Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. December 5–11th/2022

Polkadot / Kusama

• The first Polkadot OpenGov Fellowship whitelisted root call on Kusama has been enacted. This involved the coordination of two separate referenda with two separate governance bodies each using their own optimistic turnout/approval curves. For the first time in Kusama history, two governance bodies voted in a simultaneous and coordinated way to approve an on-chain proposal and help improve the overall network.
• OmniBTC has won the 34th Polkadot parachain auction. OmniBTC is an omnichain financial platform for web3,including omnichain swap and BTC omnichain lending.
• Polkadot 0.9.34 has been released. This is a runtime-only release, no new node software is included.
• Statemint is a generic assets parachain that allows the deployment and transfer of assets (both fungible and non-fungible tokens) and serves as the fundamental infrastructure that enables the Polkadot ecosystem to communicate with the rest of the on-chain and off-chain environment.

Short about Statemint, our latest review.

Statemint: Polkadot’s first parachain

Acala / Karura

• Support for the Acala parachain has been rolled out by the great team at DEX Screener. Acala users can now use Dex Screener for realtime DEX trends, analytics, and charts.
• aUSD / GLMR will be the first farm for Pulsar’s concentrated liquidity beta launch from the StellaSwap team.
• The Acala engineering team has delivered a new open-source tool for the Polkadot ecosystem. “Chopsticks” is a testing client that allows developers to fork a Substrate mainnet for testing that can simulate the same environment as the mainnet. Read more.

Astar / Shiden

• Astar is excited to be the first Polkadot parachain to support Light Clients, the essential part of blockchain technology.
• Astar & Shiden are now connected to Bifrost. Bi-directional trades will be opened shortly, enabling ASTR DApp staking and subsequently vASTR liquid staking.

Energy Web

• The Energy Web Community is excited to explain the next steps for staking in detail! Staking EWT tokens will provide cybersecurity for Energy Web’s solutions starting with Green Proofs.
• Energy Web is now available on Amazon’s marketplace. Making its services more accessible for enterprise users is the first step towards Energy Web as-a-service.

Phala / Khala

• Referenda #67, proposing the launch of StakePoolV2 and Vault has passed on Phala. The App V2 beta testing is currently undergoing and there will be a complex on-chain update in a few days.

Dock

• Dock’s Web3 ID has been voted as the ‘#1 Web3 Product of The Week’ on Product Hunt.
• Dock Blockchain’s EVM compatibility has taken the next step. Enabling bidirectional communication, EVM smart contracts can now read data like DIDs, revocation statuses, and accumulator values on Dock Blockchain and verify credentials & signatures from DIDs. Read more.

Crust / Shadow

• As Devs from more and more public chains are joining Crust, its team has added detailed explanations in the Crust Wiki, guiding developers to get free storage space and CRU faucets.

Litentry / Litmus

• The LIT / USD trading pair became live on Coinbase and CoinbasePro. LIT token is the utility asset of the Litentry Network that provides access to the network’s features including governance, staking, and identity linking.

Interlay / Kintsugi

• The emergency proposal to recover the Kintsugi parachain after the recent incident has passed and been enacted. The technical post-mortem report is available here.

OAK / Turing

• OAK Founder and CEO Chris Li was interviewed by Polkaworld about the importance that OAK’s on-chain automation will play in web3.
• Check out the latest OAK Ecosystem Weekly Update to see what its team cooked up over the past week.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• Moonbeam is pleased to collaborate with Bifrost and tap into Polkadot’s built-in cross-chain composability, bringing new services to users across parachains.
• LayerZero Labs is sponsoring different bounties in the Illuminate/22 Hack by Moonbeam. Including governance, DeFi, & other feature-specific challenges for building cross-chain use cases. Details.
• A new course is available in the Moonbuilders Academy, “Building Cross-Chain Interconnected Apps with Moonbeam”. With this curriculum, developers will learn and build cross-chain DApps that unify functionality from many chains.
• Discussion for a new Dynamic Fee Mechanism on Moonbeam & Moonriver is undergoing on the community forum.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• Composable Finance is proud to be introducing a CosmWasm development solution, an interface to upload and test out your smart contracts inside a CW virtual machine instantly.
• Check out the latest guide on how you can transfer your USDT from Statemine on Kusama to Picasso.
• Composable Finance will support the continued development of an open-source linting tool for Substrate.

Manta / Calamari

• After just one week, Manta Trusted Setup broke the previous world record for the largest trusted setup based on number of participants on Monday, December 5.

Bit.Country / Pioneer

• The first 1000 NFTs of the Kaosland Cup by Bit.Country are going to be distributed soon. Raw Land Block owners and Metaverse Evangelists get a direct whitelist as long as they have completed the whitelist process.

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