Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. Oct 4 — Oct 10

Parachain auctions and crowdloans

Top 5 crowdloan participants by the 10th of October:

https://subvis.io/crowdloan

• After winning the 10th parachain auction, Parallel Heiko is now being onboarded as Kusama’s 11th parachain (10-auction winning parachains, plus Statemine).
• The 3rd batch of auctiones, starting from 11th one has been launched on the 6th of October.
• Kintsugi BTC is now leading in the 3nd batch of Kusama auction crowdloan.
• Short About: InterBTC & Kintsugi BTC. Read how it works!

Parity Technologies

Don’t miss Parity and Polkadot founder Gavin Wood interview with Protocol about the journey from Ethereum to Polkadot, his vision for the third iteration of the web, as well as why crypto and blockchain technology will prevail.

Polkadot/Kusama

October 13th join the Polkadot meetup in Korea to hear from Polkadot founder Gavin Wood and W3F’s Yusuke Obinata. Tune in to hear about the recent developments from the builders in the Polkadot ecosystem in Korea, and dive into all things. Register.

Astar/Shiden

• Sota Watanabe posted a proposal to list SDN (Shiden Network native token) on Karura Network Swap and open SDN/kUSD pair. Here.
• Shiden is the first Build2Earn protocol. On 4 october they launched the most important feature aka dApp staking on their testnet. Devs in the Shiden ecosystem can earn tokens while making their dApp and infrastructure. Learn more.
• Astar launched dApp staking to Shibuya (ShidenNetwork parachain testnet) for the community to test and projects to see the huge potential for building in the Astar Network ecosystem. Read more.
• In the coming days, Astar will publish their Polkadot crowdloan strategy. Since they won’t have any public sales, the crowdloan is the final and only opportunity to get $ASTR before the launch.
• DAOLaunch (an innovative IDO platform that bridges the gap between investors and startups) joins Astar/Shiden Builders Program. More information.
• Relay bridge is unlocking SHIDEN NETWORK in partnership with BoltswapDEX (coming soon — deployed by MoonSwapDEX). Bridge many tokens (+ SDN) between SHIDEN & Avalanche, Polygon, MoonriverNW. Learn more.

Moonbeam/Moonriver

• Ocean Protocol is now live on Moonriver.
• BandProtocol is now live on Moonriver.
• Moonbeam and KYVE Network team up to bring permanent data availability to Moonbeam and Moonriver. This integration will allow Moonbeam developers to easily store their data permanently, enabling higher scalability. Announcement.

HydraDX/Basilisk

Hydra’s Head of Research Colin presented a larger HydraDX vision at the Lisbon meetup. Now it’s up on YT for all Hydraheads to enjoy! Video.

Phala/Khala

Khala transfer function is open.

Khala Mining analytics board was launched.
You can clearly see:

• Over 15k servers are providing computation power to Khala Network.
• Worker mining rewards status.
• Trends for Web3 computation supply end.

Centrifuge/Altair

• Real World Assets: A Key Building Block for The Future of DeFi by helsfoftroy. Read here.
• Step 2 (State migration) of Altair Network Launch Process is scheduled to begin the week of October 11th. Balances & accounts from the CFG snapshot will be migrated onto the Altair parachain, including proxied and vesting accounts. Details.

RMRK

• Check out RMRKable Hacktoberfest by RmrkApp: 6 categories, including non-technical ones, $50,000 in prizes. Here.
• RMRK added downloadable dumps. These are big JSON files of the current RMRK1 and RMRK2 state that you can run analytics on any kind.
• You can now find all birds that hold a certain gem and are for sale. It has never been easier to hunt for gems. About.

Composable finance

• Composable Finance is rolling out additional incentives for people who stake in Picasso Crowdloan strategy. An additional 10% of Picasso’s native token (PICA) supply will be allocated to contributors, on top of the rewards that have been announced so far. More information.

Edgeware/Kabocha

• Edgeware Docs receive frequent updates. To see the latest on how to use the Polkadot Apps interface for EDG, stake, or more, check out the changelog page.

StaFi

• New vision StaFi forum has been launched, welcome to participate in the DAO governance of StaFi: Experience & Guide

New projects

Yuser

The first NFT social app

CheersLand

CheersLand is an expandable GameFi universe where anyone can monetize their gaming experiences and social networks,which is composed of multi-game combinations, Ranking List, Initial Gaming Offering, NFT Market, Multi-asset Staking Platform, etc.

Lambomoon Metaverse

Lambomoon Metaverse is an experimental NFT project, which is built on top of Moonbeam/Polkadot — a nextgen blockchain platform — and Unreal Engine 5.

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