Weekly digest October 26th - November 1st
Polkadot News
WEB3 FOUNDATION
📍 Web3 Foundation has set up a low-cost and open-source registrar service to make it easier to set up an on-chain identity in the Polkadot network. Find out more about the benefits for validators & other token holders, and how to use the service here.
POLKADOT
📍 Meet the people and teams behind Polkadot and engage with the community at Polkadot Decoded on December 3rd. This free online event is open to all levels of technical experience. Reserve your spot now.
KUSAMA
📍 A huge slashing of validators in the Kusama network occured on 30th of October in eras 1457 and 1458, due to numerous equivocations in the last few eras.
SORAMITSU
📍FEARLESS - a wallet built by Soramitsu for Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems started early beta testing. The wallet can be downloaded by the links: Android v0.4 and iOS v0.4.
📍Soramitsu has won the inaugural Fintech & Regtech "Central Bank Digital Currency Partner" of the year award for 2020. This was in recognition for the work they have been doing with project Bakong in Cambodia for the past several years.
PHALA NETWORK
📍 CEO and Co-founder of Phala Network Marvin Tong talks about Phala:
- news from Phala development;
- what TEE is, and what TEE miners are;
- DarkPool on Kusama
And more in big AMA session:
JOYSTREAM
📍 Joystream announced upcoming content-focused testnet release Babylon, that will bring Atlas 0.1- the initial release of content consumption client. Babilon will app. start on 30th of November.
BIFROST
📍 Bifrost released an updated White paper: implementation plan, typical business, economic model, roadmap. And lots of new details about governance and $BNC (value capture, incentive model, participation roles, distribution structure, etc)
ENERGY WEB
📍 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) became the newest member of Energy web to work together on open blockchain platforms for integrating distributed resources. Source.
RIO NETWORK
📍 Rio will start mainnet on the 31th of October. At the same time the beta version of RioWallet will become available to the public. The network will be initiated under a PoA consensus algorithm before moving to NPoS. Read more.
ACALA
📍 Acala started the Mandala Festival on 31st of October! It's divided into 3 parts and will last till 13th of November. Participants that complete the tasks will be rewarded. The ones who participated in earlier festivals can get additional Acala & Karura Halloween themed NFT badges. How to participate.
📍 Acala named new collaborators to the Acala Ecosystem Program:
Bifrost -will integrate aUSD as base currency token; Interlay - will have collateral use cases of PolkaBTC, aUSD and LDOT; ZenlinkPro - will collaborate and integrate with Acala. Building Acala - Oct 2020
BONDLY
📍 Bondly has reduced Circulating and Total Supply $BONDLY amounts and made changes to the community rounds. New token distribution methodology is described in the Bondly Transparency report.
📍 Bondly introduced Collectible Card Game (BCCG) - a fully digital, NFT based, collectible card game. Users will be able to purchase 1st Edition round of NFTs on Monday, November 2nd at UTC-4 (10 AM EST). Details.
PLASM
📍 Plasm offers extended support to developers (teams or individuals) that will build on Plasm - the The Plasm Grit Program. Read more and apply
PATRACT LABS
📍 Patract Labs reported on finishing development of the Elara v0.1, which will be an instant and scalable Polkadot API service. Treasury report. And put the next treasury proposal for Elara v0.2.
ROBONOMICS
📍 Robonomics announced its parachain auction strategy: Robonomics Parachain on Kusama first. Also Robonomics made calculations and estimated the 2-year slot lease in the Kusama network at $480,000, and $3,200,000 in the Polkadot network. Read Robonomics Parachain Lease Offering here.
SUBSOCIAL
📍 Subsocial launched a new feature: Transfer space ownership. Transfer ownership is a native feature of Subsocial blockchain, and this week a UI for it was created. One of the use cases can be a purchase or sale of a Space on Subsocial. Source.
PROMOTEAM
📍 Everyone is getting ready for the huge event: parachain auction. To be informed and prepared watch the video from PromoTeam. https://t.co/jU4iZDygiX?amp=1
POLKADOT NEWS
📍 Fresh story in our Medium blog "Short about: Crust Network". To make the story even shorter - infographics in the end!
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