Polkadot: Polkadot is ready for parachain launch, auction dates proposed, Rococo revamp, Substrate Connect introduced, Polkadot & Kusama gifts announced, Bifrost launches on Karura Swap, Centrifuge partners with Nexus Mutual, Khala — Ethereum bridge launched, Composable integrates Moonriver into the Mosaic PoC bridge, DApp staking is live on Shiden, Ocean’s on Energy Web Chain, Pichiu, Kylin’s implementation on Kusama announced, Web3 Foundation grants — wave 11 recipients, and more!
Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 22, 7th October — 21st October
TL;DR
- After winning the 11th parachain auction, Kintsugi is now being onboarded as Kusama’s 12th parachain (11-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine)
- Almost exactly five years after the vision of a heterogeneous multichain framework was first outlined in the Polkadot Whitepaper, parachains are now officially ready for launch on Polkadot. The news that Polkadot is now technically capable of supporting its first parachains, announced by Polkadot founders, was followed shortly by a motion for Polkadot Council to open up the network’s first parachain slot auctions, proposed to begin on November 11th, 2021
- Rococo, the parachain testnet that laid the groundwork for parachains on Kusama Network and Polkadot, now evolves into a community-maintained parachain testbed.
- Substrate Connect, a browser-based light client for Substrate-based chains, has landed as the latest addition to Substrate’s technology stack
- Every month Parity announces the latest updates from teams in the Substrate Builders Program, and October 2021’s milestone announcement introduces four teams that have reached their first milestone
- Web3 Foundation is celebrating the 11th round of grants accepted
- Using Polkadot or Kusama Gifts, community members can send DOT or KSM to friends and family in a trustless, non-custodial way, and they’ll be guided through the process of setting up an account and wallet. Gift recipients don’t need to have any previous experience with blockchain technology
- Bifrost community referendum to enable transfers has voted, BNC to activate transfers on the Oct 21st UTC
- Bifrost launches on Karura Swap with over 200k BNC in liquidity mining rewards
- Pichiu, Kylin’s canary network on Kusama, has been introduced
- Centrifuge partners with Nexus Mutual to offer smart contract coverage for investors and issuers
- Composable integrates Moonriver into the Mosaic PoC Bridge
- Crust Network integrates with Moonriver to bring web3 IPFS storage to the Kusama ecosystem
- DApp staking is live on Shiden Network
- The Equilibrium team introduced a new mechanic that significantly enhances the user experience for those contributing crowdloan campaigns on Polkadot: fluid xDOT staking
- Zenlink announced the release of the Zenlink Tokenomics Lightpaper, which introduces the Zenlink Network architecture, ecological participants, Token utility, network economic mechanism, and Token distribution
- Khala Network officially approved the Proposal which enables Khala-Ethereum Bridge on Khala
- Squad Game introduced, a Manta Network’s token event that is exclusively available for the Manta community
- StaFi Q4 Roadmap Exploration on an open staking derivative platform
- Darwinia’s monthly recap was published
- MixBytes & Robonomics collaboration report is out
- OceanDAO Round 11 is live
- Credenxia leaps into the future with Dock’s API
- The Chainlink Hackathon kicks off this Friday
- Sub0 is now over, but you can still watch the recordings posted on Parity Technologies YouTube
- Starting October 22nd Polkadot Hackathon is going global
- And more!
Latest Polkadot News
Polkadot Is Ready for Parachain Launch, Auction Dates Proposed
Almost exactly five years after the vision of a heterogeneous multichain framework was first outlined in the Polkadot Whitepaper (aka the Polkadot Paper), parachains are now officially ready for launch on Polkadot. The news that Polkadot is now technically capable of supporting its first parachains, announced by Polkadot founders Gavin Wood and Robert Habermeier, was followed shortly by a motion for Polkadot Council to open up the network’s first parachain slot auctions, proposed to begin on November 11th, 2021.
Parachains are the diverse, specialized blockchains that connect to the Polkadot Relay Chain and constitute the ‘multichain’ aspect of Polkadot’s groundbreaking multichain architecture. They represent the final piece of core technology outlined in the Polkadot Whitepaper, and their launch marks the last stage of Polkadot’s multi-phase launch process, which began on May 26th, 2020 with the launch of the initial, proof-of-authority version of the Polkadot Relay Chain.
If approved by Polkadot’s on-chain governance, the initial auctions will take place on Polkadot as follows (note that dates are approximate):
Batch 1
- Auction 1: Auction starts November 11th, 2021. Ending period starts November 13th, 2021. Bidding ends November 18th, 2021. Winning parachain(s) onboarded December 17th, 2021 for the period December 17th, 2021 to October 20th, 2023.
- Auction 2: Auction starts November 18th, 2021. Ending period starts November 20th, 2021. Bidding ends November 25th, 2021. Winning parachain(s) onboarded December 17th, 2021 for the period December 17th, 2021 to October 20th, 2023.
- Auction 3: Auction starts November 25th, 2021. Ending period starts November 27th, 2021. Bidding ends December 2nd, 2021. Winning parachain(s) onboarded December 17th, 2021 for the period December 17th, 2021 to October 20th, 2023.
- Auction 4: Auction starts December 2nd, 2021. Ending period starts December 4th, 2021. Bidding ends December 9th, 2021. Winning parachain(s) onboarded December 17th, 2021 for the period December 17th, 2021 to October 20th, 2023.
- Auction 5: Auction starts December 9th, 2021. Ending period starts December 11th, 2021. Bidding ends December 16th, 2021. Winning parachain(s) onboarded December 17th, 2021 for the period December 17th, 2021 to October 20th, 2023.
Batch 2
- Auction 6: Auction starts December 23rd, 2021. Ending period starts December 25th, 2021. Bidding ends December 30th, 2021. Winning parachain(s) onboarded March 11th, 2022 for the period March 11th, 2022 to January 12th, 2024.
- Auction 7: Auction starts January 6th, 2022. Ending period starts January 8th, 2022. Bidding ends January 13th, 2022. Winning parachain(s) onboarded March 11th, 2022 for the period March 11th, 2022 to January 12th, 2024.
- Auction 8: Auction starts January 20th, 2022. Ending period starts January 22nd, 2022. Bidding ends January 27th, 2022. Winning parachain(s) onboarded March 11th, 2022 for the period March 11th, 2022 to January 12th, 2024.
- Auction 9: Auction starts February 3rd, 2022. Ending period starts February 5th, 2022. Bidding ends February 10th, 2022. Winning parachain(s) onboarded March 11th, 2022 for the period March 11th, 2022 to January 12th, 2024.
- Auction 10: Auction starts February 17th, 2022. Ending period starts February 19th, 2022. Bidding ends February 24th, 2022. Winning parachain(s) onboarded March 11th, 2022 for the period March 11th, 2022 to January 12th, 2024.
- Auction 11: Auction starts March 3rd, 2022. Ending period starts March 5th, 2022. Bidding ends March 10th, 2022. Winning parachain(s) onboarded March 11th, 2022 for the period March 11th, 2022 to January 12th, 2024.
Rococo Revamp — Becoming a Community Parachain Testbed
Throughout its history, Rococo has been primarily focused on internal testing of parachain consensus functionality. With sporadic and unpredictable restarts, it lacked the long-term sustainability support needed to build extensive Cross-Consensus Message (XCM) format functionalities between projects.
Now the time has come to change the narrative of Rococo, allowing the network to become the enabler for the Polkadot developer community. Over the next few weeks, Parity Technologies and our fantastic community of builders will roll out different features to Rococo in phases to transition it to a completely community-maintained parachain testbed.
This will begin with onboarding the Kusama parachain teams. Parachain teams will have a slot as long as they are connected to a relay chain (Polkadot or Kusama). This will be followed by engaging with bridge builders to onboard the bridges and connect them to long-term slots. At the same time, Parity engineers have already started to develop a parachain onboarding automatization pallet that aims to allow every parachain builder to connect to Rococo on a recurring basis for a restricted time range, targeted for release by early November.
After all these updates and one more restart, it is anticipated that Rococo will be launched with the updated chain spec by the end of November, finally providing a network for the Polkadot ecosystem teams to test their projects and use cases.
Introducing Polkadot & Kusama Gifts: The Easiest Way to Send DOT & KSM to Friends & Family
Polkadot and Kusama Gifts are a new way to send DOT or KSM to anyone, even if they don’t already have an account or wallet.
Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges for any blockchain network. For members of the Polkadot community, until now the only way to get friends and family who are new to blockchain onboard with Polkadot has been to teach them how to set up their own wallet or send them to a centralized custodial service.
Now, using Polkadot or Kusama Gifts, community members can send DOT or KSM to friends and family in a trustless, non-custodial way, and they’ll be guided through the process of setting up an account and wallet. Gift recipients don’t need to have any previous experience with blockchain technology.
Polkadot Gifts provide an easy way to:
- Onboard friends or family who are curious about blockchain but haven’t made the leap yet
- Share your love of Polkadot and send any amount of DOT or KSM
- Say ‘thank you’ or send someone tokens when you don’t know their address
- Get friends and family set up to participate in crowdloans
- Polkassembly now has a section for Council members to add information about themselves. This can help you make an informed choice when voting for Council members.
- Motion 119, funding Pinknode for their improved dashboard for managing infrastructure, has passed Council vote.
- Motion 120, funding OnFinality for their high performance public infrastructure, has passed Council vote.
Substrate
Introducing Substrate Connect: Browser-Based Light Clients for Connecting to Substrate Chains
Substrate Connect, a browser-based light client for Substrate-based chains, has landed as the latest addition to Substrate’s technology stack. This eagerly anticipated component of blockchain infrastructure provides the easiest and fastest way to sync with Substrate-based blockchains in a decentralized way, paving the way for more user-friendly dapps and services and a better experience for dapp developers. Substrate Connect represents a huge step forward in pursuit of the Web3 vision, and will allow users to quickly and seamlessly interact with blockchains in the browsers they use on a daily basis.
Substrate Builders Program Milestone Update: October 2021
Every month Parity announces the latest updates from teams in the Substrate Builders Program, and October 2021’s milestone announcement introduces four teams that have reached their first milestone.
Web3 Foundation
Web3 Foundation Grants — Wave 11 Recipients
Web3 Foundation is celebrating the 11th round of grants accepted. After surpassing the 300 grants milestone back in August, it’s time to wrap things up and conclude yet another round of successful applications. This time around, 23 new agreements have been signed.
Awareness and Events
- Sub0, the Substrate Developer Conference, took place on 13–14 October this year:
You can still watch the recordings posted on Parity Technologies YouTube.
Sub0 Online 2021 — Substrate developer conference | Day 1:
Sub0 Online 2021 — Substrate developer conference | Day 2:
Missed the Polkadot Hackathon community event? Watch the video to hear about the hackathon setup, get introduced to Polkadot and Substrate, and learn what’s next for the Polkadot Hackathon Global series.
Finance
Active accounts and the number of transactions (information from Polkascan)
Polkadot markets (information from Coingecko)
Polkadot Ecosystem Market Cap (information from Dotmarketcap)
- Binance to Support Polkadot Parachain Slot Auction. Announcement.
- Huobi Global announced its support for the DOT auctions.
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.
- The 8th referendum proposal has been submitted, this is to propose enabling the Swap module, the transfer of kUSD and the issuance of ZLK (non transfer). See details.
- #11 Referendum proposal: Enable BNC Transfer: The 11th referendum proposal to enable BNC token transfers has been submitted.
- Bifrost SALP: Batch 2 Kusama Slot Auction Data Review
- Bifrost Launches on Karura Swap With Over 200k BNC in Liquidity Mining Rewards
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 partners with Nexus Mutual to offer smart contract coverage for Investors and Issuers: Investors and Issuers in Centrifuge’s dapp Tinlake will now have the option of purchasing coverage for DAI properly deployed in any of Centrifuge’s Pools.
- Runtime upgrade and snapshot migration shipped: Balances & accounts from the CFG snapshot have been migrated onto the Altair parachain. If you had CFG on Centrifuge Chain on block 6650475 (circa July 16, 2021), you will now have an equivalent amount of AIR. Vesting / lockup periods have also been migrated accordingly. Next upgrade: enabling AIR crowdloan reward claims for the contributors.
ChainX
ChainX, a crypto assets gateway, is planning bridges to several networks and has implemented a BTC to Substrate bridge.
- How ChainX Breaks the Limitation of Bitcoin
- With the upgrade of Bitcoin taproot in November, ChainX will complete the decentralized, multi-party secure BTC cross chain scheme with schnorr signature and mast contract of taproot.
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 September | Monthly Recap
- Evolution Land 19th, October Update｜RING-DUSD Farm and Bug Fixed
- Wormhole Update | The Substrate-to-Substrate Bridge Between Pangoro and Pangolin Testnet Deployed
- Evolution Land 12th, October Update｜Drill Upgrade, and Apostle Squad ATK Rank
Interlay
Interlay is building a trustless bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.
- Kintsugi Wins Parachain Slot 11 — Bitcoin is Coming to Kusama: Kintsugi has officially won the 11th Kusama Parachain Slot. The community has voted for trustless Bitcoin to come to Kusama.
- Kintsugi Launch Roadmap: The Path to Bitcoin on Kusama
- Interlay Dev & Ecosystem Update #4
Smart Contracts
Edgeware
- The Cutting Edge: Week of October 4th: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
Moonbeam
- Moonbeam and KYVE Collaborate to Bring Permanent Data Availability to Moonbeam and Moonriver: Moonbeam announced an integration with KYVE Network, a decentralized archiving and caching solution that enables modern blockchains and dApps to store and serve data reliably. Moonbeam’s integration with KYVE on the Moonbase Alpha network is now completed and Moonriver’s deployment is next. This integration will allow Moonbeam’s fast-growing community of developers to easily store their data permanently on Arweave, enabling higher scalability.
- Composable Integrates Moonriver into the Mosaic PoC Bridge. Adding MoonriverNW to Mosaic by Composable Finance will allow users to be able to transfer assets between any project deployed on these aforementioned platforms. Details.
- What Can I Do With My MOVR?: Now that Moonriver has officially launched and crowdloan contributors have received MOVR tokens for their support, users can engage with the network in exciting new ways. Those with MOVR tokens are in a powerful position since they have early access to the network and the projects building on top of it. MOVR tokens are now transferable between addresses, so it is important for holders to get set up to take advantage of full functionality. Some activities they can take part in immediately include token transfers, nominating collators, receiving staking rewards, and voting on referenda. While the multitude of possible activities can seem both thrilling and a bit daunting, these impactful tasks can each be done in a few simple steps.
- How Polkadot Parachain Auctions Work
Scaling
Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)
- Astar Crowdloan Event — Part I: Astar Network is ready to join the auctions on Polkadot.
- Shiden partners with AnySwap: Shiden Network has partnered with AnySwap. AnySwap will help us to bridge liquidity to Shiden Network to be used by projects built in our ecosystem. This cross-chain bridge also brings SDN into the Ethereum ecosystem.
- DApp Staking is live on Shiden Network: Dapp Staking allows devs to earn SDN tokens by making products, which is based on their performance and decentralized governance, while SDN token holders can stake tokens on dApps and infrastructure.
- EmiDAO’s application for the Builders Program has been accepted by the community.
Celer
- cBridge 2.0 testnet is live at test-cbridge-v2.celer.network:
DeFi
Acala
- Polkadot Crowdloans & Parachain Slot Auctions: A comprehensive checklist to help you prepare for the Acala Crowdloan and get your share of the network before launch.
- The Acala Network Crowdloan will now offer two on-chain options for contributing DOT: directly contributing through the crowdloan module with a two-year lock, or contributing via Acala’s Liquid Crowdloan vault. Learn more.
- Introducing Acala Quests: Prepare for the Acala Crowdloan and Earn More Rewards: The team is launching Acala Quests, a gamified experience for learning about the Polkadot ecosystem and preparing for the Acala Crowdloan.
- Bifrost Launches on Karura Swap With Over 200k BNC in Liquidity Mining Rewards: Trustless trading for the BNC/kUSD pair will go live following a 48-hour period of one- or two-sided bootstrap provisioning on Karura.
Akropolis
- Claim Your Akropolis Anniversary NFTs: Only for users who staked AKRO in August 2020 (closed and open beta)*. *Selected dates.
- Akropolis Weekly Updates:
Composable Finance
- The Picasso Crowdloan has Reopened: With the next auction commencing on October 23rd, 2021, the Picasso crowdloan is reopening to both KSM and stable coins.
- Reflection on the Past Auction & Plans for Next Round of Kusama Parachain Auctions
- Composable Integrates Moonriver into the Mosaic PoC Bridge: Composable announced the integration of Moonriver into Mosaic, their innovative and efficient cross-layer asset transferral solution.
- Integration Announcement: Connecting Harmony One to Composable Finance’s L2-L2 Bridge: Composable Labs is working with Harmony One to integrate their protocol into Composable’s cross-layer infrastructure. Harmony One will be incorporated into the Layer 2-Layer 2 Bridge, helping to ease the development of decentralized applications and expand cross-layer transfer opportunities.
- Initiating Incentivization of Vault Strategies with Composable Labs Incubations
Equilibrium
- Introducing Equilibrium’s Revolutionary Fluid xDOT Staking: The Equilibrium team introduced a new mechanic that significantly enhances the user experience for those contributing crowdloan campaigns on Polkadot: fluid xDOT staking.
- Looking Back On Equilibrium’s September 2021
- Become an Equilibrium & Genshiro ambassador and earn rewards
- Check Out The New Genshiro Interface
StaFi
- StaFi Q4 Roadmap Exploration on a open staking derivative platform
- StaFi Protocol Monthly-September Community Updates: In September, the rMATIC and rBNB App were successfully launched on the StaFi mainnet. At the same time, preparations for launching the rSOL App were completed and the official launch is expected in early October.
Zenlink
- Introducing Zenlink Tokenomics and Utility: Zenlink announced the release of the Zenlink Tokenomics Lightpaper, which introduces the Zenlink Network architecture, ecological participants, Token utility, network economic mechanism, and Token distribution.
- The project’s Tokenomics.
Privacy
Phala Network
- Milestone | Khala — Ethereum Bridge Launched Officially: Khala Network is progressing to the next stage: on October 14th, Khala Network officially approved the Proposal which enables Khala-Ethereum Bridge on Khala.
- The Maximum Worker Reward Exceeds 46,000 PHA per 7200 Block | Phala Weekly Vol. 54
- Recap: Phala Tech Talk 101 — Trusted Execution Environment
- Khala Transfer is Available Now. 13,000+ Workers Currently Online! | Phala Weekly Vol.53
Manta Network
- Squad Game is Manta Network’s token event that is exclusively available for the Manta community. If you are a Calamari Network Crowdloan participant who has contributed at least 0.5 KSM, then you are qualified for the exclusive Round 1 whitelist.
RAZE Network
- Liquidity Added to PancakeSwap
- Privacy Series: Cookies Are Everywhere
- Blockchain And Privacy Issues: How Raze Network Is Changing The Narrative
Data
Crust Network
- 【ERA: 217】Crust Network Mainnet Launch, We Are Here Now
- Crust Devlog | October 11 — October 17 , 2021
- Crust Weekly Stats. | Oct. 18th, 2021
- Crust Network Integrates with Moonriver to Bring Web3 IPFS Storage to the Kusama Ecosystem: Crust Network announces its deployment to Moonriver, an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Kusama. Crust is a solution that underpins Web3.0 style data and file architecture. Its integration brings highly practical, powerful and handy IPFS-based decentralized storage solutions to the Moonriver and Kusama communities.
- Crust Network Partners with NEAR Protocol to Introduce Decentralized Storage Solutions: Crust Network is partnering with NEAR Protocol to introduce practical, powerful, and user-friendly IPFS-based decentralized storage solution packages to NEAR users and developers.
- Crust’s Cross-Chain dStorage Solution
- Bluna — future of Metaverse
- A Brief Introduction to Crato — The Cloud Storage Solution of the New Era
- Distributed image cloud based on Crust
- How does Socbay.io use Crust Network to decentralize videos sharing platform
- What’s so great about CruTransfer.me and how does it work?
- SwitchSwap NFT DeFi Platform Launching Soon, Powered by Crust: SwitchSwap is a fully decentralized platform for Web3 users to mint, manage and trade/swap NFTs from multi blockchains. SwitchSwap is designed to build a complete portfolio of decentralized applications specifically for NFTs by covering the full lifecycle of NFT scenarios with some beautiful Web3-styled solutions.
Dock
- Credenxia leaps into the future with Dock’s API: Preparing to move towards a decentralized solution for creating and managing employee credentials, Credenxia is working with Dock to build a Proof of Concept (PoC) application to create, issue, manage, and verify credentials instantly. This PoC is now complete.
- Proposal to Update Network Rewards Split: A new proposal has been submitted to adjust the staking rewards emissions on the Dock network to a 50/50 split with 50% of emission rewards going to validators and stakers, and 50% going to the Dock Treasury.
Ocean Protocol
- OceanDAO Round 11 is live: 500,000 OCEAN available for sustainable data-oriented projects. OceanDAO is a grants DAO to help fund Ocean community projects, curated by the Ocean community. Anyone can apply for a grant. The community votes at the beginning of the month. The Ocean ecosystem becomes self-sustainable as the builders of the Web3 data economy leverage Ocean Protocol to create products, services, and resources that the community finds valuable.
- OceanDAO Round 10 Results: 9 projects funded; 100mm+ votes submitted.
- On Voting In OceanDAO: Towards compound growth in Ocean ecosystem.
- Ocean’s on Energy Web Chain: Ocean Protocol smart contracts and Ocean Market are now running on Energy Web Foundation’s dedicated network.
- Launch a blockchain-based data marketplace in under 1 hour: Learn how to fork Ocean Market and get your own data marketplace up and running in 9 steps.
- Building towards a decentralized European Data Economy: A Minimal Viable Gaia-X (MVG) powered by Ocean Protocol: Gaia-X tries to solve these problems and shows that data sharing and monetization are possible without sacrificing data sovereignty, data protection, privacy, and European values. Ocean Protocol offers a technical solution to these problems in that it enables creating open, transparent, and decentralized data markets.
- Ocean Protocol and Fractal Protocol announce strategic partnership
Oracle
Chainlink
- Sergey Nazarov Says Banks Should Move Fast To Adopt DeFi In Live Speech At Sibos
- Chainlink’s Q4 Integration On Solana Mainnet To Catalyze Next-Gen Innovation
- How to Build and Deploy an Avalanche Smart Contract: Chainlink Price Feeds are now live for developers to use on Avalanche at full native speed and low cost, enabling scalable, next-generation dApps.
- Brownie Receives Chainlink Community Grant for Expansion of Python-Based Smart Contract Testing Framework: Brownie has been awarded a Chainlink Community Grant for the expansion and maintenance of its Python-based smart contract testing framework.
- Arthur Gervais Awarded Chainlink Research Grant for MEV Research: Dr. Arthur Gervais, a faculty member at Imperial College London, has been selected as a research grant recipient as part of the Chainlink Grants Program.
- YouHodler Fortifies Its CeDeFi Platform With Chainlink Price Feeds
- How Chainlink Unlocks The Value Of CBDCs
- Chainlink Fall 2021 Hackathon | Chainlink:
Kylin Network
- Announcing Pichiu, Kylin’s Implementation on Kusama: Kylin network has decided to launch on Kusama. The team introduces Pichiu, Kylin’s canary parachain on Kusama. The official Pichiu token symbol is PCHU.
Other
Humanode
- The Humanode testnet — Sachiel — is in full swing: Sachiel is an Aura and Grandpa testnet based on those consensus modules of Substrate modified for biometric authentication. The participants are able to go through a biometric enrollment process and become human nodes, validate blocks, send transactions, and take part in the $100,000 anti-spoofing bounty program by Humanode partner, FaceTec. Sachiel supports Linux, MacOS, and Windows, in combination with iOS and Android, and the hardware requirements to join the testnet are not high. Active testnet users will be given priority to become the first generation of human nodes once the mainnet launches in June 2022. As of now there are >6.3K applicants. 150+ participants already interact with face detection and faucet in testnet. For those, who haven’t applied yet, sign up for the Humanode testnet here.
- Humanode Dev Report 8: The Humanode teams shared some bullet points to shine some light on the exciting advancements that they have been working on.
- Biometric-based Launchpads
- Biometric-based Airdrops
- The Humanode Whitepaper is now on GitBook
- [Humanode Special Interview Series]: Dmitry, developer at Humanode; Shannon, media lead at Humanode
- What Proof of Human Existence Can Do — Victor, Founder of Humanode: Last week, Victor, Founder of Humanode featured on The Encrypted Economy Podcast. The discussion spans not only human node validation and biometrics, but privacy and macroeconomics.
Robonomics
- Robonomics network vision
- MixBytes & Robonomics collaboration report
- Interview with Robonomics developers
MISC
- Gossamer: Into the Polkadot-verse Pt. 3: Exploring SCALE refactors in Go, chain sync algorithms, and peer scoring in Gossamer. For those who are unfamiliar, Gossamer is an implementation of the Polkadot Host, formerly known as the Polkadot Runtime Environment. To learn more about what exactly that is, watch our introductory talk from DotCon during Berlin Blockchain Week. Amer Ameen’s blog post introducing Gossamer is also a neat summary of the vision behind the implementation. Dig into the code here, read the docs here, and join in the conversation on the #Gossamer-general channel on Discord.
- Make sure to check out the latest news on all things auctions and crowdloans on Polkadot’s auctions landing page:
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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