Polkadot: Integritee Network the 23rd parachain slot on Polkadot, Basilisk will be onboarded as Kusama’s parachain, MEW teamed up with Web3 Foundation and Parity to build Enkrypt, Moonbeam’s cross-chain connected contracts, Astar x Acala DeFi Rising to accelerate DeFi on Polkadot, iBTC minting is now live, Astar partners with Alchemy, cBridge integrates with Klaytn, and more!

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17 min readAug 12, 2022

Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 43, 28th July — 12th August

TL;DR

Congratulations to Integritee Network on winning Polkadot’s 23rd parachain auction. Integritee provides a scalable public blockchain solution for securely processing sensitive business or personal data while giving all parties control and transparency on what their data is used for
With only a few hours left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous para ID 2057 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period
With 14 days, Referendum 70, proposing to increase the maximum number of HRMP channels from 10 to 30, is passing by a wide margin
Referendum 71, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9260, is currently passing unanimously with one day left to vote
Polkadot 0.9.27 has been released with medium upgrade priority
The latest Monthly Polkadot Staking Update, detailing how the staking system is being improved on Polkadot and Kusama, has been released
MEW teamed up with Web3 Foundation and Parity to build Enkrypt — a web3 browser extension supporting Polkadot and Substrate-based chains. Manage your tokens and NFTs. Access web3 apps across multiple blockchains
Basilisk has won the most recent Kusama parachain slot auction
Altair won a parachain auction slot on Kusama once again
With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, GM Parachain has been in the lead the entire Ending Period
KSM locked from the second set of auctions is now available to be unlocked. This is generally done by the relevant parachain teams
Referendum 220, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Statemine and Calamari, is passing by a wide margin with slightly less than 3 days left to vote
Referendum 221, proposing to upgrade the Encointer common good parachain’s runtime, is currently passing by a wide margin with slightly less than 3 days left to vote
Motion 523, proposing to upgrade the Encointer runtime, is under consideration by the Kusama Council
The staking rate on Kusama has increased to 50.6%, 0.4% less than the ideal staking rate of 51.0%
The Darwinia Universal Cross-Chain Messaging SDK has been introduced. Crab 1232 runtime has been upgraded. Crab Parachain launched cross-chain connection with Bifrost using XCM. Khala XCM integration will bring the Crab ecosystem with the suite of confidential computing services
iBTC minting is now live, the first fully trustless and decentralized wrapped Bitcoin bridge on Polkadot. The incentivised iBTC/aUSD bootstrap pool is officially live
Say hello to Huckleberry — the first DEX on CLV Chain.
Moonbeam’s cross-chain connected contracts represent a monumental shift forward in usability by allowing end users to couple any token with functionality located on any blockchain, all from one application experience. Runtime 1701 Upgrade is now live. Bit Hotel, a social-first play to earn NFT gaming metaverse, has integrated into Moonbeam Network
Acala has launched the new ACA Staking Program. Astar x Acala DeFi Rising to accelerate DeFi on Polkadot. Leading Moonbeam-based DEX StellaSwap integrates aUSD, Polkadot’s native over-collateralized stablecoin. Acala Ecosystem Update is out
Astar has announced its partnership with Alchemy to accelerate dApp development on Astar Network. Shiden and Moonriver are now connected via XCM integration
Zenlink joins Astar’s Build2Earn Program
Celer cBridge Integrates with Klaytn. Celer partnered with pStake Finance in order to support their users with multi-chain governance. The team has fully integrated MathWallet into cBridge
Bifrost 2022 July Monthly Report is out. vKSM: The liquid staking derivative launched by Bifrost. A new HRMP channel launched between Bifrost and Crab Parachain. On August 8, the Bifrost loyalty program called Rainbow Boost 3.0 started
OmniBTC partners with ChainX to bring XBTC to Aptos. ChainX intends to support the ecology of Move public chains such as Aptos/Sui. So the latest position of ChainX is a Substrate based BTC Layer 2 network that supports both the EVM ecosystem and the Move ecosystem, aiming to make Bitcoin widely available in these ecosystems
Humanode announced a partnership with Ink Finance — a leading DAO governance protocol that enables businesses to easily set up and organize as DAOs across multiple blockchains. The partnership with Humanode will help Ink Finance to make the DAO ecosystem secure, transparent, and Sybil resistant. The team announced the whitelist for Humanode public sale on Tokensoft in the upcoming months
The XCVM is Composable’s stateful system which encompasses multiple chains. By providing the infrastructure and tooling to create truly cross-chain applications, Composable Finance is unifying several DeFi ecosystems for improved UX. Check out the latest blog on XCVM’s architecture to learn more
Phala Network launched Stake Pool description function on Phala App. Now pool owners can add various contact information such as Discord, Twitter, and Email in the description, and more
zkAssets and zkAddresses, a core part of Manta Network’s infrastructure towards building a privacy-first future, have been introduced. KMA is now listed on Solarbeam
Crust Network & OAK Network partnership announced. Crust Shadow integrates aUSD as the default stablecoin for parachain storage fee payments
Dock is now an Associate Member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
Stable asset H2O is now in Ocean Market: Buy and sell data with H2O, a stable asset backed by OCEAN. OceanDAO Round 20 results
Turing Network has now opened HRMP channels with Bifrost, Crust Shadow, and Khala. The OAK Network team successfully distributed the second set of TUR crowdloan rewards
7 Pioneer Spot auctions were opened after Testnet 0.0.1.7 release. Bit.Country gives a warm welcome to those 7 metaverses that successfully secured a spot. The highest auction bid achieved 50,000 AlphaNEER
Governance 1.0 on Litmus is live. LIT community can now administrate & make decisions over the development of Litmus Network using on-chain and off-chain governance
SORA Wallet: Polkaswap 2.5.0 for Android has been released
Efinity partners with Entropia, a world-renowned MMORPG game & Guinness Book of World Record holder for most valuable digital assets sold
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem
Equilibrium: 20th community call recap
Why Chainlink’s SmartCon is the must-attend web3 event of the year
BitGo now supports Polkadot
SubWallet launched v0.5.4 with QR Signer support for Parity Signer and Stylo, full support for Ledger (connecting & signing transactions), and in-app XCM transfer for aUSD among Moonbeam, Moonriver, Acala, Karura, Astar and Shiden (both Substrate & EVM)
Nova Wallet announced Parity Signer integration
Although Polkadot Decoded 2022 has wrapped, you can still catch up on all the talks you might have missed on YouTube
And more!

Latest Polkadot News

Congratulations to Integritee Network on winning Polkadot’s 23rd parachain auction. Integritee provides a scalable public blockchain solution for securely processing sensitive business or personal data while giving all parties control and transparency on what their data is used for.
With only a few hours left in the current parachain lease auction, anonymous para ID 2057 has been in the lead the entire Ending Period.
With 14 days, Referendum 70, proposing to increase the maximum number of HRMP channels from 10 to 30, is passing by a wide margin.
Referendum 71, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot runtime to v9260, is currently passing unanimously with one day left to vote.
Polkadot 0.9.27 has been released with medium upgrade priority.
The latest Monthly Polkadot Staking Update, detailing how the staking system is being improved on Polkadot and Kusama, has been released.
MEW teamed up with Web3 Foundation and Parity to build Enkrypt — a web3 browser extension supporting Polkadot and Substrate-based chains. Manage your tokens and NFTs. Access web3 apps across multiple blockchains.

Kusama

Basilisk has won the most recent Kusama parachain slot auction.
With two days left in the current parachain lease auction, GM Parachain has been in the lead the entire Ending Period.
KSM locked from the second set of auctions is now available to be unlocked. This is generally done by the relevant parachain teams.
Referendum 220, proposing to open an HRMP channel between Statemine and Calamari, is passing by a wide margin with slightly less than 3 days left to vote.
Referendum 221, proposing to upgrade the Encointer common good parachain’s runtime, is currently passing by a wide margin with slightly less than 3 days left to vote.
Motion 523, proposing to upgrade the Encointer runtime, is under consideration by the Kusama Council.
The staking rate on Kusama has increased to 50.6%, 0.4% less than the ideal staking rate of 51.0%.

Awareness and Events

Although Polkadot Decoded 2022 has wrapped, you can still catch up on all the talks you might have missed on YouTube

Seoul, August 11th: #KBW2022 with the Polkadot community and some of the ecosystem teams
Polkadot Community Call — July 2022

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

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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.

Bifrost 2022 July Monthly Report is out
vKSM: The liquid staking derivative launched by Bifrost
As more and more parachains open HRMP with Bifrost, staking derivatives will be connected and combined through XCMP. Details.
A new HRMP channel launched between Bifrost and Crab Parachain
On August 8, at 12 am UTC, the Bifrost loyalty program called Rainbow Boost 3.0 started. Any address that has ever participated in Kusama Crowdloan (via Bifrost) can claim 2000 Raindrop points for free.
Proposal | Bifrost Kusama to transfer BNC across chains to Bifrost Polkadot

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.

Altair won a parachain auction slot on Kusama once again. Details.
2022-July Centrifuge Monthly Summary
Pool Onboarding Proposal (POP) Submissions

ChainX

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

ChainX Ecosystem Monthly Report #4 is out
Blockchain Industry Trends from a Cross-Chain Perspective By ChainX & ComingChat CEO
OmniBTC partners with ChainX to bring XBTC to Aptos
ChainX intends to support the ecology of Move public chains such as Aptos/Sui. So the latest position of ChainX is a Substrate based BTC Layer 2 network that supports both the EVM ecosystem and the Move ecosystem, aiming to make Bitcoin widely available in these ecosystems.

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.

The Darwinia Universal Cross-Chain Messaging SDK has been introduced, a solidity library that provides the easiest way for decentralized applications to become cross-chain applications. By simply importing the SDK, developers can integrate cross-chain messaging capabilities into their new or existing Dapps.
Crab 1232 runtime upgrade: Crab 1232 runtime has been upgraded.
Crab Parachain launched cross-chain connection with Bifrost using XCM
Khala XCM integration will bring the Crab ecosystem with the suite of confidential computing services
Darwinia Highlight July | Monthly Recap
Darwinia Apps Guide Part VⅠ: Fee Market Analytics

Interlay

Interlay is building a trustless bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.

iBTC minting is now live, the first fully trustless and decentralized wrapped Bitcoin bridge on Polkadot
INTR and iBTC on Moonbeam — XCM and Metamask Guide
aUSD will be registered as an asset on Kintsugi. It is the first step towards considering it as a vault collateral and to facilitate other developments with Karura.
The Big Unlock: Hot Kusama Summer
The incentivised iBTC/aUSD bootstrap pool is officially live

Smart Contracts

CLV (Previously Clover)

Say Hello to Huckleberry –The first DEX on CLV Chain: Huckleberry started life as a breakthrough DEX platform built on Moonriver, and makes use of Wanchain’s decentralized cross-chain bridges. Huckleberry is designed for people who are willing to cross rivers, networks and blockchains to see the world and experience all that it has to offer. Huckleberry marks the Launch of the first DEX on CLV, which will bring drifters to the field of clovers. Huckleberry is a community-driven platform which allows all users to have a say in the future direction of the DEX and lendin’ platform.
Frequently Asked Questions on CLV Staking and Trading
CLV AMA ACADEMY RECAP- CLV X HUCKLEBERRY
Frequently Asked Questions on CLV Wallet
CLV Month in Review — July 2022

Edgeware

EDG Community Update: Week of August 1st, 2022: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
EDG Developer Update: July 31 — Aug 6, 2022: Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more
EDG DAO Financial Bulletin: Second Fortnight of July: Provides the community a fair idea about the performance of EDG as compared to the market as well as the peers of EDG.
EDG Community Update: July 25th, 2022
The SCU proposal(Referendum #100) for the month of July has been approved by the community.

Moonbeam

Connected Contracts on Moonbeam and Moonriver: Connected contracts represent a monumental shift forward in usability by allowing end users to couple any token with functionality located on any blockchain, all from one application experience. Moonbeam’s cross-chain connected contracts are powered by messages that are sent across chains, including Polkadot (via XCM, cross-consensus messaging) and Ethereum, Cosmos, and Avalanche (via cross-chain messaging systems such as Axelar). Apps built on Moonbeam are able to call any contract on any chain, anytime.
Bit Hotel, a social-first play to earn NFT gaming metaverse, has integrated into Moonbeam Network.
The Moonbeam team released an urgent security patch for integer truncation bug.
A new blog has been published on the Moonbeam website. It includes additional information about Maintenance Mode (was recently put in action in order to investigate a security incident with a smart contract deployed on the network), the governance actions that trigger it, and the emergency situations that require its activation.
Runtime 1701 Upgrade is now live, bringing new XCM-to-EVM call capabilities into testing on Moonbase Alpha and voting functionalities to Moonbeam and Moonriver
Last two days to submit your application for the Boba x Moonbeam hack challenge

Scaling

Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)

Astar has announced its partnership with Alchemy to accelerate dApp development on Astar Network.
Shiden and Moonriver are now connected via XCM integration, opening a bi-directional channel for SDN & MOVR token transfers between chains and continuing to pave the way for interoperable apps within Kusama.
It’s Official: SiO2 Is Launching On Astar Network This Week
Launching Astar x Acala DeFi Rising Campaign

Celer

Celer cBridge Integrates with Klaytn: The Celer ecosystem welcomes Klaytn as the 36th supported chain that users can now use with cBridge
Celer partnered with pStake Finance in order to support their users with multi-chain governance
Special Celer AMA with pStake Finance
The team has fully integrated MathWallet into cBridge and are now listed as a recommended bridge on MathWallet on over 20 different chains
Congratulations to all of the winners of the Celer 1 Year Anniversary Celebration!

DeFi

Acala

Acala has launched the new ACA Staking Program.
Binance adds support for ACA on locked staking and flexible savings, with up to 7.73% rewards rates.
The aUSD fungibility pallet proposal has passed. It unifies aUSD fungibility between Acala and Karura, allowing aUSD to serve as the native stablecoin & liquidity for the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem.
Astar x Acala DeFi Rising to accelerate DeFi on Polkadot
Leading Moonbeam-based DEX StellaSwap integrates aUSD, Polkadot’s native over-collateralized stablecoin
Acala Ecosystem Update is out

Composable Finance

The XCVM is Composable’s stateful system which encompasses multiple chains. By providing the infrastructure and tooling to create truly cross-chain applications, Composable Finance is unifying several DeFi ecosystems for improved UX. Check out the latest blog on XCVM’s architecture to learn more.
Dev Log #10

Equilibrium

Risk mitigation is one of the biggest keys to success in a volatile crypto market. In preparation for Equilibrium’s Money Market launch, its team has published an article that lists 5 ways to navigate managing your crypto portfolio on Equilibrium.
Collateral Discounts: a Powerful Tool to Manage Liquidity Risks
Equilibrium: 20th Community Call Recap

HydraDX

Parallel Finance

If you are among the supporters of Heiko’s first crowdloan, it is almost time for your cKSM redemption. Check out this article for more information.
GLMR, MOVR are now live on Parallel and Heiko Money Market
Parallel Bounty Program for KSM unlock
KSM holders, it’s time for UNLOCK ’N’ STAKE SUMMER

SORA

Interested in winning big? Join the SORA × HackerNoon DeFi Writing Contest. Simply submit your articles about DeFi and Substrate to get a chance to win from the whooping monthly 5,000 XSTUSD prize pool. Details.
SORA Wallet: Polkaswap 2.5.0 for Android has been released. Now you can invite your friends using the SORA Referral System and earn rewards.
August 10 2022, Ecosystem Updates for SORA

Zenlink

Zenlink Joins Astar’s #Build2Earn Program
Zenlink Monthly Updates (July 2022)
The BNC/ZLK farm has been switched to a long-term farm and is back online. Waiting for ZLK staking to expire, Zenlink will move to full long-term farms on Bifrost.

Privacy

Phala Network

Phala Network launched Stake Pool description function on Phala App. Now pool owners can add various contact information such as Discord, Twitter, and Email in the description, and more
SubBridge Supports New Token, Cloud Computing Tokenomics Will Be Published Soon|Phala Weekly Vol. 93
Fat Contract: Introduce Off-chain Computation to Smart Contract

Manta Network

zkAssets and zkAddresses, a core part of Manta Network’s infrastructure towards building a privacy-first future, have been introduced.
KMA is now listed on Solarbeam
Read this post to learn more about trusted setups, and why they play a crucial part in enabling Manta’s privacy preservation functionality to enable privacy for all crypto assets.

Data

Crust Network

Dock

Dock Joins the Decentralized Identity Foundation: Dock is now an Associate Member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF).
The Complete History of the World Wide Web (From Web1 to Web3)
Decentralized Identity Using Blockchain: The Ultimate Guide 2022
Dock has revamped its Discord server. Lots of exciting contests and giveaways are on their way.

KILT Protocol

Ocean Protocol

Stable asset H2O is now in Ocean Market: Buy and sell data with H2O, a stable asset backed by OCEAN
Data sovereignty: What does it mean for enterprises
OceanDAO Round 20 Results: 16 proposals received and 347,882 OCEAN granted

Oracle

Chainlink

Kylin Network

Other

Enjin

Efinity partners with Entropia, a world-renowned MMORPG game & Guinness Book of World Record holder for most valuable digital assets sold. Their 1st exclusive in-game NFT auctions on nft.io marketplace are now live. More in their quarterly report.
When adopting NFTs into any web2 gaming universe, there is always a bit of a learning curve. In this thread, Enjin is going to answer some frequently asked questions about the Eggs of Entropia.
Enjin’s August 2022 Ecosystem Report is live.

Humanode

Humanode announced a partnership with Ink Finance — a leading DAO governance protocol that enables businesses to easily set up and organize as DAOs across multiple blockchains. The partnership with Humanode will help Ink Finance to make the DAO ecosystem secure, transparent, and Sybil resistant.
The Humanode team shared some long-awaited news about where they are headed. First of all, they announced the whitelist for Humanode public sale on Tokensoft in the upcoming months. The whitelist spots are limited that is why they decided to have three different waves so that more dedicated ecosystem members could get into an earlier wave. Those who partook in the testnets will be allocated to the first wave.
Humanode Dev Report 29: The Humanode teams shared some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that they have been working on.
Unlock your creativity and join the Humanode Art Contest:

Litentry

Litentry this week:

- Finalized implementation of Staking Pallet and bi-directional token bridge

- Started the front-end design of the first version of Identity Hub

- Launched the Litmus Governance platform

RMRK

What are Nested NFTs and what can they do?
In this video RMRK drops the hot new alpha. For those who are interested: make sure to tune in for all the details about the Mana token which will be used in Skybreach.

MISC

BitGo now supports Polkadot

SubWallet launched v0.5.4 with QR Signer support for Parity Signer and Stylo, full support for Ledger (connecting & signing transactions), and in-app XCM transfer for aUSD among Moonbeam, Moonriver, Acala, Karura, Astar and Shiden (both Substrate & EVM).
Nova Wallet announced Parity Signer integration

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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