Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. February 20–26/2023
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4 min readFeb 26
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Polkadot / Kusama
- Polkadot 0.9.38 has been released with MEDIUM upgrade priority.
- Congratulations to Hashed Network, the winner of Parachain Auction #40. Polkadot’s parachain family continues to grow with this exciting enterprise-focused project joining the fold.
- ink!, a programming language for smart contracts used in the Polkadot ecosystem, has received the next major update.
- On February 28, join a day of talks & panels on all things Polkadot, from the next generation of DApps to creating your own custom layer-1 blockchain.
HydraDX / Basilisk
- The HydraDX bug bounty program is now live on Immunefi. Everyone is welcome to earn up to $1.000.000 for responsible disclosure.
- HydraDX proposes to put aside 5M DAI of the LBP funds, to be used for extending the runway of the HydraDX Protocol during the upcoming 2 years. The funds can be distributed by the HydraDX Council in installments equivalent to no more than a 6 months’ runway. Read more.
Energy Web
- Over the past month, the Energy Web team worked hard behind the scenes on numerous solutions and applications. Here is an overview of the developers’ statistics from January.
Astar / Shiden
- Braindex Aggregator has added support for Astar Network. With this integration, Astar can now allow multifaceted ways to bring liquidity with better prices, more efficient swaps, and better user experience.
Ontology
- Ontology shared its 2023 roadmap. This year the focus is on further optimizing the Web3 infrastructure, making it even easier for projects to adopt the OWN Infrastructure for their needs.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
- PrivaDEX, the x-chain DEX aggregator for Polkadot, integrates with Moonbeam. Users can now leverage it for more efficient swaps between StellaSwap, Beamswap, and ArthSwap.
- Attarius Network, an easy-to-go decentralized solution for game devs and players, is now live on Moonbeam & Moonriver.
- New discussion for revisions to the grants program has been posted to the Moonbeam community forum. Changes include extension to the current Interim Grants Program, additional budget, community voted allocation, and more.
- To everyone who voted on referendum 84 for Runtime 2100 on Moonbeam: you can now check out your “I Voted” NFT on Galxe.
Composable Finance / Picasso
- Composable Finance is sorry to announce that it has parted ways with its former Chief Technology Officer. While this naturally prompts questions and concerns, the team is committed to addressing these questions and alleviating any concerns.
- There was a malicious governance referendum attempt on Picasso. Here are the details.
Bit.Country / Pioneer
- Kaosland’s independent website is on its way. Metaverse projects on Bit.Country can launch their own branding with their own domain name URL.
Manta / Calamari
- Manta’s co-founder was recently interviewed in a Cointelegraph AMA about Zero-Knowledge Proofs and how Manta Network is leading the space in on-chain privacy innovation.
- Manta has introduced its Champion Program, which aims to build a community team explicitly focused on bringing in a group of exclusive, dedicated community members to help with growth in target regional communities.
RMRK
- RMRK enabled the most diverse teams to mint over 760.000 NFTs, ranging from Evrloot in-game items to AMERICAS 2.0 trip records. Read more.
Dock
- Dock is calling all validators to upgrade their nodes by February 28th. Nodes not upgraded will be de-activated from the network until the upgrade is done.
- The Dock developer team is reviewing the designs for the credential distribution feature. This functionality in Dock Certs will allow issuers to distribute the Verifiable Credentials to the holders’ wallets using their DIDs.
- Dock’s Verifiable Credentials verification on the web is now available. You can request & instantly verify any digitally Verifiable Credential from a web browser, and users will receive a notification of what data you are requesting.
