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Fund the Chaos! (July 8th - July 14th)

What is up my friends! The amount of news and content that continues coming through WagMedia is staggering. If you have been on the server recently, then you would have likely noticed the thread about the Bounty 12 Top Up.

Bounty 12 relates to the council-awarded grant from the Kusama treasury, which provides funds for WagMedia to Decentralize the Story of DotSama. As mentioned by Jay, the intention was always to get the bounty topped up, especially given that the council asked for the addition of proposal and translation arms.

By now, many of us would have recognized the extraordinary value of WagMedia: one-stop shop for DotSama news, a heaven for content creators, and quality content in different languages are just some of the points expressed by the community.

We recommend you check out the thread on discord as there is plenty of top content, project initiatives, language translations, and testimonials that the community has posted to back the proposal.

Additionally, you can now find on Subsquare an open discussion relating to the proposal. In fact, the 6-month maintenance proposal combines the ongoing funding for the Kusamarian as well as the development of WagMedia. Do lend some support by hitting the upvote or dropping a comment.

The Kusamarian 6 Month Proposal includes a top up for WagMedia

TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

On a similar note, project teams within DotSama are also looking for treasury funding. For instance, Bifrost has in the past week secured a liquidity loan via referendum, many may have noticed it with the participation of governance reward NFTs.

Funding is also available for parachain teams such as Zenlink, after proposing a grant from Astar for liquidity as they look to onboard the parachain into their dApp. Pendulum also with their recent Kusama auction win has an ongoing grant program for developers building on their chain.

Moving on to the parachain auctions, the situation has calmed down after the previous wild week. There are some interesting developments shaping up.

With experimentation on people’s minds after the interview with Dr. Gavin Wood, we see this being embraced with the GM Parachain entering the Kusama auction. If you don’t know much about this project then check out the thread posted by @Cris_Pap on the WagMedia discord.

Whilst the GM parachain made a good start to the auction, they’ve been overtaken by Kintsugi’s self-funded bid which is set to maintain till the end of the auction period. Soon to follow, Snow Network has announced its participation in the 45th Kusama auction.

As things stand, there are 4 existing Kusama parachains that are coming up for renewal, with a deadline just after the end of the next 4 Kusama auctions.

We have Heiko with an ongoing crowdloan, Kintsugi with a self-funded bid, and Altair and Basilik who have yet to enter the auction.

Regarding the Polkadot auctions, we now see two bids far ahead, with Integritee’s Polkadot parachain, and the unknown team behind Parathread 2055. Similar to the Kusama auctions, Integritee’s bid was suddenly overtaken by a self-funded bid that maintains the lead.

Additionally, ChainX has now resurfaced into the auction mix with their association with OmniBTC who entered the Polkadot auction.

Perhaps the sign of the bear market, the thing to notice with the majority of those offering a crowdloan is low allocations for contribution rewards.

Now onto the usual flurry of news and content!

Speed Reading

Tinkernet won a Kusama slot with solid community support

Nitty Gritty

  • Quartz network not producing blocks. The team was performing a runtime upgrade on the Quartz Network and the state migration caused Kusama relay chain to decline this upgrade. Down was estimated 10 days, whilst all funds and NFTs are safe. Here is a further announcement from the team on the situation.

  • Following Boba’s recent integration with Moonbeam, the jointly hosted Hack Challenge has gone live. $5K USD up for grabs with tasks to create an open-source app utilizing bobabase the bobabeam's testnet

  • Find out here about EWT's key role in the Energy Data Space initiative within the EU with their involvement in the OMEGA X project.

  • Zeitgeist monthly newsletter provides around-up in June, where there was a TGE, tutorials on prediction markets, ZTG staking assistance channel on discord, and attendance at Decoded.

  • Check out the blog from the Oakteam, which gives examples of how Oaks Decentralized trustless and non-custodial cross-chain automation is important for Web3. In performing simple tasks like payment of subscriptions to more advanced tasks like IFTT for creating test scenarios for businesses.

  • Up to $30k of bounties from Acala are up for grabs for builders.

  • Alice und Bob announced on Twitter a tool he created for doing taxes called Subtotal. It's based on the open source tool he created called Subcrape that reports DotSama activity with all extrinsic records of the Substrate account.

  • Healthree which is a move-to-earn web3 health care app on Astar has been selected as a member of the Astar Japan labs.

  • Litmus nodes are now available for deployment via OnFinality. Developers can deploy nodes and pay-as-they-go with no need to buy or set up hardware or monitoring tools

  • Check out here for highlights of Darwinia’s development in the month of June, with updates on Evolution land included.

  • Gear’s monthly report is here, it covers technical updates, the introduction of the New API, enhancements to error responses, and all the various social engagements.

  • CLV has partnered with SpaceIDProtocol, a universal domain identifier, to do a giveaway of 100 WL spots.

  • Check out Bill Laboon’s news threads this week, they provide some sound insights.

  • Revolut app partners with Polkadot, offering users a quiz that could earn 15 USD worth of DOT tokens.

  • Speedboat has integrated with Moonbeam, providing its web3 toolkit. Developers can now deploy customized smart contracts, automate tasks, and launch apps without writing any code.

  • Litentry ”this week” report with highlights being: Commencement of Identity Management Pallet, WebApp XCM integration testing, and Talisman integration.

  • Check out the Web3Foundation Grants, Wave 14 Recipients.

  • Shiden is added to substrate contract UI. Contracts UI is the official Substrate application for deploying WASM smart contracts on Substrate chains.

  • Subquery public sale postponed and a private sale will take place in the short term. Additionally, the team has announced Keplar on Karura! Kepler provides an interim canary network and will allow the community to obtain kSQT, which can be later redeemed for SQT.

  • Basilisk has added support for Subscan as its first on-chain explorer! A much-needed feature, which might come in handy during the upcoming release of Snek into da wild.

  • CLV Ecosystem Grant is looking for developers to build essential tools, infrastructure, and decentralized applications on CLV Chain. It offers developers a chance to get involved with an ecosystem thriving in partnerships and collaborations, technical support, and industry connections with experts, investors, researchers, and exchanges.

  • Zk Validator is working on an event series covering Privacy on Moonbeam, with the intent of bringing privacy tools and developers to moonbeam. More details in the article are here.

  • Check out the updates from the Kylin weekly Report, which includes Pichiu channel with Karura, Kylin aiming for a parachain slot in Q3, and the team’s take on DeData (i.e. decentralized data).

  • Pendulum are looking for builders who'd build on amplitude and Pendulum and will also provide funding.

  • Astar has submitted a grant proposal to the Web3 foundation to make Swanky CLI tool. Makes writing, compiling, and deploying your smart contracts to a node easier. Swanky will be the equivalent of Truffle for Solidity developers.

  • Polka name system a decentralized domain name service has integrated on Moonbeam.

  • HydraDX announces their first on-chain explorer, so you can know to get more insights into what is happening on-chain.

  • Snow Network who are set to enter the race for a parachain slot has partnered with Yeti Strong Club to bring community-driven events such as Discord ANA'S, Twitter spaces, fan art competitions, and Daily quizzes.

  • Figment has published an article on common misconceptions around Polkadot. Solid research was carried out and covers the difference between Layer 0 & Layer 1, the lease mechanisms of Parachain slots, the utility & benefits of Polkadot's inflation, and the role of Kusama as a "canary network" rather than a "testnet".

  • Check out Sora’s 2 weekly report. It covers pretty much everything about its ecosystem and can be broken down into main business initiatives such as traditional banking with Sora IBAN & Card, Backend platform developments which include completion of block production on Kusama parachain, Web technology progress with DEO arena (Ceres P2P game), and Mobile app updates include management of pools & referral system on Polkaswap. There are many other updates featured in the report.

Embracing experimentation as the GM Parachain bid for a Kusama slot

Content creation

  1. Ikhaled wrote an article on Back To Asgard - Bifrost NFT collection, what do you actually need to know?

  2. @PNP drops a thread on Bifrost Donkey Gang and Asgard.

  3. Ikhaled also does another article covering Bifrost Rainbow Boost Program - Round 1 recap, Round 2 and its benefits, and an Alpha for which you need a lot of Raindrops.

  4. @paulll puts together a thread for 2nd round Rainbow Boost

  5. @Yuli Kay also getting in with a short presentation of Rainbow Boost 2.0 and also a short presentation on Back to Asgard.

Integritee join the Polkadot auction, with Bifrost supporting contributions on their platform.

Messages From the Treasuries

  • Moonbeamis gearing up to launch their Orbiters Program which will result in collators being rotated in and out of the active set. This will help improve decentralization of the network and allow collators with less resources be able to participate in the pool

  • If you’re going to EthCC this year in Paris, Moonbeam welcomes you to join them for networking and drinks. Founder Derek Yoo and core team member Alberto Viera will be speaking, check out the agenda to catch all your favorite speakers

  • Polka Name System, Rango Exchange, Midas Capital and Speedboat have all integrated with Moonbeam. Learn more about these respective projects with the links provided. Laika Labs is testing out Moonbeam’s Moonbase alpha testnet - check out what they offer here.

  • Subsocial posts part one of a two part series of articles that discusses the current state of Subsocial and touches on their vision for the future. Subsocial is just getting started, learn more about the details of their decentralized social platform here. If you’re more into videos, check out Yung Beef 4.2’s talk at Decoded.

Crowdloan Updates

OmniBTC have joined the Polkadot auction, they are associated with ChainX

What's in Your Wallet?

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

Perhaps Nova Wallet will be hosting an event soon in the Kusamaverse?

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.

  • @paulll translates to Italian the Back to Asgard briefing document.

  • @paulll does an Italian translation of Bifrosts SLP article.

  • @LV records a new video in Spanish about the PolkadotDecoded events of 2022. In this first video, he covers the events in Berlin and Buenos Aires through comments from the threads of well-known community members who were in attendance and shared information on Twitter.

  • @johnrhodel translated a Bifrost article for participating in the Integritee crowdloan in Portuguese and in Spanish. He also translated to Portuguese another Bifrost article.

  • @pitcoin translates a couple of Astar articles into Portuguese. This week he covered Astar Summer Part 2, and the HRMP channel between Astar and Acala.

  • @yamneBLVCK has translated into Italian 5 important Articles about Acala. These articles are a good introduction to understanding the aims of Acala project and the reasons behind their native and decentralized stablecoin aUSD and Liquid staking feature.

  • @sb_ksm translated Polkadotfor Beginners Book in Urdu.

  • @gkhn0 created a Turkish post about Bifrost Rainbow event.

  • @Ma provides an Italian translation of Moonriver Harvest Moon campaign.

  • @Nachito created a thread in Spanish about a new update by Parity.

  • For some great content in Japanese, follow @KumaGorow who summarized Referenda 212 well in this twitter thread and took some time to outline the details of Governance 2.0 after he listened to Gavin’s Decoded presentation.

  • @gkhn0 Writes a detailed analysis about Unique Network/Quartz in Turkish, including discussions on RMRK pallets, fractional NFTs, RTFs, and also their ongoing campaign, "Punks for the People.”

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of DotSama

A certain 0xPenguins NFT pictured requesting for the Bounty 12 top up, set within a Bitcountry backdrop

  • July 16th-17th the Metaverse Summit in Paris will have Dotsama’s PhalaWorld, SkyBreach, and Unique Network, in participation.

  • PhalaWorld has continued to add several teasers about its upcoming Pandroid Shell. You can also now go to https://phala.world/claim/, go to “My Space” and download an image of your spirit NFT.

  • Bit.Country beta continues to impress, with #100Metaverses competition participants submitting impressive screenshots and 2848 Metaverse projects already created in only 2 weeks. If you’re just catching up, check out this step-by-step guide. But don’t be fooled, there’s a lot more than just placing blocks in Bit.Country such as programmable Land. And, Bit.Country on mobile?

  • Moonsama has had 2 more executions, news of a new resource called Moonstones, along with details of how much gganbu EXOs will receive, hints at Pondsama utility soon, and both Talisman and Kilt support.

  • Skybreachannounces the Neighborly Love Campaign where rewards to both the purchaser and neighbors may be distributed and also, what if Bruno himself could be your neighbor? Otherwise, Skybreach had a smart contract migration, Rmrk’s Alpha Airdrop continues to educate, with information around resource scarcity in Skybreach, and a tool called Skybreach Tools allows the discovery of the highest offer and secondary sale price. Secondary sales and transfers began July 13th.

  • Talisman joined forces with the Rmrk team to provide the ultimate seamless user experience for purchasing land in the Skybreach NFT Dutch Auction sale.

  • Also, Kanaria breaks 100k KSM volume with 3595 total transactions and 1399 unique buyers.

  • Remark Punks continues to demonstrate the potential of the RMRK standard with multiple resource, multi-collection NFT integrations.

  • Exiled Racers Phase 3 mintis live with an impressive gas free transactions.

  • Glmr Jungle is the second collection of Glmr Apes. Their game, The Great Escape is in testing until the end of July.

  • Cosmize, the first metaverse on Astar, releases a sneak peek of rooms. Three whitelist spots are available to three people that vote for them at the Global metaverse startup competition.

  • Governance Participation Rewards has delivered Referendum 209 and Referendum 210 NFTs.

  • DPS alpha? And what’s this with Bit.Country?

  • Canary Network Agency mint is live with Blinkin targeting mint 420.

  • Donkey Gang is migrating to Singular 2.0, and has a partnership with Bifrost, and also released a demo of a partnership with Subsquid. Migrating soon is encouraged, because a snapshot for Subsquid tokens $SDQ will occur, as well as for the Saurus Crew NFTs on Astar.

  • StarFish Finance is hosting a GameFi campaign on their Discord server. If you are into Play2Earn check it out.

  • Ajuna has started producing blocks, and their Battlemogs trailer looks epic.

  • UNQ tokens for public sale participants and crowdloaners has begun. Also check out their app promotion staking program here.

  • Moonbeans marketplace has added customizable profiles and supports Neon Crisis, the first RMRK EVM NFTs.

  • Moonfit is in beta testing.

  • Evrloot has burned their unsold tarot cards.

Content creation

  • @Pnin Be sure to watch Pnin’s coverage on Evrloot during Polkadot Decoded in Berlin.

  • @discloser has created this great piece on Elwiruz's Bedside Monsters NFT project.

  • @ikhaled28 has written on myNFT’s Multi-Chain NFT Marketplace with a "Bid to Earn" GBM Auction technology.

  • @birdo creates some content, which involved Canary Network Agency NFTs and of course Talisman.

  • @kryptoschain drops another video on Skybreach, this time about the dutch auctions.

  • @LV discusses land in Skybreach and shows where the ecosystem communities are distributed on the map.

  • @blocksbrandon ‘s debut WagMedia creation is a twitter thread on his deep dive into Skybreach transactions on Moonriver.

  • @maxtheo has created a video about Unique Network, explaining re-fungible tokens, TGE, and UNQ distribution.

  • @marcoRo drops his debut piece by creating a fantastic list of useful tools for RMRK. His next piece is on minting on RMRK 2.0, with a supporting Twitter thread.

  • @Jimmy Tudeski | Stakenode writes several twitter posts about EVRLOOT.

As always, you can follow RMRK’s daily NFT updates with @mari0, who has taken a short break but will continue soon:
https://twitter.com/1am_mari0/status/1545470846378151938

https://twitter.com/1am_mari0/status/1545910288041627648

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

DeFI

Zenlink onboarding the Astar chain, and also requesting for a grant. Get ready for Astar Summer!

Content Creation

Governance

Referendum for Bitfrost Liquidity Loan was passed

  • If you want to catch up on Centrifuge’s Governance call from July 14th, check it out here. DrCAO provides a recording with some personal content as well which can be found below

  • Moonriver and Shiden now have an open HRMP channel and the cross chain use cases are soon to begin. Moonriver has also opened a channel with Litmus

  • Referendum 214 to release the Quartz blockchain from getting stuck during a runtime upgrade passed smoothly - it’s scheduled to begin producing blocks again on July 25th

  • Kylin’s canary network Pichiu has opened up an HRMP channel with Karura. The web continues to grow

  • Interlay is prepping for the launch of their iBTC solution utilizing their decentralized vault strategy. Here, they propose increasing the collateral ceiling to 150,000 DOT as the protocol has been adequately battle tested on Kusama

  • Governance Participation Rewards continue to impress as the baby dragons have begun to grow up! Holding one of these dragons increases your chances at landing higher rarity NFTs on subsequent referenda

  • Astar and Acala have opened up HRMP channels between each other and Sota himself has teased the presence of aUSD on their chain. It’s exciting to see these behemoths partner up to provide an interoperable future

  • With HRMP channels opening up quickly from Astar and Shiden, Zenlink has proposed a 1.2 millions $ASTR allocation from Astar treasury to bootstrap liquidity incentives. Look out for new pools coming to Zenlink very soon

  • @DrCAO provides valuable educational videos and complementary articles covering a number of things this week which includes: Centrifuge Governance Call Polkassembly Demo (with article), and Centrifuge Governance Call.

  • For some great content in Japanese, follow @KumaGorow who summarized Referenda 212 well in this twitter thread and took some time to outline the details of Governance 2.0 after he listened to Gavin’s Decoded presentation.

  • @TheFVK never disappoints as he outlines some truly chaotic moments in Dotsama’s history in celebration of one year of ChaosDAO

Rumors & Alpha

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

  • There was something happening within DotSama between Astar and Acala.

  • Waggers a bit shy with the rumors, or things happen just too quickly.

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:

  1. Pnin catches Evrloot co-founder Deckard Polkadot Decoded 2022 Berlin for some Juicy NFT Alpha.

  2. Pocket Network and the #TriForce w/ Valeria Benitez Florez -Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 057.

  3. RMRK Co-founder Yuri Petusko spills about Kanaria, Cyphermod, and Smart Contracts - Decoded 2022.

  4. Gear Tech and the future of Wasm w/ Pavel Salas -Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 058.

  5. Argentina, Parity Tech, and Developing Dotsama w/ Santi Balaguer -Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 059.

  6. Gavin Wood Call to Arms at Polkadot Decoded 2022 in NYC -Csaint's Alpha Shots.

  7. Burning Man, Nodle Cash, and Connecting People w/ Micha Benoliel -Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 060.

  8. Bifrost Growth ManagerChristian Vinciguerra Squeezed for RMRK Alpha at Decoded 2022 in Berlin.

  9. Sake, Mixed Drinks and NFTs: Polka Potions w/ Mackenzie Petici -Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 061.

  10. Gavin Wood Reveals XCM v3 at Polkadot Decoded 2022 NYC -Csaint's Alpha Shots.

Looking for more to read, why not check out the other works by the Wag Weekly Squad: Pnin, Csaint, Jb_blah, and Dodow.

Tips appreciated

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News you need to know to stay on top of significant DotSama developments. Courtesy of WagMedia and Polka Häus

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WagMedia Weekly News
News you need to know to stay on top of significant DotSama developments. Courtesy of WagMedia and Polka Häus