Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. January 9–15/23
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4 min readJan 15, 2023
Polkadot / Kusama
- With the passing of Referendum 91, the number of potential nomination pools on Polkadot has doubled from 64 to 128. There are now 71 active nomination pools.
- Hear 23 speakers from the Polkadot & Kusama ecosystem share their remarkable progress in 2022, as well as their plans for 2023 in the Polkadot wrap-up video from SubWallet & Dotinsights.
- Following the resounding success of the first Polkadot Academy, and especially the high level of interest in the second edition of the program, the organization of subsequent waves has already begun.
- Congratulations Bittensor on winning Polkadot’s 36th auction. Its vision is to enable a novel strategy for the development and distribution of AI technology by leveraging the possibilities of the Polkadot ecosystem and creating a pure market for artificial intelligence.
- Polkadot nomination pools have hit another milestone — just 2 months after launch, more than 1,000,000 DOT has been bonded by pool members. Check out this thread to learn more about Polkadot nomination pools and how to stake natively on Polkadot.
Astar / Shiden
- Brushfam will help Astar support new WASM projects in 2023. Together they will increase the number of ink! dApps deployed.
- Astar x Grabber campaign update: the token reward pool has been increased to include more winners.
Centrifuge / Altair
- Centrifuge is introducing its Credit Group: a collection of seasoned credit experts who will provide unbiased, objective reviews of proposed new real-world asset pools. Learn the backgrounds of each member here.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
- Thanks to Web3Go and its work to provide easy-to-use dashboards for data analytics on Moonbeam, users can now access the public Moonbeam Overview, combining data from EVM + Substrate.
- Missed Moonbeam’s One Year Breakthrough Event? You can watch the whole replay here.
- Combining Moonbeam precompiled contracts, Polkadot-specific tech & Alexar’s GMP, unlocks functionality not available on other chains. Learn how to send tokens between an Axelar-connected EVM chain and Centrifuge through Connected Contracts.
Robonomics
- Proposal #5 is now live on the Robonomics parachain. It aims to gain community consensus regarding a future increase to collator block rewards in order to make it once again economically viable to operate a collator node.
Composable Finance / Picasso
- Pablo DEX has been added to the Nova Wallet DApp catalog so users can now participate in a range of DeFi activities on Picasso.
- Composable Finance is excited to announce the first round of participants for its Centauri testnet.
Bit.Country / Pioneer
- Bit.Country’s Kaosland will be launched in 5 phases. In Phase 1, users can merge land units creating Estates, add custom thumbnails, and trade land. Details.
- Kaosland land distribution announcement has been updated. Those who contributed at least 0.11 KSM are eligible to claim the best land available.
Manta / Calamari
- The Manta Network Trusted Setup is over, reward NFTs will be distributed to contributors with the help of RMRK. You can read all of the details about the conclusion of Trusted Setup, next steps, and the subsequent launch of MantaPay here.
- Calamari is currently looking for more collators. If you are interested, just follow the docs.
RMRK
- Here is a recap of updates, events, and activities for RMRK’s Singular and its family of creators over the past year.
- It has been a while since RMRK launched Kanaria, one of the most advanced NFT collections in the world. Check out how the collection has performed and what its holder base looks like today.
- RMRK is stoked to announce its smart contract legos are documented and ready to be played with on any chosen EVM chain.
HydraDX
The HydraDX Omnipool is live and in less than 70h, more than $100k worth of fresh liquidity was provided to the Omnipool. By 15th of janury TVL cap reached $353k.
