Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. July 03–09/2023

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Polkadot / Kusama

• Polkadot Ecosystem: what has happened so far this year? A new research article from DFG (Digital Finance Group) highlights Polkadot’s robust growth over the last 6 months.
• There is a discussion on the Polkadot Forum about adjusting the Polkadot inflation model to ensure adequate Treasury inflow.
• Referendum 58, proposing to increase the number of parachain validators in the active set to 250, is now up for vote on the Whitelisted Track.
• Ready to join the super league of developers? Unleash your power with the Polkadot Developer Heroes Program. All you need is enthusiasm and coding skills.
• Main stage talks from Polkadot Decoded 2023 are now available on YouTube.

Acala / Karura

• aUSD (Acala & Karura) conversion to aSEED is targeted to be on July 20 provided that the community vote is passed & on-chain changes are executed.

HydraDX / Basilisk

• HydraDX has published its Monthly Update for June.

Ontology

• Ontology has celebrated its 5th mainnet anniversarн by discussing how to improve the #Web3 UX for the next million users.

Phala / Khala

• The Phala Builders Program has had its first grantee, Kapil “Kap” Sinha of PrivaDEX, successfully complete his milestones. Details.
• Phala is thrilled to announce that Sygma Bridge successfully integrated into SubBridge. Forget about the hefty 300 PHA gas fee, as now you only need 50 PHA, enjoying 6x faster confirmations and 1/3 of the gas cost, saving over 70% in fees.

Energy Web

• Check out the latest edition of Energy Web Behind-the-Scenes with Björn Wagner, CEO at Parity (a leading contributor to Polkadot), and Energy Web’s own Jesse Morris to discuss the recent announcement of pioneering renewable energy solutions on Polkadot.

Crust / Shadow

• Crust’s devlog for June is now available for review.

Litentry / Litmus

• Litentry has an important update to share with its community regarding the circulating supply of LIT tokens on Coingecko and CoinMarketCap. It has come to the team’s attention that there is an issue that demands immediate attention, and they want to ensure complete transparency.

Astar / Shiden

• Both Astar and NEAR Protocol are building to onboard the world to Web3. Find out how enterprises can become a catalyst for the open Web.
• Game Developers can now launch their games on Astar using LYNC SDK and infrastructure.
• A few weeks ago, Astar announced Astar 2.0, its vision for onboarding billions to Web3. In this blog, the team is diving deeper into how the project is becoming truly unstoppable.

Interlay / Kintsugi

• Interlay is happy to be joining the CoinMarketCap community. Check out its profile and join the real-time discussion.

Centrifuge / Altair

• Meet the new Centrifuge blog on Mirror. It is kicking it off with a Q2 Recap from the founder of the project. Have a read and catch up on Centrifuge highlights from the past quarter.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• Only once a transaction achieves finality is it considered immutable. As blocks are created, nodes on the network must decide which block will represent the next valid chain state. Finality defines when that valid state cannot be altered or reversed. Check out this tread to learn more about finality & how it works on Moonbeam.
• The first season of Moonscape, Seascape Network’s P2E city-building strategy game on Moonbeam, is live.
• The Moonbeam Ecosystem Grants Program (Tranche 2) is currently in the Community Review Phase until July 17. All Moonbeam community members are welcomed to review drafted grant proposals and provide feedback or ask questions directly to the teams in the forum.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• Last week, Composable Finance launched the first-ever trustless connection between the Polkadot and Cosmos ecosystems. Now, the team is unveiling the first result of this launch: a pioneering Cosmos IBC connection between Picasso Network and Osmosis.
• Following the successful completion of the PICA token stream on StreamSwap, Picasso is excited to announce that the first pool is now live, seeded, and incentivized on Osmosis.

Bit.Country / Pioneer

• Bit.Country has published its July 2023 Development Update. With unwavering passion and relentless determination, the team continues to drive the future of an immersive web, unlocking real-world productivity through the metaverse.

Manta / Calamari

• Manta Network extends zkSBT features to over 1.5m Web3 users, over 220,000 active wallet addresses are interacting within the ecosystem. Details.
• Manta Network welcomes Cred Protocol as a new ecosystem partner. Cred Protocol is a decentralized credit score that quantifies lending risk at scale, bringing trust and transparency to Web3. This integration will add a robust trust layer to Manta users’ financial interactions.

Equilibrium / Genshiro

• If you supported Polkadex’s crowdloan via Equilibrium’s xDOT, do not forget to claim your rewards in PDEX tokens.

Dock

• Dock’s Q2 update is here. Check all the highlights, including latest product features, partnership with Merit Protocol to reduce loan underwriting costs, hackathon sponsorship, Dock’s demo at the Internet ID Workshop and more.

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