Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. October 3rd — 09th/2022

Polkadot / Kusama

• Polkadot’s Governance v2 is merged into Kusama: the Polkadot Fellowship will be going live in the near future.
• Check out what some of the Polkadot developers are working on now. From increasing TPS to between 100.000–1.000.000 with asynchronous backing to parathreads, XCMv3, a bridge hub, and a fully decentralized governance mechanism.
• Information on the coming rollout of Polkadot nomination pools, which will drastically improve staking limits, is now available.
• Sub0, the Polkadot Developers’ Conference, is back 28–29 November in Lisbon.

Cosmos vs Polkadot. It’s Time To Compare!

Acala / Karura

• The community referendum for stage 3/3 of resuming Acala operations has been executed. All functionalities on Acala are now live.

Energy Web

• Energyweb is excited to announce Energy Web X (formerly the Consortia Relay Chain). Last week the team discussed all its ins and outs, such as staking and tokenomics.
• Energy Web has joined CIRPASS (Collaborative Initiative for a Standards-based Digital Product Passport for Stakeholder-Specific Sharing of Product Data for a Circular Economy) to lay the groundwork for the deployment of European Digital Passport Products.

Watr Protocol

Flowcarbon x Watr.
Flowcarbon, a leading provider of carbon reduction solutions partners with Watr, the pioneering Polkadot parachain for ethical commodities, to supply it with carbon tokenization, technology and infrastructure.

OAK / Turing

• Oneblock+ has published an article on OAK Network, highlighting the cross-chain automation hub for building safe and efficient Web3 infrastructure.

Pendulum / Amplitude

• The Amplitude & Pendulum portal is moving to QA & code review. It will serve as the one-stop hub for interacting with dApps and services.
• The best Twitter thread about Pendulum or Amplitude can win 500 AMPE tokens. Submissions are accepted till October 14th.

Astar / Shiden

• Astar has reopened XCM transfers to Acala and back. Now it is possible to transfer aUSD, ACA, and lDOT.
• Astar’s proposal for the Polkadot Summit 2022 event was approved by the Polkadot council.
• Astar decided to open channels with Interlay, allowing the movement of INTR and interBTC to the network.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• Bifrost’s vKSM will soon be added as a Moonriver XC Asset to kickstart more use case scenarios and liquidity in Kusama EVM protocols and apps.
• Zircon Gamma (Zircon Finance’s deployment on Moonriver) is live & ready for use. Zircon DEX features an integrated Pylon system, bringing single-sided liquidity provisioning & impermanent loss mitigation to the network. Learn more.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• Composable Finance has announced the expansion of Centauri, its in-house trustless bridging hub powered by Cosmos IBC, into the NEAR environment.
• With the NEAR enhancement proposal recently being merged, Composable Finance is now one step closer to extending the functionality of the NEAR Protocol and connecting the NEAR <> DotSama <> Cosmos ecosystems.
• The Composable Finance team is asking active MURAL users to return their NFTs back to their source chain before the 1st of November.

Manta / Calamari

• The Calamari Network migration to Delegated Proof of Stake is complete. The next step is to launch an on-chain staking application that makes staking KMA tokens as easy as possible.

Parallel Finance / Heiko

• Parallel Wallet Gleam Campaign results are available here, congratulations to all the winners.
• Parallel Finance now has its own space on OpenSquare. The community members will be able to propose, discuss and vote with PARA tokens all in a decentralized manner.
• Parallel is introduced the new “One-Click DOT Staking” feature.

RMRK

• RMRK is glad to announce the revival of the RMRKable Ambassador program for all who are interested in spreading the word about the project with their network and local communities.

KILT

• KILT is now running as a Polkadot parachain. After a year of testing and growing on Kusama, it is ready for upcoming enterprise integrations. KILT became the first parachain to move its entire chain seamlessly from Kusama to Polkadot.

Unique / Quartz

• Unique’s highly anticipated SDK is finally out. It is designed for the most abundant developer base (JS/TS) to facilitate onboarding. Now developers can easily build their dApps on the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. Read more.

SORA

• Breaking news from SORA: XST farming pools are live. Add liquidity to the XOR-ETH and XOR-DAI pools and farm on Demeter for the next 30 days to receive rewards in XST.
• SORA Wallet v2.5.1 for Android has been released.

Dock

• BurstIQ, one of the leading providers of blockchain-enabled data solutions for the healthcare and life sciences, has implemented Dock’s technology in order to turn any health data into Verifiable Credentials. Details.
• Dock’s Discord Activity Contest has recently started and will run until October 17th.

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