Polkadot: Aventus Network has won the latest parachain lease auction, BitCountry Pioneer and Quartz by Unique have been in the lead, Unbounded introduced, Sub0 in November, LayerZero deploys to Moonbeam, Sora introduces SORA Card, Kylin Network joins Equilibrium’s beta, Humanode public sale is approaching, and more!

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16 min readSep 9, 2022

Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 45, 25th August — 9th September

TL;DR

Congratulations to Aventus Network on winning Polkadot’s 26th parachain auction! Aventus is building an enterprise-grade blockchain on Polkadot to make building in the Polkadot ecosystem and beyond accessible for businesses and decentralized platforms
The next parachain lease auction begins tomorrow, 10 Sep, at block 11_992_000 (approx. 22:12 UTC)
Polkadot introduced Unbounded, the first open-source, freely available and on-chain funded font in the world
Referendum 72, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9270, has passed and the network has been upgraded
Referendum 73, proposing to upgrade the Statemint runtime to v9270, is currently passing unanimously with few days left to vote
With three days left in the current Kusama parachain auction, both BitCountry Pioneer and Quartz by Unique have been in the leading during the Ending Period
Referendum 227, seeking to lift restrictions on nomination pools (thus allowing 256 pools and 1024 members/pool), is passing unanimously with few days left to vote.
Referendum 228, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9280, is passing unanimously
The staking rate on Kusama continues to climb and is currently at 53.9%, a 0.1 percentage point increase from 24 hours ago
Bifrost and Coinbase Cloud enter into a strategic collaboration. SALP Polkadot goes live, vsDOT to migrate to Bifrost Polkadot Parachain
LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability protocol, deploys to Moonbeam, enabling developers with a wider array of secure messaging features & adding to cross-chain capabilities on the network. Moonbeam has updated its existing tutorial on how to participate in Moonbeam on-chain governance with Polkassembly. A new proposal was issued for Moonbeam’s Interim Grants Program
It’s been a year since Moonriver fully launched
New HRMP channels have opened between Moonbeam and Astar Network. Blockdaemon joins Astar to support builders. Alchemy is now live on Astar
KuCoin has partnered with Bit.Country to launch its own Metaverse
August has been crazy for Celer — 11 new partners, hitting an amazing milestone, and seeing the community launch something awesome. Celer partnered with Diffusion on Evmos to launch 3 Celer-token pools that are now available for their users
Acala is in the final stage tracing the last aUSD error mints. A new update regarding the aUSD incident was posted, including what has happened so far and what’s next
Composable has been busy testing on Rococo, Polkadot’s testnet. Last week they issued a connection between two chains using IBC. Composable Finance has published a brief summary (of the XCVM use cases including aggregation, arbitrage, and how an improved UX and developer tooling will help to onboard new DeFi users.
Equilibrium and Genshiro are both now live on Subscan, allowing users to visualize and verify their on-chain data such as their accounts and transfers
A proposal to support ASTR token on Parallel Money Market is up for discussion. Parallel/Heiko AMM APY Multiplier is now activated
Kylin Network joins Equilibrium’s closed beta. The monthly Technical Update is out.
Humanode Public Sale is approaching. Submissions to the wave 1 whitelist are now closed. The WL checker is here. Check out the Humanode Community AMA recording to hear the latest updates, developments, and upcoming events for Humanode.
The Phala team has completed a migration that contained 38 million PHA (the remaining token for parachain slot auctions) from Ethereum to Phala’s smart contract bridge. Two-way transfers from Phala to Ethereum are officially live now. SubBridge launches on Phala Network
Subwallet officially completed Substrate Builders Program Milestone #1. SubWallet was also one of the first to integrate Substrate Connect’s light client
Turing auto-compounding for staking rewards is now available, enabled via a simple compound toggle switch
Crust is celebrating the 1st anniversary of its mainnet. Crust Network will integrate with Bware Labs’ API platform to support blockchain development through Blast’s infrastructure
Dock DIDs now support more the one key. SEVENmile issues fraud-proof verifiable certificates using Dock
p to $50,000 in OCEAN are earmarked for interoperable data storage integrations with Ocean Protocol. Coinbase lists OCEAN, with trading set to begin today
Enjin’s First Unreal Engine SDK has been introduced
Darwinia Runtime 1241 Upgrade is now live. With Darwinia 1241 and Crab 1240 Runtime Upgrade, the bridging method between Darwinia Network and Crab Network has changed significantly
CLV announced a partnership with Beosin to enhance smart contract security
ChainX is the first to introduce Bitcoin into Aptos which also means that XBTC will be able to circulate in Aptos, Ethereum, Polkadot, and other ecosystems
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem is out
Interlay has put forward a proposal regarding the allocation of INTR from the treasury to help support the Innovator programme and its contributors
SORA Wallet v2.4.0 for iOS has been released. The SORA Community introduced SORA Card: The unique fiat wallet with IBAN and debit card functionality integrated into a self-custodial crypto wallet with DEX compatibility
Balance transfer on Litmus is now live. The Bi-Directional Token Bridge is now live on Litmus, enabling the transfer of LIT to Ethereum
The HRMP channel with Statemine is open. Now you can send KSM to Robonomics and soon the cross-chain sending of datalog, launch and liability extrinsic will be available as well as plenty of new integrations
Zenlink Monthly Updates are out
The final countdown to Chainlink SmartCon 2022 has begun. Join the team in NYC on September 28–29 to hear 150+ industry-leading luminaries speak about the future of Web3 and the Chainlink Network
Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28th to 29th in Lisbon, Portugal, and online
For those in Berlin next week: on September 12th, take your chance to meet with Parity to get support with your project, and join an exclusive ink! workshop, or just meet with fellow devs.
Interested in upgrading your Web3 and Polkadot developer skills? Join the Polkadot-sponsored IBC Media’s hackathon, choose from a wide range of topics from DeFi to NFT to Web 3 & Tooling, and take your chance to win from a prize pool of $15,000
Polkadot’s August Newsletter is out. Check the latest reports on Polkadot, learn about some of the proposed updates for common good parachains, and get details on future events & auctions
Polkadot Q2 Report by Messari reveals DOT’s Web 3 progress in 2022
And more!

Latest Polkadot News

Congratulations to Aventus Network on winning Polkadot’s 26th parachain auction! Aventus is building an enterprise-grade blockchain on Polkadot to make building in the Polkadot ecosystem and beyond accessible for businesses and decentralized platforms.
The next parachain lease auction begins tomorrow, 10 Sep, at block 11_992_000 (approx. 22:12 UTC).
Polkadot introduced Unbounded, the first open source, freely available and on-chain funded font in the world.
Proposal for Common Good Parachains: ParityTech has been busy developing several new blockchains it plans to propose as common good parachains. As a refresher, Polkadot governance can allocate parachain slots to chains it believes benefit the entire network, bypassing the auction process.
The staking rate has increased by 0.3 percentage points over the last 24 hours to 52.4%.
Polkadot 0.9.28 has been released with medium priority.
Referendum 72, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9270, has passed and the network has been upgraded.
Referendum 73, proposing to upgrade the Statemint runtime to v9270, is currently passing unanimously with few days left to vote.
Interested in building on Polkadot and looking for support? Check out Square One, a guide to resources available for builders in the ecosystem.
Polkadot’s August Newsletter is out. Check the latest reports on Polkadot, learn about some of the proposed updates for common good parachains, and get details on future events & auctions.
Slot Auction Progress:

Kusama

With approximately three days left in the current parachain auction, both BitCountry Pioneer and Quartz by Unique have been in the leading during the Ending Period.
Referendum 227, seeking to lift restrictions on nomination pools (thus allowing 256 pools and 1024 members/pool), is passing unanimously with few days left to vote.
Referendum 228, proposing to upgrade Kusama to runtime 9280, is passing unanimously.
The staking rate on Kusama continues to climb and is currently at 53.9%, a 0.1 percentage point increase from 24 hours ago.

Awareness and Events

Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28th to 29th in Lisbon, Portugal and online.
Last week the Polkadot ecosystem continued building, deploying and growing. Check out some of the announcements from the ecosystem and hear the latest news from the parachain teams, infrastructure providers, and wallets in this week’s Polkadot Roundup

For those in Berlin next week: on September 12th, take your chance to meet with Parity to get support with your project, and join an exclusive ink! workshop, or just meet with fellow devs. Save your spot for the #BeyondTheChain events

Interested in upgrading your Web3 and Polkadot developer skills? Join the Polkadot-sponsored IBC Media’s hackathon, choose from a wide range of topics from DeFi to NFT to Web 3 & Tooling, and take your chance to win from a prize pool of $15,000.
Interested in upgrading your Web3 developer skills? Register for Web3athon, a 3-month virtual event for developers & builders sponsored by Polkadot, and get a chance to win from a prize pool of $800k.

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Finance

Polkadot markets (information from Coingecko)

Polkadot Ecosystem Market Cap (information from Dotmarketcap)

Tradable Projects

Ecosystem Updates

Bridges

Bifrost

Bifrost has developed an EOS network bridge that enables trustless cross-chain asset transfer by implementing on-chain light nodes with Merkle tree verification.

ChainX

ChainX, a crypto assets gateway, is planning bridges to several networks and has implemented a BTC to Substrate bridge.

Darwinia is building a permissionless non-custodial bridge protocol featuring efficient, low-cost decentralization of cross-chain tokens and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) transfers, as well as other cross-chain operations.

Darwinia 1241 Runtime Upgrade
Crab 1241 Runtime Upgrade
Darwinia Highlight August| Monthly Recap
Introduction Cross-Chain Mapping Token $xWRING: With Darwinia 1241 and Crab 1240 Runtime Upgrade, the bridging method between Darwinia Network and Crab Network has changed significantly — Instead of bridging between Darwinia Chain and Crab Smart Chain, they will directly support bridging between Darwinia Smart Chain and Crab Smart Chain, which brings a bridging paradigm between substrate-based chains that support frontier EVM module.
RareGems Launches NFT Market on Crab Smart Chain, Enabling NFT Trading on Crab Network

Interlay

Interlay is building a trustless bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.

Interlay has put forward a proposal regarding the allocation of INTR from the treasury to help support the Innovator programme and its contributors.
Ecosystem Update #5: 19 August 2022

Smart Contracts

CLV (previously Clover)

Edgeware

EDG Community Update: Week of August 29th, 2022: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
EDG Developer Update: Aug 28 — Sep 3, 2022: Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more
EDG DAO Financial Bulletin: Second Fortnight of August: Provides the community a fair idea about the performance of EDG as compared to the market as well as the peers of EDG.

Moonbeam

LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability protocol, deploys to Moonbeam, enabling developers with a wider array of secure messaging features & adding to cross-chain capabilities on the network.
Moonbeam has updated its existing tutorial on how to participate in Moonbeam on-chain governance with Polkassembly. Now it includes instructions for taking part in discussions.
New proposal was issued for Moonbeam’s Interim Grants Program
It’s been a year since Moonriver fully launched

Scaling

Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)

New HRMP channels have opened between Moonbeam and Astar Network
Blockdaemon joins Astar to support builders
Alchemy is now live on Astar
Check the new episode of Astar’s getting started series on all things MetaMask

Celer

August has been crazy for Celer — 11 new partners, hitting an amazing milestone, and seeing the community launch something awesome. Take a look at what’s new in the Celer ecosystem
Celer partnered with Diffusion on Evmos to launch 3 Celer-token pools that are now available for their users
Now you can track your staked CELR token balance from SGN Celer Network on debank.com
Celer Network now is working on Earnmos
cBridge continues into orbit with $10.5B in total transaction volume bridged

DeFi

Acala

Acala is in the final stage tracing the last aUSD error mints. Once published, movements of all remaining aUSD error mints & involved addresses should be clear, and the network’s community will decide how to deal with them.
Updates on the aUSD Incident — 22 August 2022: A new update regarding the aUSD incident was posted, including what has happened so far and what’s next.
The Full Trace Report has been published. 281 involved addresses were traced. Of the 52.068M outstanding aUSD error mints, 42.482M remain on these addresses. Error mints sent to other parachains, CEXs, etc were also included.
If you have returned funds, please follow the instructions to provide evidence of return so the team can update the trace report.
Here are some of the next steps you can expect for Acala after the recent incident.

Composable Finance

Unpacking the XCVM use cases: An overview — Pt. 1: Composable Finance has published a brief summary (of the XCVM use cases including: aggregation, arbitrage, and how an improved UX and developer tooling will help to onboard new DeFi users.
Unpacking the XCVM’s use-cases: aggregation, arbitrage, and institutional onboarding — Pt. 2
Unpacking the XCVM’s use-cases: UX and Tooling — Pt. 3
How does the XCVM abstract the cross-chain developer experience?
Composable has been busy testing on Rococo, Polkadot’s testnet. Last week they issued a connection between two chains using IBC.

Equilibrium

Equilibrium and Genshiro are both now live on Subscan, allowing users to visualize and verify their on-chain data such as their accounts and transfers.
Temporary ETH bridge shutdown: important details for the Genshiro community. There are two important dates to be aware of.
How To Maximize Portfolio In Closed Beta. Case 1: Lending
How To Maximize Portfolio In Closed Beta. Case 2: Insurance
How To Maximize Portfolio In Closed Beta. Case 3: The Ultimate Stablecoin
How To Maximize Portfolio In Closed Beta. Case 4: Leveraged Long & Short
How to Maximize Portfolio in Closed Beta. Case 5: DEX Arbitrage

Parallel Finance

A proposal to support ASTR token on Parallel Money Market is up for discussion.
Parallel/Heiko AMM APY Multiplier is now activated. Selected pairs are given from 1.7x up to 40x APY boost. The extra APY will be paid in PARA/HKO. Details.
Parallel Deep Dive 1: Unlock the Potential of your Assets with Parallel Liquid Staking
Parallel Deep Dive 2: Parallel Cross-chain Bridge — A Scalable Cross Consensus Messaging Solution
Over 1 Million DOT has been supplied to Parallel Money Market

SORA

SORA Wallet v2.4.0 for iOS has been released, details are available in this post.
The SORA Community introduced SORA Card: The unique fiat wallet with IBAN and debit card functionality integrated into a self-custodial crypto wallet with DEX compatibility
The SORA Economic Forum starts on the 23rd of September

StaFi

Zenlink

Zenlink Monthly Updates (August 2022): Covering August 2022 of all things Zenlink.
Announcing Zenlink DEX Contract Upgrade and Liquidity Migration: Zenlink will upgrade DEX contracts on Moonriver and Moonbeam and initiate liquidity migration on August 23 at 8:00 am (UTC).

Privacy

Phala Network

The Phala team has completed a migration that contained 38 million PHA (the remaining token for parachain slot auctions) from Ethereum to Phala’s smart contract bridge.
Two-way transfers from Phala to Ethereum are officially live now.
ANN | SubBridge Launches on Phala Network, Leveraging the Interoperability Between Polkadot Ecosystem and Ethereum
PHA Transfer Between Phala and Ethereum Opened, Online Worker Exceeded 15,000|Phala Weekly Vol. 97

Data

Crust Network

Crust Network will integrate with Bware Labs’ API platform to support blockchain development through Blast’s infrastructure. All the data in both networks will be secure in a truly decentralized and reliable way. Details.
Crust is celebrating the 1st anniversary of its mainnet. This article reviewed the progress of the network in the past year and also explained Crust’s strategy and roadmap in this bear market.
Meet Crust at events

Dock

Dock DIDs Now Support Multiple Key Pairs: Dock DIDs now support more the one key. Keys can be given different capabilities using Verification Relationships.
SEVENmile issues fraud-proof verifiable certificates using Dock
How to Prevent Supply Chain Fraud With Blockchain
Dock’s Discord Invite Contest has just started, offering 27.500 DOCK in rewards.

KILT Protocol

KILT in Action — The dena Blockchain Pilot Project
KILT Migration to Polkadot: Technical Overview
KILT was nominated by Hackernoon for “Most Innovative Use of Blockchain Technology”. You can vote for it here.

Ocean Protocol

Ocean Shipyard kicks off the Data Storage Initiative: Up to $50,000 in OCEAN are earmarked for interoperable data storage integrations with Ocean Protocol
Introducing the New Shipyard Referral program: Get rewarded 1000 OCEAN for every project you refer to Shipyard
Coinbase lists OCEAN, with trading set to begin today

Oracle

Chainlink

Arbitrum devs can build fully featured and scalable dApps that leverage Chainlink Price Feeds for highly accurate and secure market data.
The final countdown to Chainlink SmartCon 2022 has begun. Join the team in NYC on September 28–29 to hear 150+ industry-leading luminaries speak about the future of Web3 and the Chainlink Network.
August 2022 Recap
Exploring The World Of Chainlink-Powered Phygitals And Asset-Backed Collectibles
Taking Chainlink Into The Future With Chainlink Economics 2.0
Block Stories Episode 2 Follows Synthetix Founder Kain Warwick’s Pursuit Of An Open-Source Future
Zeus Finance Triple-Integrates Chainlink Price Feeds, Keepers, And VRF
Daily Wrap-Up:

Kylin Network

Other

Enjin

Humanode

Public Sale is approaching.
Submissions to the wave 1 whitelist are now closed.
The link for wave 2 whitelisting. The link for wave 3 whitelisting.
The KYC processing for the Public sale has been initiated.
Announcing ‘Hack the Sybil’ Hackathon Winners
Humanode Dev Updates 31: The Humanode teams shared some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that they have been working on.
The long-awaited WL checker is here. Not only you are now able to check whether your ETH address has been properly mapped and whitelisted, but also you can get more details about your substrate addresses.
Humanode is nominated for Two Hackernoon awards along with Polkadot, Eth, Cardano and other famous blockchains
Missed the Special Fireside (Humanode Community AMA)? No worries. Check out the recording to hear the latest updates, developments and upcoming events for Humanode.

Litentry

Balance transfer on Litmus is now live. Users can now transfer money between any account on the Litmus Parachain. After balance is enabled, Kucoin will soon support Litmus such that users can deposit LIT to a centralized exchange with ease.
The Bi-Directional Token Bridge is now live on Litmus, enabling the transfer of LIT to Ethereum.

Robonomics

At The Intersection Of Cybernetics And Economics: The world of technology and smart devices are actively developing. New gadgets and systems appear every day. They help to simplify and improve human life. However, it is not the only task. One of the obstacles to robotic technologies is the high level of device cybersecurity and user data privacy. Robonomics developers have been working on this task for 7 years.
The HRMP channel with Statemine is open. Now you can send KSM to Robonomics and soon the cross-chain sending of datalog, launch and liability extrinsics will be available as well as plenty of new integrations
Robonomics Town Hall 2022 / Robonomics Network

RMRK

DeQuest, the core Metaverse hub with a focus on gamified learning and user reputation building, is pleased to bring RMRK and Skybreach to its platform.

MISC

Polkadot Q2 Report Reveals DOT’s Web 3 Progress in 2022

Social Media Metrics

Social media activity:

The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Polkadot Twitter followers and Reddit subscribers. The information is taken from Coingecko.com

Polkadot Social Channels:

Polkadot Ecosystem News

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