Polkadot: Coinversation got the 19th parachain slot on Polkadot, Kabocha will be onboarded as Kusama’s 37th parachain, Imbue Network is in the lead, Chainlink Price Feeds are now live on Moonbeam, Chainlink publishes a staking roadmap, OceanONDA V4 production has arrived, Astar collabs with AWS, Humanode’s Ramiel is live and ready for public testing, Robonomics release 2.0 is here, Equilibrium integrates with Acala, and more!
Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 39, 2nd June — 16th June
TL;DR
- 6 months of Parachains on Polkadot. 19 have connected and interoperability of heterogeneous chains is well on the way. More coming this year from teams working on Parachains, XCM, bridges, and smart contracts
- Coinversation got the 19th parachain slot on Polkadot! Coinversation is building an open financial platform in the Polkadot ecosystem, and over 1k network stakeholders locked up DOT in favor
- 1 year into the release of Parachains on Kusama, 31 Parachains have already connected to the Relay Chain
- After winning an auction, Kabocha will be onboarded as Kusama’s 37th parachain (plus Statemine & Encointer)
- With four days left in the current parachain slot auction, Imbue Network has been in the lead the entire Ending Period
- The latest Staking Update by Kian for May has been published
- KYVE has completed its integration with Polkadot
- Successful bid on Polkadot Parachain on June 5, 2022, Bifrost went live with Polkadot Parachain. SubBridge opens HRMP cross-chain channel with Bifrost, supports BNC, ZLK cross-chain transmission
- HRMP(XCMP-Lite) channels have been opened between Crab Parachain and Moonriver, and the CRAB token and MOVR token will be available on each other’s networks soon. Crab Network integrated the governance service powered by SubsSquare
- Chainlink Price Feeds are now live on Moonbeam Network. Moonbeam has been awarded a grant by the Web3 Foundation for the development of a Substrate-based custom parachain staking pallet
- Chainlink publishes staking roadmap for Chainlink economics 2.0
- OceanONDA V4 production has arrived: Solving rug pulls, introducing data NFTs and more options for community monetization. Ocean data farming is launching
- Astar starts working with AWS. Under this collaboration, projects in the programs are eligible to get up to $100K AWS credit and official technical support from AWS team. Astar partners with Covalent. Band Protocol x Astar Network
- Interlay announced its 1st community governance proposal: fast track request to activate staking rewards. It has been successfully executed. INTR has been airdropped to Polkadot crowdloan contributors
- xAsset V2 has been released on cBridge. Celer cBridge Partners with Kava Network. Celer is partnering with Evmoswap
- The Acala EVM+ has entered its first phase of launch and the first live contracts have gone live. Acala announced the latest parachain integrations for the aUSD stablecoin: Genshiro and Equilibrium
- Acala and Manta announce successful interoperability between Calamari and Karura
- EVM compatible Humanode Testnet v3 is live and ready for public testing. Humanode Hackathon “Hack The Sybil!’’ is live. Humanode Conference videos are out
- Robonomics release 2.0 and XCM support are here. Release 2.0 is a very important milestone as it opens up the possibility of integrating Robonomics with other parachains. In the coming months, the project R&D team will devote itself to integrations with Statemine, Karura, Moonriver, Crust and KILT
- Composable Finance announces Confio and Interchain Foundation as Hackathon partners for the Unchained event. On July the 1st Composable Finance will launch their XCVM demo
- Equilibrium integrates with Acala to bring the aUSD stablecoin to its ecosystem. Equilibrium’s May recap has arrived. Genshiro was successfully updated
- Parallel Finance x Equilibrium XCM integration is live
- StaFi launches Initial rToken liquidity grant program on StaFiHub. The recap of StaFiHub testnet is out
- Zenlink’s 8th cycle of trade mining has ended and the 9th cycle is live. The team is integrating Zenlink into AstarNetwork and has applied for the Astar Builders Program
- Phala had a successful journey at Consensus 2022. PhalaWorld will start beta testing
- Crust Network is launching an External Adapter on the Chainlink Network
- BTE and myNFT introduced AssetDIDs, built on KILT
- Litentry has completed its parachain launch and is now running on Polkadot
- Kylin Referendum 205 passed with a majority vote in favor of Kylin Network. This means Kylin will be onboarded to the Kusama Network on blocks 13,219,200
- The first-ever Solo Contributors’ Union Proposal is approved by the Edgeware DAO
- ChainX Ecosystem Monthly Report is out
- CLV Monthly Update has been published
- Learn how to become an issuer on Centrifuge. Issuers operate pools and borrow stables off of their real-world assets
- Interested in developing your Polkadot developer skills? Join the online hackathon by amsterdot by June 20
- Tune in to Collision on June 21st to hear Gavin Woods talk, “Web 2.0 is dead. Long live Web3”
- Join the first-ever Polkadot Hacker House in New York City, from June 23rd
- 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
- Registration is live for Polkadot Decoded 2022. Choose from five locations around the world, including Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, and Mexico City, and join the biggest Polkadot event of the year
- And more!
Latest Polkadot News
- 6 months of Parachains on Polkadot. 19 have connected and interoperability of heterogeneous chains is well on the way. More coming this year from teams working on Parachains, XCM, bridges, and smart contracts.
- Coinversation got the 19th parachain slot on Polkadot! Coinversation is building an open financial platform in the Polkadot ecosystem, and over 1k network stakeholders locked up DOT in favor.
Slot Auction Progress:
Kusama
- 1 year into the release of Parachains on Kusama, 31 Parachains have already connected to the Relay Chain.
- After winning an auction, Kabocha will be onboarded as Kusama’s 37th parachain (plus Statemine & Encointer).
- With four days left in the current parachain slot auction, Imbue Network has been in the lead the entire Ending Period.
Slot Auction Progress:
Awareness and Events
- Interested in developing your Polkadot developer skills? Join the online hackathon by amsterdot by June 20th and take your chance to win from a prize pool of $330k+, and get a chance to present at this year’s Polkadot Decoded.
- Polkadot Relayers 2022: In association with Tribe, Polkadot Relayers 2022 is a program bringing together developers and entrepreneurs to create a conducive and engaging platform for innovative ideas to come to life. Apply Now.
- More details on Polkadot Decoded 2022 (29–30 June) have been released. Events will be held in Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, and Hangzhou.
- 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.
- Tune in to Collision on June 21st to hear Gavin Woods talk, “Web 2.0 is dead. Long live Web3.”
- 6-week virtual hackathon from Polkadot and AngelHack is here:
- Join the first-ever Polkadot Hacker House in New York City, from June 23rd.
- Parity is looking for a number of Engineers who are interested in subjects such as Web3, Rust, Polkadot or Substrate to join Polkadot founder Dr. Gavin Wood, as well as lead engineers on the Polkadot and Web3 Foundation teams at the Corpus Christi College facilities in Cambridge this Summer. From July 11th they are going to run a 4-week, in person course on all things Rust, Substrate, Polkadot and Parity. We will cover your costs and will deliver a classroom-based curriculum.
Finance
- The latest Staking Update by Kian for May has been published:
Polkadot markets (information from Coingecko)
Polkadot Ecosystem Market Cap (information from Dotmarketcap)
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.
- Bifrost Polkadot Parachain Goes Live Roadmap, Cross-Chain Integration of Polkadot and Kusama Ecosystems: Successful bid on Polkadot Parachain on June 5, 2022, Bifrost went live with Polkadot Parachain.
- Bifrost 2022 May Monthly Report
- SubBridge opens HRMP cross-chain channel with Bifrost, supports BNC, ZLK cross-chain transmission. Bifrost announced that BNC and ZLK from Zenlink can be cross-chain transmitted from Bifrost to Phala canary network Khala via SubBridge. A new scenario use case opens up among the three projects.
- Imbue Network crowdloan is live on Bifrost Dapp. Join it to get at least 50 IMBU and release the locked KSM liquidity.
- Bifrost has collected 4 executable proposals from the community for partial reward compensation in excess of 300k DOT soft cap. The voting deadline is June 16th.
Centrifuge
The ChainBridge allows Centrifuge to move fungible and NFTs between chains, enabling the financing of real-world assets in a variety of DeFi products.
- Learn how to become an issuer on Centrifuge. Issuers operate pools and borrow stables off of their real-world assets.
ChainX
ChainX, a crypto assets gateway, is planning bridges to several networks and has implemented a BTC to Substrate bridge.
- ChainX Ecosystem Monthly Report #2
- ChainX Technical Committee: How is LayerZero changing the crypto world?
- ChainX: BABE+GRANDPA consensus mechanism
Darwinia
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 Highlight May | Monthly Recap
- Crab Partners with Moonriver to Enable Cross-Chain Connection Using XCM: HRMP(XCMP-Lite) channels have been opened between Crab Parachain and Moonriver, and the CRAB token and MOVR token will be available on each other’s networks soon.
- Crab Network Integrates with SubSquare Governance Platform
- Darwinia 1224 Runtime Upgrade — Staking Unbonded Withdraw & Balance Lock Migration
- 「Using Darwinia Tools 3–10」: Darwinia Apps Guide Part III: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Interlay
Interlay is building a trustless bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.
- Interlay announced its 1st community governance proposal: fast track request to activate staking rewards. It has been successfully executed.
- INTR has been airdropped to Polkadot crowdloan contributors. Details.
- KINT Vaults are now live and enabled on Kusama. Read this step-by-step guide on operating a KINT Vault through PolkadotJs.
- Announcing: The Innovator Programme
Smart Contracts
CLV (Previously Clover)
- CLV Monthly Update — May 2022
- 3 Reasons CLV Is the Best Platform for DeFi Blockchain Developers
- The CLV Wallet — Your Entrance Into the CLV Omniverse
Edgeware
- EDG Community Update: June 6th, 2022: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
- EDG Developer Update: June 5 — June 11, 2022: Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more.
- EDG DAO Financial Bulletin: Second Fortnight of May
Moonbeam
- Moonbeam Foundation & Arrington Capital have announced the launch of a new $100 million ecosystem fund dedicated to supporting projects building on Moonbeam Network. The Arrington Moonbeam Growth Fund is the first ecosystem fund for Moonbeam.
- Moonbeam has been awarded a grant by Web3 Foundation for the development of a Substrate-based custom parachain staking pallet. Learn more.
- KMA, the native token of Calamari Network, is available for use on Moonriver as xcKMA via XCM integration. This integration not only enables cross-chain asset transfers but opens the door for increased cross-chain privacy functionality on Moonriver.
- Users can now send xcRMRK tokens from Moonriver Network to Kucoin. Support for sending RMRK to Moonriver coming soon.
- The cross-chain integration between Crab & Moonriver is now live & brings availability for the CRAB token to Moonriver as xcCRAB.
- Pocket Network to Power Moonbeam & Moonriver RPC Layer
- Moonbeam Enters Next Phase With Chainlink Price Feeds:
Scaling
Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)
- Astar Innovation Hub Vision enabled by XCM — Part 1
- The Astar Vision Part 2: Asset Diversity Through XCM dApps and Smart Contracts
- The Astar Vision Part 3: The Innovation Hub of Web3.0
- Astar Network Offers AWS Activate by Amazon Web Services to Support its Builders and Incubation Programs
- Astar partners with Covalent
- Band Protocol x Astar Network
- Astar’s DOT Festival #1 has ended. Here are important reminders.
- DOT Fest now has 2,000,000 ASTR Bonus Rewards. Read all about it here.
- Avault is launching the first ISO (Initial Stake Offering) on Astar Network.
- Write Deploy & Interact with Ink! Smart-contracts — Workshop
- XY Finance Integrates and Supports Astar Network
Celer
- xAsset V2 has been released on cBridge
- Celer cBridge Partners with Kava Network
- Celer is partnering with Evmoswap to list various ceAssets in trade pairs for users as well as a direct link to cBridge on their site
DeFi
Acala
- Equilibrium to Integrate With Acala to Bring the aUSD Stablecoin to its Ecosystems on Polkadot and Kusama
- Acala EVM+ Launch Has Initiated as the Wormhole Multi-chain Bridge Goes Live on Karura
Composable Finance
- On July the 1st Composable Finance will launch their XCVM demo. Read more about it.
- Composable Finance announces Confio and Interchain Foundation as Hackathon partners for Unchained Berlin
- Here is an exciting post presenting Cubic, a modular vault functionality within the Composable Finance ecosystem.
- Mosaic: Composable’s transfer availability layer and a modular DeFi pallet
Equilibrium
- Equilibrium integrates with Acala to bring the aUSD stablecoin to its ecosystem
- Equilibrium’s May recap has arrived. Read about their partnerships and integrations, the Lisbon office opening, the DEX launch and many more.
- Genshiro was successfully updated to the latest version: new features and hotfixes.
- Equilibrium: Interview With CEO Alex Melikhov On All Things Equilibrium
Parallel Finance
- Parallel Finance x Equilibrium XCM Integration is Live
- Wishing you didn’t have to use multiple wallets for each of your crypto activities? Soon, you won’t have to — Parallel’s wallet is coming.
- Parallel Finance is looking for users to try new, upcoming products & provide feedback, so that they can release the best DeFi tools. If you’d like a 15 min call with a team member about some new initiatives, please fill out this survey.
Zenlink
- Zenlink’s 8th cycle of trade mining has ended and the 9th cycle is live. Claim your rewards on Moonbeam or Bifrost.
- The Zenlink team is integrating Zenlink into AstarNetwork and has applied for the Astar Builders Program:
Privacy
Phala Network
- Phala Had A Successful Journey at Consensus 2022, PhalaWorld Will Start Beta Testing | Phala Weekly Vol. 86
- Phala Is A Sponsor of Consensus 2022, SubBridge Opens HRMP Cross-Chain Channel with Bifrost,|
- SubBridge Opens HRMP Cross-Chain Channel with Bifrost, Supporting BNC and ZLK Cross-Chain Transmission
KILT Protocol
- BTE and myNFT introduced AssetDIDs, built on KILT. AssetDIDs connect credentials to assets like NFTs to ensure authenticity across multiple blockchains. Read the full announcement.
- Looking Forward — web3name
Ocean Protocol
- OceanONDA V4 Production Has Arrived: Solving rug pulls, introducing data NFTs and more options for community monetisation
- Ocean Data Farming is Launching: 216M $OCEAN program to unlock an Ocean of data, with up to 125% APY
- How to publish a data NFT: Let’s take a look at OceanONDA V4 Market and how to publish your first data NFT
Oracle
Chainlink
- Chainlink Staking: Exploring the Long-Term Goals, Roadmap, and Initial Implementation
- Moonbeam Enters Next Phase With Chainlink Price Feeds
- Interest Protocol Integrates Chainlink As Primary Oracle Powering Capital-Efficient Borrowing And Lending
- Avalanche Integrates Chainlink VRF And Keepers In “Fantastic Milestone” For Users And Developers
- Registration for SmartCon 2022 Is Now Open
- Daily Wrap-Up:
Kylin Network
- Kylin Weekly Update: Maiden Edition — Referendum #205
- Kylin Welcomes New Operations and Marketing Lead
- Kylin Referendum 205 passed with a majority vote in favor of Kylin Network. This means Kylin will be onboarded to the Kusama Network on blocks 13,219,200.
Other
Subsocial
- Subsocial’s website (not our dapp) has been completely redone.
Enjin
- With several product launches on the horizon and many plans for the infinitely upgradable Efinity, its team has refreshed the developer docs.
- Efinity Rewards Update: you can now claim your EFI via the Polkadot.js extension. On the page, you will now be able to see the ‘EFI Reward Claim’ section that previously wasn’t available.
Humanode
- EVM compatible Humanode Testnet v3 — Ramiel has just been launched. Ramiel is ready for public. Apply now!
- Humanode Dev Report 25: The Humanode teams shared some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that they have been working on.
- Humanode Conference 2022 — A Review. Conference videos are out: Day 1, Day 2.
- Humanode Hackathon “Hack The Sybil!’’ is live.
Litentry
- Litentry has completed its parachain launch and is now running on Polkadot. Contributors to the Litentry Parachains Batch 3 crowdloan in April will be able to start claiming their LIT token rewards from the 30th of June.
- Litentry has been added to Nova Wallet. Mobile-friendly browsing is now available on your devices.
Robonomics
- Robonomics release 2.0 and XCM support are here. Release 2.0 is a very important milestone as it opens up the possibility of integrating Robonomics with other parachains. In the coming months, the project R&D team will devote itself to integrations with Statemine, Karura, Moonriver, Crust and KILT.
- Polkadot Decoded Workshop In Berlin “Kusama Use Cases For Your Home”. Date: 29 June. Time: 11:50 Berlin Time.
RMRK
- RMRK announced the referral program for the upcoming Skybreach land sale. When someone purchases land via your referral link, you get 5% of the purchase value in xcRMRK. More details can be found here.
- Imbue crowdloan participants will receive a custom Imbue NFT by RMRK that gives exclusive discounts on the network.
- Don’t forget to burn your Skybreach land deed vouchers on or before the 15th of June. All vouchers not burnt by then will expire.
MISC
- KYVE has completed its integration with Polkadot:
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:
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