Resume the Chaos! (September 30th- October...

What is up, my friends!

The referendum vote passing for the bounty top up signifies a new chapter for WagMedia. Whilst the content continues flowing along, we now have some new channels that should make a further impact. We expect these new additions to foster growth and fulfill our goals to be: a fellowship of content creators, a media production house, a place for open-sourced journalism, and a content academy.

As mentioned in the bounty proposal, the marketing program of WagMedia was always in the pipeline, and approximately 17% of the total funds have been earmarked. “Powering up the marketing arm,” as announced by Jay, supplements the marketing lounge with a number of channels looking at media platform trends available to all creators, and brand development available to Tier 2 creators.

Those that have managed to make it to Tier 2 creator will have already witnessed some excellent advice from our marketing advisers @Lifeofamarketer and @punk. In particular, the guidance on Twitter should really help with follower engagement.

Don’t be discouraged if you have not made it to Tier 2 creator yet as our directors are still providing sound advice in the content dojo, and there is also the Writer's Room that fosters growth regardless of Tier.

Furthermore, there is now a skills education channel that will help fund online courses to expand your skill set. There will be bonus bounty awards available to those who get through a course and create a concise piece of content to summarise their learnings to help instruct other creators.

Keep your eyes peeled in the marketing lounge for more marketing-related initiatives, for instance, there will be a live AMA on October 11th to discuss Sama Systems.

TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

Parallel to WagMedia, after a period of time and a number of steps taken, Acala has now fully resumed operations. The team executed its final stage of enabling oracles, which means all functionality on the Acala Network has returned.

Whilst operations have resumed, it appears there is still work to be done with the aUSD peg on Kucoin. Thus far, the approach Acala has taken looks solid, as, in the face of adversity, they demonstrated how Polkadot governance along with careful planning and communications can at least bring operations back to life.

Irrespective of the mistakes that happened, the vision, fundamentals, and technical approach of Acala remains compelling.

In terms of making things operational, bridging was discussed on the latest Sama nights, with both Brainjar and Asynchronous Rob providing opinions when it comes to accessing liquidity for DeFi.

Brainjar emphasized the need for trustless bridging/assets, and it’s a valid point given the recent hacks, including the Nomad hack that had impacted DeFi on the Moonbeam parachain. Coincidentally, this discussion took place not long after another large bridge exploit on the BNB blockchain.

Asynchronous Rob also shared similar sentiments and went on to highlight the dependency on the development of the Beefy client. Rob stressed the importance of a viable trustless alternative as well as sharing his opinion on how the global economic landscape is hardly conducive to a return to prominence of DeFi activity in the near term.

The operational resumption after Kilt’s migration from Kusama to Polkadot was the big success story this past week. An impressive accomplishment as it was the very first migration from Kusama to Polkadot, made possible by Polkadot’s well-engineered tech stack, as well as diligent execution by the team.

The move to Polkadot is to make way for enterprise use cases, whilst the migration itself provides a template for anyone else looking to follow the same path. With the notion of Blockspace as a commodity as explained by Asynchronous Rob on Sama nights, we could expect to see many possible paths to network adoption as this vision plays out.

Now on to the usual flurry of news and content!

Speed Reading

Kilt successfully migrated from Kusama to Polkadot, it’s the first migration of its kind

Nitty Gritty

Dr. Gavin Wood has announced that Governance v2 is merged into Kusama. Additionally, he also teases about nomination pools coming on Polkadot soon.
Subscan now allows you to visualize the different types of assets (such as LPs) on both Bifrost chains.
To celebrate their Parachain auction win, Snow Network has upped the number of Yeti NFTs to be raffled.
Litentry puts out an article that looks into three projects that are part of the Litentry Orbit. The projects include Web3Go which provides data analytics and dashboards, AdMeta which focuses on web3 advertising services, and TDF Labs which provide creative solutions and services for onboarding new projects.
DotSama news can be found in this weekly digest by Polkadot News
API service provider MassBit has been awarded a Web3 foundation grant, and look to further support the Polkadot ecosystem. NOTE: information is from the Cryptopolitan Press Release.
Messari’s latest post still has Polkadot as the largest ecosystem of developers outside of Ethereum.
Kilt went through a 24hr maintenance window to migrate its Parachain from Kusama to Polkadot. Confirmation of the relocation is covered in this article. Keep up to date with Kilt’s ongoing status with this link here.
A number of Polkadot teams (KodaDot, Polkadotters, and Authtrail) will be doing a one-day conference in the Czech Republic ahead of the Eth Hackathon in November. Here are more details about DOTBrno.
With Acala resuming operations, Astar has reopened XCM transfers between chains again.
Check out Kylin’s September Technical Update, where the team covers DOT crowdloan rewards, $PCHU airdrop, various upgrades, and a timeline on their MVP.
Energy Web announces Energy Web X, replacing the name for the Consortia Relay Chain. Find out more about its tokenomics and staking here.
Interoperability and Multichain is the Polkadot ethos, and SubQuery is making progress with their latest announcement of supporting Ethermint and Cosmos ecosystem with their partnership with the Cronos chain.
Tinkernet LBP event on Basilik’s has been announced via Cointelegraph, with the date of October 12th to 15th. Not only does the event address the price discovery of TNKR, but it will be the first bootstrap on Basilisk.
OriginTrail introduces a new central hub that provides a one-stop shop for everything about the protocol.
Here’s the latest Sora ecosystem update. It covers its XST token and its farms, the reopening of the Hashi bridge, news on their Kusama bridge, testing on Substrate version 4, and more.
OnFinality announces partnership with Interlay and will provide their powerful API solutions to the Interlasy ecosystem. Check out the announcement article for more details.
Peaq Network put out a blog with reasons to build on its chain.
Staking is now enabled for Calamari, if you are not on discord here’s a link for more details.

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

A number of our Tier 2 creators have covered Acala’s path to resuming operations this past week

@DrCAO provides web3 education and investment videos, this week covering: One-Click Yield feature on Parallel,DotSama news roundup (Astar NFT partnership, Crust Shadow crowdloan, Subwallet Bitcounty collaboration), includes a short article, and another important news update video about Acala operations, XCM dashboard, and Kilt migration.
@kryptoschain drops a number of videos this week, Interview with Polkadex founder, news update (Calamari Staking, Astar collaboration with Japanese Artist, and latest with Bifrost), crowdloan and growth news (Imbue & Bajun crowdloan rewards, latest on Zeitgeist and Zenlink), and another news update video (covers Acala, Moonbeam, Calamari, and Unique).
@pnp continues to create interesting content. He covers Moonbeam’s grant program, and check out his awesome response to Bankless founder on Appchains on the Polkadot ecosystem to know about.
@pitcoin produces a thread on ShidenDAO (i.e. Shiden 2.0), and Astar’s latest response to Acala’s aUSD issue.
@MaximV recaps the Moonbeam ecosystem in his weekly thread.
@goku breaks down the Asynchronous Backing with a thread and subsocial.
@MaxTheo covers the Polkadot Roadmap in one of his latest videos.

Messages From the Treasuries

Moonbeam is excited to be a part of Polkadot’s first Latin American Hackathon that began on October 3rd! By sponsoring a few bounties, Moonbeam aims to boost the usage of their EVM focused smart-contract platform. Subsocial is also there with multiple team members being members of the judging panel.
This month’s Moonbeam Community call focused on user experience on Layer 2s built on Moonbeam and they had Boba Network on as guests to discuss this in depth. Built as a dApp, Zircon Gamma has now deployed on Moonriver! This DEX focuses on single sided provisioning and mitigating impermanent loss. Learn more about them here, and check out the DEX. Want to get all Moonbeam’s updates? Check out their September newsletter!
Exciting news as Moonbeam launches an SDK for XCM integration abstracting away many detailed configurations so that developers can easily integrate XCM into their dApps. This SDK is available to use on any compatible parachain in the ecosystem and aims to grow the ecosystem as a whole.
Subsocial is a part of the IBC Media hackathon sponsoring a $5,000 pool for “Track 6”. To win a share of this pot, you have to solve on of the challenges listed here. Wanting to catch up on Subsocial? Check out their monthly update!

Crowdloan Updates

Genshiro has opened up its Kusama crowdloan, and it looks like they are bidding from the 56th auction onwards

Amplitude shares a quick update on where they are with progress on their launch.
Genshiro opens up a crowdloan for renewing their Kusama parachain slot. Details can be found here.
The unknown project behind Parathread 2223 wins a Kusama parachain slot with a self-funded bid. Wagged in the infographic created by @brhnk61 here.

What's in Your Wallet?

Check out Talisman’s September monthly recap here. There is mention of Light Clients, Meditations, Integrations, Mystical Physics, and new hoodies!
Tailsman is making it smoother for users to onboard, as you can use credit cards, Apple pay, or Google pay to fiat onramp.
Polkadex is now officially supported on all Ledger devices. Check out the article here for more details.
Talisman has built a brand new dApp explorer that covers the Polkadot ecosystem, from DAOs, Gaming, NFTs, DEFI, and more. You would be pleased to know that WagMedia and the Kusamaria are amongst the list of 60+ projects included. If you have time, do drop some feedback via the form.
Totem’s Kapex token is now supported by Nova Wallet.

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

Register now for the Polkadot Developer Conference in Lisbon on November 28th-29th.
Robert Habermeier was the recent Mangata Monday guest on October 3rd. Check out the link here for the recording, as the Mangata team has moved this session from discord to Twitter spaces for better reach.
Parity hosted an AMA on October 5th about Polkadot staking, the crowdcast for the recording is embedded in the link here.
Polkadotters host an AMA on October 6th with OriginalTrail. Tune in to the recording here.
Check out Imbue Network’s AMA from October 4th in the recording here.
The first Polkadot meet-up in Vietnam will take place on October 18th, follow the link here for registration.
The Nova Wallet weekly Demo session took place on October 7th.
Talisman Meditation on October 7th featured the Momentum team.
Bill Laboon held an AMA on October 7th via the Polkadot Reddit channel, here’s the link.

You can register for Polkadot’s first meet-up in Vietnam, which is happening soon

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 can find most of the Non-Anglo Content generated through WagMedia here.
In the Spanish lounge, @CAN creates his first content on $POOP, and @rocosape post’s his Dotcast channel thread on the Polkadot Roadmap.
Polka Romania (@kryptoschain) creates the following videos: Polkadot news (on Calamari, Astar, and Bifrost), more Polkadot news (on Calamari, Acala, Moonbeam, and Unique), and Review of Centrifuge.
Over at the Portuguese lounge, @johnrhodel translates his Q&A with Subsocial. @pitcoin translates Kilt’s migration, Parity’s article on ink!, Subsocial’s September update, and here’s a Polkadot blog.

Content Dojo (Tier 3 Creator)

Long-standing WagMedia treasury Subsocial announced its first bounty campaign on their upcoming Spacers NFT

@brhnk61 continues to provide updates on the latest crowdloans on Polkadot.
@johnrhodel has a Q&A with Subsocial.
@prophet discusses the RMRK standard–NFT legos and Parallel Finance products.
@Paulkadotter publishes their regular weekly news from Kusama & Polkadot #48.
@pnin, @Csaint02, @JB, and @Dodow deliver another recap of the weekly news Excitement & Chaos in the Road Ahead!
You don’t want to miss @Vampsy has an excellent overview of Kusama Kings!
@w3n_blinkin connects the dots on the Exosama ecosystem.
@0xMenna shares how Subsocial could build something new by interacting with other chains.

Lot’s of $POOP in the dojo

@Jumai explains $POOP used in Moonsama/Raresama ecosystems.
@abujulaibib follows the utility of $POOP, starting in Pondsama to now moving towards multichain.
@ShakurHarun explains the role of $POOP in an NFT marketplace and governance.
And, @amedkarim follows suit with the use cases of $POOP in the multiverse.
Even @aemonk created a thread on $POOP.
@yamne has all the details on $POOP.
@MaximV. has another thread on the $POOP coin.

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

NFT gaming in Dotsama, you wanna play?

The second round of sales for Moonfit has begun.
Public Pressure airdropped NFTs, with a mint of Caustic Genesis NFTs with yet another airdrop.
Evrloot has a new discord game coming? Fishing trophy boards have also been released.
Skylab’s Raven, briefcase, cardholder drops are mentioned.
Donnie announces that the Exosamas will be integrated into the SAMA multiverse this week. An AMA discusses Super Gromlin Kart and the bridge for Exosamas to Carnage with new resources coming.
A new 3D comic NFT collection in Raresama is coming called SAMA TALES.
YoudleDAO releases an in-depth thread explaining the structure of YoudleDAO and how the ranking system is gonna work in a high level overview.
Materia Prima hosts an AMA on their Discord server.
Kusama Dragons Limited Kusama Dragon Auctions continue.
New NFTs from AnonSama, called Sama Systems, are half over and will provide on-chain verification and analytics for owners on Twitter.
Unique Network has released their Software development Kit which provides Devs with a way to develop dapps and utilities for Unique Network blockchains. The SDKs for android, IOS and C# will be soon released as well.
"The Rise of Spirits Technology and Cyborgs" is a new chapter on #PhalaWorldChronicle.
Blacksquare server members with the blacksquare ⬛ role should provide the wallet addresses so that the blacksquares can be distributed at mint.
Algem is collaborating with Archiverse, a well-known NFT project on Singular, to launch an NFT Dojo representing the learning journey through Algem and Astar Network.
DPS does a playtest and gets plenty of positive responses and reactions with remarks about nostalgia, but what are these talks about a gen 1 collection on arbitrum?

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

@MaxTheo discusses Exosama NFTs with Exo traits and utility discussed in a video. He also covers $POOP.
@Goku makes a twitter thread on Poop and Donnieverse.
@Everythingblockchain writes an article and a twitter thread on $POOP.
@DrCAO also covers POOP in an article and video, as well as YoudleDAO
@TheFVK also creates an epic thread on Poop.
@pnp talks about exosama’s Layer 2.
@Prophet “demystifies” POOP in a medium post and talks about RMRK’s NFT legos.
@Vampsy makes a crazy in-depth article and twitter thread on Kusama Kings.
@w3n blinkin discussesExosama and, of course, POOP.

DeFI

On to a new month, which means plenty of DeFi protocol monthly reports to get through

As a result of the wrap-up announcement by Crystl Finance, StellaSwap announced that it retire the CRYSTL farm.
Stellaswap’s concentrated liquidity means you’ll collect NFTs from LP positions. Also, you can now zap your tokens directly into an LP for farming from the Farm page.
September Bifrost Ecosystem Report.
Zenlink’s Monthly Report explains their plans and latest improvements
September updates for Moonwell.
PFPs are now customizable on Beamswap. Also, Beamswap burned 55M $GLINT to date and launched USDT last week.
QiDao is coming to Moonbem. It is a way for you to hold on to your crypto while still being able to spend its value.
Group stats on Equilibrium’s closed beta can be found on the leaderboard.
Zircon Finance (DEX) has been successfully launched on Moonriver.
On October 12th, Tinkernet will start its first LP position: KSM/TNKR. Follow their socials for details.

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

@PNP discusses native stablecoins (USDT & USDC) on Moonbeam and Zircon_Finance on Moonriver.
@DrCAO provides valuable educational videos and complementary articles covering a number of things. In doing so he produced a video on using ecosystem assets on Parallel Finance.
@Cris_Pap celebrates $POOP by explaining the mechanics of xc20 tokens.
@Crane creates an excellent Financial Analysis of Tinkernet $TNKR.

Governance

There was only one Kusama referendum last week, whilst governance is “game on” elsewhere

Governance has been a hot topic lately as the strength of decentralization is tested. Moonbeam’s Interim Grants Program has opened the doors for multiple DeFi protocols attempting to leverage the treasury of Moonbeam. Stellaswapand Moonwell Artemis took advantage of the program and obtained over 10 million GLMR to deepen liquidity of Wormhole wrapped assets. Listen in to Downtown Moonbeam’s twitter space to learn more about these two proposals and more.
Acala’s path to restarting their chain has been completed in three separate stages, which you can learn more about in their governance forums. Congratulations to the team on the end of this incredibly difficult journey.
Referendum 236 is live to upgrade Kusama’s runtime which includes improvements to the weights feature that allows substrate based chains to allocate blockspace for different functions and begins the process of onboarding the Collectives common good chain. This chain will house the recently announced Polkadot Fellowship.
Governance v2 is merged to the Kusama network. Should we expect to see it in action soon?

Rumours & Alpha

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

Pendulum signifies that they could be launching its crowdloan in December in a guide they publish about staking, which coincidentally includes crowdloans.
DPS does a playtest and gets plenty of positive responses and reactions with remarks about nostalgia, but what are these talks about a gen 1 collection on arbitrum?

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:

Asynchronous Stablecoins Ripping at 1,000,000 TPS on Polkadot - SER, Have ya' Heard?
Encrypted Messaging, Storage & Enterprise Adoption on Sumi w/ David Rhodus - Space Monkeys Podcast 71.
AAG #4 - LIVE! - Attempts at Governance on Polkadot and Kusama - Politics, Governance, & Treasury.
Youdles and the DAO owned NFT Collection - PNinja on the Road.
Decoding InvArch, the Intellection Property Powerhouse on Polkadot - Csaint's Alpha Shots.
Learn How to Join and Contribute to the Brand New Polkadot Forums!

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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The first $POOP bounty campaign proved successful, now quickly on to bounty campaign 2 and more chances to earn $POOP!

Resume the Chaos! (September 30th- October 6th)