The Consensus is DotSama! (June 5th - June...

What is up, my friends! With the end of Batch 3 Polkadot auctions, we now see many parachains coming alive and producing blocks. As you may have already wagged, many of these teams have put out concrete details on their roadmaps, which include those eagerly-awaited crowdloan token distributions.

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TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

As summarized last week, “all roads leading to DotSama”, with the glut of events and teams on the road, most of the parachain teams are attending in-person events in different parts of the world.

Dotsama Prague started the week with the immense one-day session in the beautiful Jatka78 theatre. The event was hosted by the KodaDot team and was part of the Prague GM Blockchain industry event.

Representatives from a diverse range of the DotSama ecosystem turned up. The agenda was jam-packed with talks from Centrifuge, SubstraKnights, KodaDot, Nodle, Astrid DAO, Interlay, Subsquid, Pendulum, Acala, Talisman, Astar, and Bifrost.

If you didn’t manage to make it, here is the live stream recording. Also worth noting is that some alpha was dropped about Talisman and EVM, which was met with cheers in both the room as well as on the WagMedia discord.

Then there is Consensus 2022 in Austin, which is one of the most significant events on the industry calendar. This officially kicked off in the second half of the week, although a number of linked events also took place earlier and in parallel within the city.

Overall a good number of the DotSama teams participated, with the closeout of all the festivities on Sunday.

So starting the week was Dcentral, which is a more focused mix of booths, workshops, and talks covering NFT, GameFi, and DAOs with DeFi. In particular, the talks featured Composable, Darwinia, Invarch, Kilt, and Manta.

Working the Consensus booths were Crust, Moonbeam, Oak, Parallel, and Phala, with the merch to hand out. Whilst in the background there was Oak hosting a live podcast with Subquery, Moonbeam, and Parity.

Phala also kept busy, as they decided to sponsor the Encode hackathon. Whilst Darwinia plans a live broadcast.

Finally, taking to the Consensus stages were Acala, Composable, Kilt, Litentry, Moonbeam, Parity, Phala, and Unique. With all this going on, we believe that the Consensus is DotSama!

Speed Reading

Some quick messages from the Treasuries

Astar are thrilled to announce the winner of Astar's first NFT pitch contest. The grand contest prize winner goes to Astar Sign Witch, who provided a sophisticated unique character work as well as pitch design. The most viewed prize goes to StarCards, with an impressive 5750 views on Youtube. A prize of $4,000 USD and $1,000 USD worth of $ASTR will be awarded to the teams respectively.
Moonbeam had a few items on the calendar to let you know about, did you attend Moonbeam Polkadot Hackathon, Multi-chain Sessions featuring SubWallet, or Moonbeam Universe featuring MyTrade Team.
The Moonbeam Foundation & Arrington Capital have announced the launch of a new $100 million ecosystem fund dedicated to supporting projects building on Moonbeam Network
Moonbeam has been awarded a grant by the Web3 Foundation for the development of a Substrate-based custom parachain staking pallet.

Nitty Gritty

Arrington Capital has come up with a $100 Million dollar fund to help build up the Moonbeam ecosystem.
Entropy with a new immaculate look, and also securing $25 million USD funding with prominent backers including Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase Ventures.
Energy Web announced a new Behind the Scenes Series where it's core team members as well as some of their recent developments. Additionally, they have their token listed on P2PB2B exchange.
ICE / SNOW Network introduced ICED Grants Developer Program, a dedicated program that aims to grow SNOW and ARTIC developer community for core infrastructure projects.
Moonbeam Monthly Dispatch: May 2022 is out. Recap, xcDOT, the first cross-chain channel between Moonbeam and Acala, the big unlock, collator updates, Moonriver Para ID swap, XCM between Khala and Moonriver, Uniswap V3, Lido's liquid staking of DOT, and notable new dApps/projects onboarded.
Part 2 of “The Astar Vision” covers Asset Diversity Through XCM dApps and Smart Contracts
Projects working under the Astar Builders or Incubation Program can now get access to AWS Active Program. This will give project teams access to up to 100K USD of AWS usage credits, as well as special access to AWS technical support and mentoring.
Anima decentralized Identity (DID) is now live on Moonbeam, allowing DAPPs built on Moonbeam to create theirs on Anima that can be leveraged on Synaps as reusable/persistent KYC. Since there is DEX on Moonbeam, this flavor of KYC could prove very useful, especially as regulatory oversight intensifies.
Phala’s SubBridge now supporting Bifrost and Zenlink.
Some new relations between Chainlink and DotSama, as Chainlink comes to Crust.
KSM will soon be on Robonomics as channels will be open, following testing on Rococo.
Now here is a very good article comparing XCMP and IBC created by the Interchain Foundation (who are an authority in the COSMOS ecosystem).
Pendulum receives a Web3 Grant for delivering its first milestone of Spacewalk, which is a bridge to Stellar. The bridge is based on XCLAIM and interBTC framework, as Stellar is not Smart contract compatible. This milestone creates a Substrate pallet that will allow any Polkadot/Kusama/Substrate-based (para)chain to adopt the bridge. Further milestones cover the vaults and oracle.
Pocket Network (POKT) now comes to Moonbean and Moonriver. As per the tweet from Polka Häus, it will extend to other parachains soon.
KMA, the native token of Calamari Network, is available for use on Moonriver as xcKMA via XCM integration.
Dr. Gavin Wood was supposedly booked to appear on Bankless, however, this doesn’t look like going ahead.
RMRK and now xcRMRK are available on Kucoin. Should make land auctions for Skybreach easier.
xcCRAB now to Moonriver. And here is the Darwinia article that goes into it.
Watch Bitgreen's CEO, Adam Carver, in the panel session at Davos 2022 exploring how blockchain technology can drive green innovation and sustainability. Bitgreen aims to build blockchain infrastructure for ESG and sustainability, driving capital markets into green growth projects. One of its goals is to raise S$1 trillion for sustainability projects in 10 years. Bitgreen is built on Polkadot and supplies high-quality tokenized carbon offsets to parachains and dApps throughout the Dotsama ecosystem.
Kilt provides an overview of w3n (web3name), covering how it differs from "existing name services" (e.g.: ENS), which is another well-known web3 identity approach - the former is a Digital Identifier (DID) and the latter is a represented address. The DID approach can potentially provide a more powerful proposition, as it can be chain & ecosystem agnostic. You can link multiple things to it, such as different chain addresses. Furthermore, it can be enhanced with digital credentials such as Kilt’s SocialKYC.
Robonomics' XCM integrations coming as they have submitted an off-chain governance proposal to Karura's Discourse. They have also released version 2.0.0 of the Robonomics Node implementation, which includes XCM functionality
Composable Labs announces posting a proposal to Near’s governance platform to bring Polkadot to Near via their IBC trustless bridge solution that utilizes light clients. Learn more about the proposal here.
Dr. Shelven Zhou (Tech & Research Lead at Phala) provides a recap of Fat Contracts, which he presented at the WASM conference. The material provides a great insight into understanding this core Phala technological development.
Subquery branching into Cosmos through Juno Network. Looks like Cosmos and Polkadot interaction is coming in quickly with CosmWasm adoption cc Composable!
Relation Labs announced a collaboration with 4EVERLAND on social graph data storage (for on-chain footprints such as group chat records, NFT assets, and websites), supporting Relation users in exploring Web3 social networks. Relation aims to build a multi-chain decentralized Web3 social graph that empowers users to create and realize their social graph value.
Peaq Network's co-founder, Leonard Dorlochter had a Subsquid AMA with Andy Houston to discuss how Peaq network aims to become Polkadot's interoperable machine economy hub by enabling dApps to be built for machines and empowering both builders and users to participate in value creation and governance through DeFi and Machines NFTs.
Moonbeam was awarded a web3 grant to develop a "Substrate-based custom parachuting staking wallet" in order to improve the rewards system for collators and delegators
Nodle is extending its reach via TikTok. If you use it, you could consider submitting some entries via gleam to win some tokens.
Interlay staking is live, tokens can be staked for up to 192 weeks for some impressive APY
AssetDIDs is a new service on Kilt. DID ownership of physical and digital assets can be managed. The use cases are very diverse.
Aaaaaand, if you’re at consensus don’t forget to get some Phala swag.
Check out SubQuery May 2022 Recap. A full-on month with the second phase of Frontier Testnet being completed, Public sale expression of Interest, Avalance testnet support added, serve Terra by opened Indexing Protocol (prior to the Terra UST crash), Hackathons, and grants, Partnerships with NFTmart and Imbue.
Class touch as Nova Wallet have a present for Polkadot builders, UX/UI designers, artists
Registration for the second brainstorm community workshop for InvArch is live.
Energy Web Biweekly Recap covers Davos session by CEO Jesse Morris blockchain fight climate crisis, updates on Electra Claldense project with ElectraFlex to grow grid flexibility markets, LAB by Energy Web providing a community-focused platform to get started in the ecosystem, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Report discussing Exelon utility partnership and how it supports transactive energy market.
@daveydoo made a video on XCM, which provides a brief explanation of it.
@blinkinchaos showing us the way, this week he covers the following: first carnage outing (with his son), curve finance on Moonbeam, awesome beefy finance, Uniswap v3 coming to Moonbeam, Speculation on Cryptos classification, recent events got him thinking, Moonbeam/Arrington Capital move, looking at the BTC chart, staying in crypto.
@BitchTits releases another excellent installment of Dotsama TV, this time covering Imbue.
@Bapt15ta provides us a Weekly recap of the Moonbeam/Moonriver eco, June Movr DeFi scene, and a look into Stellaswap.
@pitcoin creating some English language content check out “Seeking lcDOT alpha”, “the Exosama world”, and then a thread on “Why WASM is the future of smart contracts?”
Time for some Wagception - check out the tweet by Pnin!
@GatorKorps interview of Marvin Tong part 2 in English language with French and Italian subtitles.
@DrCao continues to create educational videos. This week he covers: Crowdloan update, Governance NFTs, My Crypto Profile, CPI with respect to Crowdloans, claiming Nodle tokens, Apostle Arena within Evolution Land, and June Ecosystem update. Additionally, he created some articles covering the Responsible Financial Innovation Act and June ecosystem update.
@kryptoschain shares some of his awesome videos, this week posting Imbue Crowdloan, Pendulum & Amplitude, Skybreach Land sales, and how to stake turing tokens.
@Halaster provides us with his weekly MOVR recap.
Ikhaled created a useful guide on How to Stake your $TUR tokens.
@DJHàTrang created a nice thread on What is XCM & how applicable is it?
@kermit creates a thread on the key features of DotSama with links to relevant resources
@Seppy created a thread on how to Kusama to educate newbies.
@usafmike with a quick video on how to bond more TUR. Staking ops aren't super easy for the average user just yet.

Crowdloan Updates

Congratulations to Kabocha for winning the 39th Kusama parachain slot (38th auction). Contributions were 12,644 KSM, from 478 contributors, plus you could get those Kabocha seeds.
Check your wallets, if you contributed to the Interlay Crowdloan via Bifrost, as they have handed out some extra BNC.
Also, if you didn’t know, Bifrost’s Polkadot parachain is live. A roadmap update is coming soon.
Interlay Airdrop of INTR for Polkadot crowdloan contributors is live, Visit their dapp https://app.interlay.io/ to claim rewards.
Pendulum Kusama Canary (called Amplitude) is now appearing with a waitlist for the auction. You click and sign-up to the waitlist, and earn bonuses via referrals and quests. Here’s a medium article about the waitlist and crowdloan details.
Breaking News: InvArch will Launch their Tinkernet Crowdloan for Kusama at the 42nd Auction slot (June 29th). One interesting thing is that they do a vote for fixing the Crowdloan Hardcap, right now the cap is at 20,000 KSM and the vote is up on Twitter.
Nodle has provided a guide to their token vesting. This should provide some clarity on whether you participated in the crowdloan or one of the private sale rounds. Additionally, token claim instructions are provided.

What's in Your Wallet?

New networks have been just added to Nova Wallet including Bifrost (Polkadot), OTP, Litentry, Dora, and Unique.
Hooray! Big milestone achieved as 50 Polkadot ecosystem networks supported in Nova Wallet!
MOVR & GLMR Staking is available on Android devices and also on IOS devices via Nova Wallet. Enjoy super easy & powerful on-chain staking on Moonbeam & Moonriver networks
Mangata X is now available in Nova Wallet
SubWallet now supporting XCM transfer on the following chains: Moonbeam, Moonriver, Acala, Karura, and Kintsugi.
Parallel Wallet is coming soon.
Talisman were looking to speak with wallet users in the Polkadot ecosystem, to learn about how they can improve their awesome wallet.

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

It is still not too late to register for Decoded the biggest Polkadot event this year
Did you attend Taiga Community Call on June 10th to find out more about 3Pool?
Polkadot Hackathon - Bifrost workshop recording from June 3rd:
Astar Network hosted AMA with Starfish Finance on June 9th on their discord
Dotsama Prague happened on June 7th. And here is the stream.
Astar Network hosted AMA with Sirius Finance on June 8th on their discord
REIMAGINE V.13 was an event that took place on June 8th. It covered Polkadot, Parachains, and Interoperability.
Leo the co-founder of Zenlink does an AMA on June 10th
Sota Watanabe, recording "Why Web Assembly Matters in Polkadot" and "Why Astar Network believes WASM will be the future of smart contracts" at #WASM Conference 2022 hosted by our friends from Super Colony.
Register now for Astar Network's event on Crowdcast, scheduled on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at 8:00 am MDT.
Kilt is covering Blockchain & Digital Identity for Government & Enterprises, in association with APSCA “Identity India” at a live event in India on July 7th.
Replay Darwinia AMA with NovaWallet on spaces on June 10th
Twitter Spaces Astar Network with AstridDAO discussing DOT Festival 2 June 13th
Darwinia duo Bree and Dustin LIVE at Consensus 2022, June 12th at 15:30 UTC, broadcasting on Youtube.

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 continues to provide his Portuguese translations on all things Astar. This week features: Astar Vision part 2, AWS partnership, why WASM, Dot fest 2, Avault ISO.
@guokai continues to rapidly output various Chinese language Dotsama content with his own unique storyline entertainment space, and blockchain education space (topics covered this week include Dot versus EOS, XC-20, and NFTs). He also has a subsocial space where he provides "Polkadot for Beginners" Chinese translations.
@daveydoo, shows us he can also do translations, and dropped the complete Polkadot guide booklet by gbaci in Spanish.
@yamneBLVCK provides us with an Italian language translation of Mangata X Algorithmic Buy & Burn.
@LV created an entertaining little video in the Spanish language defining some key concepts of RMRK technology.

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

RMRK released a doc about their "Global Item Economy" that states how RMRK standard NFTs can be used across different collections, metaverses, and chains and also offer the option to equip NFTs to arbitrary others. They also provide details on Conditional Rendering.
Exiled Racers Public Mint closed. Around 60% of the allocation in the first phase was minted. The team is now working on building a voting tool to determine what to do with the remaining 40%, which revolves around burning and adding some to the treasury for future racing prize pools. The vote is expected to happen before the pilot's reveal.
Looks like 1/1 of creations from DotSama artists will be supported by Pondsama and their work with Momentum.
Astar Web3 Domains are looking to support emojis.
Sneak preview of the upcoming UI overhaul of the DPS site - ya may wanna turn on the volume!
Evrloot rewarded early holders. Just a while back they sent warrior souls to full book holders (book of lore which needs to equip all 10 pages) and lost souls for incomplete book holders. On the 15th of July, all unclaimed Genesis Souls will be burnt and removed from circulation.
A beautiful emerging game/NFTt project has made its first Singular sale within minutes. Materia Prima is a board game that is quietly entering the NFT space. Very little is known, but the art is breathtaking and the lore is dreamy. They also are dropping "very limited" Element Gems NFTs before their main NFT launch. The first one was sniped pretty quickly.
Astar Sign Witch an NFT collection on Astar (which recently sold out), is planning on dropping Witch Loot on Optimism – here’s a sneak peek. Also, check out an interview with Dice, designer of Astar Sign Witch.
NFT partnership in the Astar space as Astar Ghost partners with Astar Robots.
Check out the Referral program, for Skybreach land sales. You need to have at least 10 land points. Purchasing common land is 1 point, rare land is 3 points, and epic lands are 5 points each. Every sale with the referral link will credit you 5% of land value in xcRMRK.
Canary Network Agency dropping some alphas, such as every NFT has its own unique in-game character.
KU Eggs from the Ku Collection are hatching soon.
Youtube Video of Bruno's talk at Blockdown on CypherMod. Really interesting use case. In short, they are working with PhalaWorld to bring the substrate of metaverses. A tooling kit for any project to make the metaverse you truly want
Check out Moonbeam's interview with Bruno (RMRK) to bring the Moonbeam Community up to speed with Skybreach.
To celebrate Shiden Growth anniversary they set up a quest to unleash 10 Shiden dragons.
There seems to be a lot of different potential combinations of fish in the upcoming donniverse game Pondsama. It looks like it's going to be more complex and deep than most thought. You can summon your fish using the resources gathered from carnage. Did you catch the Pondsama mint? Here are some Pondsama facts.
A little sneak peek of PhalaWorld NFT mint screen, or how about a video clip of it from Marvin.
Governance Participation Reward Kusama put out a thread to put things into perspective. Dropped for free, unique holders, and powers decentralization.
Skybreach castle requirements reduced - can now be built on height 5 epic land
For you creators out there, you could take part in Unique Network’s Nested NFT challenge to earn some bounty.
The Buddies Collection is inviting outsiders to take part in Buddie games, where there will be $KSM reward for the winners.
Unique brought the Cryptopunk 3042. They are going to fractionalize it into tens of thousands of pieces in their Quartz network. They are planning some demos for interoperability from Ethereum to Quartz.
Bruno talking on the defiant again for quite some time about the extensive whitepaper for futureverse. Also, fun drop about a future project involving Neal Stephenson called Lamina (who created the term "metaverse").
Dino X Dino Guardians have arrived!
Check out the launch of Archiverse Banner Collaborations, which will help grow the community of people who can compose their personalized banners that can then equip on your profile. The first rare item from Archiverse is a collaboration with KusamaApe. This item can be equipped to their limited banner.
Astar Labs NFT minting is available with a price of $300 ASTR and 5555 available.
Check out this insightful article on Play to Earn. And here is a take by one of Houses of Rome's devs on creating a sustainable play-to-earn game.
Astar Neo Kabuto (NFT collection on Astar), announces mint details. WL June 25th 10:00 UTC, $250 ASTR, max 5 per WL wallet. Public = June 26th at 10:00 UTC, $300 ASTR, 10 in one transaction, but no limit overall.
Kind reminder to burn your Skybreach land vouchers, you have until June 15th. There is also a notice in Singular to remind you to do so.
Moonfit is a new move to earn turned “burn to earn” gameFi project launching on Moonbeam. They have partnered with Subwallet to help bring their project to life. Some highlights: Burn calories to earn income, a mechanism to keep their tokens from being simply dumped as you can upgrade your NFT, and it's an experience team
Here is a nice comprehensive wiki-style guide to Pondsama.
Check out the chance to win a giveaway Buddies Archiverse banner.
Find out in this short video the crazy utility that NFT gems can give your Kanaria.
@CryptoX created a thread that provides an overview of Moonsama resources.
@niftesty writes a tutorial on how to write a RMRK NFT Collection explorer.
@Kanaria2150 working on an rap NFT The Remark INTRO! Cameo by the Mandalorian, here's short write up providing some insights about this collection.
@Vampsy provides us a little blurb on some economic considerations for buying adjacent and bundles of land in RMRK’s Skybreach.
@Eikas sharing in his thread all the clues and hints found about the Mysterious Pages NFT collection so far (at the time it was a puzzle with a reward that is yet unsolved). He also provides us with some alpha extracted from a recent interview of Bruno on RMRK and 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.

DeFI

Mangata bootstrap KSM-MGX kicked off on June 8th for 7 days (4 whitelists + 3 public). They also explain the game theory behind their 168 Million MGX Bounty. It creates a low initial valuation/FDV/MC, which will lead to a fairer, more accessible distribution and eventually achieve the goal of a community-owned DEX.
The public phase of the Mangata X bootstrap is projected to begin Sunday at 3 am UTC and will allow anyone to contribute KSM.
BeamSwap (DEX on Moonbeam) and Fractal (Privacy Preserving Network on Moonbeam) announced a partnership. They are going to launch a Launchpad for introducing new projects. Fractal will support Beamswap for integrating FractalID (crypto-native KYC) on their DEX to support the Identity layer. They named the launchpad 'Beamswap Docks IDO Launchpad'
Equilibrium and Talisman are doing a joint giveaway of EQ tokens. Additionally, did you catch Equilibrium on Talisman Mediations on June 10th covering cross-chain DeFi.
Taiga Protocol releases the airdrop. Here is a link that provides more details including the claim link.
Congratulations to the winners of the giveaway between Parallel and Equilibrium, check your wallet you might get 50EQ tokens.
Parallel Finance has added Parallel Ambassador Management roles which will be responsible for answering questions and building positive vibes. If you can find out who they are, you will get some rewards.
AstridDAO is getting ready for DOT Fest Event 2 on Astar Network.
Bifrost rainbow claim now available.
Algem (a native liquid staking protocol on Astar - beta phase) partnership with ArthSwap (leading Astar DEX). Seems they are planning to launch soon.
Acala's stablecoin aUSD continues circulation in the Dotsama ecosystem, with Zenlink's first 4pool launch. Here is an easy-to-understand infographic.
Check out the Acala & Karura Risk Management dashboard that has launched - provides useful information and indicators.
Genshiro wants to list cdot and lcdot, as per their Telegram news feed.
tDOT powered by Tapio is now live on Acala. Check out the embedded link to the article for detailed information on the protocol, such as how it can solve liquidity fragmentation. Its currently in the soft launch phase. As per the following tweet, the yield was 30.1% (subject to change). Currently, the Acala earn page doesn’t show this information, so you might want to follow the link within the tweet to a focused dashboard for now.
Composable Finance provides us an overview of the different layers and stackable legos of their parachain, which allows us to achieve Interoperable Composable DeFI.
Parallel Finance released Trailblazers & early adopters event for collecting feedback from users. A good opportunity to talk to team members and be involved.
Somebody didn’t claim back their KSM on Bifrost, or they sold the vsKSM, that now cannot redeem the vBond.
Avem announced a strategic partnership with DAOLaunch - a decentralized venture capital that offers preferential investment conditions depending on users' past investment performance inside the DAO. Through this partnership, Avem is able to achieve better liquidity and grow its community organically. Avem aims to become an institutional DeFi infrastructure built as a Layer 1 blockchain on top of Polkadot.
Astar begins Event 2 of DOT Festival campaign. Participating projects include AstridDAO and ArthSwap.
4pool is now available in Stellaswap on Moonbeam, this follows after Zenlink’s launch of 4Pool. Additionally, Stellaswap dApp shows bridges for ATOM.
Here is a summary of how lending and borrowing work in Angular, a pallet working Picasso parachain.
The incentivized testnet for ALGEM is now live. The linked blog article outlines a step-by-step process to be eligible for the airdrop.
Avault, a yield aggregator on Astar will soon launch an ISO (Initial Stake Offering), the first of its kind. The idea behind an ISO is to offer potential investors enough liquidity to incentivize them to participate in a "risky" investment under difficult market conditions. More information is in their Medium article.
Here is an article presenting Cubic, a modular vault functionality within the Composable Ecosystem.
Kint Vault integration announced for polkadotjs wallet.
Interlay introduce Vault Questionnaire, to help better understand how to run the vaults.
An interesting idea from MangataX is described as “vesting liquidity”. Appears the idea is that vested tokens can be “provisioned” for liquidity unlocking the value of tokens on a vesting schedule – which should yield positive effects. Reminiscent of the “experimental nature” of their novel algorithmic Buy & burn, this will be open possible Polkadot crowdloan if proven to be successful.
Dan Reecer joins big-time names in the space such as Ripple, Filecoin, and Celo at the opening panel for Consensus.
Mangata with a quick yet clear video on why you should contribute to their bootstrap event. The event lasts until Wednesday the 15th and anyone can join in.
@CryptoX created an article that provides an overview of StellaSwap.

Governance

Darwinia Crab has integrated with SubSquare Governance Platform.
Proposal #70 to open HRMP channel between Robonomics & Statemine is now seeking endorsements
Kusama Referendum 205 was up for voting. This is linked to Pichiu (Kylin), whereby previous oversights rendered the team unable to launch their parachain. In addition to rectifying this, the team is also looking to adjust their token supply from 50M to 100M.
Ever considered a Hardware DAO for creating proposals and voting? Have a look at the SpiderMiner by the SpiderDAO team.
With sadness, Paradox has been bumped off the Kusama council.
NFTs have been distributed to the Referendum 201, 202, and 203 voters, and you know the drill by now we a chance at 3 different rarities.
Governance Participation eggs have hatched! If you made the list, you should see a notification bell under your egg. Click on it to accept the pending resources. Also, take good care of it as it could grow.
Referendum #206: Kusama Runtime Upgrade to v9230 was up for voting
Moonriver Ref 97 is up to open a channel with Integritee and register TEER as an XC-20 asset.
Voting about how to compensate excess DOT crowdloan over the soft cap in Bifrost is on.
Interlay $INTR Staking Proposal is up for voting at SubSquare. 1st Referendum in Interlay Blockchain. If passed INTR staking rewards will start on the 9th of June at 17:00 UTC.
On Acala discourse, Astar proposes opening HRMP communication between Acala and Astar Network.

Rumors & Alpha

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

Astar CEO Sota has something big planned.
There was some Alpha relating to Talisman in this video, which Birdo revealed at DotSama Prague.
Someone sent Birdo a sneak preview of a new dApp.
Arthswap has hinted that they finally list their token ARSW next week on both their DEX and a CEX at the same time.

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 channelprovides us all with extremely entertaining updates on everything DotSama. Here is the playback listing of the past week:

Jur Network Brings Law & Justice to the blockchain w/ Alessandro Polombo - Space Monkeys Podcast 050.
Hog Lordz NFTs on Moonriver - SER Have ya Heard?- Daily Kusama and Polkadot Videos.
GameDAO & NFT Indie Games - SER Have ya Heard?- Daily Kusama and Polkadot Videos.
Public Pressure, $JTP, & Music RMRK NFTs w/ Sergio Mottola - Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 051
The Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP) w/ Ice & Snow - SER Have ya Heard?
Pondsama, $MGX Polkadot Wallets, XCM, & New Parachains - Daily Kusama News.
Imbue Network Decentralized Crowdfunding - SER Have ya Heard? - Daily Kusama Videos.

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The Consensus is DotSama! (June 5th - June 11th)