What is up my friends! What a week for live public engagement, as many within the Dotsama ecosystem got out there and opened up about the Web3 movement.

TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

The topic at the top of most of the community member’s minds this week, would likely be Dr. Gavin Wood and a selection of Dotsama teams presenting at the World Economic Forum 2022 in Davos.

In particular “The Big Technology Podcast” interview with Gavin really stood out, check out Pnin’s excellent summary article on it, where there is even an embedded link to the recording.

The interview had some sound insightful views on Social Contracts and how existing Social Networking is handling our data. Gavin explains that Web3 is a proposition of a technology stack that can solve this. As it allows us to have consolidated data (without individuals that can just look at it), and in turn, run algorithms on it if everyone collectively agrees. Additionally, there would be options to opt-out your data before the algorithm is run, and also transparency if you are being paid to include your data.

The topic of Social graphs was also covered in the “What Will it Take to Build a Better Web?” session with Gavin and Frank McCourt (Entrepreneur and former owner of the LA Dodgers), where they get into Project Liberty. This project provides an open-source public infrastructure solution, which they label as Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DNSP).

There were many fantastic sessions held by the teams, here is just a list of a few of them:

“One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Why Multichain Is the Future of Blockchain” featuring Moonbeam (Derek Yoo), Kilt (Ingo Rübe), and Efinity (Oscar Franklin Tan).
“Fighting the Climate Crisis: How Web3 Is Solving Some of the World’s Biggest Challenges” featuring Energy Web (Jesse Morris).
“Limitless Future-Proofing: How Any Blockchain Use Case Can Be Built With Polkadot” featuring OriginTrail (Žiga Drev), Robonomics (Sergei Lonshakov), and Bit.Country (Chris Carmona).

As per the tweet by Peter Mauric, Polkadot owned it at Davos!

Whilst not everyone could have attended the live engagements at Davos, there was the opening of the Kusamaverse that was more accessible. Whilst there you can float around and explore the different spaces, hi-five some of your fellow community members, or even grab a table and have a chat.

Just like Davos there are also a number of live sessions being held by various teams within the ecosystem. The experience is quite profound, for instance, you could have joined a live session with Councilor Raul and asked him questions on the spot about governance. Such as, can governance work without a council? Or, how to prevent whales from dominating the vote?

Do make sure to check it out, and do look for the calendar to see when various teams will host a session. More details about the Kusamaverse can be found in the recent Kusamarian video.

Speed Reading

Nitty Gritty

Darwinia Network has officially launched LCMP. The Light-Client Messaging Protocol is designed to support interoperability between Polkadot, Kusama, and external networks in the most secure way possible.
Other Darwinia news with HRMP channels open between Crab Parachain and Karura.
InvArch partners up with RMRK. Totally makes sense given RMRK’s evolutionary NFTs and the profound impact on IP. Additionally, they have deployed a permanent and unincentivized testnet called Brainstorm. Up until now, the team has implemented: IP token sub-assets, IP licensing on-chain permission, and on-chain permissions like a DAO. Here is a guide on how to operate Brainstorm testnet.
DOT/USDC pair now available on OKX. Might be useful with all the stable pools coming to the DeFI protocols within Dotsama.
Parallel announces NFT functionality – where users can now leverage against NFTs.
Oak Network and Imbue announce an exciting partnership - building an automated notifications solution into the Imbue platform.
In preparation for Polkadot NA Hackathon, there was a community call (crowdcast). Here are some notes:

1 - many new projects joined with bounties, in addition to the originally posted ones. Up to 560k+ USD prizes in total 2 - pathways were updated, and there's swag for the top 100 participants 3 - collaboration is encouraged if you are "solo-hacking" 4 - it's possible to participate with a project that was funded by the treasury but you'd have to participate with new features and only they would be evaluated for the hackathon.

Huge for adoption, as Social-Media Disruptor Project Liberty to Run on Polkadot. This media article provides the following statement from Gav: “Web 3.0 needs a universally accessible social graph to be successful, as the Web 2.0 social giants currently have absolute control over what users can say or do on their platforms”.
Gelato Ops is now live on Moonbeam Network. Gelato is a decentralized network of bots for automating smart contract executions. Users of Gelato include EVM compatible blockchain ecosystems such as MakerDAO, PancakeSwap, QuickSwap, and many more. Here is documentation on how to set up and manage smart contract automation using Gelato Ops.
Snowbridge, the upcoming Polkadot-Ethereum bridge is now busy testing on Rococo.
AstridDAO partners with Microsoft. AstridDAO is a decentralized money market and the issuer of an Astar native stablecoin called BAI. Microsoft will provide very exclusive support, as well as benefits worth up to $350K.
Manta’s Dolphin Testnet v2 Live and will provide an incentivized testnet for Manta and Calamari. Resources to get you going incude v2 Introduction/New Features, Walkthrough Guide, Airdrop Campaign, Feedback Form, and Documentation.
An interesting development as Klaytn collaborates with Parity with building a Substrate chain that links into both Polkadot and its existing mainnet. Klaytn is a well-established blockchain in South Korea (KR). Metaverse, gaming, and entertainment are its primary use-cases, however, they also support Defi applications. They have deep ties with Kakao (one of the largest internet companies in KR), and Bank of Korea. The decision to build on Substrate is seen as a future-proofing move. As the Modular building approach without hardforks will provide a great path to unlock future development potential, as well as interoperability, scalability, and expansion into alternative ecosystems. They will initially look to utilize the substrate implementation as a Canary network, to battle test new developments. Additionally, there will be opportunities to port over existing applications to and from both Klaytn and Polkadot.
Looks like WASM contracts coming soon to Shiden.
Energy Web released an update on ElectraFlex, the world's first decentralized flexibility platform for distributed system operator (DSO). There are a number of regional renewable energy players with industry-specific synergies working with Energy Web on this. This includes electric vehicle charging (here is a short video demonstrating a test-run. Electric cable manufacturing, with integration taping into demand aggregation software platform, optimizing its energy consumption for production lines. Solar and storage companies deploying s gateway to allow compliant inverters to be onboarded to build a flexible market ecosystem.
Bitcoin Suisse provides vault custodial support for Centrifuge, bridging real-world assets.
Crust has launched the “Grow To Earn” is an Open Community Program. The approach is to empower the community to make decisions, encourage active participation, and collectively grow & flourish together. Once membership is obtained, there are a number of guilds that you can be involved with, each with different bounty incentives. Here is an article that provides more details, including how to partake.
Equilibrium opens headquarters in Lisbon. Here is an article that explains the many benefits.
Centrifuge partners with Flowcarbon to streamline carbon credit process.
A partnership is brewing between Astar Degens and a partnering company to bring a new P2E game called STARVERSE. The DAO will enter a partnership and: support by fundraising and spreading on social media. earn 1% of token sales. with a chance to purchase an additional 2% later. POC game launch and name of Partner to be announced next week.
@Ozgan-Ozerk created an article that provides a deep dive into proof of work.
@DrCao still coming up with the goods (educational videos) even though he got his final exams. This week he covers: an update with opportunities on various Dotsama chains, Astar specific news on Microsoft and Free reward for SEOR test campaign, a tutorial on claiming EQ, and a tutorial on sending/setting up Astar or DOT from Polkadot to Astar Network EVM (MetaMask).
@GaterKorps does a sound interview with Marvin Tong at the Blockdown Conference, it covers all things Phala, including some details on CypherMod.
@Blinkin putting out some content, with a Dotsama lifestyle tone, as he covers his thoughts on Gav speaking at Davos, thoughts on BTC & KSM with charts, and some perspective on investing.
Pnin does an excellent summary of Gavin Wood's interview at Davos 2022 on "The Big Technology" podcast.
@Pitcoin created a tweet with a self-explanatory infographic covering Astar’s highlights for May.
How about having a go at some WagMemes. Here’s is a collage of the ones we can show:

And only if you want to, then you can spend hours creating a WagMasterpiece!

Crowdloan Updates

Congratulations to Listen Network for winning the 37th Kusama parachain slot (36th auction). Contributions were 23,975 KSM, from 215 contributors. (NOTE: 3rd party contribution breakdown to be confirmed).
Nodle Network has successfully migrated to the Polkadot Parachain on 23 May 2022. The Crowdloan NFTs (NodleX) drop will happen around Q3 2022 and more details will be announced separately. Once the parachain is fully active, the intention is to proceed with: allowing third parties to run collator nodes, introduce decentralized governance, and opening cross-chain channels with other parachains.
INTR token claim for contributors through parallel Bifrost and Equilibrium.
@DrCAO provides a helpful video on how to claim Equilibrium (EQ) crowdloan rewards and check the balance on Polkadot.js.

What's in Your Wallet?

Nova Wallet supporting more and more tokens with PDEX (on its Solochain), and ACA, aUSD, LDOT (on Parallel) & MOVR, PHA, GENS (on Heiko) respectively.
Talisman provides some useful features given the current market conditions. You now hide your balances, or you can view the total portfolio across all accounts.
Astar Dapps and transfers now work on Nova Wallet. The community can continue to use Nova Wallet for a fantastic experience accessing Astar services on iOS/Android.

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

Playback the spaces recording from May 23rd, with SubQuery hosting Acala and Imbue to talk about stablecoin use-cases in the ecosystem.
Did you manage to attend the Everloot pre-launch AMA hosted on their discord on May 24th?
Tech and the future of Democracy session recording from Polkadot web3 hub at Davos2022. There was some interesting discussion on media, and the use of blockchain for information sharing.
R/cryptocurrency on Reddit held a space focusing on Polkadot (W3F) with Bill Laboon as a guest speaker on May 23rd
Did you catch Darwinia’s Friday AMA. Their guest for May 27th is Invarch founder Dakota Barnett
The great man on stage at Davos. Here is a link.
Dotsama Prague is around the corner. Did you buy your tickets?
Peaq Network co-founder Leonard Dorlochter will join Philipp Sandner (Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center) and Sebastian Borek (Founding Partner of Peruya) on stage at Hinterland of Things 2022 Conference to discuss Web3 and the chances of a decentralized society. The conference this year will be held in Bielefeld - the heart of the Germany Mittelstand on 1 June 2022.
Evolution Land does their weekly stream. With the guest on May 28th being IAMYOU.

Translating Dotsama

Some excellent translations and non-English original creations, which you may find fitting to share with family, friends, and neighbors around the world.

@Pitcoin working hard withhis Portuguese translations on all things Astar. This week featuring: Astar Network between EVM and Substrate, Partnership between AstridDAO & Microsoft, DOT Festival, and The New Nomination Transfer Feature For Dapp Staking. He also decided to some Moonbeam content too for the Portuguese community, with a video on Staking Moonbeam, and a video covering Farming on Solarflare.
@Panegali continues to impress his with Portuguese translations. This week's batch include: Polkadot Pioneers Prize & Child Bounties, Joining the Council, and How to Optimize Yield Farming on Polkadot.
@G’expectChaos creates a helpful French language article covering numerous Astar news, introductions, and tutorials.
@guokai created various Chinese language Dotsama content around an interesting storyline.
@Daredevil continues with German language translation covering an overview of RMRK’s NFT 2.0.
@LV creates an excellent video in Spanish, where he talks about Governance NVTs.

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

Did you see Evrloot's teaser video, with the eagerly anticpated mint happening on May 29th. Also, check out the thread on how Class missions work on Evrloot – ranges from skills to crafting, and maintenance. There are currently 3 out of 5 types of classes announced: Berserker, Alchemist, and Ranger. Actions on-chain can determine rewards from the mission. Also, here is a thread with more details on the Tech behind Evrloot
There is special migration raffle for people who migrate Elements of Kusama soul bound EGG’s before the 23.05. 00:00 MEZ.
Astar Witches mints soon (29th May 13:00 UTC for WL and the same time next day for Public). Here is a nice thread with an awesome infographic about the collection. To further add, the artwork is done by Dice, who did the stunning “Kusama Girls, To the Moon” collection.
Did you know that Kucollection looking at Q3 for hatching?
Weekly roundup of new items from the Archiverse collection: new limited Maze item, new rare Vinyl item, and er Cannabis item. Also, check out their banner giveaway battle.
Skybreach news this week: Land discount vouchers were minted and distributed to qualified Kanaria holders. Address checker for Whitelist and Land credits went live on the Skybreach app. And did you see the awesome video explaining Harberger land tax for Skybreach?
DPS drop some information on their discord. 200 GEN 1 NFTs mints can be bought with $doubloons by auctions. Free Mints possibleby generating $RUM.
Donnie announces a pre-mint for EXO, here is the tweet, he mentions enrapture and SBTs. Also EXO pre-mint entry for DPS.
New collaboration between DPS and Kusama Dragons, with a discord giveaway of Dragon Eggs for the DPS community. Mind you those eggs minted out very quickly.
Awesome images from PhalaWorld, check out the X-Gene, and Marvin also put out some sneak peeks. And if you missed out on the PhalaWorld WL, then here is an article you might want to read if you own a Kanaria, Chaos Dao or Kusama King/Queen.
Community member @DarkSpark who is a hardcore PhalaWorld follower provides us some nice insights into the project: Spirit NFT will be soul bound to your wallet and will be non-transferable - it will collect on-chain & off-chain data and your EXP will be determined from there. Shell NFT will be your visual appearance in PhalaWorld and will be tradable. You will need both NFTs to play.
Wow check out the awesome video from Neon Crisis “blood is cheap”!
Big news for NFT artists as DeviantArt is coming to Moonbeam/Moonriver. DeviantArt is the world’s largest online art community and can provide the tech that safeguards NFT art. Using AI, it can identify potential art infringements and in turn alert users, as well as send takedown requests to NFT marketplaces.
If you missed Moonriver Quest 2, then you still have another chance with an interesting singing task.
Did you know Moonsama and Subsocial = Pondsama social network? Also, check out this link to find out the meaning of this $hit.
Exciting developments as you can now connect a MOVR EVM address on Singular.
Unique Network has added the ability to on-ramp crypto to wallets using credit cards via Ramp. Here is the link, once there you can select “Get” to do it.
Royal Planet Neo Dino x Dinos airdropping on May 31st. Whilst Planet Neo Guardian Dinosaurs are also on their way!
The Canary Network Agency has just published its first article, here is a link.
@CryptoX creates a thread that provides us with insights into Buddies NFT collection.
This is how you do AMA write-ups, here is EvrLoot AMA summary by Pnin.
Csaint created a fantastic recap thread on MovrPlace. It is a project from Neon Crisis, and was created to give a chance for people to doodle on the blockchain (MOVR) in the name of charity. He also wrote a nice complementary article on MovrPlace, here is the link.
@Pitcoin puts out a brief tweet covering official quests in Skybreach.

For broader news on NFTs in Web3 follow RMRK’s weekly NFT update.

Want to know sooner about Dotsama NFTs? Daily RMRK Updates courtesy of MARIO.

NOTE: MARIO was off for the week.

DeFI

Acala’s aUSD gets a mention in Fortune magazine (feature on UST collapse), with a statement from Bette on overcollateralized stablecoin.
Acala and Composable announce partnership that officially integrates aUSD into the Composable Ecosystem. This will start with both teams respective Kusama chains Picasso and Karura opening up XCM channels. It represents further adoption of Acala’s overcollateralized stablecoin aUSD, and provides the stable asset that is required to support Composable’s cross-chain DeFI- protocols. The integration is also an opportunity for DeFI developers from other ecosystems that use CosmWasm (such as Cosmos and Terra) to focus on an alternative stablecoin via Composable’s XCVM.
Composable announce Unchained, a conference for cross-chain DeFi. Additionally, it will build up to the public unravling of Composable's XCVM, with a live demo and hackathon.
Did you see the “Multiply “feature added for Karura for iOS mobile app?
Two of Astar’s protocols Sirus Finance and AstridDAO have partnered, and have begun a $BAI stablecoin feast. $BAI is an Astar Network native decentralized stablecoin issued by AstridDAO. Sirus Finance is a stablecoin AMM on Astar Network. There is the potential for some high APR, by supplying $BAI liquidity into the 4Pool on Sirus Finance, and in turn, stake the LP and earn high farming rewards (was at approximately 00:00 UTC on May 23rd just under 900%).
Transak's integration with Stellaswap incoming. It will provide a simple way of buying Moonbeam's $GLMR token or Polkadot's $DOT. Useful if you want to use fiat and don't have the token listed on your regular accessible exchange(s). You can also try out some DeFI opportunities on Stellaswap with these tokens.
Zenlink announce their batch of farms in cycle 7. Do migrate your LP tokens to the new pool to keep earning.
Equilibrium integrating Parallel. They will start with $HKO token on Genshiro, and then later extend $PARA token to Equilibrium once the parachain is launched. To celebrate there is a gleam giveaway of $EQ tokens.
Dot Finance providing yield aggregation products on Moonbeam and Moonriver. They seem to be similar to beefy.finance for dotsama
Did anyone catch the Taiga/Tapio Community Call on May 26th? Here is the recording. Key things covered are: details about the soon to be launched 3pool (USDT/aUSD/USDC) on Karura; a potential optimal strategy for KSM that includes taiKSM, aUSD, and the 3pool; briefing on tDOT, which is their first synthetic asset on Polkadot via their Tapio implementation on the Acala Network; and finally Airdrops for the taiKSM liquidity incentive program will be expected no later than the end of next week.

Governance

Feel free to join the Governance Participation Rewards Kusama discord channel and play a role in shaping these dope NFTs.
Check your wallets as Referendum 195, 196, 197, and 198 were distributed. Did you manage to get any Epic ones?
Kusama Referenda 201 was up for voting. It's linked to the proposal about ongoing Kusama documentation and video tutorials. For educating the community on democracy, especially given all the changes. However, Chaos could be delayed?
Curation proposal on Singular RmrkApp from Substraknights for their Substraknights 2.0 collection. Vote if you have some $RMRK token on Statemine to get the Kusamarauders featured.
Kusama Referenda 202 was up for voting. It’s voting on a runtime upgrade, with one of the new additions being nomination pools, which may help with attracting staking
Moonriver referendum is up - for HRMP channel to Darwinia Crab network and to register CRAB token as an xc asset.
Referendum on Moonbeam governance to open a channel to Parallel and register xcPARA.

Rumors & Alpha

Do Your Own Research! These finds are unconfirmed alpha in Dotsama

Some Skybreach alpha from Bruno at Blocksplit.

Beginner’s Guide

New to Polkadot? Or maybe you have some friends who keep coins on a CEX but haven't become a part of a community yet? Share this with them to get them started! It will be updated weekly with new content and is open for changes. Feel free to leave a comment and I'll add content that's needed.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Dotsama

Another mind-blowing week! Our WagMedia discord is the primary source for most of the content in this newsletter – thanks a ton fam! These are just the highlights, for more in-depth news join the discord and get incentivized to learn more about the ecosystem and provide news, alpha, and content to us all. As always, I’m open to feedback and I hope you find this helpful. Looking forward to yet another week of exponential growth in the DotSama ecosystem.

What is WagMedia?
WagMedia Discord.
Jay Chrawnna’s The Kusamarian channel provides us all with extremely entertaining updates on everything DotSama. Here is the playback listing of the past week:

Subsquid, Blockchain Middleware, & Off-chain Data Management w/ Dima Zhelezov - Space Monkeys 046
Kusamaverse - A Metaverse for Building and Getting Stuff Done. - SER, Have ya' Heard?
Crypto Stories Shaping Behaviour and Building the Future - SER, Have ya' Heard?
Bifrost and Crosschain Staking and Crowdloan Liquidity w/ Tyrone and Thibault - Space Monkeys 047
Web 3 Fragmented Liquidity and Solutions with Polkadot & Kusama - SER, Have ya' Heard?
Polkadot in Davos, aUSD Supreme, Parallel, RMRK NFTs, & Moonsama - SER, Have ya’ Heard?
Neon Crisis: RMRK NFTs Connect with Shared Experiences - SER, Have ya' Heard?

Tips appreciated

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DotSama at Davos (May 22nd - May 28th)