Polkadot: Watr Protocol has won the latest Polkadot auction, Quartz by Unique is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction, Bifrost announced vDOT, Parallel Wallet v1 is officially here, Bit.Country Pioneer App is live, New XCM: Crab <> Heiko and Crab <> Litmus, Humanode launches testnet focused on token claims & vesting, Composable Finance announced the realignment of Mosaic, Chainlink SmartCon 2022 next week, and more!

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14 min readSep 22, 2022

Biweekly update on the Polkadot ecosystem vol. 46, 9th September — 22nd September

TL;DR

Congratulations to Watr Protocol on winning the latest Polkadot Parachain auction
The next parachain lease auction begins today at block 12_164_800 (~ 22:24 UTC)
With 22 days left to vote, Referendum 74, aiming to open several HRMP channels to Statemint, is passing unanimously
With 4 days left to vote, Referendum 75, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain runtime to v9820 is passing by a wide margin. Note that Referendum 75 has been fast-tracked by the Technical Committee. If passed, it will execute after only 400 blocks (~ 40 minutes)
Entering the Ending Period, Quartz by Unique is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction
Bootstrap ONE-T Nomination Pools: STEP 1 (testing the anon proxies): Referendum 230 is currently passing with 97% in favor with four days left to vote. This is a simple referendum making a batch call to remark “Expect chaos”
Motion 544, funding a Treasury Proposal to dub Polkadot Decoded 2022 videos to Spanish, has passed Council vote
Bifrost announced vDOT, a yield-bearing DOT derivative featuring liquidity unlocking and flexible staking functionality for the Polkadot ecosystem. Bifrost SALP now supports OAK Network Polkadot crowdloan. Bifrost August Monthly Report is out
Centrifuge is inviting users to mint their 2023 DeFi prediction as an NFT
ChainX now supports the cross-chain deposit of Bitcoin to Aptos
Darwinia Runtime 1242 Upgrade is now live. Parallel Heiko and Litmus XCM integration with Crab parachain are available now. Darwinia and MEXC partners to add the RING deposit and withdrawal service based on Darwinia Smart Chain
CLV launches XCM integration with Parallel Finance
The Moonbeam community voted & approved the proposal for the Interim Grants Program, introducing a new process for issuing grants on the network. Since XCM went live on Kusama, Moonriver has launched & announced 10+ integrations with other pararchains
Astar shares an update on its massive initiative: building a Cross-Virtual Machine (XVM) to enable development across EVM and WASM smart contracts. the Astar tokenwill be listed on BinanceUS
The Acala Incident Report is now available
Humanode 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
Celer announced a partnership with ChainHop. Furthermore, Celer has successfully integrated with lilico’s Lilico Wallet, the first non-custodial wallet on Flow. Rango integrated Celer cBridge and Celer IM
Composable Finance announced the realignment of Mosaic. Namely, the team has made the decision to move away from the trusted architecture which underpins phases 1 and 2. Mosaic users should now withdraw their funds
Parallel Wallet V1 has now officially launched. HKO and CRAB tokens will soon be available on each other’s networks via XCM integration between Crab and Heiko. Parallel Finance x Phala XCM integration is live
Another milestone for Phala: delegation amount has exceeded 170 million PHA. “Prune” mode of mining script is available
Manta introduced p0xeidon labs, the team building cutting-edge decentralized privacy tech for web3
The Ethereum developer community proposes EIP5625, and Crust aims to help Ethereum solve the problem of decentralized storage. Crust Files landing page has been launched, allowing users to try their first Web3 cloud storage. Crust has partnered with MetaMirror to explore Web 3.0+ infrastructure and services together
Dock has partnered with Auth0, one of the world’s leading identity management companies
The Ocean Shipyard Data Storage Initiative closes on September 23. OceanDAO Round 22 is live
Bit.Country Pioneer App is live. You can try it now, no login is required
Kylin Network partners with Ruby Protocol, a privacy-centric web3 data management platform
Version 2.0.10-beta of Enjin wallet is ready. NFT Gaming is live on Efinity with MyMetaverse’s suite of games
KuCoin has opened the Litmus deposit service for LIT token. XCM integration between Crab and Litmus is now available
With the Closed Beta fast approaching, Equilibrium has launched its “How to Earn” series to help maximize users’ portfolio value
A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem
Listen to the full interview with Polkadot co-founder Robert Habermeier and CoinDesk
The Polkadot Hackathon (North America Edition) is finished now
The registration for the 2nd Annual SORA Economic Forum is open
The final countdown to Chainlink SmartCon 2022 has begun. Join the team in NYC on September 28–29
Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28 to 29 in Lisbon, Portugal, and online.
The next Polkadot Community Call will be happening on September 22 at 5 pm CEST
And more!

Latest Polkadot News

Congratulations to Watr Protocol on winning the latest Polkadot Parachain auction!
The next parachain lease auction begins today at block 12_164_800 (~ 22:24 UTC).
With 22 days left to vote, Referendum 74, aiming to open several HRMP channels to Statemint, is passing unanimously.
With 4 days left to vote, Referendum 75, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain runtime to v9820 is passing by a wide margin. Note that Referendum 75 has been fast-tracked by the Technical Committee. If passed, it will execute after only 400 blocks (~ 40 minutes).

Kusama

Entering the Ending Period, Quartz by Unique is in the lead in the current parachain lease auction.
Bootstrap ONE-T Nomination Pools: STEP 1 (testing the anon proxies): Referendum 230 is currently passing with 97% in favor with four days left to vote. This is a simple referendum making a batch call to remark “Expect chaos”.
Motion 544, funding a Treasury Proposal to dub Polkadot Decoded 2022 videos to Spanish, has passed Council vote.

Awareness and Events

Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28th to 29th in Lisbon, Portugal and online.
“The crypto space, especially technologically, is still quite early. We have embraced the idea that it is time for experimentation less so than standardization”. Listen to the full interview with Polkadot co-founder Robert Habermeier and CoinDesk.
The next Polkadot Community Call will be happening on September 22nd at 5 pm CEST.

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

The Polkadot Hackathon (North America Edition) is finished now. Check this thread to meet its winners
Interested in upgrading your Web3 and Polkadot developer skills? Join the Polkadot-sponsored IBC Media’s hackathon, choose from a wide range of topics from DeFi to NFT to Web 3 & Tooling, and take your chance to win from a prize pool of $15,000.

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.

vDOT is coming soon! A Preview of its Core Benefits: Bifrost announced vDOT, a yield-bearing DOT derivative featuring liquidity unlocking and flexible staking functionality for the Polkadot ecosystem.
Bifrost SALP Supports OAK Network Polkadot Crowdloan
Bifrost August Monthly Report
SALP & vsBond — The first step of the Dotsama ecosystem in the Bond Market.
ETH PoS merge is coming up, what updates will vETH have？

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 is inviting users to mint their 2023 DeFi prediction as an NFT.
Centrifuge x Goldfinch: Bringing Real-World Value to DeFi

ChainX

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

How will ChainX survive the crypto winter?
ChainX now supports cross-chain deposit of Bitcoin to Aptos

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.

Interlay

Interlay is building a trustless bridge from Bitcoin to Polkadot.

iBTC x Moonwell.
With the Interlay — Astar XCM channel underway, it’s time to kick open the door and bring some iBTC liquidity to Astar Network.
Learn more about Interlay new integration with Beamswap, a DEX and DeFi hub on Moonbeam Network.
Interlay Co-Founder Alexei Zamyatin shares how the unique functionality of Polkadot has enabled the first decentralized, secure, and trustless Bitcoin interoperability network

Smart Contracts

CLV (previously Clover)

Edgeware

EDG Community Update: Week of September 12th, 2022: A weekly newsletter discussing progress updates, events, and governance proposals within the Edgeware ecosystem.
EDG Developer Update: Sep 11 — Sep 17, 2022: Keeping you up to date on all things technical related to Edgeware and more.
EDG DAO Financial Bulletin: First Fortnight of September: Provides the community a fair idea about the performance of EDG as compared to the market as well as the peers of EDG.
A new domain for the Edgeware Docs is here: docs.edgeware.io

Moonbeam

Following discussion & the seven-day open voting period, the proposal for the Interim Grants Program has been approved by the Moonbeam community, introducing a new process for issuing grants on the network.
Since XCM went live on Kusama, Moonriver has launched & announced 10+ integrations with other pararchains, providing the infrastructure for novel use cases between chains. This thread highlights each one to date.
Moonbuilders Workshop

Scaling

Astar Network (previously Plasm Network)

Astar shares an update on its massive initiative: building a Cross-Virtual Machine (XVM) to enable development across EVM and WASM smart contracts.
ASTR became the first asset from the DotSama ecosystem to have a listing on BinanceUS.
Cross-chain transfer with Moonbeam is fully enabled

Celer

Celer announced a partnership with ChainHop.
Celer has successfully integrated with lilico’s Lilico Wallet, the first non-custodial wallet on Flow.
Rango integrated Celer cBridge and Celer IM to support bridging/swaping any token to Evmos all in a single click.
NevDEX partnership with Celer Network.

DeFi

Acala

Acala Incident Report — 14/08/2022: A misconfiguration of the iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool (“iBTC/aUSD LP”) (which went live earlier the day of August 14, 2022) resulted in error mints of a significant amount of aUSD. The reward for staking of iBTC/aUSD LP tokens accorded to contributors to iBTC/aUSD LP was intended to be INTR and ACA as outlined in the community post here announcing the launch of the iBTC/aUSD LP.

Composable Finance

The PICA token has been designed to provide users of Picasso with many options when it comes to utility. In this article, the team covers the core use cases which will be available.
The future of Mosaic: optimizing the bridging approach for trustless DeFi
Dev Log #12

Equilibrium

With the Closed Beta fast approaching, Equilibrium has launched its “How to Earn” series to help maximize users’ portfolio value.
How to Maximize Portfolio in Closed Beta. Case 6: Hedge Portfolio

Parallel Finance

HKO and CRAB tokens will soon be available on each other’s networks via XCM integration between Crab and Heiko.
Introducing Parallel Wallet — The Ultimate Gateway to Parallel, Dotsama and beyond: Parallel Wallet V1 has now officially launched.
Parallel Finance x Phala XCM Integration is Live

SORA

The registration for the 2nd Annual SORA Economic Forum is open. It will take place on September 23rd, 9:00–20:00 CEST.
Discover SORA Card’s key features and more details ahead of its launch.

Privacy

Phala Network

Another milestone for Phala: delegation amount has exceeded 170 million PHA.
Meet Phala Team at Token 2049
Mining Script “Prune” Mode Is Now Live, Phala will attend Token 2049 In Singapore |Phala Weekly Vol. 98
Phala and Friends 003 — SubWallet

Manta Network

Introducing p0xeidon labs: Manta introduced p0xeidon labs, the team building cutting-edge decentralized privacy tech for web3.
Manta Presents: Polkadot + Frens Penthaus Party

Data

Crust Network

The Ethereum developer community proposes EIP5625, and Crust aims to help Ethereum solve the problem of decentralized storage
Crust Files landing page has been launched, allowing users to try their first Web3 cloud storage.
Crust has partnered with MetaMirror to explore Web 3.0+ infrastructure and services together. Learn more.
Crust Network’s CRU token became available for trading on Ofero Exchange.
Crust Devlog | Sep 1st — Sep 15th, 2022
Crust Weekly Stats. | Sep. 15th, 2022

Dock

Dock’s Web3 ID Now Available on Auth0 Marketplace: Dock has partnered with Auth0, one of the world’s leading identity management companies. Auth0 has added the support for Dock’s Web3 IDs in their marketplace integration to enable Auth0’s enterprise customers to integrate Web3 IDs on their platforms.
How to Prevent Supply Chain Fraud With Blockchain
SEVENmile issues fraud-proof verifiable certificates using Dock: SEVENmile now issues digital graduation certificates that are fraud-proof and instantly verifiable using blockchain technology.
Dock Web3 ID Auth0 Integration — Technical Demo

KILT Protocol

KILT in Action — The dena Blockchain Pilot Project
Kilt protocol had its referendum go through and will move to Polkadot at the end of the month

Ocean Protocol

OceanDAO Round 22 is Live: 65,000 USD in OCEAN is available for Web3 data economy projects.
OceanDAO Round 21 Results: 13 proposals received and 416,395 OCEAN granted.
New grantee Directimo joins Ocean Shipyard: The project focuses on a versatile open source data aggregation system for the Ocean Protocol Community.
Ocean Protocol joins leading Web3 projects on the €20M+ Gaia-X moveID initiative to advance pan-European mobility: The initiative will leverage the Ocean tech stack to implement decentralized, digital identities and power the future of mobility.
Ocean Protocol and Dimitra announce Phase 2 of the Data Challenge

Oracle

Chainlink

The Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon: Learn. Build. Win: From established Web3 devs to complete beginners, the Chainlink Fall 2022 Hackathon is open to all who want to learn faster, build better, and win bigger.
The Expanding Array Of Chainlink’s Truth Infrastructure
Chainlink Labs’ Niki Ariyasinghe Distills Chainlink’s Network Effect At Unfold 2022
How Hybrid Smart Contracts Can Change The World By Democratizing Commercial Relationships
Sergey Nazarov Examines Oracles As Public Goods
DeHealth DHLT Network Integrates Chainlink Price Feeds And Keepers As Key Technologies Facilitating Decentralized Medical Data
Chainlink Community To Host Dozens Of SmartCon 2022 Watch Parties Around The World
The final countdown to Chainlink SmartCon 2022 has begun. Join the team in NYC on September 28–29

Daily Wrap-Up:

Kylin Network

Kylin Weekly Update #12: Distribution: DOT Crowdloan Rewards Distributed.
Kylin Network — Strategic Partnership with Ruby Protocol: This strategic partnership between another member of the DeData Labs is instrumental to the long-term vision of the projects. Ruby Protocol, a privacy-centric web3 data management platform, is Data focused. This ecosystem partnership will enforce privacy for users, provide fine-grained access control and establish a private payment network.
Kylin x Equilibrium: Read more about the partnership here.

Other

Enjin

NFT Gaming is live on Efinity with MyMetaverse’s suite of games. The first playable NFT has been minted this week. Read more.
Metaverse firm implements NFTs into its Minecraft and GTA 5 servers: Enjin exec Oscar Franklin Tan said that having NFTs that work in various games is an important foundation for the Metaverse.
Guest Post by Enjin: Enjin Development Update
Version 2.0.10-beta of Enjin wallet is ready

Humanode

Testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’ is live: Humanode announced the launch of the Humanode testnet 4 ‘Gaghiel’ that is focusing on token claims, vesting, and unlocking systems that the team will use to distribute tokens at TGE.
Public Sale is approaching. Wave 1 which is dedicated to Humanode validators and researchers is set to go live on the 6th of October, 14:00 UTC. Submissions to wave 1 whitelist are now closed. The link for wave 2 whitelisting. The link for wave 3 whitelisting. Check out whitelist.humanode.io
The KYC processing for the Public sale has been initiated.
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.

Litentry

XCM integration between Crab and Litmus is now available. The Darwinia and Litentry teams will work together to explore some interesting use cases between parachains over time.
KuCoin has opened the Litmus deposit service for LIT token.
This motion proposed a new inflation model for Litmus. If passed, it will change the LIT tokenomics as in: 1.5% annual inflation rate in the first 6 months and 2.5% annual inflation rate afterward.
Litentry this week :

Robonomics

Robonomics At Polkadot Weekend In Tbilisi: Cyber Academy is hosting an event in Tbilisi, Georgia, where participants will be able to get acquainted with the Polkadot ecosystem, starting from the very basics: a detailed discussion of all the components of Polkadot, networking in an informal atmosphere and developer workshops.

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