Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. August 29th — September 4th/2022
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3 min readSep 5, 2022
Polkadot / Kusama
- Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is back this year from November 28th to 29th in Lisbon, Portugal and online.
- Interested in building on Polkadot and looking for support? Check out Square One, a guide to resources available for builders in the ecosystem.
- Polkadot’s August Newsletter is out. Check the latest reports on Polkadot, learn about some of the proposed updates for common good parachains, and get details on future events & auctions.
Energy Web
- Energy Web celebrates the launch of Switchboard as a milestone in its long-term technology roadmap.
Phala / Khala
- The Phala team has completed a migration that contained 38 million PHA (the remaining token for parachain slot auctions) from Ethereum to Phala’s smart contract bridge.
Crust / Shadow
- Crust Network will integrate with Bware Labs’ API platform to support blockchain development through Blast’s infrastructure. All the data in both networks will be secure in a truly decentralized and reliable way. Details.
- Crust is celebrating the 1st anniversary of its mainnet. This article reviewed the progress of the network in the past year and also explained Crust’s strategy and roadmap in this bear market.
OAK / Turing
- Turing auto-compounding for staking rewards is now available here, being enabled via a simple compound toggle switch.
- OAK Network was proud to be a sponsor for the Science of Blockchain Conference hosted by the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research.
- The TUR — MGX Liquidity Bootstrapping event finished with 1.3 million TUR & 32 million MGX contributed to the liquidity pool. Trading for the TUR : MGX pair is now available on the Mangata app.
KILT
- KILT was nominated by Hackernoon for “Most Innovative Use of Blockchain Technology”. You can vote for it here.
Dock
- Dock’s Discord Invite Contest has just started, offering 27.500 DOCK in rewards.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
- LayerZero, an omnichain interoperability protocol, deploys to Moonbeam, enabling developers with a wider array of secure messaging features & adding to cross-chain capabilities on the network.
- Moonbeam has updated its existing tutorial on how to participate in Moonbeam on-chain governance with Polkassembly. Now it includes instructions for taking part in discussions.
Acala / Karura
- Acala is in the final stage tracing the last aUSD error mints. Once published, movements of all remaining aUSD error mints & involved addresses should be clear, and the network’s community will decide how to deal with them.
- Here are some of the next steps you can expect for Acala after the recent incident.
Composable Finance / Picasso
- Composable Finance has published a brief summary (in two parts) of the XCVM use cases including: aggregation, arbitrage, and how an improved UX and developer tooling will help to onboard new DeFi users.
Bit.Country / Pioneer
- KuCoin has partnered with Bit.Country to launch its own Metaverse. Read more.
- Pioneer Blockchain Runtime Upgrade has been completed. Now it is possible to transfer NEER tokens.
Equilibrium / Genshiro
- Equilibrium and Genshiro are both now live on Subscan, allowing users to visualize and verify their on-chain data such as their accounts and transfers.
- Temporary ETH bridge shutdown: important details for the Genshiro community. There are two important dates to be aware of.
