Weekly digest November 23rd - November 29th
Polkadot News
SUBSTRATE
Nuclei Studio, building a set of governance oriented and modular pallets for Parity @Substrate, released first two providing:
- creation and management of multiple tokens inside a Parity Substrate runtime.
- an advanced permissioning scheme for users of a Substrate based chain.
POLKADOT
🌀 Jaco Greeff's Polkadot JS UI at https://polkadot.js.org/apps now displays inflation percentage and network-wide APY gains in the staking screen. Github.
KUSAMA
🌀 Kusama network's website now has the Validator Ranking page for nominators to elect the best set based on their preferences. The service is developed by PolkaStats.
CHAINX
🌀 The ChainX mainnet has been successfully upgraded to Substrate 2.0, which will adopt Polkadot's new hybrid consensus mechanism and enable on-chain governance functions. The 2.0 mainnet will be compatible with all Polkadot functions. The Chainx 1.0 network was suspended at block height 23170000. The new 2.0 chain was started from this point. Q&A for users about ChainX 1.0 - 2.0 migration.
BIFROST
🌀 Bifrost Finance, as the base protocol of the Polkadot ecology to provide liquidity for staked assets, will provide staking liquidity for ETH 2.0. To reward the first participants, Bifrost introduced the Mint Drop Program. 1.25% of the Foundation for a total of 100,000 BNC will be contributed for the vETH Mint Incentive during November 27th–December 3rd. How to participate read here.
DOCK
🌀 Dock Network released a Certs - a showcase app illustrating its application to a wide variety of credential-issuing use cases: issuing, managing, sharing, and verifying credentials. The team offers a guided demo: https://blog.dock.io/introducing-certs-docks-demo-app/
🌀 Anchoring is now available on the Dock network.
Anchoring allows users to store a digest of credentials on Dock's blockchain, so that they are associated with immutable timestamps and hence can be proven to have been created at a certain point of time. Details.
SORA
🌀 Sora released new VAL token. VAL is the validator reward token for the SORA Network, it will be used to reward those that stake XOR as part of the Nominated Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm. More about VAL.
🌀 The public SORA Substrate-based test network was launched and an be found here.
🌀 Fearless Wallet by was presented on 26th of November. It is a mobile client for peer-to-peer, non-custodial transactions on the Kusama and Polkadot networks with support on iOS and Android platforms. Know more and download. More Sora updates.
MOONBEAM
🌀 Moonbeam Network started Ambassador Program. Requirements.
CRUST
🌀 The 1st phase of incentivized testnet "Profit Ark" will begin on November 30th, mainly for network node software and hardware testing. Before the start users can reconfigure and pre-test their machines according to the latest node manual. How to join.
EQUILIBRIUM
🌀 Equilibrium reported on successful building the financial pallet handful for anyone building complex decentralized finance (DeFi) and financial technology (Fintech) solutions using Substrate technology. The project was supported by the Web3 grant program. 3 planned milestones were reached, read detailed description here.
The last part included implementation of a method for calculating a given user’s account or portfolio volatility and a method for calculating Value at Risk (VaR). Source.
KYLIN
🌀 Kylin Network closed $1.1 M Seed Round Fundraising. Funding partners are: DigiStrats, Signum Capital, PNYX Ventures, AU21 Capital, Moonrock Capital, CMS, ZMT Capitalego, Ox, Theta, OasisLabs, Tenzor Capital, Rarestone Capital. Details.
OTHER
🌀 The Idex exchange will expand to Polkadot and Binance Smart Chain. Every holder of IDEX’s Ethereum tokens will get an equivalent number of IDEX tokens for each of the new chains. Source 1 and source 2.
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REEF and STAFI
Reef users will be able to use Stafi’s Staking Contracts to issue rREEF tokens for the assets that they have staked on Reef’s platform. Announcement.
REEF and MATIC
The partnership with Matic will help Reef Finance scale its DeFi platform, and offer users a smooth, fast and secure user experience. Payments will be settled on-chain whenever needed with fast finality. Announcement.
REEF and JARVIS
Reef Finance is partnering with Jarvis Network - a set of protocols built on Ethereum, through which users can fund & maintain liquidity pools with stablecoins - to bring Jarvis' Synthetic Assets Pools to Reef Users. Read the full article.
RIO and ALEPH
Developers building their Dapp on Rio's blockchain will be able to access decentralised storage and database features from Aleph.im network through Rio's SDK. Another benefits of this partnerships.
PAID Network & GATHER
PAID Network announced their new strategic partnership with Gather, a marketplace-based platform that allows publishers to monetize content without ads, and provides businesses and developers access to affordable and reliable processing power.
PLASM and CERE
Plasm Network will join the global SaaS-DeFi alliance as a part of partnership with Cere network - Decentralized Data Cloud platform, optimized for service data integration and data collaboration. Source.
EQUILIBRIUM AND STAFI
Equilibrium will add StaFi's rTokens to its lending platform, and $EQ tokens will be available for staking on StaFi’s staking platform. About partnership.
PATRACT LABS
OntologyNetwork - an open-source blockchain that’s focused on digital identity and data - will create the underlying infrastructure for Patractlabs. Ontology has very advanced WASM-JIT related contract technology for Substrate FRAME Contracts, as well as DeID and privacy applications. This partnership is the latest step in Ontology’s mission to launch a parachain on Polkadot. Details.
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