Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. September 19th-25th/2022

Polkadot / Kusama

• Tether launched on Polkadot providing a stable currency to move in and out of the network. Details.

Acala / Karura

• Acala Incident Report (concerning recent misconfiguration of the iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool) is now available.
• Acala appreciates all the strong support and help it has received since the incident. Find more details on resuming Acala’s network operations here.

OAK / Turing

• Turing Network has accomplished all 5 phases of the launch with the removal of sudo. Governance Documents are available here.

Pendulum / Amplitude

• Despite the novelty of connecting Stellar with Polkadot, Spacewalk is getting closer to completion every day. It is now possible to communicate with the Stellar overlay network, a prerequisite of securely bridging funds between chains.

Moonbeam / Moonriver

• Wormhole has announced its launch on Moonbeam, enabling users to transfer assets from Ethereum & BNB Chain.
• The period for community discussion and feedback on Moonbeam grant proposals from StellaSwap & Moonwell are coming to a close. Have your voice heard & weigh in on Polkassembly.
• AllianceBlock extends Moonbeam support to include DeFi Terminal, in addition to their bridging feature, following the initial integration announcement earlier this year. Users on Moonbeam can now leverage AllianceBlock for liquidity mining & staking infrastructure. Read more.

KILT

• The referendum on preparing KILT’s runtime for the move from Kusama to Polkadot went through and was enacted.

SORA

• Help improve SORA Wallet by completing a survey to get early access to development insights.
• The 1st recording from SORA Economic Forum 2022 is now available.

Dock

• Dock is planning to improve all of its staking offerings, so the team would like to hear from users. There are only 2 questions in the form.

Composable Finance / Picasso

• Without a trusted EVM bridge for Picasso’s launch, Composable Finance will instead rely on Polkadot’s liquidity via its KSM <> DOT IBC bridge. This will provide stable liquidity while the team researches the possibility of light client bridging to ETH 2.0 and several L2s.
• At this time Composable Finance is announcing the realignment of Mosaic. It was decided to move away from the trusted architecture which underpins phase 1 and 2. Details.
• PICA serves a fundamental role within the Picasso ecosystem as its native governance token. This article will help you to learn some new things about it.

Bit.Country / Pioneer

• SubWallet will be integrated with Bit.Country Pioneer as a very easy-to-use wallet extension and will also launch its first metaverse which will provide its community with a networking & campaign hub. Details.
• Bit.Country wearables have been made for TOKEN2049 in Singapore.

Manta / Calamari

• A Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) has evolved from an idea in GMR’s paper 20 years ago to a technology that empowers many Web3 companies. Why is it so important and why is Manta Network betting on it? Here is a thread.

Parallel Finance / Heiko

• Parallel/Heiko Farm is now live. Supply the following LP tokens and get extra PARA/HKO rewards.
• Parallel Wallet v1 has been officially launched.

Equilibrium / Genshiro

• The wait is almost over: Equilibrium Closed Beta launch is planned for September 28, 12.00 PM UTC.
• Explore the fundamentals behind Equilibrium core features with Equilibrium 101 series. Here is the first article concerning the EQD stablecoin.

Enjin / Efinity

• Enjin Wallet Daemon is now updated to 0.9.4. The team has integrated it with the Efinity staging environment so developers can now jump in and experiment.
• Version 2.0.10 (beta) of Enjin wallet is ready to be explored. Android users can try its new features including support for Polygon tokens, and full support for JumpNet & Goerli.

Ontology

• In continuation of the OWNInsights series, where Ontology invites industry leaders to take users on a thought provoking journey through the Web3 space: an article written by Rory O’Neill, Executive at strategic communications consultancy.

Phala / Khala

• Phala will sponsor TOKEN2049, one of the biggest crypto events of the year. The team has prepared a lot of amazing gifts. Learn more.

Astar / Shiden

• Astar will join TOKEN2049 in Singapore. Its representatives will have a booth along with Polkadot at the biggest blockchain event in Asia.
• Check out this write-up on why the Astar team is building a Cross-Virtual Machine (XVM) on Astar and Shiden.
• Astar Network will begin trading on bitbank from September 26th.

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