Polkadot News Weekly Digest |September 14th - September 19th
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POLKADOT
📍 On Sept 15th Polkadot and Bluzelle, a decentralized data network for dapps to manage data in a secure, tamper-proof, and highly scalable manner, announced partnership: Bluzelle will bring distributed storage capabilities to projects building on Polkadot’sSubstrate framework.
📍 What is Polkadot Treasury, Who are the first funded teams, and what is the future of Treasury read in the new Polkadot blog post.
PATRACT LABS
📍 Patractlabs, that recently created the proposal to Polkadot treasury, showed us a demo video of its Redspot - a development environment, testing framework and asset pipeline for pallet-contracts. Github.
CRUST NETWORK
📍 Upgrades, improvements, collaborations and Economy Whitepaper in the Crust Network`s Weekly report (Sept 7th - Sept 13th)
📍 Crust Network, a decentralized cloud project, announced the completion of its Round A financing. Crust Network also announced the partnerships with http://Bitcoin.com, Bithumb, Darwinia and Maskbook. Full text.
DOCK NETWORK
📍 Dock Network showed an updated Roadmap 2020 starting from the recently released Northill testnet.
CENTRIFUGE
📍 OnFinality now supports Centrifuge: users can run their own nodes on Centrifuge using OnFinality service.
PLASM NETWORK
📍Plasm Network and Crust Network Announced Technical Cooperation:
- Plasm will support Crust on Layer-2 Scaling Solutions
- Crust will provide decentralized storage technology for Plasm.
📍 The 3rd lockdrop with $DOT and without $ETH:
Plasm Network published an updated roadmap from Phase 1 (finishing all ETH lockdrops) to Phase 5 (becoming Polkadot parachain)!
PHALA NETWORK
📍 Phala Network published weekly report on Development, Community and $PHA listings.
📍 Phala Network refined its "Token Economy Whitepaper", main adjustments:
- Simplified the mining mechanism;
- Mining rewards distribution;
- Quantity of $PHA to start mining.
- Unlock quota of private sale and team incentive after circulation started.
BIFROST NETWORK
📍 Bifrost Network published a Sequel of the study "New DeFi Track: How to Balance staking voting rights and rewards", Part III.
Previous parts: Part I and Part II.
DARWINIA NETWORK
📍 Darwinia Network determined dates of mainnet launch: between Sept 25th and Oct 15th: mainnet launch process will be a progressive process, divided into several stages to unlock main functional modules.
All must-know information read here.
📍 Fans of Darwinia Network now have a good chance to support the project, because Darwinia started an Ambassador program!
There are 2 programs included:
- Grants for developers
- Bounty for contributors.
CHAINX
📍 ChainX and GXChain Officially started Cooperation. GXChain will bridge to ChainX and build the Polkadot ecosystem together.
KILT PROTOCOL
📍 Polimec is like the ERC20 Smart Contract mechanism but for issuing pre-Currencies on Polkadot or Kusama as it enables Polkaverse projects to issue transferable pre-coins before go-live of their main net. To know more.
ACALA NETWORK
📍 Acala Network joined DeFi Alliance’s accelerator program.
Through the accelerator program, members (like Volt Capital, Alameda Research, Aave, Compound, Kyber Network, Synthetix and others) provide liquidity and mentorship to promising DeFi startups, like Acala Network. Details.
EDGEWARE
📍 The Week in EDG: Sept 18 2020 by Thom Ivy: detailed report on Developer, Technical, Community and Governance progress of the past week read here.
SORA NETWORK
📍Sora announced New Economic Order Tokenomics Referendum on Sept 23–27, 23:59 UTC. All the changes with v1 XOR, ERC20 XOR and VAL please study here.
AIRA ROBONOMICS
📍Robonomics shared with us the Youtube video with first simple test of the new Robonomics Parachain functionality - RWS subscription module (pallet). The current implementation of this module required Oracle which will observe events in Ethereum mainnet and will grant free transactions for some parachain users addresses.
HOT DOT NEWS
📍 Hot DOT News issue #2 will be published on 20.09.2020, stay tuned!
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