Polkadot Ecosystem Weekly Digest. October 10th — 16th/2022
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3 min readOct 16, 2022
Polkadot / Kusama
- Congratulations to Bitgreen on winning Polkadot’s 29th parachain auction. The project is building a permissionless blockchain to bring together DeFi & Web3, with a focus on green projects, renewable energy tech, microfinance & impact investing.
- DAO IPCI has won the 55th Kusama auction. Its team provides users with the ability to allocate and manage environmental assets & liabilities through distributed ledgers stored in Blockchain.
- Uphold announced full Polkadot integration. Learn how to manage your DOTs, and check some of the Uphold’s features here.
- Messari has published the State of Polkadot Q3 2022 report.
- DOT is now integrated into Qredo, a radical new blockchain infrastructure that delivers interoperability, lightning-fast settlement, and decentralized custody.
Dock
- Dock has updated its roadmap page with a new UI, also improving the design to elaborate the details of the milestones.
Crust / Shadow
- Crust is pleased to announce its latest integration with Gear Technologies. This will provide developers in the Gear Ecosystem with a decentralized storage protocol for their own particular use case. Details.
Litentry / Litmus
- Litentry is considering a new inflation model. The proposal is in the discussion stage and votes will not take effect in on-chain execution. However, voting results & comments will be regarded while submitting a referendum.
Astar / Shiden
- Astar is introducing Tech Talks, giving its developer crowdcasts a new makeover.
- InsureDAO v2 is now live on Astar. Its infrastructure provides full-featured insurance services and can be easily integrated into any DeFi protocol.
Interlay / Kintsugi
- New HRMP channels have opened between Interlay and Astar Network, allowing native movement of the ASTR, INTR, and interBTC tokens between chains.
Centrifuge / Altair
- Centrifuge is now hiring for 3 different roles across Marketing, Design, and UI/UX.
Moonbeam / Moonriver
- BobaBeam, Boba Network’s multi-chain integration on Moonbeam, is live, bringing a new scaling solution to DApps deploying on the network, starting with Firefly Exchange. Learn more in this thread.
- Ren protocol now supports direct token transfers to & from Moonbeam for Ren assets, such as BTC & ETH.
- MintDAO, the digital NFT minting platform, has won the Connected Contracts Hackathon powered by Moonbeam.
- SubQuery’s course on how to build DApps became available on the Moonbuilders Academy. Developers can now learn how to leverage open, flexible, fast & universal data indexing to build DApps on Moonbeam.
Composable Finance / Picasso
- Composable Finance is presenting its 14th bi-weekly Dev Log, sharing all the latest updates.
Bit.Country / Pioneer
- The Bit.Country team has announced a 1.000 NEER giveaway.
- Bit.Country’s Telegram group was opened for chatting. Community members can now socialize, contribute and build the future of the Metaverse together.
- Bit.Country Pioneer v0.0.1.10 has been recently released.
- Xenoform Event: Bit.Country Raw Land Block Sale will take place on October 18th.
Manta / Calamari
- Manta is planning to get MantaPay launched on Calamari through the Trusted Setup.
Parallel Finance / Heiko
- USDT became available on Parallel Finance and Heiko Network.
- USDT/PARA and USDT/HKO LP Pairs are now live on Parallel and Heiko farms respectively. USDT Liquidity will also be incentivized on both Parallel & Heiko Money Market.
- Users are now able to bridge over their ACA, LDOT and lcDOT tokens onto Parallel ecosystem, starting to explore a new set of DeFi opportunities. Read more.
Equilibrium / Genshiro
- The Equilibrium Closed Beta campaign has ended. Winners will be determined by the last block. Equilibrium’s team requires some time to process the results, they will update the community as soon as possible.
RMRK
- SingularApp had an update, featuring plenty of bug fixes and improvements.
