Polkadot: OmniBTC has won the most recent parachain lease auction, Sub0 on Nov 28, Humanode mainnet launched, Energy Web presented its Trusted Green Charging Solution, MetaMask has integrated Celer cBridge, PhalaNetwork enters its 1st halving period, Centrifuge has raised $4M, EQ offering Phase 2 kicks off this month, Polkadot’s codebase turns 5, and more!

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13 min readNov 17, 2022

Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 49, 3rd November — 17th November

TL;DR

Polkadot’s new nomination pools are proving popular: it has taken a few days since launch for all 64 pools to be opened. Learn how to join them to start collecting rewards with as little as 1 DOT.
Polkadot’s native token (DOT), initially offered, sold and delivered to purchasers as a security, has morphed and no longer is a security. It is software.
OmniBTC has won the most recent parachain lease auction.
Polkadot 0.9.32 has been released with low upgrade priority.
The latest demo of Nova Wallet shows it working well with Polkadot Gov 2.0.
Referendum 80, proposing to grant sufficiency to USDT on Statemint, has passed.
Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, is passing with 99% in favor.
Referendum 84, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot Relay Chain to runtime v9300, has been passed and executed.
Referendum 85, proposing to force and update to the Kapex parachain runtime code to allow it to upgrade.
Centrifuge has raised $4 million in a strategic round. Participating investors include Coinbase Ventures and BlockTower. BlockTower and MakerDAO are set to create a $220 million pool on Centrifuge.
Humanode has launched the highly-anticipated crypto-biometric blockchain network where one human = one node = one vote that brings Sybil resistance and innovative governance models to the crypto industry using biometric technology.
Bifrost October Monthly Report is out. Bifrost collaborates with Enkrypt to enable derivatives management for its users.
ArthSwap has opened pools for both of Interlay’s iBTC and INTR pairs.
An article on CLVs journey and technological milestones has been published. CLV Monthly Wrap-up is out. CLV’s DEX platform, SwapBay, has been introduced.
The Edgeware community has approved the proposal to decrease the active validators’ slots from 100 to 94 as a precautionary measure to avoid stalling the finality after the v4.0.2 upgrade.
The largest Japanese internet provider Docomo teams up with Astar Network to create solutions on Polkadot for various issues facing modern society, such as regional development and addressing environmental problems. A new version of Astar.js library has been released.
MetaMask has integrated Celer cBridge in the brand-new Bridge feature. Celer Inter-chain Messaging has launched on Astar Network.
Both Acala and Karura will update the auction size limit to reduce liquidation impact in response to the current volatile market conditions. Karura’s latest upgrade was executed, upgrading Substrate/Polkadot/Cumulus version & adding a few minor fixes for EVM+.
Tapio has received its second grant from Web3 Foundation.
An in-depth look into Composable brand evolution.
Equilibrium has integrated with Multichain, implementing a smart-contract for its bridge to wrap assets bridgeable to Moonbeam’s EVM into XCM-compatible tokens so they can be later transferred to any parachain. EQ offering Phase 2 kicks off this November, and the whitelist is live.
INTR, iBTC, KINT and KBTC are now supported on Parallel/Heiko AMM.
SORA Card Phase 1: learn about different options to apply for the SORA Card, its KYC process, fees, and more.
Phat Contract finished offchain Rollup scheduler initial implementation. Phala will enter its 1st halving period on #2,763,069 Khala Network block height since Gemini upgrade.
The StaFiHub governance platform with the cooperation of Commonwealth has been introduced.
Full video replays for Day 1 + 2 of Illuminate/22 event by Moonbeam are available on Hopin.
Last weekend, some Manta Network team members went to ETHSanFrancisco 2022 to participate in the hackathon.
Crust Network announces its new partnership with OneLand, a one-stop finance platform for virtual lands in the Metaverse. Support from Crust will include technical, operational and dStorage services.
Last Monday, Energy Web presented its Trusted Green Charging Solution at the citizen mobility event. The prototype makes locally generated green energy traceable and tradable.
Litentry parachain is officially connected to Rococo. Token bridge gas fee is adjusted to 10 LIT.
Dock Certs, the platform that enables users to easily issue, verify, revoke, and manage fraud-proof Verifiable Credentials, now has a Certificate Designer feature allowing users to customize the design of their credentials.
Ocean data farming DF10 completed, DF11 started.
Kylin monthly technical update is out.
Sergey Nazarov says proof of reserve should be a new minimum standard for crypto exchanges.
Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28 to 29 in Lisbon, Portugal and online.
The second edition of the Polkadot Academy will take place in Buenos Aires from January 10th to February 10th, 2023.
Polkadot & Web3 Educational Courses launching on edX.
Polkadot’s codebase turns 5.
And more!

Latest News

Polkadot’s new nomination pools are proving popular: it has taken just four days since launch for all 64 pools to be opened. Learn how to join them to start collecting rewards with as little as 1 DOT.
Polkadot’s native token (DOT), initially offered, sold and delivered to purchasers as a security, has morphed and no longer is a security. It is software.
Polkadot 0.9.32 has been released with low upgrade priority.
The latest demo of Nova Wallet shows it working well with Polkadot Gov 2.0.
Referendum 80, proposing to grant sufficiency to USDT on Statemint, has passed.
Referendum 81, to on-board Collectives as a common-good parachain, is passing with 99% in favor.
Referendum 84, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot Relay Chain to runtime v9300, has been passed and executed.
Referendum 85, proposing to force and update to the Kapex parachain runtime code to allow it to upgrade.
Polkadot’s codebase turns 5:

Awareness and Events

The second edition of the Polkadot Academy will take place in Buenos Aires from January 10th to February 10th, 2023. Join to become a leading blockchain engineer.
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.
Fiat24 End of Year Party with Special Guests from Web3 Foundation.
Missed Polkadot Community Call — October 2022? Check out the recordings to hear the latest updates, referenda, and treasury proposals for Polkadot & Kusama, as well as hear from ecosystem teams:

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.

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.

Growing Centrifuge with an investment from Coinbase: Centrifuge has raised $4 million in a strategic round. Participating investors include Coinbase Ventures and BlockTower. BlockTower and MakerDAO are set to create a $220 million pool on Centrifuge.
It is now much easier to stay updated with on-chain Governance proposals on Centrifuge and Altair as SubSquare has begun supporting subscriptions to on-chain events.

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.

Crab Network Has Won The 59th Kusama Parachain Slot: Crab Network has won the 59th Kusama parachain slot and has been awarded the Para ID 2229. It’s the second auction that Crab Network has won, and Crab didn’t crowdloan this time.
Crab 1250 Runtime Upgrade
Darwinia Highlight October | Monthly Recap

Interlay

Interlay is building a trustless bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.

ArthSwap has opened pools for both of Interlay’s iBTC and INTR pairs.

Smart Contracts

CLV (previously Clover)

An article on CLVs journey and technological milestones has been published.
CLV Monthly Wrap-up — A Flashback into October 2022 is out.
CLV’s very own DEX platform, SwapBay, has been introduced, the next-generation decentralized exchange platform to swap, pool, and farm tokens on CLV.

Edgeware

EDG Community Update: Week of October 31st, 2022: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
EDG Developer Update: Oct 30 — Nov 5, 2022: Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more.
The Edgeware community has approved the proposal to decrease the active validators’ slots from 100 to 94 as a precautionary measure to avoid stalling the finality after the v4.0.2 upgrade.

Moonbeam

Moonbeam congratulates Moonwarriors, Champions, & all those who participated in the Escape to Illuminate Challenge Moonriver Quest 3. If you filled out the quest form & followed the rules, stay tuned for more information with regards to receiving the Quest 3 NFT.
Full video replays for Day 1 + 2 of Illuminate/22 event by Moonbeam are available on Hopin.
Quest 3: Ignite the Mooncrystals
Quest 3: Charge the Mooncrystals

Scaling

Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)

The largest Japanese internet provider Docomo teams up with Astar Network to create solutions on Polkadot for various issues facing modern society, such as regional development and addressing environmental problems. Read more.
A new version of Astar.js library has been released. Join Astar Tech Talk 003 for more updates.
Candy Girl NFT and Cosmize partnership

Celer

MetaMask has integrated Celer cBridge in the brand new Bridge feature.
Celer Inter-chain Messaging has launched on Astar Network.
Astar x Celer Network — Twitter Space.

DeFi

Acala

Both Acala and Karura will update the auction size limit to reduce liquidation impact in response to the current volatile market conditions.
Karura’s latest upgrade was executed, upgrading Substrate/Polkadot/Cumulus version & adding a few minor fixes for EVM+, as well as minor improvements for Taiga protocol.

Composable Finance

The New Face of Composable Finance: An in-depth look into Composable brand evolution.
Composable Finance’s Protocol Engineer shares early insights into the journey of establishing the infrastructure needed to support IBC connections to Etherium.

Equilibrium

Missed the Equilibrium Closed Beta analysis? This statistic provides excellent insight into users’ experience.
Equilibrium has integrated with Multichain, implementing a smart-contract for its bridge to wrap assets bridgeable to Moonbeam’s EVM into XCM-compatible tokens so they can be later transferred to any parachain.
Insurance Pool: Amazing Use Case For Wrappers/LP Tokens
EQ offering Phase 2 kicks off this November. The whitelist is live

Parallel Finance

INTR, iBTC, KINT and KBTC are now supported on Parallel/Heiko AMM: Users can now bridge over their Interlay assets using the Cross-Chain product, and start exploring new DeFi possibilities in the Parallel ecosystem.
「Paraspace: First Contact」Testnet Explorer Registration

SORA

SORA Card Phase 1: learn about different options to apply for the SORA Card, its KYC process, fees, and more.
November 5, 2022, Ecosystem Updates for SORA.

StaFi

Zenlink

Tokenomics: Version 0.1.2 (Update: November 30, 2021): A message to the Zenlink community: Alameda received 1% of the total supply of ZLK tokens from led Zenlink’s Series-A funding, which has been fully released through monthly linear unlocking.
Native $USDT comes to Zenlink.

Privacy

Phala Network

Phala will enter its 1st halving period on #2.763.069 Khala Network block height since Gemini Upgrade. The supply of PHA rewards will be reduced every 1.296.000 blocks, with the first halving happening on November 21st. Details.
Phala Will Enter Its 1st Halving Period, PhalaWorld Unlimited Shell Mint Has Started!|Phala Weekly Vol. 107.

Manta Network

Representatives of the Manta team went to ETHSanFrancisco2022 to participate in the hackathon. They built and launched decentralized Texas Hold’em using ZKP to power the game fully on chain.
UPA Celebrates Global Encryption Day: Twitter Space Recap

Data

Crust Network

Crust Network announces its new partnership with OneLand, a one-stop finance platform for virtual lands in the Metaverse. Support from Crust will include technical, operational and dStorage services.
On October 12th, Crust won the 30th Polkadot parachain auction and renewed the Kusama parachain slot. Find out how to claim rewards for both crowdloans.
Maxwell Apps front-end and blockchain explorer services will be terminated on February 4, 2023.
How to claim crowdloan rewards both for Kusama and Polkadot?

Dock

Dock has proven to be a successful use case for BurstIQ platforms, making data tamper-proof and verifiable with the help of Dock Certs. This video tells the success story of the collaboration.
New Dock Certs Release: Custom Certificate Designer: Dock Certs, the platform that enables users to easily issue, verify, revoke, and manage fraud-proof Verifiable Credentials, now has a Certificate Designer feature allowing users to customize the design of their credentials.
Blockchain and Health Care: BurstIQ Use Cases That Leverage Verifiable Credentials: See three BurstIQ use cases that demonstrate the importance of Verifiable Credentials in blockchain and health care. BurstIQ implemented our Verifiable Credential technology to make their health data secure and portable.

Ocean Protocol

Data Farming DF10 Completed, DF11 Started: Stakers can claim DF10 rewards. DF11 runs Nov 10–17 2022.
A guide to ETH price prediction: Analysing the winning submission of the ETH prediction challenge.
This week at Ocean.

Oracle

Chainlink

Sergey Nazarov says proof of reserve should be a new minimum standard for crypto exchanges
Microsoft’s Yorke Rhodes III On The Significance Of Oracles Connecting Web2 And Web3
October 2022 Recap
This week, there were 12 integrations of 6 Chainlink services across 6 different chains
Reminder: Check your Staking v0.1 eligibility now. https://staking.chain.link
Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon
Chainlink advisor and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt shares his interpretation of the Chainlink vision:

Kylin Network

Other

Energy Web

Last Monday, Energy Web presented its Trusted Green Charging Solution at the citizen mobility event. The prototype makes locally generated green energy traceable and tradable. Here is a short video to find out more.
Japan’s Electric Power Exchange (JEPX) joins the Energy Web ecosystem

Enjin

A Scale of Labor in Cross-Game Items: Cross-game items don’t have to be hard. With different ways to import external assets, it’s only as hard as you make it.
Enjin Development Update (07/11/22)
There is no shortage of metaverses allowing users to create virtual architecture. But what about interactive experiences? Check out the latest Enjin Room Podcast to learn about the next step — user-created games inside the metaverse.

Humanode

Humanode Mainnet is Live: Humanode has launched the highly-anticipated crypto-biometric blockchain network where one human = one node = one vote that brings Sybil resistance and innovative governance models to the crypto industry using biometric technology.
The Occam DAO integrates with Humanode: the Occam DAO announced that it will be integrating Humanode following a stake-based voting round by the Occam DAO community.
Humanode co-founder Victor exposed a bitter truth of decentralized governance in crypto at Daoist Bogota. He talked about why we need to work harder on decentralizing capital to create a truly decentralized future for DAOs and DeFi. Click the link to watch the full video:

The Cointelegraph article explaining the human-powered blockchain Humanode has been published covering all Humanode basics.

Litentry

Litentry parachain is officially connected to Rococo.
Token bridge gas fee is adjusted to 10 LIT.
Litmus sudo removal.
4 collators to be onboarded to Litentry Parachain.
MCP service outage handling.

MISC

The first panoramic and interactive Polkadot & Kusama Ecosystem Map is here, together with the Polkadot Deep Dive Report Q3 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

Polkadot Digest by Bill Laboon