Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. February 7–13
Polkadot / Kusama
- Congratulations to HydraDX on winning Polkadot’s 9th auction! HydraDX will be onboarded at the beginning of lease 7 with the other winners from auctions 6–11.
- A proposal for new parachain auction schedules on Kusama Network replacing the current schedule, enacted by motion 384
- New primitives for building Polkadot and Kusama’s next-generation governance have been merged into the Substrate code base. Details.
- Did you know that anybody can request a grant for a specific project to address useful or unsolved issues for Polkadot, Kusama & Substrate by submitting a Request for Proposals? Find the list of open RFPs here.
- Thinking of a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day? Express your non-fungible love with a Kusama Valentine’s NFT! Until Feb. 15, choose an NFT from artist Oscar Civit and send it to your love bird, even if they don’t have a Kusama address.
- Following council passing the motion for the Polkadot Pioneers Prize, check out the announcement to present the candidates for the Administrative Curator to oversee the prize program with a prize fund of up to 993286.08 DOT.
- This discussion on the minimum commission of validators relates to metrics associated with the Kusama chain. At the moment commission can be set to 0%, so would it be better to change the minimum? How do we best calculate it?
- Cute visualisation of Kusamanetwork’s validators producing blocks.
Darwinia / Crab
- Darwinia Network and Evolution Land are now on Subsocial.! To celebrate, Darinia is announcing a joint CRAB and SUB airdrop for qualifying crowdloan contributors. Check out this article for more details.
- Crab Smart Chain, the Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on Kusama, accepted the Meta Rock project into its grants program. Now users can mint and trade their NFT on Crab.
- Darwinia’s implementation guide for deploying and running an S2SBridge has been published. Check it to learn how to develop a Substrate to Substrate Bridge.
Acala / Karura
- The one-way bridge is live: you can now move your DOT from the Polkadot Relay Chain to Acala in preparation for DeFi operations and liquidity mining incentives.
- Individuals who bridge DOT to Acala to try the apps while features are being enabled can join Acala’s Early Adopter Program and earn an exclusive NFT in return, as well as get a chance to be early participants in liquidity pools & incentive programs.
- Acala introduced its Kickoff Rewards Program: to celebrate Acala Swap’s inaugural trading pairs, the Acala Foundation is allocating 1 million ACA in liquidity mining incentives to qualifying LPers. Now they have a chance to earn ACA rewards from several pools starting with LCDOT/DOT, LCDOT/aUSD, and ACA/aUSD.
- Capx to launch its solutions for unlocking liquidity of vested tokens on Acala’s EVM+. Capx’s innovation allows projects to issue Wrapped Vesting Tokens (WVTs) to stakeholders creating liquid derivatives of unvested tokens.
ChainX
ChainX will launch the Bitcoin cross-chain process using Taproot technology in a few days. For those who want to become a ChainX custodian: you need to know about the ComingChat threshold wallet and have a certain amount of PCX for voting.
Edgeware / Kabocha
Edgeware DAO recently approved Treasury Proposal #43 (funding for technical development of the chain, parachain bonding to Kusama and approval for genesis KAB stake in Kabocha) and Treasury Proposal #45 (funding for Kabocha visuals and crowdloan NFTs).
Robonomics
- Online winter School of Robonomics 2022 is about to start. The participants of the winter school will have three lectures and gain a lot of practice using (d)apps based on the Robonomics platform. Watch out the schedule and subscribe for free lessons.
- Subspace continues to support Robonomics by archiving the full history of its blockchain with their Kusama Relayer. Currently, over 1.6 GiB is permanently stored on the Subspace Aries Test Network.
- Robonomics announced its integration in Fearless Wallet. Sending, receiving and all other wallet functionality of XRT is now enabled on iOS and Android. Download the newest version here.
Astar / Shiden
- Snapshot is integrated into Astar Network. Now, dApp projects on Astar are able to use Snapshot to start on-chain governance and decentralized voting.
- Astar Network has announced the Astar Boost Program, a $100M fund for liquidity providing, financial support and much more.
- Shiden ecosystem overview: Build2Earn, DAppStaking, Builders Program, and Marketing support. See the details here.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
Play-to-earn tournaments are coming to Moonriver and Moonbeam. Ignite Tournaments are building a play-to-earn infrastructure that provides tournament functionality to any pre-existing mobile game. Learn more.
Unique / Quartz
Quartz listing has officially kicked off on MEXC. By now everyone who participated in the Kickstarter voting campaign should have received their QTZ token rewards. More information is available here.
Phala / Khala
- Phala 2022 Roadmap released. Check it here.
- Phala Network has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on Ethereum to help adjust Khala SWM tokenomics parameters with security and accurately calculate trade fees on the Kusama-ETH Bridge. Details.
- What does the Web3 infrastructure look like beyond today’s smart contract? At Phala Network’s workshop on Feb 15th at 11 am, Phala addresses the question with the development of their Fat Contracts and Web3 computing cloud. Come and join them at ETHDenver.
Centrifuge / Altair
Altair Runtime Upgrade 4 passed the on-chain democracy vote by AIR token holders to remove the sudo key. The next big update planned to be proposed on Altair is NFT Playground.
OAK
OAK Network, the Web 3.0 hub for Defi and payment automation, closed a $5.5M Seed round led by Foundation Capital, Greylock and Hypersphere. See the details here.
