Polkadot: Kilt has become the 1st parachain to migrate from Kusama to Polkadot, OAK Network has won the latest parachain lease auction, Crust is in the lead, Polkadot roadmap roundup is out, Polkadot’s Governance v2 is merged into Kusama, The first Polkadot Hackathon LATAM is here, Tether now live on Polkadot, Chainlink & SWIFT announce CCIP PoC, veOCEAN is now live, DPoS is coming to Calamari, Humanode public sale is here, and more!
Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 47, 22nd September — 6th October
TL;DR
- A proposed roadmap for upcoming developments on Polkadot is out
- Updates to Polkadot’s staking system for the months of August and September
- Kilt has become the first parachain to migrate from Kusama to Polkadot
- Congratulations to OAK network on winning Polkadot’s 28th parachain auction.
- With the Ending Period beginning today, Crust is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction
- Polkadot’s Governance v2 is merged into Kusama
- Following the USDT by Tether, USDC will go live on Polkadot by the end of this year
- Referendum 74, proposing to open several HRMP channels, is passing unanimously with 8 days left to vote
- Information on the coming rollout of Polkadot nomination pools, which will drastically improve staking limits, is now available
- Polkadot still has the largest active developer ecosystem outside Ethereum, with almost 3x more weekly commits than the next largest ecosystem according to Messari
- Anonymous parathread ID 2223 has won the most recent parachain lease auction
- Referendum 236, proposing to upgrade Statemine to runtime v9290, is currently passing unanimously with 5 days left to vote
- The Moonbeam Orbiters Program, a collator rotation program designed as a new onramp into the collator ecosystem, following a successful rollout period on Moonriver, has been launched. Moonbeam has joined the Chainlink SCALE program to fuel dApp innovation on the network. USDT is now live on Moonbeam
- Humanode public sale is here. Previously, the team announced the launch of testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’ that is focusing on token claims, vesting, and unlocking systems that the team will use to distribute tokens at TGE
- DPoS is coming to Calamari: use your KMA to vote for the runtime upgrade v3.4.0
- Chainlink and SWIFT announce CCIP Proof Of Concept at SmartCon 2022. Chainlink and CF Benchmarks announce a new interest rate benchmark for Web3
- September Bifrost Ecosystem Report is out. xc-vKSM proposal has passed: vKSM will soon be added as a Moonriver XC Asset to kickstart more use case scenarios and liquidity in Kusama EVM protocols and apps
- Darwinia 1242 Runtime Upgrade took place. XCM Dashboards for Darwinia parachain/Crab parachain are available now. September’s Crab and Darwinia PLO NFT rewards have been distributed
- Astar became the first Polkadot parachain to launch XCM transfers of USDT. Top Japanese companies join Astar to celebrate Web3. Yoshitaka Amano curates his first NFT collection on Astar Network
- veOCEAN is launching, data farming is resuming
- September has been a productive month for Celer — 5 new partners, expanding their support for 2 projects, and taking part in a special panel discussing how cross-chain will affect Web3
- Community referendums for Stage 1 and Stage 2 of resuming Acala operations have passed and been executed
- With Parallel Finance’s new feature, you can leverage all the yield opportunities across Parallel and maximize DOT APY with one single click
- Composable Finance has published an article detailing the strengths of both Cosmos and Polkadot, along with Composable’s unique perspective as a builder seeking to reconcile 2 of DeFi’s most innovative ecosystems
- Phala’s SubBridge has opened HRMP channels with Moonbeam and Parallel Finance. SubBridge now supports GLMR and PARA. Phat Contract as L3 design draft completed. Phat Contract rebranding completed
- Crust has been included in the Ethereum official docs as a decentralized storage solution. Crust Network will deploy its nodes through OnFinality
- Dock anonymous credentials protocol update integrates Circom to enable developers to specify zero-knowledge “predicates” on credential attributes
- The referendum on increasing the maximum number of collators to 35, allowing for smaller holders to be part of securing the KILT network, went through and was enacted
- OmniBTC has realized XBTC cross-chain deposit to Aptos network
- Centrifuge Community Call 26 took place
- The new Zenlink Monthly Updates is out, covering September 2022 of all things Zenlink
- A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem
- Once implemented, Enjin Wallet v2 will have feature parity with Wallet 1.0, as well as support for extra coins and NFTs
- The 2nd Annual SORA Economic Forum took place
- The Polkadot Hackathon (North America Edition) is finished now
- Interested in building in the Polkadot ecosystem? Take this chance to join the first Polkadot Hackathon LATAM
- Apply for the second intake of the PolkadotDevCamp to learn how to build blockchains using Substrate, dive into Polkadot and parachain development, and hear from Polkadot experts
- Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28 to 29 in Lisbon, Portugal, and online
- And more!
Latest Polkadot News
- Polkadot Roadmap Roundup: A proposed roadmap for upcoming developments on Polkadot. Check out what some of the developers are working on now. From increasing TPS to between 100,000–1,000,000 with asynchronous backing to parathreads, XCMv3, a bridge hub, and a fully decentralized governance mechanism.
- KILT Is Now a Parachain on Polkadot: Kilt has become the first parachain to migrate from Kusama to Polkadot.
- Congratulations to OAK network on winning Polkadot’s 28th parachain auction.
- With the Ending Period beginning today, Crust is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction.
- Polkadot’s Governance v2 is merged into Kusama: The Polkadot Fellowship will be going live in the near future.
- Following the USDT by Tether, USDC will go live on Polkadot by the end of this year.
- Referendum 74, proposing to open several HRMP channels, is passing unanimously with 8 days left to vote.
- Information on the coming rollout of Polkadot nomination pools, which will drastically improve staking limits, is now available. Nomination pools allow nominators to “pool” their nominations together, reducing the amount necessary to receive staking rewards drastically.
- Initially proposed parameters are 1 DOT to join a pool, 200 DOT to create a pool, a maximum of 64 pools and 32_000 members in all pools. These can all be changed by governance and the number of pools and members is expected to increase.
- Polkadot still has the largest active developer ecosystem outside Ethereum, with almost 3x more weekly commits than the next largest ecosystem according to Messari.
Slot Auction Progress:
Kusama
- Anonymous parathread ID 2223 has won the most recent parachain lease auction.
- Referendum 236, proposing to upgrade Statemine to runtime v9290, is currently passing unanimously with 5 days left to vote.
- The staking rate on Kusama has decreased slightly over the last few days to 55.2%.
Awareness and Events
- Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28th to 29th in Lisbon, Portugal and online.
- Polkadot Hackathon in Latin America, October 3rd — November 19th, 2022: Interested in building in the Polkadot ecosystem? Take this chance to join the first Polkadot Hackathon LATAM to advance your Polkadot dev skills, and get a chance to win from a prize pool of over $140,000.
- The Polkadot Hackathon (North America Edition) is finished now. Check this thread to meet its winners.
- Apply for the second intake of the PolkadotDevCamp to learn how to build blockchains using Substrate, dive into Polkadot and parachain development, and hear from Polkadot experts.
- 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
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.
- September Bifrost Ecosystem Report is out.
- Join Bifrost at TOKEN2049 Singapore.
- xc-vKSM proposal has passed: vKSM will soon be added as a Moonriver XC Asset to kickstart more use case scenarios and liquidity in Kusama EVM protocols and apps.
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.
- Centrifuge Community Call 26: Hot takes on RWAs w Chico Crypto.
- Centrifuge turns real world assets into loans.
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 1242 Runtime Upgrade took place.
- XCM Dashboards for Darwinia parachain/Crab parachain are available now.
- September’s Crab and Darwinia PLO NFT rewards have been distributed.
- Protecting on-chain data and privacy with Manta Network
Smart Contracts
CLV (previously Clover)
- Introducing CLV’s Cornerstones, Meet More CLV Team members
- CLV Wallet Offers Fiat Ramps for Seamless User Experience
- The Future of Polkadot & Cosmos
Edgeware
- EDG Community Update: Week of September 19th, 2022: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
- EDG Developer Update: Sep 18 — Sep 24, 2022: Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more.
Moonbeam
- First Moonriver, Now Moonbeam: the launch of the Moonbeam Orbiters Program, a collator rotation program designed as a new onramp into the collator ecosystem, following a successful rollout period on Moonriver.
- Moonbeam has joined the Chainlink SCALE program to fuel dApp innovation on the network.
- USDT is now live on Moonbeam: tokens can be transferred to & used on the network through the Moonbeam DApp via Statemint.
Scaling
Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)
- Astar became the first Polkadot parachain to launch XCM transfers of USDT. Read more.
- Top Japanese Companies join Astar to Celebrate Web3
- Legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano curates his first NFT collection on Astar Network
Celer
- September has been a productive month for Celer — 5 new partners, expanding their support for 2 projects, and taking part in a special panel discussing how cross-chain will affect Web3.
- Celer is on the Move — asset bridging is now enabled for Aptos devnet.
- Special Celer AMA w@Shirtum
DeFi
Acala
- Community referendums for Stage 1 and Stage 2 of resuming Acala operations have passed and been executed. LPs who choose to unstake LP tokens or withdraw liquidity on Acala now have the option to do so.
- Acala’s Path to Resuming Operations
- Acala Incident Report — 14/08/2022
Composable Finance
- Composable Finance has published an article detailing the strengths of both Cosmos and Polkadot, along with Composable’s unique perspective as a builder seeking to reconcile 2 of DeFi’s most innovative ecosystems.
- Beyond being a custom-built L1, Picasso is also the first CosmWasm L1 built on Kusama. Find out more in this recent blog post.
- Dev Log #13
Equilibrium
- Equilibrium’s Closed Beta is live. If you have not confirmed your participation yet, keep an eye on your email for a reminder.
- Important announcement for the Closed Beta participants: the rewards will not be calculated on a pure balance transfer basis. Upon the final calculation of rewards, Equilibrium will exclude any balance transfers to ensure maximum fairness across all participants.
Parallel Finance
- Introducing Parallel Wallet — The Ultimate Gateway to Parallel, Dotsama and beyond.
- Parallel Wallet Bug Bounty is now live on Immunefi. Report critical bugs and earn up to $10.000 in PARA token.
- Parallel Finance has introduced a new feature: One-Click Yield for DOT. You can now leverage all the yield opportunities across Parallel and maximize DOT APY with one single click.
- USDT/PARA and USDT/HKO liquidity has been added to Parallel and Heiko AMM. Cross-chain is coming soon.
- One-Click Yield for DOT — DeFi made accessible, again
- Parallel Wallet Extension Security Overview
Zenlink
- Zenlink Monthly Updates (September 2022): The new Zenlink Monthly Updates are out, covering September 2022 of all things Zenlink.
-Stable AMM (Substrate) has been deployed on testnet and smart order router has been adapted
-Governance UI&UX is ready for interaction with the EVM contract
-Refactoring Zenlink DEX WASM
Privacy
Phala Network
- Phala Had A Successful Journey At Token 2049, Phat Contract Finished Rebranding|Phala Weekly
- Phat Contract. Hello There. The next major step in replacing Web2
- Phala’s SubBridge has opened HRMP channels with Moonbeam and Parallel Finance. You can now transfer GLMR and PARA to Phala and vice versa.
- The number of Khala Council seats has been increased, with all 8 seats available for application.
- Recap Videos From Polkadot Events In Berlin Blockchain Week is Out, Phala Has Prepared Gifts for Token 2049
- Phala Network Monthly Community Call 09/30
Manta Network
- Why did Manta create zkAssets, and what are they? All answers are in this post.
- Delegated Proof-of-Stake is coming to Calamari: use your KMA to vote for the runtime upgrade v3.4.0. After going live next week, any user will be able to stake their KMA to contribute to the resiliency of the network.
- Fuel x Manta: Web3 [2] 1 Billion.
Data
Crust Network
- Crust Network will deploy its nodes through OnFinality, a blockchain infrastructure platform that saves Web3 builders time and makes their lives easier. Learn more.
- Crust has been included in the Ethereum official docs as a decentralized storage solution.
- Crust Shadow will renew the Kusama parachain at slot #56–59. Check the details and venues where you can vote for it.
- Crust Devlog | Sep 15th — Sep 30th, 2022
- Crust goes Berlin
Dock
- Dock is pleased to announce that it has added Circom Language to specify zero-knowledge predicates on credential attributes. This integration will provide valuable upgrades to Dock’s anonymous credentials.
- Web3 and Crypto Scams You Should Be Aware of and How to Avoid Them: From fake Bitcoin giveaways to impersonations and crypto rug pulls, crypto scams have troubled every Web3 and Cryptocurrency user. Here’s the most updated guide on the most popular crypto scams and how to avoid them.
KILT Protocol
- The referendum on increasing the maximum number of collators to 35, allowing for smaller holders to be part of securing the KILT network, went through and was enacted.
Ocean Protocol
- veOCEAN is launching, data farming is resuming: Earn by locking OCEAN and by Curating Quality Data. 216M OCEAN Available in Rewards.
- Goerli Network is integrated into the Ocean Market.
Oracle
Chainlink
- SmartCon 2022 Day 1 Recap | Chainlink Blog.
- Chainlink and SWIFT announce CCIP Proof Of Concept at SmartCon 2022.
- Chainlink and CF Benchmarks announce a new interest rate benchmark for Web3: the CF Bitcoin Interest Rate Curve — in Association With Chainlink (CF BIRC).
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Shares What It Takes To Win In Web3 At SmartCon 2022.
- Sergey Nazarov Celebrates Launch Of Chainlink Economics 2.0 During SmartCon 2022 Keynote.
- AI-Based Marketing Platform Ojamu Integrates Chainlink Price Feeds.
Other
Energy Web
- Technology experts from Energy Web took a deep dive into one of the latest technology solutions coming to the ecosystem, Decentralized Logic Execution (DLE).
- A bi-weekly recap of the news.
Enjin
- Enjin Development Update (03/10/22).
- Introducing: Enjin’s First Unreal Engine SDK.
- Once implemented, Enjin Wallet v2 will have feature parity with Wallet 1.0, as well as support for extra coins and NFTs.
- September 2022 Roadmap Update.
Humanode
- Public Sale is approaching. Wave 1 dedicated to Humanode validators and researchers is set to go live on the 7th of October. The link for wave 2 whitelisting. The link for wave 3 whitelisting. Check out whitelist.humanode.io
- Humanode Dev Updates 32: The Humanode teams shared some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that they have been working on.
- Interview with Marc Blinder, Co-Founder and CEO of AIKON
Litentry
- Identity Management Pallet & VC generation
- New inflation model is WIP
- Attending Token2049
RMRK
- The Nested Royalties user interface has been released on Singular. Now users can set royalties for nested NFTs (NFTs that own other NFTs). All monthly RMRK updates are available here.
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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