Weekly digest October 12th - 18th
Polkadot News
WEB3 FOUNDATION
📍 Web3 foundation presented a full list of 7 wave Grant Recipients. It includes projects building Developer Tooling, Wallets, Interfaces, New runtime modules and dapps, Validator monitoring, alertering and deployment tooling. Links to the projects.
POLKADOT
📍 Polkadot has now produced over 2'000'000 blocks. Congratulations Polkadot!
📍 The Polkadot Community Conference will be held on the 3rd of december: it's a first official Polkadot gathering since the multi-chain network’s launch and decentralization. Know more and register.
KUSAMA
📍 The first onchain bounty proposal was just submitted to the Kusama council for approval - to develop a robust UI allowing users to submit, check status and manage bounties on Polkadot Apps. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/motion/227
📍 Charming and innovative proposal in Kusama Treasury: VOXEL BRIDGE - an immersive, high impact art installation in the public space, including VR form online and physical launch of the Voxel Bridge on-site commission.
https://kusama.polkassembly.io/post/315
BIFROST
📍 6000 $BNC still waits for participants in CC3 testnet by Bifrost. If you don't want to run a validator node - have a look at another task - read the "Token to vToken exchange" guide.
📍 Bifrost is going to have an AMA session soon! What would you like to ask the Bifrost team? Send your question in this form and submit your BNC address: 5 best questions will bring the winners with 20 BNC!
CELER
📍 SNG Beta testnet ended: 26 validators and about 250 delegators participated in the successful 3-week campaign. Details.
PAID
📍 Paid announced a partnership with Plasm Network to bridge the gap between Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems. Formal announcement.
CENTRIFUGE
📍 Centrifuge has partnered with Securitize to bring their category-defining investor onboarding and management product to Tinlake v3. This will enable Centrifuge users easily onboard one-time and then subscribe to any upcoming offerings. Full announcement.
REEF
📍 Reef published their first Lite Paper, which can be found here.
📍 Reef and Phala will collaborate! Reef can provide smart liquidity aggregator to Polkadot ecosystem using AI engine, so Phala can provide a safety environment for machine learning data on-chain with user privacy-protecting. Details.
📍 Reef Finance has recently announced its $REEF Economic Model and details such as the raise allocation, token allocation, tokens allocated, token price, total round raise, fully diluted valuation, number of tokens released at TGE, circulating supply, initial full cap, total raise, etc. To learn more, go to reef.finance/tokenomics.
BONDLY
📍 Bondly brought the details about rewarding $OM token holders that are staking on the MANTRA DAO platform: users will receive $BOND equal to the overall proportion of the total staking pool for the time period. More.
ENERGY WEB
📍 Germany’s federal energy agency (DENA) announced the selection of the blockchain non-profit Energy web to build a digital registry for distributed energy resources (DERs) throughout Germany.
MOONBEAM
📍 Moonbeam released an upgrade for Moonbase Alpha, the Moonbeam Network's TestNet. New functionality includes publish-subscribe and support for pre-compiles, which are a leap forward in achieving an Ethereum-like environment.
📍 October results and plans of Moonbeam network are out, and it's action-packed.
CHAINX
📍 ChainX Weekly Report: ChainX 2.0 mainnet upgrade has been basically completed.
EQUILIBRIUM
📍 First Web3 Foundation grant milestone has been successfully completed. Equilibrium’s DeFi financial pallet will facilitate cross-chain development with oracles on Polkadot and other blockchain protocols. Details.
SORA
📍 Sora presented FEARLESS - a wallet that will be released soon for the KUSAMA and POLKADOT ecosystems.
📍 Sora celebrated the 1st anniversary of the network launch on October 17th and started a meme-contest. Details can be found here. Prizes are up to 650 $VAL1
OPEN SQUARE
📍 Detailed description of the Open Square idea by Open Square team, written at new Subsocial platform.
SUBSCAN
📍 Subscan passed the motion #5 of the council and became the #0 identity registrar of the Darwinia Network, which can provide users of the Darwinia with authentication of all identity levels on 2020-10-12 02:42:18 (+UTC).
CRUST
📍 Crust Network will launch the next round of testing for the Crust Cloud application.
Whitelist mechanism and the terms of participation.
📍 On October 15, 2020 $CRU by Crust Network was listed on BitMart Exchange.
Trading pairs: CRU/USDT and CRU/BTC
INTERLAY
📍 In early 2021, InterlayHQ will introduce Polkadot’s first trustless wrapped Bitcoin - PolkaBTC. https://t.co/J4fWeHgOWB?amp=1
DOCK
📍 Dock has just released a new feature, Claim Deduction, which is accompanied by a demo that combines facial recognition with verifiable credentials to buy an age-restricted item. Try it out here.
DARWINIA
📍Darwinia announced a partnership with Bondly. It implies exploring and testing the integration of Bondly’s BSwap and BProtect on Darwinia native EVM pallet implementation.
STAFI
📍 StaFi launched a DAO governance of the Treasury. Everyone could raise proposals and vote. For now, the Treasury DAO website is still in Beta test, but the official version is expected to be launched this week.
BITHUMB GLOBAL
📍 Bithumb Global announced the upcoming launch of Clover ($CLV) - a DeFi platform powered by Polkadot technology. Clover will launch as a parachain, meaning that the date of release depends heavily on Polkadot enabling parachain slot auctions.
MATH WALLET
📍 MathChain joined the Substrate Builder Program, which will enable MathChain to work closely with Parity and to gain more technical support while growing together with its developers.
OTHER
📍 Injective Protocol, decentralized layer-2 derivatives exchange protocol powering cross-chain trading and DeFi, announced the integration with Polkadot to expand Injective’s decentralized cross-chain trading capabilities. This integration will be made possible by Moonbeam, which provides an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform powered by Polkadot that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.