Reaching the Paraverse! (November 11th - November 17th)

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TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

The reach of Polkadot has been steadily rising throughout the tough market conditions of 2022. As reported by Dotinsights, the Q3 numbers are pretty impressive. Furthermore, given all the recent turmoil we’ve recently seen, there’s a large uptrend in new accounts, as well as a good amount of new active users.

Dotinsights is an initiative created by the Subwallet team with support from Parity. It offers a comprehensive ecosystem map of Polkadot and Kusama where important insights and analysis can be derived.

The Q3 deep dive report is a great example of the output of the initiative, it backs with clear data and analytics the rumors that Dotsama is the top destination for developers with strong institutional backing and a highly decentralized and secure network.

Consider spending some time on it if you haven’t already, as there’s a vote to ascertain what people think are the best projects in the ecosystem.

You can even vote for WagMedia–perhaps a good opportunity to check out SubWallet as you will need to install it to be able to vote.

Industry adoption is another area where we see progressive reach: Energy Web, OriginTrial, and Aventus have all made their marks in the last couple of years.

Just this past week, Energy Web announced a partnership with the Rocky Mountain Institute, which relates to supporting the Aviation Industry.

Ser, did you watch the recent Kusamarian interview with Sota Watanabe, the CEO and founder of Astar Network? The video gets into how Astar is making an impact in Japan, with Sota explaining Astar’s involvement with the Japanese Government in making Web3 adoption a reality.

We are witnessing strong support from Japanese companies, the onboarding of a major city, and much more covered here.

Taking on current affairs in the World, Unique Network has been involved with COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt. The team launched a dedicated NFT marketplace, as well as taking to the stage as they co-host a pavilion at the conference.

Bitcountry’s metaverse will be hosting the Kaosland Cup, a metaverse imitation of the FIFA World Cup. There was a selfie warm-up competition for NEER token prizes. Full details of the main event will be revealed soon.

With regards to parachain auctions, after a low period, Pendulum will be offering a crowdloan in December. It has the potential to have wide appeal as the chain is building a decentralized forex market.

As mentioned by Dr. Gavin Wood in his recent announcement: “I’ll be pointing my regained focus towards exploring how we can contribute to making Polkadot and Web3 more relevant to large swathes of the population.”

And remember, WagMedia will be here to ensure that along with the rapid building in our enormous ecosystem, the latest news and awesome content will continue to reach more people!

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

Speed Reading

Zeitgeist revealed that they were the parathread that won the 60th Kusama Parachain Auction

Nitty Gritty

• Nansen Portfolio app supports a good number of parachains, including Moonbeam, Moonriver, Astar, and Acala.
• Here's a guide on how to claim your Crust Shadow and Crust crowdloan rewards from their recent auction wins.
• Check out Arthswap’s weekly report here.
• Canary Network Agency dev Encore added to the Github for guild.xyz to support Moonbeam.
• Incentivized testnet within the Moonfit app is incoming.
• Dotinsights is made by the SubWallet team with support from Parity, it provides some awesome analysis, as well as the first comprehensive and interactive Polkadot & Kusama Ecosystem Map. With what’s been happening recently, check out the large uptake in the number of active users on Polkadot and Kusama. Here are Polkadot’s impressive Q3 numbers.
• Nodle released details of phase 4 of its 10-year roadmap; the focus will be on Network maturity and full decentralization with DAO.
• TFAlphaDao is organizing a crew3 campaign (which ends on 20th November), there will be MOVR rewards for 5 lucky winners.
• Edgeware announces a partnership with Bistack, where blockchain infrastructure such as RPC endpoints will support Edgwares solochain.
• Peaq has announced a partnership with Crust for decentralized storage.
• Winners of a recent Polkadot auction BitGreen, are closer to parachain launch as they go live on Rococo testnet.
• With all the recent FTX situation, here is a look at Jumpcrypto who are the backers behind wormhole that provide bridging to the Polkadot ecosystem, with high transfer speeds.
• Check out the weekly update from Oak, which includes Gov2 update, Spacers NFT squad, and Web3 summit.
• Rocky Mountain Institute has partnered with Energy Web for a digital registry of sustainable aviation fuel certificates. The register will be supported by Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance and will allow transparency in the emissions reduction of airlines.
• Tinkernet’s bridge with Basilisk is back online (remember to leave 0.1 $TNKR or 12 $BSX for fees).
• Here’s Astar’s Newsletter, highlights include, NTT Docomo agreement, Fukuoka and Sendai City join Astar Japan Lab, the release of dApp Staking Portal V2, and the Q4 update video.
• A landmark 18K unique stakers are participating in Astar dApp staking.
• InvArch releases its monthly update for October, it was an incredibly busy month with Tinkernet LBP, YoudleDAO airdrop, Gitarch alpha, and much more.
• Darwinia releases an update on plans to update their staking module, allowing users to earn staking rewards via nominating a collator.
• Did anyone notice that auto-compounding for Moonriver staking is now available after the recent runtime upgrade?
• Subsocial webapp rebranded as "Polkaverse", expect more applications coming on Subsocial chain soon.
• InvArch provides an update on the IP Staking progress.

Content creation

Raising awareness about Calamari staking proved to be a popular bounty

• Calamari Bounty 1 was to raise awareness of KMA staking, the following creators submitted their entries this past week: @Kufray, @Michiel, @manonthemoon, @johnnytheman227, @MaximV, @CAN, @MarkNero, @Stevebrown, and another one by @Kufray.
• @pitcoin creates a thread about Astar Japan Labs. He then doxxes himself, in his video interview with a Polkadot Ambassador. Check out his insightful thread following Sota’s recent interview with Jay. Ser have you heard about the Substrate Builders Program? Here’s a thread that dives into ShidenDAO delisting some dApps.
• @CrisVCM drops a video of his interview with a couple of Polkadot’s VCs.
• @brhnk61 continues to deliver parachain auction updates. On November 11th Parathread 2092 entered the Polkadot auction. Contested bidding on Kusama auction on November 11th (he manages to track down that Zeitgeist could be involved). Here’s the update on November 13th on Kusama, and Polkadot.
• @prophet created myth-buster series part 3 on validators and decentralization, a deep dive into SubWallet, andmyth-buster series part 4 on users and adoption.
• @DrCAO records a video about Polkadot ecosystem building during the FTX collapse, which features Astar, Moonbeam, PhalaWorld, Calamari, and Parallel Finance’s Paraspace. A further update video on Polkadot during the FTX latest update. Given all the turmoil, a timely tutorial on using Acala with ledger.
• @kryptoschain drops video on Bitcountry, Phala, and Illuminate Moonbeam event. Here’s the latest on Astar, a new game on RMRK, and Parallel news. Check his video about Tapio / Acala, Bitcountry, Manta & Phala Network. Here’s his video covering upcoming Polkadot / Kusama parachains. And finally, a thread about Phala Network.
• @pnp created a number of threads including, exploring parachains in Holy Grail Part 1, Issue 7 of Polkadot Current Things, insights from Sota, Issue 9 of Polkadot Current things, and Holy Grail Part 2.
• @MaximV provides a recap of day 1 and day 2 of Moonbeam’s Illuminate. He also provides us an update on Exosama Network, as well as his weekly recap of all things Moonbeam.
• @smdawudeen created a couple of videos, one on KodaDot, and another on Polkadot versus Ethereum.
• @Rainin releases a video about the top 3 Polkadot Wallets.
• @LilMango covers the flexible fees of Polkadot via this thread.
• @amedkarim compares Polkadot and Avalanche in a thread.
• @goku uses an interesting approach inspired by the recent FTX events to compare Cosmos, Ethereum, and Polkadot.
• @0xMenna created a thread about parachains should focus on collaboration than implementing from scratch.
• @Paulkadotter issues his Polkadotters weekly on news covering Kusama & Polkadot.
• @MaxTheo explains in his video why and how you can withdraw all your Polkadot ecosystem tokens from CEXs.
• @Everythingblockchain attempts to compare Polkadot with Avalanche and Cosmos, in Medium, Subsocial app, and Twitter.
• @Crane wrote an article on InvArch’s Gitarch.
• @PolkadotInsider provides the Polkadot ecosystem weekly recap in a thread.
• @Jesseblessed does a comparison thread between Polkadot and Polygon.
• In case you missed it, or feel like reading again, here’s last week’s weekly “Trust, Transparency, DOT”! by @pnin, @Csaint, @JB, and @Dodow.

Messages From the Treasuries

• Just in case you missed any of Moonbeam’s Illuminate, remember you can catch all the full replays through this link. Be sure to listen in to all the amazing speakers at this year’s event! And if you so desire, the hackathon for Illuminate has just begun! Check this post for all the need to know details.
• Moonbeam Ignite is ongoing which is designed to boost the Moonbeam eco’s DeFi. Sponsored by StellaSwap and Moonwell, this initiative targets both dApp builders and users. Guild.xyz has now landed on Moonbeam. This token-enabled membership tool provides the tools for users to create and manage DAOs. Learn more about this product here.
• Moonbeam and Bifrost have opened up an HRMP channel laying the foundation for liquid GLMR staking and xcBNC. Get ready for some interesting DeFi to emerge from this partnership! Are you wanting to lend out your NFT? Well Double Protocol is now on Moonbeam and helps facilitate just that! Check out this post to learn more about their platform.
• Subsocial’s dApp has rebranded to PolkaVerse! Enjoy the new feel of the platform with its new and improved onboarding experience. And in case you were wondering, Subsocial had no exposure to FTX or Alameda.

Crowdloan Updates

Pendulum is set to launch their Polkadot crowdloan on December 16th, join the waitlist for bonuses

• Zeitgeist has confirmed that they were the ones who won the 60th Kusama Auction, and in doing so will be renewing their lease for another 48weeks. It was quite a contested bid between self-funded unnamed Parathreads 2331, 2227, 2230, and named Parathread 2048 of Robonomics.
• Pendulum's waitlist for crowdloan is open. You will get a 5% bonus by being on the waitlist, 5% for referrals (of the referee's contribution), additionally there is an amplifier campaign to get another 5%. The team is set to open their crowdloan on December 16th.
• Unnamed Parathread 2092 wins the 32nd Polkadot Auction with a self-funded bid.

What's in Your Wallet?

• With the latest update, Nova Wallet users will be able to participate in both Gov1 and Gov2.
• OriginTrail’s partnership with Zondax to develop the ledger app will improve the user experience.
• The Enkrypt wallet now supports Bifrost, more details in the article here.
• Nova Wallet has announced the successful completion of all 3 Milestones in the Substrate Builders Program.
• SubWallet now supports Gear Protocol. Currently, the support is limited to the testnet, but, the intention is to support Gear Protocol when it launches.
• The team behind Nova Wallet will be revealing an Enterprise wallet "Omni"!

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

Jur’s founder to provide details of its roadmap as the project transitions to Polkadot

• Peaq Network was involved in this spaces session on November 15th that covers digital infrastructures in mobility, check out the recording.
• Recap Astar’s Techtalk on November 15th via the crowdcast link here.
• Darwinia’s AMA with DeStore happened on November 11th, here’s a link to the recording.
• Mangata Monday on November 14th featured Zircon Finance.
• AstridDAO hosted gartic games on November 16th.
• Talisman’s Mediations with Kilt happened on November 17th on their discord. Also, did you take part in the community quiz?
• Here’s the recording of the session between My Ethernet Wallet, Parity, and Astar on November 15th.
• Moonbeam Universe took place on November 15th.
• Jur's founder Alessandro Palombo to cover the roadmap and provide updates on November 16th.
• Phala and friend's DeFi panel on how to utilize DotSama assets was scheduled for November 17th.
• Darwinia AMA features Litentry on November 18th.
• Moonwell makes an appearance on the Binance Live streaming platform on November 17th .
• Nova Wallet’s Demo #26 took place on November 18th.
• Here's the recording of Polkadex's AMA of their order book launch from November 17th.
• Donnie went on RugRadio on November 18th.
• Robonomics discord AMA session took place on November 18th.

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.

• You may find most of the Non-Anglo Content generated through WagMedia here.
• Spanish language content creators @Nachito and @Rocosape drops another solid DOTCAST episode.
• @Manonthemoon is working hard with some German language threads, for instance, this one links to WagMedia auf Deutsch, and here’s the Polkadot roundup.
• Here’s a comparison video in Spanish between Polkadot and Solana, created by @Cessar.

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

NFTs reach all types of audiences from conferences to metaverses; across different chains and ecosystems; featuring arts, sports, lifestyle, and gaming; even your behaviour can define the way!

• The first testing phase of Exiled racers has been announced.
• POOP refinement in Exosama continues in and out of Carnage, and Super Gromlin Kart will be released soon. Donniebigbags was the guest of Rug Radio.
• Kaosland Cup event in Bit.country looks dope. BitCountry discloses what exposure they had to FTX.
• Mr. WhiteHole reveals its 2nd clan, the Bifrost Clan.
• DPS mint is paused and The Gen1 Crocs on Arbitrum Nova were revealed.
• Evrloot X Archiverse partnership Banners were dropped and a raffle has begun to banner owners.
• Fungus Among Us Rarity is described.
• Yumi auctions a 1/1 artwork piece in Bitcountry Pioneer Marketplace.
• TeddyDAO is a new charity NFT project that was presented in Istanbul.
• Proof of Chaos' new governance collection is called "The Frames Collection".
• ApexChimpz DARK banner to DAWN turned into KNIGHT.
• SFY Labs runs a poll on which chain to mint their NFTs.
• Cosmize adds mini games and improvements to the platform performance and UX.
• Evrloot's latest Version 0.6.1.0 has several improvements and bug fixes.
• PhalaWorld launches an energy boost campaign. Some of the tasks include daily chances of winning PHA tokens or PhalaWorld NFTs.
• Sub0 has a networking event with KodaDot, Basilisk & Polkadot!
• Unique Network has been involved with the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
• Candy Girl NFT announces an auction on 7 of their 21 special pieces on TofuNFT.

Content creation

• @smdawudeen makes a KodaDot video.
• @Rainin | RMRK (α,α) covers Veil of Time and Cosmize.
• @DrCAO demos how to use Parallel Finance to get the PHA and mint a Phala NFT. He also covers the Para space NFT testnet and YoudleDAO’s treasury movement.
• @MarcoRo makes a thread on Phalaworld energy collection and covers RMRK updates.
• @prophet explains the complex jargon of RMRK
• @Jesseblessed covers her top collections on Kodadot.
• @W3NERICK makes a thread on Dotsama Prague and his favorite Kodadot collections.
• @Cessar also shares their top Kodadot collections.
• @MarkNero does as well.
• @Stevebrown does as well.
• @MichielB | TFA-DAO does as well and makes a thread on Moonbeam NFTs.
• @CAN does as well.
• @amedkarim does as well.
• @Gigs does as well.
• @Sanchez does as well.
• @johnnytheman227 does as well.

DeFI

Dotsama deFi constantly evolves around the many chains offering new features and services, such as vaults, cross-chain assets, farms, dapps, modules, and more

• Yieldbay now lists and tracks the APR of the liquidity pools from Mangata DEX.
• Arthswap adds iBTC and INTR to its DEX. You can now add liquidity, transfer, and trade these two assets.
• Beamswap announces 250k of GLINT burned.
• Tapio completes milestones and receives a grant from the web3 foundation for the Stable Asset pallet, allowing XCM functionality for cross-chain integration in the ecosystem.
• Darwinia Network announces partnership with Snowswap to launch a DEX. Now xWCRAB/WRING pool is live on Snowswap.
• Equilibrium explains why we should embrace DEXs.
• Did you know that CLV has its own native DEX, SwapBay?
• Bifrost's Liquid Staking is doing better than the network average APY, plus earnings can be further enhanced via yield farming incentives. However, last week the APY dipped below 30%, probably due to the uptake.
• Bifrost also announced XCM integration with Integritee Network, a blockchain that focuses on fast and secure data processing.
• Bifrost's comprehensive explanation of voucher tokens (vTokens), yield-bearing derivatives of the original token asset. Soon MOVR and GLMR vToken derivatives will be available for liquid staking.
• Moonbeam integrates with Guild to encourage the creation and participation of various communities with different on-chain assets.
• Moonwell has introduced Moonwell Market Deployer and Moonwell.js to improve user experience.
• A step-by-step guide to trading on Polkadex Orderbook.
• Karura's LKSM (Liquid KSM) can now be used as collateral in Kintsugi vaults.

Content creation

• @Everythingblockchain now has a thread on DPoS on Calamari.
• @0xEnes shares an informative thread about Parallel Finance.
• @DrCAO gives a comprehensive tutorial on Polkadex Orderbook v1.4 and Polkadex Mobile App.
• @MaxTheo’s tutorial on High Rewards Staking on Calamari, Turing, and Zeitgeist.
• @Caesar Introduces the basic DeFi concepts on Dotsama–Part 1 and Part 2.
• @PNP brings us up to speed Parallel SUPER DeFi platform and Reviews Pendulum Chain before they enter crowdloan auctions.
• @smdawudeen creates a fantastic step-by-step Guide to Calamari Staking, along with an infographic.

Governance

This past week we have witnessed some voting that help address some issues within the ecosystem on particular chains. Plus exciting times ahead, as Governance v2 goes live on Kusama!

• This week in governance we have huge news as Governance v2 is now fully live on Kusama. It’s a gigantic leap for the crypto ecosystem where the theme of decentralization is truly gaining steam
• Referendum 245 was fast-tracked and approved to unbrick the Basilisk parachain. The chain is now fully live and functioning
• Referendum 246 is live to swap Genshiro’s parachain with their new slot. The parachain has been inactive since October when their previous lease ended
• Totem, an accounting focused parachain on Polkadot, has set forth Referendum 85 on Polkadot to fix a few broken upgrade mechanisms. Learn more about the proposal in the body of the referendum
• Edgeware community has approved funding for Opensquare to continue to be a host of their governance platform and OnFinality to be one of the primary RPC infrastructures
• Virto Network aims to launch two of their marketplaces on the Moonbeam network. Learn more about this new project here
• Check out this discussion on Moonwell’s governance forum that contains guidelines on common practices to add new markets to Moonwell Artemis. Do you agree with these guidelines? Vote on whether or not to implement them here
• New risk parameter recommendations were implemented on Acala as the markets continue to bleed
• @YungBeef publishes an awesome article on Substrate Governance 2.0.

Rumours & Alpha

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

• Rumour has it that Pendulum is going to do a Polkadot Parachain Crowdloan in December. [Spoiler alert it’s confirmed].
• Here’s an enjoyable interview with Chris Li, CEO & Co-founder of Oak Network. Mainnet launch for Oak is expected on 19th November. Exciting partnerships include: Stop-loss order function for Mangata’s DEX chain, Auto-dApp re-staking feature with Astar (using ASTR tokens for fees), enabling Moonbeam to provide a stop-loss order feature for DeFi dApps such as Sushi Swap on Moonriver.
• Ferrum Network has been accumulating a lot of DOT via a bot and look to secure a parachain slot. Furthermore, they have changed their tokenomic structure & significantly increased the team vesting schedule, which bodes well for the move to DotSama.

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.

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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. Learn How to Earn Real Crypto Tokens from Polkadot Ecosystem Projects by Creating Great Content!
2. SBF & FTX Crash Crypto but Will #Polkadot be Effected by Coming Regulation? - SER, Have ya Heard?
3. A Star for Japan & the Whole World to Join Web3 w/ Astar's Sota Watanabe - Space Monkeys 077.
4. PhalaWorld - You're Already Playing this Metaverse Game! - PNinja on the Road.
5. Will Privacy Ever Work on the Blockchain? Manta Network has Answers! - 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.

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