Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. August 07–14/2023

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Polkadot / Kusama

• With just over a month to go before Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, it is time to see what the ecosystem teams have been working on lately.
• Have a Polkadot-related question? The Kapa AI bot on the Polkadot Discord server is ready to answer your questions 24/7/365. The bot is trained on resources such as Polkadot Support, the Polkadot Wiki, YouTube videos, blog posts, and more
• Parathread 3346 won the most recent Polkadot parachain lease auction, despite being in the lead less than 10% of the Ending Period.
• Congratulations to the 58 graduates of Polkadot Blockchain Academy’s third cohort. They are ready to push the boundaries of Web3 and become leading developers & entrepreneurs in the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Reminder: separate Controller accounts are being deprecated on Polkadot and Kusama. You can set your controller account to your stash account on the Staking Dashboard.

Acala / Karura

• Acala’s vote on the ACA emissions upgrade is still ongoing. Potentially, it will bring more utility, such as staking, aligning incentives, and further growth on the way.

HydraDX / Basilisk

• The HydraDX monthly update for July is out. Dive in to find out about all the exciting new features, partnerships, and more.
• Wondering how the HydraDX Omnipool works but never found the time to read into it? Here is a video for you. Now it takes less than 2 minutes to understand the basics.

Ontology

• Ontology has introduced a new Loyalty Program for active members of its community.
• With the latest ONT listing on Binance Japan, Ontology continues expanding its presence there.

Phala / Khala

• From new innovations to global partnerships, the July edition of Phala’s monthly newsletter is bursting with highlights.
• Over the past month, the Phala team proudly sponsored and joined 6 guild meet-ups across Europe as part of the DevX Global Tour. Dive into a brief recap of the journey.

Energy Web

• Q2 2023 Energy Web Product Updates: focusing on transforming the project’s open-source tech stack into user-friendly commercial products, driving business value for the ecosystem companies and the energy transition. More information.

Crust / Shadow

• Crust is thrilled to announce its collaboration with OnFinality, aiming to enhance the developer experience.
• Crust Files has expanded its support to include EVM Storage, with a comprehensive upgrade in its latest update. Presently, it offers support for storage orders across four public chains: Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum, and zkSync.

Litentry / Litmus

• Litentry’s IdentityHub, a private aggregated identity data vault, is about to introduce its second launch. This will be accompanied by a series of marketing campaigns in order to reward all Earlybirds.

Astar / Shiden / Startale Labs

• The Astar Weekly Update is out. Check out what is new in the ecosystem.
• This post will explain in more detail how the recently announced Astar Tokenomics 2.0 will drive Astar’s sustainable growth, improving user engagement.
• A full Ledger release now allows all users to enjoy Astar’s ecosystem and portal.
• The “Unstoppable Community Grants” program for Shiden DAO is up for a vote.

Interlay / Kintsugi

• Interlay has integrated Banxa Fiat On/Off ramp solutions to its dApp to make it easier for users to mint iBTC & explore the Bitcoin DeFi Hub.

Centrifuge / Altair

• This proposal by a major Centrifuge contributor requests for a portion of Aave’s treasury to be allocated to real-world assets through Centrifuge Prime.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• Moonbeam invites everyone to join the next Moonbuilders Workshop with Apillon session on August 17th.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• Oracles (Apollo) are now in production on Picasso, empowering trustless access to off-chain data. This marks an important step forward for decentralized applications in the Picasso & Composable Finance ecosystem.
• Composable Finance proposed to allocate $1 million equivalent of DOT liquidity for use within the Cosmos ecosystem. Check the thread to learn more.

Bit.Country / Pioneer

• Recognizing that 17% of teams operate entirely remotely, Bit.Country’s dedicated team continues to push the boundaries of innovation at an unparalleled pace: Pioneer App v0x.19 is now live. Discover the highlights of this release.

Manta / Calamari

• Manta launches Manta Pacific: the modular ecosystem for ZK applications.
• Here they are, Manta Network’s Universal Circuits: a versatile library of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) circuits tailored for generalized use cases. A game-changing tool for developers.
• Manta welcomes BladeDAO as a new ecosystem partner. Blade DAO is building a decentralized on-chain game ecosystem and will leverage the NPO platform on Manta Atlantic to mint zkSBTs for its users.
• Manta is excited to welcome ZKEX to the Manta Pacific ecosystem. ZKEX is a trustless and self-custodial order book DEX with CeFi performance.

Enjin / Efinity

• Enjin is launching a new initiative to highlight voices in the community.

Equilibrium / Genshiro

• The EQ Blast Liquidity Mining campaign has ended, with Equilibrium among the top-10 parachains by TVL & DAU. Users will definitely enjoy generous rewards.

Dock

• Product & Engineering Update from Dock: the team is continuing work on an admin panel for Certs in order to enhance support and assist users.

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