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Finding Your Role in the Chaos! (October 14th - October 20th)

What is up, my friends!

Finding news and information plays a critical role within WagMedia (WM), as it is helpful to the community, but also is useful for inspiring topics for creators to create content on. This is why the finder's role was established, as well as it being a potential starting point for many new WM participants.

Reflecting back on the early beginnings of WM, some may recall Jay creating channels and asking the then-few participants to post information on certain topics. As the following grew and new participants joined in, news came at a rapid pace.

Fast forward to today, and there are now several different channels, all with the shared vision to tell the story of DotSama. We have expanded from fast-flowing news and content channels to the writer’s room, language units, marketing, and more.

Yet the fundamental need of finding news still remains, as much of the content we enjoy is derived from news and research.

Having news readily available, paired with quality summaries, helps everyone, especially aforementioned creators researching new content. This can be seen in the Kusamarian’s Friday dump videos, this very newsletter that you are reading, and much more.

One could make a case that both research and writing skills associated with finds are fundamental to becoming a proficient content creator. Whilst content creation is not for everyone, at the very least, research and writing are transferable skills for all roles.

Irrespective of what role you play in WM, just remember that sharing news is greatly appreciated. Not yet convinced?

Maybe you should keep your eyes peeled. You never know when a competition or a spontaneous finding task may emerge with extra juicy awards.

TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

Breaking News on October 21st

As per the Parity leadership update: Dr.Gavin Wood has stepped down from his role as CEO of Parity.

Those initially shocked may have checked their wallets for how to respond, however, for those reading the original update, the news is doubtlessly bullish.

Firstly, Gavin is not going anywhere; he is still the majority shareholder of Parity and remains deeply-rooted in making Polkadot successful whilst keeping the Web3 vision real.

His focus is now on technology, and with his new Chief Architect title, he is developing Polkadot to be more relevant to ordinary people (as posted by PolkaWorld, it’s something he mentioned a while ago).

If you reflect on who Dr. Gavin Wood is or look back at what he has historically accomplished, then you will soon realize that he’s quite the thinker, coder, designer, and befitting of his new title. Note: credit goes to WM content creators @pitcoin and @niftesty for their insightful threads about Gavin.

As per this thread by @Csaint:

“Imagine after all this bullishness that the brain behind the mission was to throw off the remnants of his suit and commit to what he truly loves - developing!”

With Gavin doing what he loves and is arguably best at, the newly appointed CEO taking over the reins is another Parity co-founder, Björn Wagner.

Here’s his talk at Decoded which some may have missed. Acala’s Dan Reecer had complimentary words to describe Björn, and most would agree with what “The real headline” is.

We look forward to seeing and reporting on the exciting developments ahead with Rob focusing on blockspace, and Gavin free to build. Perhaps we’ll soon see more awesome chaos on Kusama!

Now, on to the usual flurry of news and content!

Speed Reading

Astar continues to successfully build in Japan!

Nitty Gritty

  • Astar continues to make big steps in Japan as they onboard Fukuoka City. The city is designated as Japan's national special strategic zone and will offer startups advice and access to funding resources. Various meetups have taken place between the Astar team and key figureheads, with the goal to create a crypto hub for Japan.
  • US and Canadian users of Kraken now have access to even more parachain tokens.
  • Ser, have you heard of MintDAO? It’s an NFT platform with launchpad and real yield, which are one of the winners of Moonbeam’s connect contracts hackathon.
  • Integritee appears to be relaxing, check out a quick recap of their side event at token2049 Singapore.
  • Want to know more about Blockspace, then check out the epic tweet by Asynchronous Rob, which summarizes his latest blog post. Additionally, you can listen to a recording of a talk on this topic, which features notable people like Fabian Gompf and Shawn Tabrizi.
  • Subscan provides more flexibility for builders to use their API service.
  • Imbue is doing a private token sale between 17th-30th of October. Crowdloaners, Heroes, and Initiators are invited. KYC will be required, check out the article here for more details.
  • Here’s a tutorial by the InvArch team on how to transfer your $TNKR tokens from the Tinkernet to the Basilisk using Polkadotjs. To make it even easier for you, the has shipped out a new UI to do it, check out the video found in the link here where @ajasterio walks you through it.
  • Parity open up its Berlin and London offices on 20th October to give folks guidance on how to get a job in Web3 and Polkadot.
  • Check out the article on Peaq’s decision to build on Polkadot.
  • Recap on what is happening in the Polkadot ecosystem courtesy of the Polkadot Twitter account.
  • Here’s a thread by Phala’s co-founder Marvin Tong explaining Phat Contracts. Here’s a look at what Phat Contracts will bring to Web3. Want to know more about Phala’s latest developments then check out this.

Phala progressing along nicely with Phat Contract
  • Tapio Protocol raises $4M in funding, backers include some top names such as Arrington Capital, Hypersphere, Polychain, and more.
  • As reported by Cointelegraph, Polkadot’s developer activity hit a whopping 500 contributions per day during September.
  • Astar’s recent Newsletter focuses on building in Japan. Highlights include Nikkei newspaper ad, Yoshitaka Amano NFT, and the team meetup in Japan.
  • Whilst Amplitude is getting closer to launch, the Pendulum team has opened a bi-directional HRMP channel with Bifrost on their testnet. Additionally, Amplitude is calling for feedback and bug reports as they've made their portal available for testing.
  • Building is ramping up on Snow Network, as Everest (an AMM) announces a temporary bridge. The Everest Bridge will connect ICON to Snow network to provide liquidity. Here’s an article for more details.
  • Darwinna announces that cross-chain integration between Parallel is now live.
  • OmniBTC (ChainX) who are still bidding for a Polkadot slot, is working on an upgrade that will allow transfers between the Aptos blockchain.
  • There is now a decentralized RPC node on Shiden and soon on Astar, codename Mesh Network.
  • Astar announces its first WASM dApp, Uniswap-V2 DEX, and is written in Ink and details are available on GitHub.
  • DeStore who are currently proposing treasury funding for their real-world asset merchandise store partners with SubQuery.
  • Imbue Network has successfully achieved its second milestone in the Substrates builders program.
  • Here’s an in-depth thread covering the benefits of dApp staking, and how Astar or Shiden can help boost development for teams looking to build.
  • Centrifuge is involved in a proposal that will bring on-chain finance for real-world assets and businesses to the MakerDao
  • CLV has worked on improving the user experience with a redesign of its website, as well as a hub for its services such as bridging, swapping, explorer, and assets dashboard.
  • Watch out creators as it might be possible to just use artificial intelligence to write about Polkadot. Looks like it was an actual person who wrote about it here.
  • Here’s an interesting article about Kabocha and the possibility of XCM-based dapps.

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

POOP content continues to flow. Do check out @goku’s article about the POA behind POOP - fantastic custom image is taken from it!

Messages From the Treasuries

  • Moonbeam has released new content that focuses on ways to think about designing connected contracts to take advantage of a multi-chain future. Not much of a reader? Sit back and listen in to this Crowdcast that dives deep into these cross-chain concepts.
  • Zircon Finance, a DeFi focused application, had an AMA with Moonbeam’s Ambassador Jay Wavy at the end of last week. Check out the recording here. Darwinia and Moonbeam are now connected via XCM opening the doors for trustless bridging of assets and messages! This lays the groundwork for trust-free interoperability, which you can learn more about here.
  • If you haven’t caught on yet, Moonbeam’s goal is to be the hub for interoperability giving developers and users options on how they want to build out their dApps by providing the full suite of tools. This idea is highlighted by their recent partnership with Hyperlane which joins Axelar, Layer Zero, Wormhole, Darwinia and XCM as cross-chain message passing options.
  • Subsocial’s Spacers NFT project is gaining steam! They plan to launch the public sale on November 1st and will roll out more details on the mint in the coming days. Check out this article to get started and be sure to follow them on Twitter to stay up to date.

Crowdloan Updates

Genshiro win the 56th Kusama parachain auction!

What's in Your Wallet?

  • Nova Wallet now supports Calamari staking, where you can view your tasty rewards.
  • The latest v3.9.2 update of Nova Wallet fixes a number of things with crowdloans, balances, and sending tokens.
  • ICX holders can now claim the SNOW airdrop using the Hana wallet. Here’s a link for more details.
  • Bitcountry Pioneer is added to Nova Wallet’s DApp catalog, you can enjoy your metaverse whilst on the move.
  • Kylin Network is now supported by Nova Wallet.
  • ACE Dashboard by Web3Go is now available on Nova Wallet’s DApp catalog, and is probably useful to Turning Network followers.
  • You can now see your Tinkernet and Phala transactions on a Fearless Wallet.
  • You can now do Cross-chain transfers of TNKR in your Nova Wallet between Tinkernet and Basilisk.
  • Check out the article by Nova Wallet which explains how you can enjoy the Moonbeam ecosystem from your phone.

Lots of announcements by Nova Wallet this past week including an article feature on the Ultimate Wallet Experience!

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

  • Here’s the transcript from Robonomics recent AMA on October 14th. Highlights include XRT integration on Moveriver, RW token transfer to statemine, Crowdloan expected in November, some details on Home Assistant, and XRT burn will take around 6 months.
  • Did you take part in Ajuna Network’s herofest 2022 event that ended on October 16th?
  • Check out the recording of Manta Network Nigeria's discussion on Web3, Polkadot, NFTs, and privacy from October 15th.
  • Here’s the Twitter spaces recording from October 18th covering Polkadot Hackathon LATAM.
  • There was a carnage test event for Exosamas held on October 15th.
  • On October 17th RMRK hosted a roundtable with InvArch. Here’s a link to the recording.
  • Polkabridge hosted Peaq Network for a live chat on October 20th.
  • Talisman Meditations are events held on their discord with various teams within DotSama. For instance, there was a session with Centrifuge on how tokenized assets will take over DeFi on October 21st. Here’s a recording of the meditations with Donnie. Talisman also regularly run community quiz’s on their discord.
  • YoudleDAO held an AMA in the Kusamaverse on MomentumXYZ on October 21st.
  • Catch InvArch Network's Dakota Barnett giving a technical discussion on GitArch at the Polkadot Summit this November in San Francisco!
  • Nova Wallet’s Demo 24 session on October 21st covers Governance on the go.
  • To celebrate the Moonbeam Ignite campaign, Moonwell will host an art contest, more details of this were discussed in a discord session on October 21st.
  • Set your reminders as Subspace host Nate Hamilton from Moonbeam on October 27th.

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.

Content Dojo (Tier 3 Creator)

KodaDot bounty campaign 3 proved popular with creators this past week

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

Can you see what’s happening in the NFT “space”?
  • Bit.Country is ready for their Xenoform Event, with several updates including emoji support, improved avatar customization, and general UI improvements. The DotinVietnam Metaverse is out, and launching a metaverse is easy. Bit.Country's Episode 7 podcast is also out. When the Xenoform Raw Land Block Event page went live, the first 10 land blocks sold out in 4 minutes.
  • MetaDojo is offering urban NFT packages for metaverse owners with a partnership with Bit.Country.
  • PhalaWorld is hosting a competition for the best AI generated robot version of yourself. Shell NFTs will have several equitable slots, and the mint is nearing.
  • Here’s a tutorial on how to play Liar's Dice in DPS Pirateverse. DPS explains why they are launching on an Ethereum L2 optimistic rollup, “Arbitrum Nova”.
  • Here’s a sneak peek of the Asgard collection created by sfylabs for bifrost.
  • Crafted weapons are coming to Evrloot soon as well as fighting and expeditions are coming. Evrloot’s p2p Marketplace will launch in-game before the end of this month.
  • Skylab’s FrostFire cases have opened with equippables of varying rarities and frost or fire themes.
  • Public pressure has a new NFT collection called ¨Can You Hear Me¨ by Emma Iovino.
  • TNKR confirms their airdrop to YoudleDAO ticket holders and posts official details.
  • Yoshitaka Amano's Candy girl NFT is coming soon to Astar.
  • Exosama or Moonsama owners should join this token gated chat as soon as possible. Participation in the recent Halloween themed carnage resulted in pumpkins. Here’s a new fish?
  • Astar Witches were approved for Dapp Staking.
  • Sort statemine NFTs in Singular's app. The team has been highlighting collections in their Art Showcase twitter posts.
  • A 2D Runner game with Ku shibas is in the works.
  • Referendum 231 NFTs have been airdropped. The final shelf item has been sent out, with 66k NFTs minted, making it the largest RMRK collection.
  • myNFT will feature a variety of NFTs from different collections and artists.
  • Blacksquare Art minted and sent NFTs to their members.
  • RMRK Evm is almost here, and with a quick recap and update on SkyBreach from the team.
  • Bedside Monsters announced that Monsters purchased before November 1 will start hatching starting on Oct 31.
  • The reveal event for the Canary Network Agency phase 1 collection happened on Moonbeans.
  • The Spacers teaser video dropped, with the mint planned for November 1st.
  • Exiled Racers hints that their next release is coming soon.
  • RMRK Punks released a new equippable background which is also a song in collaboration with new artist NXXXIO.

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

  • @DrCAO has a video and tweet on the AI drawing contest from PhalaWorld to earn whitelist, with a demo on tools to generate AI images. He also covers YoudleDAO and Candy Girl’s Airdrop and WL.
  • @kryptoschain releases a short gameplay tutorial on Evrloot and another video discussing Bitcountry's land auctions.
  • @Everythingblockchain writes a thread about Kodadot with a KodaDOT Article on Subsocial, as well as an article about Exosama, PoA and $POOP.
  • @MarcoRo drops a thread on BitCoutry and the first land sale.
  • @prophet discusses Proof of Authority vs Proof of Stake, and Exosama’s Network launch.
  • @TheFVK writes a Kodadot thread.
  • @pnin writes a quick thread on the latest RMRK medium post.

DeFI

This past week sees Moonbeam igniting DeFi, Astar’s partnerships coming along, Parallel adding more assets, Equilibrium beta finishing, and more!

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

Governance

It’s simple: learn about Governance, take quizzes, vote, and receive NFTs!
  • Referendum 238 on Kusama did not pass, but it brought to light many concerns about validator sustainability in a bear market and how we can go about supporting more independent nodes. Check out the discussion below the referendum to get an idea of where the community stands.
  • Referendum 239 is live to upgrade the Kusama runtime! Check out the litany of proposed upgrades in the body of the referendum.
  • The voting period for Moonbeam’s Referendum 67 has now closed! If you voted, you will be receiving an I voted NFT. What are your thoughts on the turnout and results? Please note that future discussion on proposals will be held on Moonbeam’s Community Forum. Just sign in with your discord account and chat away. Polkassembly will still host voting.
  • Moonwell, a prominent lending and borrowing platform on Moonbeam, enacted a proposal to centralize control of the platform in the event of catastrophe. They call this backup plan the “Break Glass Guardians” and will include 0xMaki, x0s0I, and Niko. Learn more about this proposal here.
  • Governance is on fire this week as Litentry has opened up discussion on their new inflation model, Bifrost is proposing an HRMP channel to Moonbeam, and Snowfork is requesting over 3 million in $DOT and $KSM for a trustless common good bridge between Polkadot and Ethereum while Basilisk’s community is considering a Zeitgeist listing.
  • An interesting development in Astar as this forum post proposes to delist Orcus Finance from dApp staking as they have been absent from development for some time now. Many community members have signaled support for this proposal, even Sota himself.
  • Acala’s community is voting on implementing Gauntlet risk parameters that help users optimize their risk ratios when borrowing capital, creating vaults and more.
  • Crust now supports Polkassembly for governance, Interlay has added some new features on their recent runtime upgrade, Centrifuge is onboarding collators, and Phala is working on HRMP channels to Astar and Darwinia.
  • 0xBrainjar, founder of Composable Finance outlines ideas for Treasury spending that include owning tokens of different chains and mobilizing treasury funds to bootstrap parachain protocols. Some interesting insights that show some similarities to Cosmos 2.0 Roadmap.
  • And finally, Proof of Chaos is implementing a few changes to their NFT rewards for voting including implementing RMRK 3.0, boosts for passing quizzes related to the referendum, a new “living room” collection, and more. Check out their announcement to get all the details.
  • @MaximV created a one-pager on how to use Polkassembly for Moonbeam governance voting.

Rumours & Alpha

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

  • Some GitArch alpha was released!
  • Looks like Wormhole is looking to make it possible to bridge between Moonbeam, and Aptos blockchain soon.
  • Some alpha was shared on Snow Network’s recent spaces call. Highlights of the call include EVM and WASM support, integration of the RMRK standard, Vault staking expected in the first week of November, Blobble (NFT game) is currently being built, and possible integration with Cosmos and Crust.
  • Talisman… &... staking! Yes Sers! Talisman promises that staking DOT will be a whole lot easier.

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:

  1. On-chain Privacy w/ Manta Network on Polkadot, Kusama, and Beyond - SER, Have ya’ Heard?
  2. Social Network Freedom for 1 Billion People w/ Braxton Woodham & Frequency - Space Monkeys 73.
  3. AAG #6 - LIVE! - Attempts at Governance on Polkadot and Kusama - Politics, Governance, & Treasury.
  4. Twitter Analytics & Social Graphs in the AnonSama NFT Collection on Singular - PNinja on the Road.
  5. No More Bridge Hacks! Snowfork's Trustless Bridge from Polkadot to Ethereum - Csaint's Alpha Shots.
  6. Learn How to Earn $ZTG for Correctly Predicting the Future on Zeitgeist's Prediction Market App!

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