Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. Sept 20— Sept 26
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4 min readSep 26, 2021
Parachain auctions and crowdloans
Top 5 crowdloan participants by the 26th of September.
- After winning the 8th parachain auction, Basilisk is now being onboarded as Kusama’s 9th parachain (8-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine).
- With 175k+ KSM contributed, Parallel Heiko is now leading in the 2nd batch of Kusama auction crowdloan.
- We’ve posted a series of articles about second batch parachain candidates: their tokenomics, crowdloan terms, rewards and bonuses.
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Polkadot/Kusama
- Mainnet2021 by Messari. Some highlights: The Polkadot audit is finished, and the last details are being finalized. A Kusama/Polkadot bridge may come sooner than expected.
- https://twitter.com/klever_io/status/1438231144542187521
Klever Wallet has added Dapp browser support for the Kusama ecosystem.
Bifrost
Bifrost has partnered with Heiko powered by Parallel Finance. vsKSM derivatives and mining will be offered by Bifrost to voters who vote to Parallel Heiko via the SALP protocol during the 2nd batch of the Kusama parachain auctions!
Zenlink
- Zenlink SlotVault DApp is integrated with the Bifrost SALP protocol, providing users with the option to release the crowdloan liquidity for Altair and Kintsugi crowdloan.
Astar/Shiden
- Astar’s DOT crowdloan strategy will be announced soon and this is going to be the only option to get Astar tokens for retail investors. Looking forward!
- The New proposal inside Builders Program Application — to build a bridge connecting the AstarNetwork/Shiden (based on Substrate) to a Cosmos-SDK based blockchain.
Acala/Karura
- Acala Network has opened its Crowdloan waitlist. The waitlist to get your piece of Acala and up to 10% in bonus crypto: Join Acala
- Acala starts a two-week liquidity mining program. Starting on Sept 28, anyone can earn from a total of 350,000 KAR in rewards by staking KSM for LKSM or becoming an LP in the new LKSM/KSM pool. Learn more
SORA
- SORA Community Referendum Update — The JP GAMES referendum to loan the Pegasus World Kit 60K XOR and implement it as the metaverse token has been approved. The community has approved an RPF to implement a smart contract to mint NFT
- General SORA posted a 16 tweet thread as a beginner’s guide to the SORA ecosystem.
Moonbeam/Moonriver
- Moonriver records 1 million transactions in 3 weeks helping Polkadot and Kusama demonstrate the power of an L0 multi-chain meta-protocol.
- Meter.io is now the official crosschain partner for Moonbeam Network. A special program will be announced with MTRG airdrops for MOVR bridge users.
- AnySwap is live on Moonriver. AnySwap integration with Moonriver will allow users to bridge assets between Moonriver and multiple chains like Ethereum, Binance, and many more. Learn more
Composable Finance/Picasso
- Composable team introduced the Picasso Incubator Pool — a novel strategy which provides exposure to new Picasso projects for PICA stakers.
- Composable and HydraDx teams have partnered in a joint venture to build out Angular Finance — an isolated lending pair pallet for the Kusama ecosystem. Learn more
- Picasso announced the first use case of Mosaic-Cross-layer NFT swaps across Polygon/Arbitrum/L1. They are working with Aleph.im to leverage its permanent data storage solution for our cross-layer NFT infrastructure, powered by Mosaic. Learn more
Crust Network
- Crust Network is bringing decentralized storage solutions to Polygon. This enables Polygon users and developers to access over 6,000 IPFS nodes and 2,000 PB of storage capacity. Learn more
Manta/Calamari
Nsure.network
- Nsure.Network has completed Milestone 1 of its Web3 Foundation grant, moving closer to their goal of building a cross-blockchain open insurance marketplace. Learn more
HydraDX/Basilisk
- Once the HydraDX council gets elected and settles down, it will initiate a referendum with the following proposal: Retroactively increase the distribution of tokens to HDX LBP participants from 5% up to 15% of the total HDX supply. Learn more
Phala/Khala
- Khala by PhalaNetwork has launched Khala Secure Workers system. Workers can obtain Khala rewards by registering and working online. All users can join StakePools to begin staking and participate in the distribution of income. Learn more
Kilt
- Kilt entered the phase of testing our governance. Check out the decentralisation roadmap to see next steps.
Robonomics
On the 1st of October Robonomics will take part in the IROS2021 conference with an online workshop. Register
KwikSwap DEX
KwikSwap DEX is the first DEX to go LIVE on Shiden Network. Learn more
Darwinia
One year of the Darwinia’s Mainnet. Congrats!🎉🎉🎉
