Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. October 23–29/2023

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Polkadot / Kusama

• The first runtime under the Polkadot Technical Fellowship has been released.
• Learn about Polkadot’s unique approach to scaling in this interview with Parity’s Lead Engineer.
• Ready to Stake DOT? Learn about joining nomination pools, nominating validators directly, and staking with ecosystem wallets.
• The first batch of crowdloans on Polkadot has been refunded. End users will generally not need to do anything, the crowdloaned DOT will automatically re-appear in your account. Read more.
• The next Polkadot Community Call will occur on October 31, 4 p.m. CET. Tune in to hear the latest from the ecosystem teams, and learn about some of the most prominent referenda and treasury proposals for Polkadot & Kusama.
• The staking rate on Polkadot continues to increase and is now at 49.63%.

Acala / Karura

• ACA Staking is now live on Acala. ACA upgrade is aimed to optimize network growth, and sustainability and enhance ACA roles as a fundamental utility.
• A vote is up for increasing the ACA Staking and Acala Swap Liquidity Incentive Proposal.

HydraDX / Basilisk

• HydraDX held its first-ever Bonds campaign using a Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP). For a period of 24h, users were able to swap their DOT for HDX bonds (HDXb) with a maturity of 1 year

Ontology

• Take on Ontology’s challenge: build a Web3 application with ONTID to tackle real-world privacy and data protection issues.

Phala / Khala

• Phat Contract 2.0 is launching next week. Phala is thrilled to announce all the incredible new features and showcase the growth PC 2.0 will bring to the Web3 world.

Energy Web

• Energy Web X is now live and actively generating blocks on the Polkadot mainnet.
• In collaboration with Elia Group, the Energy Web team has developed a Digital Identity App that OpenWallet Foundation has adopted.

Crust / Shadow

• Crust is excited to announce that it has established a close partnership with MetaBlox. Together, the teams are on a mission to propel DePin and blockchain technology to new heights, making a global impact.
• Crust Network has surpassed over 2 million files stored.

Litentry / Litmus

• The latest V.04 update of Litentry’s IdentityHub has been released.

Astar / Shiden / Startale Labs

• Astar is excited to announce that its zkEVM testnet is live. In line with the Japanese roots, it is called zKatana. This launch is another significant stepping stone in the project’s journey to offering the most holistic tech stack, empowering builders and enterprises to tap into Web3 securely.
• HAKUHODO KEY3 has joined Astar’s mission to drive the adoption of Astar zkEVM in Japan. Learn more.
• DFG details the wild ride to completing the first phase of Astar and now entering the world of Astar 2.0.
• A 30.000 ASTR bounty: join Astar’s campaign now and engage with Astar dApps, supporting our ecosystem

Bifrost

• Polkadot Unlock Harvest is live on Bifrost. Users who joined the 1st Batch of Polkadot Parachain Auctions can now Redeem their DOT and Liquid Stake them.

Interlay / Kintsugi

• Bifrost’s vDOT has unlocked a new feature on Interlay and it is now available as Collateral on Interlay’s Lending & Borrowing Market.
• INTR, KINT, iBTC & kBTC tokens are now featured under different categories on CoinGecko.

Centrifuge / Altair

• Recently, Centrifuge announced a testnet, unlocking a seamless experience for investors to access real-world yield using liquidity on Arbitrum. Join this webinar to learn more.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• xPrivate integrates with Moonbeam, adding support for GLMR tokens and enabling anonymization services for users on the network.
• Over the past week, there has been a lot of discussion about the Polkadot ecosystem. The Moonbeam team wants to tell users what they are up to.
• BlockWallet, a non-custodial browser wallet, added support for Moonbeam. Users can now use it to manage assets on the network, track gas fees across multiple chains, and more.

Composable Finance / Picasso / Pablo

• Composable Finance is pleased to be a Web3 Foundation grant recipient for its work on the first CosmWasm VM in Polkadot. The implementation of CosmWasm as a Substrate pallet allows for the onboarding of a new developer community via this widely used smart contract framework. Details.

Bit.Country / Pioneer

• Joining Bit.Country’s Halloween Contest just got a whole lot easier. The team has revamped the UI to help Metaverse Owners and explorers in Haunted BCSpaces keep track of their progress in their journey.

Manta / Calamari

• What .manta name do you want? Put .manta into your X Name, then comment the .manta handle you want here. Some lucky people might get one reserved.

Enjin / Efinity / NFT.io

• The newly launched Enjin Blockchain has fees as low as $0.0008, but Fuel Tanks help take that one step further. Enjin’s Fuel Tanks are pre-loaded pools of tokens that you use to subsidize transaction fees on the Enjin Blockchain. Learn more.

KILT

• KILT DIDs on EV charging stations? Imagine. After all, fast supplier change at e-charging stations is one of the use cases to be realized in the DIVE project by Future Energy Lab.

Dock

• The Dock Association is raising a proposal to increase the distribution rate of DOCK tokens. Global economic conditions, such as inflation, high energy prices, and a depressed crypto market, have made things challenging for Dock’s Validators.
• The Dock token is now available to trade on CoinDCX.

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