Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. July 24–30/2023

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Polkadot / Kusama

• Are you interested in developing DApps in the Polkadot ecosystem? Then do not miss out on the Polkadot Global Series: Relayers Incubator 2023. Apply before August 18 to advance your developer skills and receive dedicated mentorship and community support.
• Dive into a new era of entertainment as Hollywood embraces Web3 in The Wolf of Wall Street NFT Experience, launching with the Polkadot parachain Aventus.
• Week after week, month after month, Polkadot and Kusama remain the top projects by development activity.
• Missed the Twitter Space on all things Polkadot Blockchain Academy? Listen to the recording to hear the instructors discuss how the Academy is preparing a new generation of Web3 developers to innovate without boundaries.
• The global Polkadot community continues to grow: over 350 attendees participated in the Polkadot Decoded Satellite event in Vietnam this week.
• With the passing of OpenGov Referendum 7, additional staking rewards are being distributed to “high-quality” nomination pools, selected via a deterministic evaluation system.
• Karura has officially secured the next parachain slot lease on Kusama.

Acala / Karura

• Lots have happened since Acala released its Exodus Upgrade. Join its co-founder to see the progress of building a liquidity layer for Web3 finance, aSEED, ACA upgrade, LSTFi hub, and more.

HydraDX / Basilisk

• HydraDX continues diversifying its protocol-owned liquidity raised during the LBP. The Protocol is doing trustless DCA into trustless iBTC, and then trustlessly LPing it into the Omnipool to empower trustless trading.

Ontology

• Discover how Ontology staking works, earning ONG rewards for supporting the network. Learn about fee sharing, choosing nodes, claiming rewards, and more.

Phala / Khala

• Last week, the Khala treasury accumulated 47.78MPHA, with 1 new democracy referendum and 1 new treasury proposal.

Energy Web

• Tune in to the latest episode of The Agenda Podcast from Cointelegraph, where Energy Web’s CEO explains how blockchain can make “going green” more efficient and why they are building on Polkadot.

Crust / Shadow

• Crust EVM Storage now supports the Arbitrum ecosystem. Developers in the Arbitrum community can now use Crust’s storage services by placing orders on Arbitrum.
• Crust announced its partnership with Web3 Analytics AI. The partnership will revolutionize community interaction by introducing an AI-powered bot into the Crust community.

Litentry / Litmus

• Litentry’s IdentityHub has implemented the first version of Direct Invocation. This update makes IdentityHub 50% faster, due to the fact that it enables users to send requests to the TEE enclave directly and reduces waiting time when accessing the IDHub services.

Astar / Shiden / Startale Labs

• The most recent Astar weekly update is here.
• Fireblocks, an all-in-one platform for building digital asset businesses, has integrated Astar, providing hundreds of institutional investors with secure access to the ecosystem. Details.
• Astar 2.0 — Voyage to Supernova: Part 4 is live. Complete simple quests, support the network, mint a unique Astar NFT, and stand a chance to win rewards.
• The WebX event, sponsored in part by Astar Network and Polkadot, has concluded, Astar Tokenomics 2.0 is coming, creating sustainable growth by evolving ASTR for long-term success.

Centrifuge / Altair

• Meet Centrifuge’s Credit Group: 9 credit professionals who assess new assets onboarding to the ecosystem.
• V2 of the Centrifuge Ambassador Program is here, and it is a good opportunity for you to join its DAO and contribute to Centrifuge’s growth and impact. Read more.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• Less than a week after the Evrloot Open Beta goes live, it is already among the top projects on Moonbeam, in terms of daily transaction volume.
• Missed the latest Moonbuilders Workshop? Watch the replay to see API3’s dAPIs in action and learn how to build a DApp to accept any ERC-20 token payment + mint an NFT receipt in one of our most in-depth sessions to date.
• Runtime 2401 passed, introducing new interoperability features for DApps & users on Moonbeam, including the General Message Passing (GMP) Precompile, XCM to EVM on Moonbeam & Moonriver, and OpenGov.
• The Tranche 2 Snapshot vote is officially over and the Grants Committee has reviewed the results. Check out the message posted to the Moonbeam Community Forum for the latest information and next steps.
• OnFinalty announced its Trace API support for Moonriver. You can now debug smart contracts, analyze transactions, and dive into block execution effortlessly. Details.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• Picasso’s proposal for PICA / OSMO incentive matching on Osmosis has passed. Users can access the pool directly from Osmosis to start earning APR.
• New CosmoDot pools are live on the Pablo DEX.
• You can now utilize Trustless Zone to conduct Cosmosibc transfers between Picasso and Secret Network , Crescent, and Neutron.

Manta / Calamari

• Dmail Network is now part of the Manta ecosystem. The project is building an AI-powered decentralized infrastructure that provides seamless, anonymous messaging and notification services across multiple chains and applications.
• Manta has partnered with BurgerCities to launch zkBurger for BurgerCities community members. BurgerCities zkBurger allows them to have a zkDID when enjoying Web3 products and experiences.

Dock

• Dock’s PARIS VLOG: Episode 1. Catch an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse as the Dock team prepares to showcase its integration with Polygon ID at the Polygon (Labs) event during Ethereum Community Conference.

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