Stride contributors have been working tirelessly on a new path forward. Huge thanks to the many teams, investors, and community members who’ve reached out with support and opportunities. We’re considering everything deliberately and thoughtfully. Expect an update by end of next week.

Liquid staking unlocks idle capital and powers DeFi. @stride_zone makes it easy to tap into that power. And with Numia’s API, every key metric is just an endpoint away. Redemption rates, TVL, yield curves… It’s all structured, accessible, and ready to attract the next user.

appreciation post: sam is stride’s first employee and a real-life 10x engineer if using stride ever feels frictionless, it’s because sam spent the time sweating every edge case an unsung hero of cosmos happy 3 year anniversary at stride @sampocs13 🎉

In 2019, over 75% of DEX trading volumes came from the DEX’s own website. Today that number is just 10%. Stride is meeting traders where they are by optimizing for the other 90%.

Stride continues its deflationary $STRD strategy, hands off stBGT to BakerDAO, and prepares the Stride DEX 1️⃣ stBGT Ownership Transfer 🔸@stride_zone is transferring ownership of stBGT, its liquid staked BGT token, to @BakerDAO420. 🔸Stride made the strategic decision to double down on the Cosmos Hub by launching the Stride DEX, 2️⃣ $STRD Buyback & Burn 🔥 🔸500K $STRD burned in 3 months, or 0.5% of max supply. 🔸80% of protocol fees buy/burn STRD daily. 🔸DEX fees (after launch) will boost burn pressure further. 3️⃣ The IBC Flywheel & Upcoming Stride DEX 🌐 🔸At Sovereign EVM Day, Stride previewed its upcoming DEX - central to the IBC Flywheel. 🔸Backed by the Interchain Foundation, the DEX enables multichain swaps and deep liquidity for Cosmos-native DeFi. 🔸One-click routing through @cosmos Hub connects users to assets across IBC, Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, and more. 🔸Stride aims to abstract complexity and deliver seamless, high-performance DeFi across chains. 🔸🔸Stake $ATOM with our Sponsor @EverstakeCosmos - 100% uptime, 0 slashing. 🔸🔸 🫡

500,000 STRD have been burned over the last 3 months. That’s 0.5% of the max supply. As a reminder, 80% of Stride’s protocol fees are used to buy back and burn STRD daily, with DEX fees set to be enabled after launch!

We tested today’s crosschain DEXes. They’re broken. Traders deserve better.

Three major unlocks of Cosmos EVM according to @shellvish (@stride_zone) ✦ One DEX to trade any token, on any chain, trustlessly ✦ Connections to Base, Solana and Ethereum, with many more coming soon ✦ Fully native-to-native swaps powered by @IBCProtocol

Pending a final governance proposal, BakerDAO and @stride_zone have reached an agreement for the acquisition of stBGT BakerDAO will be taking over stBGT smart contracts, and management of the underlying BGT Bread rises (🍞,🍞)

Cosmos’s next generation of apps will be everywhere apps, and Stride will be the first.