Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. Mar 27 — Apr 2/2023
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3 min readApr 3, 2023
Polkadot / Kusama
- Powered by auction contender Moonsama, secured with public credentials from identity parachain KILT, the first NFT drop of the Diesel & Public Pressure partnership sold out in 4 hours. Details.
- Payments specialist Stellar is connecting to Polkadot via the new Spacewalk bridge, built by Pendulum parachain, enabling the smooth and seamless transfer of stable assets between the two ecosystems.
- Referendum 111, adjusting nomination parameters in Polkadot, has passed and been executed.
- Lead developer at Polkadot talked about the basics of what shared security is, how Polkadot can provide it, and what it can bring to the larger Blockchain ecosystem.
Acala / Karura
- Acala Multichain Asset Hub Router v0.1 now supports bridging assets from any chain to any parachain powered by XCM and Acala EVM+.
HydraDX / Basilisk
- HydraDX is spearheading a new community initiative which will help keep Polkadot safe. Together with 7 other parachains, the team is proposing a Polkadot Assurance Bounty.
Phala / Khala
- The March newsletter for Phala is now available. Look back at everything that happened, including projects and technical updates, community events, latest governance proposals & more.
Crust / Shadow
- Crust has released the rules for the 1st round of ARB airdrop. This round mainly rewards community members who have helped build the Crust ecosystem in the past.
Litentry / Litmus
- Verified Credentials made possible with Litentry’s IDHub launching soon.
Astar / Shiden
- WASM Launch day is coming soon with a powerhouse of teams joining Astar. Take advantage of this monumental event.
- Astar is pleased to support the launch of Parity’s production-ready ink! Version 4.0. Using ink! allows developers to build true multichain dApps that use Polkadot’s native shared security and interact directly with the runtime.
- Astar is excited to announce its collaboration with Encode Club, bringing technical support and infrastructure for the future developers building with Wasm Smart Contracts.
Interlay / Kintsugi
- The Kintsugi Bitcoin DeFi Hub is now live and accessible to everyone.
- Interlay has issued its March Ecosystem Update.
- There is a new way to win a Chaotic Kintsugi Bitcoin Inscription.
Centrifuge / Altair
- Centrifuge has added a new section to its website for the latest news on the project and DeFi’s real-world revolution.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
- Referendum 91 for distributing Ecosystem Grants to projects is now up to vote on Moonbeam. Voting period closes Monday, April 3rd.
- Moonbeam has introdced its new Dev Assistant, Kapa. Powered by ChatGPT, it is trained to answer almost any dev-oriented question and is now available to the public on Discord.
- ZooDAO, the protocol combining NFTs & DeFi for cross-community battle experiences, is now live on Moonbeam.
Composable Finance / Picasso
- Composable Finance has shared its development updates from the last 2 weeks.
Bit.Country / Pioneer
- The Bit.Country team has entered the active feature release cycle. With 694 commits & a whopping 147,603 additions to the code repository. Read more.
- Bit.Country Governance is now live. Details are available in this Twitter Space.
Manta / Calamari
- ReadON partners with Manta to use its zkNFTs for private identity verification. By partnering with Manta’s NPO platform, Manta Network will work with ReadON to better attract and bring more creators and curators into the Web3 world and enrich the on-chain content ecosystem.
- Let’s Meme will use Manta’s zkSBTs to verify on-chain identity in a privacy-preserving manner. Details.
Enjin / Efinity
- Enjin has shared its latest development update for March. The Efinity update is also available here.
