituents through our safe yet bombastic shipping lane. Detailed below are the past events and landmarks along our long, long shipping lane as we take our stand on shipping, payments, and commerce.
Here is the monthly Kujira Shipping Lane since inception:
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| September 10 | First Tweet & Twitter reaches 1000 followers |
| September 25 | LunaBulls release a KUJI Bull NFT |
| September 30 | Kujira.app Live |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| October 12 | ORCA UI teased on Twitter |
| October 17 - October 20 | Early Bird public sale whitelist for early Telegram supporters |
| October 21 | Kujira Litepaper is out |
| October 26 | ORCA launches for deposits |
| October 30 | BLUE teased on Twitter |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| November 2 | Anchor Protocol adopts Kujira’s proposed liquidation queue contract |
| November 3 | Kujira IDO announcement (on StarTerra) |
| November 6 | ORCA is live |
| November 12 | KUJI IDO / ORCA hits 1.2K unique bids & 68K bLUNA total volume |
| November 12 | In 100 minutes, KUJI public sale completed and set new record of $10.5 million |
| November 16 | In 35 minutes, ORCA liquidates $21.7 million on Anchor |
| November 17 | Early Bird White List Sale begins |
| November 19 | BLUE goes live |
| November 19 | Token Generation Event and KUJI listing on TerraSwap |
| November 23 | Twitter hits 18.1K followers and KUJI hits Coinhall.org's front page |
| November 23 | ORCA withdrawal option to pay with KUJI (and lower fees by 50%) goes live |
| November 23 | 1 week fees on KUJI/UST pair hits $79,000 |
| November 24 | BELUGA teased |
| November 26 | KUJI live on CoinGecko |
| November 26 | ORCA basic analytics live |
| November 27 | 1 week volume on KUJI/UST pair hits $46.5 million and fees rise to $139,425 |
| November 29 | KUJI live on CoinMarketCap |
| November 30 | BELUGA live |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| December 1 | 3D Kujira LUNA Bull live |
| December 2 | UST pool value & ratio of pools to locked collateral doubles overnight |
| December 2 | KUJI/UST liquidity pool APR hits 472.376% from trading fees |
| December 3 | Kuji Staking and Governance go live |
| December 5 | $15.8 million dollars of bids are filled on ORCA for bETH and bLUNA |
| December 6 | Governance Vote to migrate KUJI/UST liquidity pool to Astroport goes live |
| December 6 | Kujira becomes Terra project with highest engagement over the past week |
| December 6 | KUJI becomes tradeable for any other token on Terraswap |
| December 10 | Kujira platform fee lockbox hits 47841.5 KUJI |
| December 14 | BELUGA supports sending native Terra tokens (75% off fees with KUJI) |
| December 14 | Kujira.app updated with roadmap and sections on BLUe, ORCA, & BELUGA |
| December 17 | KUJI starts trading on MEXC and MEXC KUJI trading competition kicks off |
| December 19 | ORCA super analytics teased |
| December 21 | Yield Labs make a series introing ORCA liquidations to newcomers |
| December 27 | Kujira second governance starts which will burn 31 mil KUJI, donate 310K KUJI to Angel Protocol, airdrop and staking/liquidity incentives burned as Kujira decides to full on embrace sustainability |
| December 27 | Kujira (KUJI) starts trending on CoinGecko |
| December 28 | Apeboard (Nansen Portfolio) integrates to display users' ORCA UST bids |
| December 28 | Kujira hits 29.8K Twitter followers and also features in a Forbes Article |
| December 28 | Kujira second governance vote passes setting up a sustainable trajectory while ensuring KUJI gov stakers receive staking rewards from the Kujira lockbox |
| December 29 | BELUGA adds amount/share functionality and halves fees |
| December 30 | ORCA aUST bidding teased on Twitter |
| December 31 | APR from BELUGA and ORCA fees hits 15.7% |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| January 4 | ORCA feature showing number of times pools have been emptied goes live |
| January 5 | Over 3 hours, 158 loans were liquidated and 12.6 million UST was used on ORCA to purchase 166.8K bLUNA and 273 bETH. The single largest liquidation was 3.6 million UST paid for 53.5K bLUNA at 68.29 UST per LUNA |
| January 6 | January staking APR rises 5% overnight to 16.33% from sustainable platform fees |
| January 9 | Another liquidation event pushes KUJI staking APR to 21.26% |
| January 13 | ORCA Premium Analytics Dashboard teased |
| January 13 | Dale the Mail Whale, Kujira's friendly whale liquidation oracle goes live on Twitter |
| January 17 | KUJI staker campaign 1 launches and guide for bidding & liquidations releases |
| January 18 | 2nd Gov poll kicks in, 22.985 mil KUJI are burnt, 232.18K KUJI donated to Angel Protocol, and every 2 months for a year 1.485 mil KUJI is burnt and 15K KUJI is donated to Angel Protocol and max supply reduces from 150 mil to 119 mil KUJI |
| January 19 | Tiers added to the BLUE and ORCA staking dashboard for ORCA analytics |
| January 19 | Coin Telegraph releases an article on Kujira's ORCA |
| January 23 | 1 Click conversion of UST to aUST bids confirmed and successful |
| January 27 | Loop Finance creates KUJI/aUST, LOOP/KUJI, and KUJI/UST liquidity pools |
| January 28 | Kujira.app hits 3.5 million views with 750K unique visitors over 3 months |
| January 30 | Dale the Mail Whale hits 1K Twitter followers |
| January 31 | ORCA premium analytics dashboard launches |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| February 1 | January KUJI staking rewards paid out |
| February 1 | February KUJI staking APR sitting around 15% (pre-aUST bidding launch) |
| February 1 | BLUE staking UI updated to show last month's staking rewards as well |
| February 4 | ORCA aUST bidding goes live after completing successful audit |
| February 4 | ORCA withdrawal fees are halved to 0.5% and are paid in the bAsset withdrawn |
| February 7 | # of unique ORCA aUST bids hits 1.9k |
| February 10 | 3rd governance vote on Kujira’s fee distribution goes live (this laid the groundwork for Kujira’s Cosmos layer one current revenue/staking model) |
| February 13 | Kujira integrates XDEFI Wallet into all Kujira dApps |
| February 18 | Kujira lowers BELUGA fees another 60% |
| February 20 | Apex asset sKUJI is introduced and governance migration begins |
| February 24 | Monthly Kujira protocol revenue hits 190K KUJI ($130K) in value |
| February 25 | Portal to Kado Money integrated into the BLUE swap tab |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| March 1 | sKUJI goes live |
| March 3 | LUV (Lunaverse) and LUART added to the reward share under BLUE |
| March 3 | Apeboard (Nansen Portfolio) integrates sKUJI |
| March 3 | Cross-chain ORCA on Acala & Karura announced |
| March 5 | BELUGA can send to an unlimited amount of recipients from a ledger, compatible with any CW4 contract, team multisig, and governance stake contract |
| March 7 | sKUJI is listed on CoinGecko |
| March 9 | Kujira becomes the first Terra dApp to run 100% on our own infrastructure with no reliance on the Terra LCD |
| March 9 | We hit monthly 296K unique visitors and 1.3M page views across our apps |
| March 9 | Multi-purpose, plug & play & configurable liquidation queue for all CosmWasm chains passes audit by TerraSCV and goes live |
| March 10 | Anchor sAVAX onboarding proposal in forum and integrated into ORCA same day prior to launch on Anchor Protocol |
| March 13 | Plug & play & configurable liquidation queue for all EVM chains is announced. Fees from any chain go to sKUJI holders |
| March 14 | Kuijra apps hit 1 million unique visitors and ORCA hits 50K unique bidders |
| March 14 | Documentation published for Cosmos lending markets liquidation queue |
| March 15 | Kujira Instagram goes live |
| March 16 | DefiLlama starts tracking KujiraDefiLlama starts tracking Kujira |
| March 17 | Coinhall Hallswap V2 raffle with 3600 KUJI prize pool (among others) begins |
| March 17 | Terraformer integrates Kujira |
| March 18 | aUST bid TVL in ORCA exceeds $25 million |
| March 20 | Instagram entry about Kujira's Sustainability premiers |
| March 22 | 100K sKUJI giveaway contest is announced for sAVAX aUST bidders |
| March 22 | sAVAX bidding goes live on ORCA |
| March 23 | sAVAX aUST bidding pool hits over 4.5 million aUST |
| March 24 | sAVAX bidding collateral is integrated into Apeboard (Nansen Portfolio) |
| March 24 | bATOM bidding teased |
| March 27 | 3 part Instagram series about aUST bidding kicks off and wraps up on April 1st |
| March 30 | bATOM collateral poll live on Anchor and ORCA UI expands to different chains |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| April 4 | Plug & play liquidation queue for all EVM chains passes audit by Peckshield |
| April 4 | Bot First Markets are added to ORCA with native aUST bidding and auto activation. Excitingly the Mars UST liquidation market integration allows bidders to sell local tops. ORCA also gets a redesign to accommodate the influx of new markets |
| April 7 | Terra Floki creates Protocol Revenue staking and credits Team Kujira with helpful inspiration based on our sKUJI dApp fee revenue model |
| April 11 | sKUJI staking APR hits 21.74% based on liquidation revenue and over 1200 bLUNA wereadded as fees to the pool over the last week |
| April 11 | 100K sKUJI prize pool, bATOM aUST competition is announced |
| April 13 | The amount of bLUNA in the revenue pool doubles overnight once again |
| April 14 | bsKUJI (an Anchor liquid staked KUJI collateral token) is teased |
| April 18 | sKUJI pool total bLUNA has officially 2.8x'ed over 3.5 tokens |
| April 19 | Ava Lend partnership annnounced |
| April 20 | Graph of sKUJI/KUJI ratio over time added to BLUE dashboard |
| April 24 | dApp meant to revolutionize the centerpiece of DeFi teased |
| April 26 | wasAVAX (sAVAX) aUST bidding competition on ORCA rewards are distributed |
| April 27 | Pstake creates a way to convert bATOM to ATOM |
| April 29 | bSOL collateral vote goes up on Anchor |
| April 30 | Kujira Reddit announced and goes live |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| May 7 | UST depegs slightly from 1 USD (and large ORCA liquidations occur) |
| May 8 | UST depeg gets significantly worse (and larger ORCA liquidations occur) |
| May 9 | The sKUJI revenue pool increases from 3928 bLUNA, 189151 aUST, 14 bATOM, 4.56 bETH and 28 wasAVAX to 9542 bLUNA, 214212 aUST, 44.3 bATOM, 8.07 bETH, and 62.25 wasAVAX over 7 days, essentially doubling from real revenue |
| May 9 | The UST depeg is slightly held in check |
| May 10 | The UST depeg continues to improve slightly and the bSOL market is live on ORCA |
| May 10 | 25306 bLUNA, 56 bETH, 62 wasAVAX, and 70 bATOM are added as protocol revenue to the sKUJI pool over 24 hours |
| May 11 | Do Kwon creates Twitter thread addressing the UST depeg and LUNA death spiral mentioning plan to collateralize UST |
| May 11 | Kujira reveals FIN, Terra's first decentralized, permissionless, 100% on-chain order book style token exchange using a fair non-FIFO matching algorithm |
| May 11 | Kujira introduces USDCso/UST pair on FIN, to help the UST peg |
| May 12 | LUNA/UST and KUJI/UST markets open on FIN |
| May 12 | 1 UST falls to 15 cents |
| May 12 | Kujira website updated to reflect each of our products/dApps more clearly |
| May 12 | The Terra blockchain halts to disable further delegations to prevent a takeover |
| May 13 | The Terra network is shortly reenabled, and rumors of a longer halt surface and a snapshot is taken at 1:58 AM UTC of all KUJI/sKUJI holders, stakers, unstakers, vesters, and LP’ers; network halts shortly after |
| May 13 | Do Kwon apologizes & tweets that UST will not be the decentralized money for DeFi |
| May 13 | Team Kujira puts out a medium article detailing our future plans to launch a new sovereign Cosmos layer one Kujira chain |
| May 13 | As part of the snapshot announcement, messages are put across our socials officially announcing that KUJI and sKUJI are effectively deprecated on Terra and MEXC (and we continue to do so every day for the next two weeks) |
| May 13 | We reach out to MEXC exchange to halt KUJI trading due to Terra's collapse (they don't halt trades) |
| May 15 | Kujira hits 50K followers on Twitter using zero paid advertising |
| May 19 | The launch of interchain security validates the plug & chug ORCA liquidation queue |
| May 22 | Kujira teases "Grown-Up DeFi" as a driving ethos centered around bringing people products & protocols that are revenue generating, sustainable, and fair |
| May 22 | Kujira Discord launches (with communities speaking over 7 languages) |
| May 22 | Retrograde Money announces a Discord poll to gauge target chain interest (Kujira wins community Discord poll; however, Retrograde ultimately migrates elsewhere) |
| May 24 | Kujira.app website is updated representing the new "Grown-Up DeFi" ethos that we wholeheartedly embraced post Terra collapse |
| May 27 | KUJI (old) is delisted from MEXC Global as despite repeated warnings to not buy the tokens as they were unrelated to our new chain, they rose over 500% due to speculation as many Terra alt coins were seeing large price spikes when a rescue plan for Terra was initially announced to create a fork called Terra 2 |
| May 27 | Anchor Protocol confirms that aUST sitting in ORCA bids qualifies for Terra airdrops |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| June 1 | Private TestNet is up with 76 validators & Kujira Finder gets a short demo/teaser |
| June 3 | Public announcement made targeting June 13th for public TestNet (with over 200 validators on testnet already) and MainNet planned within 2 weeks after TestNet |
| June 4 | Kujira & MEXC announces plan to reimburse all KUJI buyers post snapshot with USDC and give pre-snapshot MEXC KUJI buyers, (new L1) KUJI tokens |
| June 7 | Discord hits 2000 members |
| June 8 | Dove goes on to do a Twitter Space AMA with Tendermint Timmy |
| June 13 | Kujira Public TestNet ‘Harpoon 4’ goes live and starts producing blocks |
| June 14 | Migration & Kujira incentivized TestNet staking begin with over 620 TestNet validators (under blue.kujira.app/migrate and blue.kujira.app/stake) |
| June 14 | sKUJI is confirmed to not exist on Kujira Chain and instead for every sKUJI migrated from the Terra snapshot, ~ 1.229 KUJI are received to reward sKUJI bonders/holders |
| June 15 | BLUE update allowing easy search of favorite validator(s) and filtering the results |
| June 16 | Redelegation feature is live on BLUE at blue.kujira.app/stake |
| June 16 | Validator uptime is added to the BLUE stake tab as well |
| June 17 | FIN is live on TestNet, all TestNet KUJI stakers receive 10K DEMO tokens as an airdrop exclusive to TestNet to feature test, staking rewards from TestNet are airdropped to MainNet, FIN margin trading teased & FIN/ORCA as well as composability/integration as part of future roadmap, Mainnet tentatively on July 1st |
| June 19 | KUJI/LUNA FIN market is available on TestNet |
| June 22 | BLUE swap tab reenabled (now using FIN market orders behind the scenes) |
| June 23 | Added a validator grid view to promote decentralization & validator uptime on BLUE |
| June 28 | Satellite bridge available on TestNet via Axelar |
| June 29 | Enables BLUE sends to multiple addresses at once from the wallet |
| June 29 | Created basic demo showing how Kujira.JS can be used to develop FIN trading bots |
| June 30 | Basic demo showing how Kujira.JS can be used to develop FIN market maker bots |
| June 30 | Announce ability to deposit tokens from any exchange directly to your Kujira address without even needing Metamask |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| July 1 | Market tanks due to 3AC contagion and yet Kujira MainNet goes live with no delay |
| July 2 | Comprehensive guide to trading on FIN released, FIN trading set to kick off on the 5th |
| July 3 | Public announcement that Setten will be providing Kujira’s public infrastructure |
| July 4 | Confirm focus on decentralized commerce by announcing the Kujira Wallet |
| July 4 | Proposal 2 deploy KUJI-axlUSDC FIN market live for voting |
| July 5 | USDC bridging open, Kujira added to Map of Zones/ KUJI-axlUSDC trading live on FIN and BLUE swap tab now available on MainNet |
| July 5 | Confirm validator model will include no inflation or printed tokens |
| July 6 | Local Money instantiated on Kuijra’s TestNet; Black Whale market making bot goes live |
| July 7 | Episode 1 of Kuji Kast (a fantastic community initiative) premiers with a Dove interview |
| July 8 | wETH-axlUSDC FIN market deployed; Ape Board integrates Kujira once again |
| July 11 | BLUE Dashboard updated with KUJI price, FDV, circulating supply, and APR |
| July 12 | 4 new trading pairs live on FIN including ATOM and OSMO |
| July 13 | JUNO / axlUSDC pair live on FIN |
| July 14 | Governance proposal threshold increased to reduce spam |
| July 14 | Kado Money teases future Kujira integration |
| July 14 | Kuji Kast Episode 2 Whale Hunting premiers |
| July 15 | EVMOS / axlUSDC market live on FIN |
| July 15 | SeaShanty (Kujira Validator) creates community bot/alert system that over time will integrate with FIN, ORCA, BLUE, and more |
| July 15 | Simplified guide on how to buy KUJI out on Medium |
| July 17 | Black Whale Community Funding for Milestone 1 passes |
| July 18 | Short-term roadmap: Trade Cosmos wide with FIN / Bid on liquidations with ORCA / Trade P2P with Local Money / Market-Make for profit with Black Whale / DCA with CALC Finance / Kujira mobile/desktop super-wallet / Kujira Hackathon for more dApps |
| July 19 | Medium on FIN released / Ledger compatible with Kujira |
| July 20 | KUJI token live on Coin Gecko / Black Whale v2 bots live |
| July 20 | BLUE wallet embedded multi-send and vesting for any token on Kujira now enabled |
| July 21 | LUNA-axlUSDC pair live on FIN / LUNA bridging to/from Terra 2 available on BLUE |
| July 21 | Kujira talk with Frens Validator, Mars Protocol, and Danku goes live |
| July 21 | Kuji Kast Episode 3 Black Whale interview / FIN becomes # 89 on Coingecko’s DEX list |
| July 22 | Proposal 17 CALC community funding for Milestone 1 goes live |
| July 23 | Kujira sees 9185% increase in TVL (~$639,000) over the last 30 days |
| July 23 | Kuji Kast Episode 4 (Loco for Local) Local Money interview |
| July 24 | Over the past 28 days Kujira made 19.1% fewer tweets, but received 2.07M Twitter impressions (8% up), 585K profile visits (8% up), and 5,416 mentions (40.9% up) |
| July 25 | CALC Finance releases Medium article on ideas for Grown-Up Governance |
| July 27 | Team Kuijra reaffirms being part of Angel Protocol’s Locked for Good program which permanently stakes and locks protocol tokens while redirecting yield to charity |
| July 27 | Kujira blockchain reaches 1 million blocks produced |
| July 27 | Local Money funding proposal officially passes |
| July 28 | Kujira reaches 19 proposals that have completed governance |
| July 29 | There is a new FIN UI fin.kuijra.app/listing where gov proposals can be submitted to launch new pairs on FIN |
| July 29 | FIN UI updated for wide screens to display all available FIN markets and allow for easy switching between them and UI updates meant for a future mobile experience |
| July 30 | Governance proposal 20 is added via the new FIN listing UI |
| July 31 | FIN reaches #77 on the CoinGecko DEX chart |
| July 31 | Over the last 30 days, Kujira.app reaches 69K unique visitors, 883K total pageviews, 38% bounce rate (4% improvement), and visiting duration of ~7 minutes up 29% |
| Date | |
|---|---|
| August 1 | FIN pair wAVAX-axlUSDC live; CALC Finance announces user research campaign |
| August 1 | Dove interviews with Bites Digital Group on the new chain, upcoming partnerships, our Kujira wallet, and the interchain future |
| August 2 | Cosmobot integrated with Kujira Telegram which allows sending KUJI tips to people from inside of the main Kujira Telegram chat |
| August 2 | Bybit releases a detailed research piece on Kujira |
| August 4 | Stars/axlUSDC market now live on FIN |
| August 5 | FIN ATOM volume grows quickly, exceeding the past 7 days combined |
| August 5 | Kujira hits 4th most active zone in Cosmos IBC volume over the last 24 hours |
| August 5 | Kujira hits $16.2 million in total IBC volume |
| August 7 | Kuji Kast Episode 5 Kujira Validator extraordinaire |
| August 8 | Kujira USK, a decentralized and overcollateralized Stable Coin, is announced with a detailed Medium article providing specifics |
| August 9 | Kujira Oracle is live on TestNet; Kujira confirms work on an ecosystem page |
| August 10 | Dove interviewed by Macro Perry on the GraviDao Podcast |
| August 10 | Since July 20th, 7 day volumes on FIN see increases of 641% for KUJI (from $373K to $2.4M), 5344% for ATOM (from $7.4K to $399K), 316% for JUNO (from $12.7K to $40.2K), and 547% for OSMO (from $3.3K to $18.2K) August 12th: USK mint and ORCA are both live on DevNet; USK symbol design revealed |
| August 12 | Kuji Kast obtains custom YouTube URL |
| August 14 | KUJI hits top 10 trending tokens on Coin Gecko searches over the past 7 days (just 3 months after the announcement to migrate to our own blockchain) |
| August 14 | FIN bumps up to #71 on the DEX charts |
| August 15 | Kujira Network upgrade in preparation for USK and ORCA |
| August 15 | Kujira Labs, Kujira’s first Accelerator Program, is announced |
| August 15 | Sumo and Kuji Monsta launch WHALE GAME a community competition |
| August 16 | Local Money commits to redirecting 10% of their Protocol Revenue to KUJI stakers |
| August 16 | Kujira documentation docs detailing margin trading are teased |
| August 16 | Kujira Brandbook containing official brand colors, logos, fonts added to our docs |
| August 17 | Kujira price oracle live on MainNet |
| August 18 | Kujira staking APR entirely from real revenue generation exceeds 2% |
| August 18 | Crypto Harry puts out a detailed piece on Kujira’s Grown-Up DeFi |
| August 18 | Kuji Kast Episode 6 CALC Finance interview |
| August 19 | Public TestNet live for minting USK & bidding for liquidated collateral on ORCA |
| August 19 | Over the past month KUJI price is up 330% |
| August 20 | Kujira announces the first FIN trading competition with rewards totaling 50K USK |
| August 22 | 7 day FIN volume stats rise dramatically over the past 30 days with weekly 7 day volume growths of 157.68%, 378.16%, 157.51%, and 191.05% respectively |
| August 22 | FIN trading competition kicks off; and trade history is added to FIN |
| August 22 | New ORCA mechanics revealed for USK markets |
| August 23 | LOOP / axlUSDC pair live on FIN |
| August 23 | Margin Trading, ORCA, and USK confirmed to launch at the same time |
| August 24 | Kujira and USK are mentioned by Lachlan Keller in a Yahoo Finance article |
| August 25 | KUJI (the token corresponding to our L1 blockchain) relists on MEXC Global |
| August 25 | New decentralization focused BLUE staking UI and Medium article are live |
| August 26 | Kujira announces that all staking rewards from Team Kujira genesis delegations to genesis validators will be periodically redistributed to KUJI stakers; this reduces the revenue split from 40.2 million staked KUJI to only 26.6 million staked KUJI |
| August 26 | A new article comparing the AMM/Orderbook hybrid model to FIN goes live |
| August 26 | ATLO announces its intent to make Kujira its new home |
| August 26 | So far in August, the amount of KUJI staked is up 17%, the number of unique holders staking has doubled, the staking yield has 10x’ed, 9 high quality protocols are being built, and FIN trading volume has done a 15X |
| August 27 | Yield Labs puts out 2 detailed videos explaining USK and how to Mint as how to grab assets at a discount on ORCA |
| August 27 | Kuji KAST Episode 7 Whale Game premiers (it was a wonderful meme competition) |
| August 29 | First FIN Trading competition ends; governance proposal 33 live for voting |
| August 29 | Kujira is live on the Leap Wallet |
| August 30 | A dApp launchpad icon is added to all Kujira dApps allowing for seamless switching between all Kujira dApps–anticipating the high composability between BLUE, ORCA, FIN, and future dApps |
| August 30 | Detailed guide about Withdrawing assets from FIN live on Medium |
| August 31 | CMDX / axlUSDC pair live on FIN |
| August 31 | Audit report for the USK mint contract received back from SCV Security |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| September 5 | The new Kujira ecosystem ‘Weekly Roundup’ is live |
| September 6 | Over the last 30 days, Kujira hist #4 in total IBC volume which reaches $49.6M |
| September 7 | Governance proposal to Deploy the USK Controller Contract is live |
| September 7 | Nomic BTC, nBTC, makes its way onto Kujira Harpoon TestNet, soon users can stake KUJI to earn BTC, soon users can use BTC as collateral to mint USK, soon users can bid on BTC liquidations in ORCA |
| September 7 | FIN FUTURES teased; SCV security USK contract audited finalized and added to the Kujira Github |
| September 7 | Kujira POD a new Kujira dApp goes live, bringing Kuijra’s new decentralization focused staking UI for use on all Cosmos chains to help decentralize their validator sets and spread out control over their respective networks |
| September 7 | Kujira POD a new Kujira dApp goes live, bringing Kuijra’s new decentralization focused staking UI for use on all Cosmos chains to help decentralize their validator sets and spread out control over their respective networks |
| September 8 | Weekly Roundup suggestion and Feedback form is out |
| September 9 | 5 new proposals go live for voting: an ATOM/USK FIN pair, a KUJI/USK FIN pair, an axlUSDC/USK FIN pair, opening the ORCA liquidation queue for the ATOM USK market, and enabling ATOM as a collateral type for USK |
| September 9 | Deebs gives a sneak peek into Kado Money’s V2 on YouTube featuring Kujira |
| September 10 | Major FIN API update in progress and Axelar Core deploys a new UI |
| September 10 | Detailed Medium article on ‘What to expect when USK launches’ |
| September 10 | AQUA, a revolutionary DAO on JUNO dedicated to ending the world water crisis, announces an airdrop of 1.5% of its supply to Kujira stakers |
| September 12 | ORCA and USK go live! ATOM can now be used as collateral to mint USK, USK can be used to bid on ATOM liquidations in USK to help protect the USK stable, the KUJI/USK, ATOM/USK, and axlUSDC/USK pairs all go live on FIN |
| September 12 | Weekly Roundup episode 2 is out; Kujira is now supported on Coinhall |
| September 12 | SeaShanty’s ORCA Telegram bid alerts are now live on MainNet |
| September 13 | USK is now listed on Coin Gecko |
| September 13 | Black Whale announces vault for axlUSDC / USK pair on FIN |
| September 13 | A Community French Kujira YouTube channel debuts |
| September 14 | Nomic BTC TestNet adds an IBC section where you can bridge nBTC to Kujira |
| September 14 | USK accepted for payment on WooCommerce |
| September 15 | Kujira branded whale merch design teased; Nakamoto Coefficient improves to 8 |
| September 16 | SeaShanty Month 2 Community Funding Proposal successfully passes |
| September 16 | Kado teases fiat conversion to USK in a few clicks and direct deposits into ORCA |
| September 16 | KUJI enters top 200 coins on CoinGecko by Market Cap 11 weeks after launch |
| September 17 | CALC Community Funding Milestone 2 for successfully deploying smart contract on testnet successfully passes + Kuijra near-term Roadmap updated with confirmation of near term launches for Black Whale, CALC Finance, Local Money, and Atlo Protocol |
| September 18 | Black Whale implements final changes from feedback received from SCV Security smart contract audit |
| September 19 | Announcement that perpetual swap trading (Perps) are coming to FIN. Unlike GMX rather than using an AMM, we will be using FIN's orderbook to make the underlying positions tradeable, circumventing issues common to liquidity pools |
| September 19 | Kujira Weekly Roundup: Ep. 3; Kujira Discord reaches 7200 members and Twitter users exceed 65K |
| September 20 | Danku interviews Dove covering the Kujira Wallet, NFT's, ORCA markets, & more |
| September 20 | Kuji Kast Episode 8 features Dove about USK, ORCA, and more |
| September 21 | The Kujira-track.app by ocebotKuji has a facelift and tracks new Kujira data |
| September 21 | Dove, Brett, and Peruggi attend NearCon |
| September 21 | Pulsar announces that Kujira will soon be live on Pulsar Finance |
| September 21 | Ryan Gladwin from Hedgehog blog interviews Dove about Kujira escaping Terra |
| September 21 | Stargaze based Kujira NFT project is teased |
| September 21 | Huge KUJI independence day marketing campaign announced for November 14th when private sale vesting ends |
| September 22 | Coinhall hosts a Twitter space with Dove about Kuijra's story, developments, & future plans |
| September 23 | Announcement that USK will be IBC transferrable from middle of next week 26th |
| September 23 | Peruggi releases new Medium entry on Minting USK and managing your position |
| September 23 | Cevo puts out a detailed Twitter Thread and Medium article on Kujira |
| September 24 | KUJI adoption is growing, 4.5k new Kujira wallets added in the last month, a 15% increase and 2.8k of them have staked KUJI for the first time in the last month |
| September 25 | Proposal 45 add margin long trading to ATOM - USK on FIN goes up for vote |
| September 25 | Black Whale vaults are officially live (Kujira's first external protocol goes live! |
| September 25 | ORCA market view updated. Clean and easy layout to display markets with filters |
| September 25 | DLOYAL Refer, a Web3 Performance Marketing & Sales Platform announces intent to build on Kujira |
| September 25 | Kujira proposes a joint effort to help fund Terraspaces with $8,000 per month as they manually record and store thousands of twitter spaces for the Cosmos ecosystem, an important public service |
| September 26 | 3 new governance proposals go live for Black Whale vaults for KUJI/USK, axlUSDC/USK, and ATOM/USK |
| September 26 | Proposal 49 V0.6.0 Chain Upgrade: IBC for USK goes up for vote! |
| September 26 | Kujirans NFT project revealed as a Grown-Up DeFi Kujira community NFT project |
| September 26 | Cosmos Club hosts a space with Kujira covering KUJI's utility, ORCA, BLUE, FIN, as well as USK and using assets than ATOM to mint it |
| September 26 | Peruggi's Kuijra Weekly Roundup: Episode 4 goes up on Medium |
| September 26 | MintTheMoon announces Kujira Name System such as (mintthemoon.kuji) |
| September 26 | Kuji Kast quickly reaches almost 2000 followers on Twitter |
| September 27 | Kujirans reveals its plan to give 100% of royalties to KUJI Stakers, return 50% of Mint fees to KUJI stakers and keep 50% of mint fees for the project, and keep all project revenue in the Kujira ecosystem |
| September 27 | Kado Money direct on-ramp integrated into Kujira BLUE |
| September 28 | SRL Finance puts out a detailed Medium funding proposal to launch on Kujira |
| September 28 | Black Whale passes the $200,000 in assets mark for Total Value Locked |
| September 28 | Black Whale's KUJI / USK and USDC / USK vaults go live |
| September 28 | New proposal from Fitlink App, a real business, to launch on Kujira |
| September 28 | New proposal from Fitlink App, a real business, to launch on Kujira |
| September 28 | Governance Proposal 50 deploy axl/USK FIN market passes and the pair goes live |
| September 29 | A detailed Twitter thread celebrates 89 days since Kujira's L1 launch and covers all of Kujira's protocols & partners that are part of the network so far. partnerships with Entropic Labs, Rango, Stargaze, Persistence One, Stride Zone, and DeFi Yield App are confirmed among others |
| September 29 | USK becomes available across IBC to the whole of Cosmos |
| September 30 | Black Whale's ATOM / USK vault goes live |
| September 30 | Rekt Validator hosts a space with Calc Finance on their upcoming Kujira launch |
| September 30 | Calc Finance new website calculated.fi goes live! |
| September 30 | Proposal to create and register an ERC-20 representation of USK goes up |
| September 30 | Kujira teases Kujira Mobile Wallet / Ledger integration / Kujirans website goes live |
| September 30 | Cosmos Daily ranks Kujira as Cosmos's most influential project of September |
| September 30 | Rekt Validator's Akhluts Kujira NFT collection is out with 100% of royalties back to KUJI stakers |
| Date | Shipped Cargo |
|---|---|
| October 1 | Reviewing September: Kujira added 3 protocols allowing Kujira to reach a total of 24 protocols, partnerships, and integrations; there were 23 new governance proposals, 47.5 million KUJI are staked (the percentage increased by 10% this month); there are 9100 unique KUJI delegators (up 40% this month); 84% of all tokens are now vested; and there are 3 NFT projects & collabs |
| October 1 | There are 2 new proposals up for voting for Black Whale DeFi's vaults for ATOM/axlUSDC and KUJI/ATOM |
| October 1 | The Terra Money bridge now supports transfers to & from Kujira |
| October 1 | KujiDAO uploads an ultimate video thread on how to get started with Kuijra on their new YouTube Channel |
| October 2 | Black Whale nears $400,000 in protocol TVL and reaches a 24 hour APY of 96.62% |
| October 2 | axlUSDC / USK pool goes live on Astroport |
| October 3 | Kujira Community Call hosted by Xulian (from KujiDAO) covering proposal from SRL. Finance, DLOYAL, Fitlink, and Eris Protocol |
| October 3 | Kujira Weekly Roundup Episode 5 (the most detailed episode yet) goes live! |
| October 4 | Kujirans announces an engagement campaign with a rare Kujiran as the prize |
| October 4 | Aqua on Juno commits 2 million AQUA tokens (2% of their supply) as an airdrop to KUJI stakers |
| October 4 | TheTieIO puts out an absolutely fantastic research piece on Kujira |
| October 5 | It is now possible to bridge USK directly to Terra via the Terra Bridge |
| October 5 | Proposal 57 enable BTC Oracle Feed goes up for voting (this helps paves the way for nBTC collateral for USK) |
| October 5 | SeaShanty now auto activates ORCA bids (and pays your gas fees for you too)! |
| October 5 | Kujira Merch teased |
| October 5 | Informal Twitter poll goes up about whether to use LUNA as collateral for USK |
| October 6 | Governance vote enable for ETH oracle feed which helps pave the way for axelar ETH to be used as USK collateral and allow ETH price to be used in smart contracts |
| October 6 | NOM airdrop from NomicBTC for KUJI stakers is announced |
| October 6 | 2 million AQUA airdrop tokens are distributed to KUJI Stakers |
| October 6 | A very LEAKY Twitter space with Dove, Hans, and Brett about Kujira's new direction |
| October 6 | Kujira Merch Twitter Account and kujiramerch.com website signup for early access |
| October 7 | Kujirans NFT Whitelist is now open to KUJI stakers |
| October 7 | Kado announces partnership with Kujira Heroes, Kujira, and Stargaze, Kado gives away 5 Kujira Hero NFT Whitelist spots |
| October 8 | Kujira community receives 25 Whitelist spots for upcoming Hero Kuji mint on Stargaze |
| October 9 | Kujira teases a substantial governance change coming early next week |
| October 10 | CRO / USK pair is now live on FIN |
| October 10 | Kujira Independence day confirmed for November 14th |
| October 10 | Governance proposal 63 deploy DOT / USK FIN market is now live for voting |
| October 10 | Testnet integrations between various Kujira protocols is teased |
| October 10 | Kujira Community Call with Xulian, Atlo, KujiKast, and Defiant |
| October 10 | Kujira Weekly Roundup Episode 6 goes live! |
| October 11 | Kujira Merch Giveaway competition announced (with a rare Kujirans NFT as a prize) |
| October 11 | Calc Finance creates a detailed thread educating about FOMO and how to avoid it |
| October 11 | Kujira confirms that USK direction of grass roots, real, cheap decentralized payments |
| October 12 | Dale the Mail Whale blows out a daily liquidation summary for the 1st time since May |
| October 12 | A vote on Astroport goes up to create a deep stableswap pool to facilitate the swaps between USK and axlUSDC |
| October 13 | New governance proposal to instantiate FIN multi-swap contract for multi-hop swaps. Brings support to swap all wallet dust in one transaction and claim-all staking rewards in KUJI. Opens up other exciting possibilities |
| October 13 | New Black Whale vault for Stars / axlUSDC. Kuijrans + various KUJI NFT mints will give STARS a new use case |
| October 13 | KujiraMerch giveaway contest adds lottery KUJI giveaway giving everyone a chance to win something even if they are outside the leaderboard |
| October 13 | USK trading competition winners are announced here. Rewards paid out next week |
| October 13 | Kuji Kast Episode 9 performance Marketing & Sales platform DLoyal |
| October 14 | KUJIRANS reveals their new roadmap |
| October 16 | Basic analytics dashboard added to ORCA. Full analytics dashboard teased |
| October 16 | Kujirans announces Halloween meme competition with prize to be revealed post mint |
| October 17 | Kujira Senate is announced, Medium article goes live. More at blue.kujira.app/senate. Anyone can apply to the Kujira senate here. Here is a public list of nominees |
| October 17 | Calculated Finance creates a Grown-Up DeFi thread on herd mentality here |
| October 17 | Kujira Weekly Roundup: Episode 7 goes live |
| October 18 | Governance proposal 72 enable dot as a collateral type for USK goes up for vote |
| October 18 | Aqua, a Juno Protocol, announces a Kuji Kings NFT collection with 15% of proceeds going back to KUJI stakers a detailed Medium article can be found here |
| October 18 | Cosmostation wallet (available on iOS & Android) adds Kujira mainnet support |
| October 18 | Kuji Kast Episode 10 Fitlink (ARE YOU READY?) |
| October 19 | The CALC team successfully DCA's USK to Nomic BTC on testnet. Private test net confirmed in progress with the frontend being polished |
| October 19 | Comdex x Kujira partnership announced, HARBOR airdrop announced for KUJI stakers, Twitter space announced for the next day |
| October 19 | FURY / USK pair is live for liquidity bootstrapping on FIN, Fan Fury puts out a new Medium article. They have big plans for USK |
| October 19 | Brett teases USK development |
| October 19 | Kujira Name Service contracts live on Kujira testnet. Official announcement teased |
| October 20 | Update to the FIN UI allowing ability to toggle between USK & axlUSDC pairs |
| October 20 | Kuijra & Osmosis ties with USK/OSMO pool and 3 pool involving USK, DAI, and USDC |
| October 20 | USK mint fee dropped to 0.1%, partners for USK adoption teased |
| October 20 | Staking rewards can be converted to KUJI. Autoconverter added to BLUE Wallet tab |
| October 20 | Governance proposal 74 ampLUNA / USK FIN market goes up for vote |
| October 21 | Black Whale announces new ORCA collateral arbitrage protocol Black Panther |
| October 21 | Codehans adds updates to the cosmjs core cosmos github repository |
| October 21 | Codehans adds updates to the cosmjs core cosmos github repository |
| October 21 | The first of two rounds for Stargaze featured mint community vote begins |
| October 21 | Kuji Kings mint October 27th on Stargaze. Aqua raises amount going back to Kuji Stakers from the mint by 5% |
| October 22 | DOT is now useable as USK collateral |
| October 24 | Kujirans wins first round of Stargaze community vote. Second round of vote begins |
| October 24 | Kujira x Umee. USK integration teased. Twitter space announced for October 26th |
| October 24 | Kujira Weekly Roundup: Episode 8 goes live |
| October 24 | Kujira Community Call on NFTs & JPEGs (Kujirans, Heroes, Rekt Wolf, ShrimpGang) |
| October 24 | Kujira liquidity hub BOW is announced |
| October 24 | Cross-chain DOT transfers via Axelar are now available between Kujira & Moonbeam |
| October 25 | Rango (a cross chain bridge) integrates with Kujira / BLUE integration soon to follow |
| October 25 | Kuijra Name Service Medium is published; 80% of revenue back to KUJI stakers |
| October 25 | Live build preview of the Kujira Wallet teased; framework for real payments platform |
| October 25 | Kujirans wins Stargaze featured mint community vote! Starts minting November 11th |
| October 26 | ATLO polls Twitter community for preferred token launch method |
| October 26 | Kujira Docs major overhaul goes live |
The Shipping Lane will be updated bi-monthly to allow more resources to be focused on development while preserving the integrity and quality of all underlying documentation. We plan to continue delivering like crazy from here on out. The Kujira Blockchain is just getting started.