Getting Ready for an Explosion of New Apps
Each blockchain uses a variety of tools to navigate their respective ecosystems. The blockchains across the greater Cosmos ecosystem have standardized some of these tools. As you will see at the end of this article, Mintscan is a powerful application that spins its web across Cosmos’ entire Internet of Blockchains.
Before I examine Mintscan’s super useful features, I want to introduce you to some other powerful tools that will help you explore and analyze the dApps, tokens, and governance activities on the Juno Network. The development activity on this young blockchain has already been impressive; however, with new protocols and dApps joining in the coming weeks and months, this activity will accelerate. There is no better time than now to identify and learn how to use these tools, before new launches absorb our attention!
To help you with your own exploration and research, I have prepared a list of links to all the tools and dApps discussed here, in the Sources section below the article. At the end of the article, I have also added a bonus section with Twitter handles for Juno apps and influential people to follow.
ATOMScan
ATOMScan provides a very clear, easy-to-read overview of the validators securing the Juno Network. Once you select the Juno blockchain, click on Validators and you will be presented with a list of all 135 active validators. There is a button to switch to those validators that are inactive and trying to get into the active set. The data provided is the validator voting power, amount of JUNO tokens delegated, and the commission percentage. Selecting a specific validator opens to another page with additional important information about that company.
If you are also actively participating in governance voting, the Votes page is one of the clearest ways to review and access all active and previous proposals. Clicking on a specific proposal opens up to detailed information, including start and finish times, a description, percentages of votes, links to more information, and even specific votes by address.
Two additional great tools on ATOMScan are the Watchlist and the Staking Calculator:
The Watchlist is very helpful for those that need to maintain separate wallets for family members or businesses, but want to see all their JUNO holdings together. You just enter each of your Juno addresses, click on Add to Watchlist, and select the Watchlist screen.
One of the things I like a lot about staking JUNO tokens in Keplr is the flexibility the wallet provides. If you want to claim rewards and redeploy them in DeFi, swap them for another token, or compound them, you can do all of this. The staking calculator built into ATOMScan really demonstrates the power of compounding. Play around with the calculator and witness the remarkable results you get when compounding daily, weekly, monthly, or annually.
Commonwealth
I think of the Commonwealth app as a town hall, a place to discuss current proposals, upcoming governance votes, and hot topics that impact the Juno Network. You can set-up a login ID with your email address, or use your existing Github, Discord, or wallet ID/address.
Current discussions are taking place on the subject of subDAOs. I left a link to the Juno Commonwealth pages in the Sources section below, so that you can follow along with what the Community is proposing, discussing, and debating.
Charts and Airdrops with CosmosPug
CosmosPug is a validator in the Cosmos and they have developed a few super helpful tools. You can access charts for twenty-five different tokens, including many of the tokens from dApps on the Juno Network.
CosmosPug also has a great Airdrop page to stay up-to-date on current and upcoming airdrops across the blockchains of the Cosmos, including for Juno dApps.
Charts with Joe DAO
Joe DAO provides an impressive collection of 48 price charts on its site. The charts can be viewed monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, and even at five-minutes intervals. IBC tokens are represented, as well as a few others. In addition to the charts, JoeDAO has also provided a token snapshot tool on its site, is fully set-up on DAO DAO, and has launched its own JOE token.
Stats and Charts with Bro_n_Bro
Bro_n_Bro is also a validator, securing many blockchains across the Cosmos. They provide an expansive suite of price and statistics dashboards, as well as charts. The information provided for the Juno Network includes the blockchain itself and the JUNO governance token, but also includes charts for an additional eleven tokens for the dApps that run on Juno.
Mintscan
It takes a moment to adjust your eyes when you launch Mintscan, because there is so much information there. However, once they are adjusted the wealth of information provided is very satisfying. Besides all the pricing, volume, market cap, blocks produced, and transactions produced information, the Dashboard has direct links to JunoSwap, JunoDocs, and Juno’s Twitter, Medium, and Github.
There is a comprehensive validator list for the Juno Network with an impressive amount of data for each. Besides the amount of JUNO validating, the voting power percentage, and the commission rate charged, there is also the uptime percentage, and a voter participation rate. When choosing who to delegate your staked JUNO to, this is where you can find all the information to help make your decision.
There are detailed pages with blocks processed information, governance proposals, tokens with price information, as well as a parameter reference for the blockchain. But, my favorite information on Mintscan is on the IBC Relayer and Smart Contracts pages.
I highly recommend using the Deposit and Withdrawal functionality on the various DEXes, when bringing IBC assets on-chain or returning them to their native chain. All the IBC transactions are handled in the background and the interchain asset transfer process is truly a remarkable feat of engineering. However, there are times when you have to make a manual IBC transfer between chains and adding chains to Keplr is easy with the channel information provided on the IBC Relayer pages of Mintscan.
The Smart Contracts pages are also full of useful information. I regularly use Mintscan to find token contract addresses, which I want to add to my Keplr Juno wallet. The contract addresses for LP tokens are also available here and the long lists of smart contracts are searchable.
Expansion and Growth
The Juno Network is about to become an even busier place as a large number of dApps and protocols are launching in the coming months.
- Loop Finance is bringing its DEX and NFT Marketplace to the Juno Network and with it a wealth of talent, including the Loop Ventures team.
- FanFury is introducing fantasy sports to the blockchain, enhanced with daily interaction, gamified staking, and a new FURY token.
- The Leap Cosmos team is getting ready to deploy its beautiful super wallet.
- Kado Money is preparing its dApp to go multi-chain for fiat on and off ramps, with reasonable transaction costs and a focus on ease-of-use to drive new user adoption.
- Coinhall has indicated that it will launch on the Juno Network, bringing pricing information, charts, and an aggregator.
- AquaDAO has also announced it is bringing its non-profit organization to the Juno Network.
- Loop Ventures and WeFund have teamed up to bring the launchpad to Juno, as part of a greater multi-chain strategy.
- Spark IBC will start soon, bringing community funding activities and campaigns to Juno, with the first use cases revolving around educational content and courses.
- Howl Social is developing an on-chain micro-blogging app. The concept focuses on engagement between creators and users, with a built-in reward element. It will be closely integrated with the decentralized name service and your (de)NS alias will be used to build your profile on Howl Social.
- The Graph is continuing its multi-chain expansion, with the cross-chain indexer coming to Juno.
And, this is just the beginning as more announcements are released all the time and the excitement is building.
If you are not completely familiar with the Juno Network yet, I hope you find this information helpful. I have also added links to my previous articles about the Juno Network in the Sources section below. I think this is a great time to explore the blockchain now, swap into some JUNO and RAW while the prices are low and get used to moving around the tokens. USDC can already be traded on JunoSwap. It can also be bridged over to Juno, using Axelar’s Satellite app, from other protocols and blockchains outside of the Juno Network, including Ethereum, Avalanche, Fantom, Moonbeam, and Polygon.
I am really looking forward to the coming months and can not wait to try out all these new dApps and participate in the protocol launches.
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Sources, References, and Further Reading
Atomscan — https://atomscan.com/juno
Commonwealth Juno — https://commonwealth.im/juno/
CosmosPug Charts — https://cosmospug.com/charts/
CosmosPug Airdrops — https://cosmospug.com/airdrops/
JoeDAO Charts — https://joedao.io/charts/
Bro-n-Bro Juno Network Stats — https://monitor.bronbro.io/d/juno-stats/juno-stats?orgId=2&refresh=5s
Bro-n-Bro Juno Network Graphs — https://monitor.bronbro.io/d/juno-graph/juno-stats-graph?orgId=2&refresh=10s
Tokens on the Juno Network Stats and Graphs (CW20 tokens) - https://monitor.bronbro.io/d/juno-cw20-stats/juno-cw20-stats?orgId=2
Mintscan — https://www.mintscan.io/juno
Juno’s Docs — https://docs.junonetwork.io/juno/readme
Juno’s Github — https://github.com/CosmosContracts
Juno’s Medium — https://medium.com/@JunoNetwork
Axelar’s Satellite App — https://satellite.money/?source=ethereum&destination=juno&asset_denom=uusdc
My Loop article “Getting to Know Juno” — https://www.loop.markets/getting-to-know-juno/
My Loop article “NETA Money” — https://www.loop.markets/neta-money/
Links to new projects coming to the Juno Network:
Loop — https://www.loop.markets/
FanFury — https://fury.fan/
Leap — https://leapwallet.io/
Kado Money — https://www.kado.money/
Coinhall — https://coinhall.org/
Aqua DAO — @AquaOnJuno
WeFund — https://wefund.app/
Spark IBC — @SparkIBC
Howl Social — 
Graph Protocol — https://thegraph.com/en/
Bonus: Who to follow on Twitter for the Juno Network:
Juno Network — @JunoNetwork
C1 — @Core1_official
JunoNews — @Junonewsteam
JunoSwap — 
RAW DAO — 
DAO DAO — @DAO_DAO
NETA DAO — @Neta_DAO
NETA Money — @NetaMoney
(de)NS — 
JunoTools — 
Developers, founders, validators, and other influential people actively involved with the Juno Network:
@JakeHartnell
@CosmosChain
@ToschDev
@nullMames
@JoeAbbey
@HighlanderNodes
@KevinGarrison