Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. December 19–25/2022

Polkadot / Kusama

• Polkadot’s December newsletter is out. Check the first Parachain Dispatch to learn about the top technical updates, new partnerships, and integration announcements.
• Interested in all things staking and nomination pools on Polkadot? In this article you can learn how to use the Polkadot staking dashboard & participate in Polkadot Governance.
• Web3alert.io added OpenGov to its Kusama Simple mode. Now it’s possible to create and subscribe to notifications covering all types of Gov2 referenda! Try now. Learn how it works.

Acala / Karura

• Acala has published a video version of its 2023 roadmap.
• Subsquid and Acala began to collaborate on multiple initiatives to improve UX and DevEx throughout the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Acala users can now connect their Ledger Nano X hardware wallet with Nova Wallet, allowing them to view their token balances and sign transactions on the Acala network.

Energy Web

• Energy Web has shared an update regarding the silver and gold staking reward pools.

Phala / Khala

• Phala App v2.0 has arrived, bringing new StakePool and Vaults.

Ontology

• Ontology MainNet v2.4.2 and Consensus Nodes upgrade has already started. Find out what changes it can lead to.

Crust / Shadow

• Crust Network has announced a partnership with Polkadex. The teams will work together to keep DeFi decentralized.
• Crust is planning a series of tutorials “Crust Network 101” to help all Web3 developers to experience decentralized storage. The 1st episode will show you how to deploy a decentralized website with Substrate Apps in 10 minutes.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• The Picasso team is thrilled to share its second CosmWasm development tool: CosmWasm Orchestrate, a contract testing library operated by CosmWasm VM and IBC supported.
• Picasso is entering Release 2 on December 27th, featuring the deployment of the Pablo DEX and the TGE of PICA token.

Astar / Shiden

• Astar x APAC DAO partnership has opened more solutions for the scalability and interoperability issues of Dapps.
• Astar, along with Parity and other ecosystem projects, is proposing to secure $1.6M in funding toward the future of WASM Smart Contracts and tooling.
• SUSHI TOP has developed a new way for anyone to interact with Astar’s NFT community.
• Astar was named ‘Product of the Year’ at this year’s JBA Annual Blockchain Awards.

Centrifuge / Altair

• $220 million in Real-World Assets (RWA) are coming to Centrifuge, in partnership with BlockTower and Maker DAO. BlockTower Credit will be the first institutional credit fund to bring collateralized lending on-chain.

OAK / Turing

• The OAK Network team highlighted its partnerships, cross-chain collaborations, global exposure, and online on-chain updates in the 2022 Recap.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• A new discussion for OpenGov integration & parameters on Moonbeam & Moonriver is now available.
• The Prime Protocol testnet deployment on Moonbase Alpha will become a pioneering step for cross-chain connected apps on Moonbeam.
• A collective of collators on Moonbeam & Moonriver, known as UnitedBloc, now offers public RPC services for the Moonbeam, Moonriver, & Moonbase Alpha networks.

Manta / Calamari

• Manta is retiring its Dolphin Testnet v2 and preparing for v3 launch. With new features & improved UI/UX, v3 can take ZKP transaction privacy to the next level.

Bit.Country / Pioneer

• Bit.Country has announced the date for land distribution in Kaosland for NEER crowdloaners.

Parallel Finance / Heiko

• Nova Wallet now officially supports USDT on the Parallel Heiko network. Now you can easily use your USDT on your mobile wallet to interact with a wider range of DeFi DApps.

Enjin / Efinity

• Enjin has removed a major barrier to NFT adoption. Its new web wallet allows anyone with a mobile browser to get NFTs. No app download or sign-up is required, users just have to scan a QR code to claim and store their NFTs.

RMRK

• RMRK has released an important milestone update for SingularApp.

Dock

• The Dock Association has raised a proposal to increase the distribution rate of DOCK tokens. This is in light of increasing energy costs combined with depressed token prices that create difficult market conditions for many validators.

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