Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. August 15th-21st/2022
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4 min readAug 21, 2022
Polkadot / Kusama
- “Green Bird’’ is a series of lectures on Polkadot, Kusama, and environmentally friendly projects in the ecosystem, organized by RMTerra & Polkadot ambassadors. Check out the next event to be held in Porto.
- DOT staking is now available at BinanceUS. Learn how to manage your DOTs, and start staking in minutes.
- What happened to Kusama in the first 6 months of 2022? Impressive numbers, featuring Moonwell, Karura, Bifrost and RMRK. Check out SubWallet’s Deep Dive report for more details on the entire ecosystem.
Acala / Karura
- Acala has published the results of tracing on-chain activity after the recent incident that lead to error minting of aUSD. Traces so far have identified 99% of the total error mints.
- A bounty of up to 5% will be offered to any party who returns at least 95% of total funds transferred out. Once returned, no further actions will then be taken towards these addresses regarding the funds transferred from Acala to Polkadot.
- Acala’s community can collectively formulate proposals following each trace report to resolve (mostly by burning) the erroneous minting of aUSD, and then gradually resume paused network operations.
Bifrost
- Bifrost is now supported on Fearless Wallet.
- Since Bifrost launched their Staking Liquidity Protocol, users have minted more than 175.000 vKSM. About 22% of these were minted in the last week, thanks to those who joined the RainbowBoost 3.0 Program.
- Bifrost is proud to announce the partnership with Blockdaemon, the leading independent blockchain node infrastructure. They will provide high-quality and stable performance Kusama validators for Bifrost’s first liquid staking derivative vKSM.
Litentry / Litmus
- Litentry is now supported on Fearless Wallet.
- 3 auction batches, 6-month coordination, >940k DOT raised, and Litentry finally secured a parachain slot. Dive into their crowdloan reward & compensation details.
OAK / Turing
- The TUR : MGX trading pair will launch on Aug 29th with 1,000,000 TUR & 10,000,000 MGX added to the bootstrap.
- The team at OAK Network announces bi-directional HRMP channels with Astar Network, Bifrost Finance, Mangata, and Crust Network on the Kusama relay chain.
Centrifuge / Altair
- If you participated in the first winning Altair crowdloan, then Bifrost may have something for you as part of its Rainbow Boost 3.0 campaign.
Astar / Shiden
- Hexa-Farming Campaign launch: 120k token reward promised (consisting of ASTR, AVAT, ASRW, SRS, ATID, and KGL). The first half will be directly distributed to all participants who join the Hexa-Farming Deposit Campaign, and the other half is reserved for all users who participate in the Gleam mission.
- Shiden opened a direct line to OAK Network. Builders on Shiden can now automate any extrinsic or smart contract function using OAK’s event-driven execution combined with cross-consensus messaging (XCM).
Interlay / Kintsugi
- Interlay proposes to open an XCM channel with Astar Network.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
- Moonbeam’s Connected Contracts Hackathon is now open to submissions.
- Etherspot, the smart wallet platform, is being integrated into Moonbeam. Developers on the network will have access to Etherspot’s SDK & its full suite of features, including P2P payment channels, multi-chain infrastructure and more.
- Moonbeam and Moonriver collator staking is now available on Fearless Wallet.
- Nova Wallet adds support for MOVR cross-chain transfers between some of the top chains on Kusama. Details.
Zenlink
- ZLK staking on Bifrost is back online and switched to long-term farming.
Composable Finance / Picasso
- Composable Finance is thrilled to announce the appointment of Eoin Whelan (a well-versed blockchain and crypto leader with experience operating, scaling, and raising capital in the DeFi sector) as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Bit.Country / Pioneer
- Bit.Country’s “100 Metaverses” competition update: the top 100 metaverses have been curated. To make the selection of the top 10 metaverses fairer, the winners will not be selected by Bit.Country’s team, but by team members of other parachains.
Parallel Finance / Heiko
- Parallel Governance Proposal Guideline is now available on Polkassembly.
- The HKO reward for the contributors of Heiko’s second crowdloan has been officially distributed. 100% of the reward will be linearly vested for 11 months. All vesting information is available here.
SORA
- SORA has announced the results of the first round of the DeFi Writing Contest. It is not too late to take part in it: share your DeFi and Substrate stories to win from the monthly 5000 XSTUSD prize pool.
Dock
- Dock is pleased to announce that users can now create and manage decentralized identifiers (DIDs) within their Dock Wallet app.