Wild Auctions & Building Crazy Stuff...

What is up my friends! Last week, Polkadot Decoded was a huge success. With so many great minds gathered, content continues to surface.

If you have not watched it by now, do check out the space monkeys podcast with Dr. Gavin Wood. There was so much covered, but not enough time; it seems there is going to be a part 2 in the future.

The interview was a real treat to watch, covering a broad range of topics. We get to know a bit more about Dr. Gavin Wood as a remarkable pioneer, and we catch a glimpse of what is on his mind. In particular, the topic of parachain auctions and the chaos narrative of Kusama left a lasting impression.

An interesting point made about parachain auctions was the need to adapt, potentially finding alternative mechanisms such as fixed price slots, longer-term slots, or even first refusals.

Regarding the expected chaos from Kusama, Dr. Gavin expressed that there hasn’t been enough experimentation. He didn’t expect 100% uptime, and in the building of “crazy stuff”, some of it will not work, but some of it will be amazing.

TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

Those points from the interview nicely lead into the top story of the week, where the ongoing parachain auctions gave a feeling of chaos.

Amplitude won the Kusama parachain slot not long after Decoded wrapped up. It stormed into a commanding lead despite joining the auction two days later than other participants. The canary chain for Pendulum had some juicy bonus incentives and favorable tokenomics without allocations for either the team or VCs. For more information on Pendulum and its use case, then it is worth watching a recent Kusamarian video about them.

Whilst the Kusama auction could be considered impressive under the market conditions, Polkadot auctions have raised brows. After the lack of team declarations and formal bidders, an unnamed parathread ID led the auction with a single DOT bid.

The shock and surprise was short-lived, as more unnamed parathread IDs took turns with low bids. Eventually, Bitgreen and Darwinia emerged from their self-funded bids.

Darwinia won with only 9.9K DOT and 41.65% leading blocks. Whilst some have murmured, it’s important to remember that winning means little if the parachain does not launch.

Darwainia already has a developed ecosystem along with a live Kusama parachain. Maintaining a low overhead allows it to have more resources in the future.

Wild Parachain Auctions!

Now on to the usual flurry of news and content!

Speed Reading

Some quick messages from the Treasuries

RMRK has announced the neighborly love campaign which will give buyers of land a 10% chance at winning an interesting gift as long as they don’t receive an othala chunky. Gifts include Chunky level 2 gear, Mana or even a LE Kanaria bird. Learn more from the gitbook post here.
The NFT panel at Polkadot Decoded had some great contributions from prominent members of the ecosystem including Mark from RMRK and Miami from Moonbeans.
Listen in to Moonbeam’s Multi-chain session covering Lido Finance and Mixbytes where they discuss liquid staking and how Lido leverages XCM. They also released their June overview, which can be found here.
Moonbeam also announces that SafePal has added software and hardware wallet support for $GLMR.
Check out this video from Bifrost that explains how to qualify for round two of the RainbowBoost! Only a few more days left.
Subsocial outlines all the major updates from the month of June. Quite a busy month! Sub.ID now lets you bookmark profiles allowing you to keep an eye on well-performing portfolios.
Boba and Moonbeam partner for a hack challenge to celebrate the launch of Bobabeam. Up to 5K in prizes is up for grabs for those who use Bobabeam’s testnet Bobabase to create their submission.
Venture Capital Post releases an article on RMRK and its development of Skybreach and next-generation NFTs. Take a look at the article here.

Nitty Gritty

How to have a smart home without having to worry about security and giving away your data. Check out the awesome write-up from Sergei Lonshakov's amazing talk at Polkadot Decoded on using home automation within web3.
Have you seen the Beta version of official the Polkadot staking dashboard yet?
Coin98 provides a plethora of features that can provide convenience to users. They have extended their Moonbeam support to now include their dApp browser.
A warm welcome to dotsama.com, it’s a new community-driven platform for providing DotSama content.
Successful partnership between Acala and SubQuery. Acala uses SubQuery to present user's transaction histories and obtain internal data insights. A single SubQuery project can be used for many cases and the development of this project is normally very fast (1-3 days) saving a lot of time and infrastructure resources.
Partnership announcement between Subsocial and Ayrlift (a bit like the web3 version of gleam) to boost social media and content creators' posts!
HKO reward for gleam competition from parallel finance is distributed to everyone.
Coverage of Axelar from Polkadot Decoded. It’s a protocol that enables cross-chain communication with Layer 1 blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others stated during Polkadot decoded that it was bringing cross-chain capabilities across the crypto space by focusing on connecting through blockchains and using them as "routers" to connect to their respective ecosystems. In the case of Polkadot, it would connect through Moonbeam.
Moonbeam was giving away 3 tickets to ETH Barcelona.
Imbue hosting the INITIATORS Campaign for everyone with ideas and those seeking crowdfunding to build on Projects – on July 5th. NOTE: If you crowd loaned Imbue in the auctions, you have to complete the KYC in order to participate in the Imbue token sales.
Astar updated the XCM withdrawal function. A user can send DOT back to the relay chain from both sides (Native and EVM). Furthermore, there will soon be integration with Moonbeam and Acala.
Discussion of Cosmos, the term "Shared Security" and comparison between both models (From may, includes Gavin Wood and Shawn Tabrizi).
Sora puts out their 2-weekly report. The main highlight is an open letter to all Sri Lankans, offering them to use the XOR as legal tender and adopt a new economic system. Usual product progress and community updates. Also collaborations with ICE Network, SubQuery, Moonbeam, and Parity teams.
Ser have you heard of Gafi Network? Gafi Network is a decentralized blockchain platform built for the Game Finance industry, built on Substrate, and intended to be a Kusama/Polkadot parachain to inherit the security of the Relay Chain. Gafi has specialized customization for Game Finance that solves most of the barriers of current game finance: cost of operating, security, and scalability. They got a Web3 foundation grant and the network and dapp are already running.
Another week another Litentry progress report, check it out here.
Genshiro requesting to open an HRMP channel with Shiden Network. The objective would be to cater to Shiden’s assets to utilize Genshiro’s suite of DeFi products.
$ASTR token listing happening on a Dutch exchange called Bitcoin Meester.
Here is a review of Astar Network Dynamic Inflation. It is currently 10% per annum, primarily determined by TVL within dApp staking.
Crust Shadow published their roadmap for the next months. The most imminent milestones for the KSM parachain are xStorage supporting cross-chain storage and on-chain Governance.
The 1st place winner of "Parachains and Pallets" category in the Polkadot Hackathon 22 is Sublink. SubLink brings accurate price feeds connecting to Chainlink nodes a substrate parachain. It can also provide the price feeds inside ink! smart contracts, using a dedicated ink! chain extension.
Check out this nice thread from Yuri providing an overview of who he managed to catch up with at Decoded.
The Kylin Network has released its monthly technical update for June.
Sota to appear on Bloomberg, where he shall be covering Polkadot, Astar, and Japanese Tax/Law
Robonomics and Crust are working on some exciting demonstrations.
In this interview, Astar Network CEO Sota Watanabe reveals Astar's short, medium, and long-term plans. He covers, milestones, WASM, why Astar, dApp staking, and Multichain innovation hub.
CLV multi-chain wallet, in partnership with Superpower squad which is a blockchain technology TPS-based game with a superhero theme. They're a P2E game with gameplays of RPG, MOBA, and Roguelike.
Check out the video from SuperColony covering the WASM Conference. Hoon Kim, Astar Network CTO, made his speech about Astar Network's vision for the future of smart contracts and how WASM is going to change the whole scenario.
Manta Network's Dolphin Testnet is back online after some downtime.
Check out Invarch’s weekly report. Notable points include: delay of InvArch Builders Program for 2 weeks, update on Tinkernet Crowdloan, the introduction of InvArch’s XCA (Cross-chain Authentication) Protocol at decoded, and appear on Mangata Monday.
Astar’s Dot Festival was successful with over 10M worth of DOT in TVL. Further updates are expected, but for now check out how many bonus rewards you will get, be mindful of the locking period, and also staking vested token.
Composable Labs, XCVM hackathon extended by 3 weeks. Check out more about their Hackathon via this link.
Peaq Network announces peaq scan. It's an open-source blockchain explorer, that displays real-time chain data such as chain height, latest block, latest transfers, and more. Basic features and functionalities for now and more to come.
Integritee released an article about XCM integration and explains the advantages of using the XCM Language for messaging between Parachains.
OnFinality published its monthly update for June 2022. Where they added Multi-App services (now supporting 40 Networks), new Parachains onboarded, achievement of 99.9% uptime target (less than 9 hours of downtime per year), and 16.9 billion requests for June (210B in their lifetime).

An impressive Kusama Crowdloan win for Amplitude

Content creation

@gkhn0 produces a recap of Gavin Wood's last presentation at Polkadot Decoded on XCM V3.
@DrCAO does a video on Litentry Crowdloan as distribution is expected soon, and also provides a tutorial on how to check it.
Here is an infographic from @pitcoin highlighting Astar’s monthly highlights.
@LeComte made a clip to raise awareness about the next Dotsama event. The event will be held during the ETH CC in Paris from the 19th to the 21st of July. Get your tickets here.
@Cris_Pap created a nice thread explaining the XCM Evolution.
@seppy comes up with another infographic on How to enter the Polkadot ecosystem.
@Bapt15ta covers Moonriver channel connections.
@kryptoschain with a live stream of Polkadot Decoded Berlin.
@pitcoin.astr explains Astar active wallet holders in a thread.
@LV created an epic thread explaining why a user should join WagMedia. Here’s the Subsocial version of it.
@lucasyoda writes about the Crust Network on Moonbeam Integration.
@Dr.Preposterous has a go at making and editing a video about AstridDAO.
Dodow decided to attempt Zeitgeist staking, since it isn’t easy, here is a collection of useful information that might help.
@daveydoo created a video covering Moonriver XCM integrations with Heiko and Crust.
@Blinkinchaos provides some insight into the KSM/BTC daily chart from a short-term perspective with long-term context.
@lucasyoda writes about Crust Network and why we need this in Web3.
@niftesty produces a short Twitter thread on Gavin Wood’s XCM V3 at Decoded.
New creator @digitaldealer writes a short summary article regarding XCM presentation at Polkadot Decoded New York 2022 by Shawn Tabrizi.
@Bapt15ta with another weekly recap of the Moonbeam/Moonriver ecosystem.
@PNP wrote a thread covering the interesting use-case of XOR.
@daveydoo created a video on Moonbeam Khala XCM integration.
@Blinkinchaosc omes out with DOT/ETH chart with some explanation of what we're looking at and some ideas as to how things ended up this way.
@gkhn0 created a thread explaining ZKp , zero-knowledge proof for child level.
@DrCAO provides valuable educational videos and complementary articles covering: Setting up Subquery, CapX on Karura, Centrifuge connectors, why Decoded NFTs cannot be traded, Bitcountry Alpha testnet, end of Acala staking, update on Parallel Finance, Polkadot staking dashboard, and Polkadot Ecosystem update on July 6.

Crowdloan Updates

Juicy rewards await from the Invarch Parachain auction via their inducement approach. The first 3.5k KSM contributors now getting almost 2x of their $TNKR rewards. Batch from 3.5k-8k getting half of that. Next bonus at 13k, inducement incentive see
Things kicked off with what appears to be a low 1 $DOT bid from an unknown entity behind Parathread 2044 to win the next Polkadot Parachain slot
Amplitude, the sister chain of Pendulum finance has won the 42nd Kusama parachain auction with leading blocks of 86.05% and 24,080 KSM raised from 604 contributors.
Here is an article that explains the distribution process the OriginalTrail Parachain. TRAC holders and Node runners will be provided a claim link. Whilst Crowdloaners will get the OTP distributed to the wallet used for crowdloan contribution.
Parallel Finance have announced their $HKO crowdloan for a Kusama parachain slot. Hardcap 25K KSM, 200HKO per KSM plus Free liquidation loan asset. Additionally, there is a 10% HKO bonus for anyone who participated in their first Kusama crowdloan.
Bajun, the sister network of Ajuna is now producing blocks on Kusama.
Polkadot Phala Crowdloan rewards are available. Reminder 24 PHA per DOT, 15% of the rewards distributed, whilst remaining is vested over the 96weeks. PHA transfers, along with some democracy governance features are now enabled.
The Ice Network has released details for their Kusama crowdloan for Snow, their sister network on Kusama, and will be running for any of the 43-47th slots from July 3rd to August 10th. Base reward of 4000ICZ/KSM, with an early supporter reward of up to 4000ICZ/KSM, and a 5% referral bonus.
HydraDX has migrated to Polkadot, Snakenet is set to stop producing blocks, and Crowdloan rewards have been distributed. Check out the blog that covers rewards tripling (the outcome of a vote) and some schedule details.
Darwinia has won the 21st Polkadot Slot Auction with a self-funded bid. Soon Polkadot and Kusama will be connected.
Unique Network TGE is completed. Additionally, for those who took part in their token sale, distribution begins on July 11th vested block by block. Claim details to follow.
Finally, some confirmation that Calamari were actually the owners of parachain-ID 2122 that won the 41st auction Slot and they're about to switch from their current lease set to expire on August 18th to the new one.

Darwinia managed to win the 21st Polkadot auction with a self-funded bid

What's in Your Wallet?

Moonwell Apollo update, check out all the wallets that support it.
Lots of great presentations at Polkadot Decoded, including Talisman's speed of light client which got noticed by Bill Laboon.
Cross-chain transfers are now available with Nova Wallet.
Nova Wallet continues to support more networks, as Kabocha, Imbue, Bajun, and Tanganika have been added.

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

Did you catch the Astar Network AMA hosted by GTS Ventures on July 5th on Telegram?
During the recent Mangata Monday on July 4th the InvArch team will share details about their project. Here is the video.
StellaSwap did an AMA with Moonbeam Russia on July 4th on Telegram.
Check out Dustin’s Live stream Blockchain gaming with some alpha on July 3rd.
There was a discussion on July 4th featuring Bill Laboon from W3F, Simon Chadwick from Loop finance, and James Bayley from Subquery. Discussion on the difficulties of Web 3 Education.
Rewatch Talisman’s Agyle phenomenal presentation at PolkadotDecoded Berlin
ParisDOT is happening soon between July 19th-21st.
SiO2 Finance AMA hosted by Astar Degens on July 7th on the Degens discord.
Pendulum will be present at the Bifrost Community Call on July 6th at Momentum Kusamaverse
Moonbuilders community call for builders on Moonbeam on July 7th featuring Boba Network - rewatch it on the crowdcast link.
Algem AMA hosted by Astar Degens on July 10th in the Degens discord.
Check out the relay chain Podcast with brainjar from Composable. There are two Episodes Part 1 covers the different components of Composable Finance, and Part 2 covers XCVM and the Vision behind it.
Did you catch RiRi’s video interviewing Derek Yoo?

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.

@DrCAO provides valuable educational videos and complementary articles in Chinese covering Setting up Subquery, Centrifuge connectors, Why Decoded NFTs cannot be traded, Bitcountry Alpha testnet, and end of Acala staking.
@daveydoo writes a brief article in Spanish introducing RMRK.
Check out @KumaGorow’s Japanese article introducing NOVA Demo #16. The Demo introduces cross-chain transfer, which is very interesting.
@pitcoin.astr translates to Portuguese Astar Safe, which is a Gnosis Safe protocol fork created by Protofire.
@LV created an awesome video in Spanish to explain all the info exposed in the WagMedia Wiki.
@gknhn0 features Neon Crisis’ groundbreaking launch in his Turkish article.
@LV continues to create Spanish-focused content with RMRK, including a Twitter thread, as well as Subsocial Article. He also covers Skybreach.

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

CNA 1/1 auctions brings together a number of DotSama's popular NFT artists

NFTs remain a hot focus in Dotsama, with Skybreach sales, RMRK EVM emerging, record-breaking sales, and new mints emerging.

In a bear market, the builders continue building, and we are keeping an eye on the projects most committed to this ethos. Thankfully, there is no shortage of projects on Dotsama with this mentality.

Make sure to check out the Canary Network Agency’s mint, as well as Pnin’s interview with RMRK and Evrloot in particular from Polkadot Decoded.

CNA has had multiple impressive twitter auctions for their 1/1s, including partners Neon Crisis, Astar Sign Witch, Astar Degen, Buddies, amongst others, leading up to the public mint which began on July 10, for the price of 120 GLMR. Read the medium article for additional details.
‘tis the season of cross-collection partnerships, staring with the Kusama Queens, a collection soon minting out, their last legendary queen selling at a Singular record-breaking 185 KSM. Partnerships with this strong collection only makes sense, Kusama Acid continuing the trend.
In addition to continued item airdrops (tracked here), and marketing, RMRK Punks has partnered with Governance NFTs to create a cross collection equippable in 3 rarities.
Meanwhile, Governance Participation NFTs continue to be experimented with evolving dragons for those holding 9/10 referendum NFTs from 195-204, equipped to the shelf before the snapshot on July 10th. Dragon holders have higher luck in receiving rare Referendum NFTs. Check if you’re eligible here.
Astar Degens continues the partnerships with SFY Labs and Cosmize, a Metaverse built on Astar. Cosmize already has partnerships with Sirius Finance and Avault, and potential partnerships with Astar Sign Witches.
And for those of you who hold anAstar Sign Witch NFT, see what they look like in full.
Aside from Kusama Dragon’s normal creative egg launches (baby dragon here), attracting impressive volume, and their 4th legendary auction, they’ve partnered to create a unique Evrloot Ranger Hawk Egg that sold out in4 minutes.
Evrloot and Kusama Dragon egg holders were put into a raffle for lost souls.
Meanwhile, have you seen this thread on equipping items in Evrloot?
Looks like Artic Kusama is looking to get in on the Kusama Dragon action as well, inviting collaboration.
Mushroomtopia’s Forest Kingdom is launching in stages, with stage 1 already sold out, and additional perks announced.
Alien Ant Pharm gives us updates.
Moonbeam gets its own cocktail by Polka Potions at Polkadot Decoded.
Zyfty is working with Acala to bring liquid Real Estate NFTs representing actual properties that can be leased, sold, and improved.
Comedy cults is a free-mint NFT on Moonbeam that gives access to live comedy shows and more NFTs. You can get whitelisted here.
Crust Networks Social Pass sale began on the 5th of July, which grants tokens, airdrops, governance rights, and event access.
Bajun, the Canary Sister-chain of Ajuna network, has dropped a trailer of their game BattleMogs which will be launching on Bajun.
Archiverse is building a special Pyree in Bit.Country
Buddies holders received a free airdrop, "Bongs".
Darwinia PLO rewards have been released. Claim them before the 15th of next month.
The rocket airdrop from Astar Cats has been revealed on Optimism L2.
Did you see this interview with Bruno Škvorc about RMRK and advanced NFTs by MHOUSE?
Skybreach Dutch auctions are here with land prices updated frequently.
Bit.Country News Episode 5 and 7 are out, along with their testnet launch, with Kaosland Land gifting implemented.
Exiled Racers RaceCrafts have been revealed.
Who is ready for Metaverse on Astar? Sota Watanabe wants this timeline.
Check out the HD version of #PhalaWorld Legendary Shells NFTs.
TempuraDao joins Astar Labs, Japan, which is focused on helping develop careers around Web3, along with increasing adoption of Astar’s ecosystem in Japan.
Unique Network put out an article on re-fungibility (or RFT) & Cross-Chain Technology. RFT brings fractional ownership technology to NFTs and allows dynamic trade and commerce. The article touches on: DAO ownership of land within Metaverses, real estate distribution, and pool/shared funding.
Joystream the video platform DAO is getting closer to a mainnet, as the team has addressed issues found from the Quarkslab audit. Next stage is their Carthage testnet. Note: existing creators need to be aware that during this testnet phase that video contents, comments, NFTs, proposals, and forum threads need to be uploaded again.

Content creation

@gknhn0 features Neon Crisis’ groundbreaking launch in his Turkish article.
@eikas does some killer stats on Evrloot’s character stats and rarity. Highly recommend you bookmark it.
@kryptoschain releases a flurry of videos from Polkadot Decoded (RMRK, Bitcountry, and Evrloot) as well as tutorials around Bitcountry, as well as Skybreach.
@drcao continues to cover everything, exploring how bit.country testnet functions in a subsocial article, also in Chinese, and on youtube.
@thefvk does another deep dive Twitter thread about backgrounds in Skybreach.
@pjs writes a very scholarly article around Public Pressure, a music NFT marketplace launching soon on Moonriver.
@LV continues to create Spanish-focused content with RMRK, including a Twitter thread, as well as Subsocial Article. He also covers Skybreach.

For broader news on NFTs, follow RMRK’s daily NFT updates with @mari0.

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

DeFI

Inaugural Unchained Event from Berlin on July 1st

It’s always impressive to see great leaps in the direction of any sector within Web3, but this one feels a bit different. Composable Finance ran a demo of XCVM, their cross-chain “orchestrator”, that plans to facilitate functions across multiple chains such as Polkadot, and its parachains, Cosmos, and those connected via IBC, and other EVM compatible chains.

Their vision is impressive and they continue to work toward making the vision of cross-chain, fully interoperable DeFi all within one UI a reality. To learn more about Composable Finance, check out this deep dive article on what they’re building written by @Csaint02… you may even find a little alpha at the end!

Some of the use cases of Composable with information coming straight from their inaugural Unchained event.
Check out the interesting article from Brainjar. Its about Modular functionality representing the end state of DeFi, as well as the Composable Finance interoperable vision with
XCVM. The team is progressing to address this, whilst also focusing on the user needs as an enabler for mass DeFi adoption. Ultimately it arrived, the gateway is XCVM.
The Composable Team have released their 8th Weekly Development Log. Some of the new developments include: Mosaic prepping up for the Halborn Audit, Picasso working on specifying token rewards for liquidity provisioning on Pablo, and Near Light Client development.
AstridDAO is taking new steps when it comes to DeFi. Now you can mint $BAI with WBTC and WETH vaults. And, the protocol’s stablecoin $BAI is now tracked on DeFi Llama.
Pike is launching on Acala. Pike created by Nuts Finance - the same team behind the successful Tapio/Taiga protocols. Also, Taiga offers stablecoin lenders 3USD yield and additional incentives.
AstarFarm (GameFi on Astar) raised stake restrictions from 2k to unlimited.
Try our Subwallet EVM. Now you can stake $GLMR and handle your cross-chain assets with one wallet only.
There is a UI bug on Moonwell Artemis. But after discussion with the team, @usefmike confirms that the rewards you claim are correct.
SiO2 Finance is a new lending hub being built on Astar that will support both EVM and WASM!
Algem releases airdrop list for testenet campaign.
ArthSwap releases a public thread about listing event and the next steps to move forward with the community.
DIA’s WASM-based oracle is live on Shiden Network.
While Sirius Finance made the unfortunate announcement to adjust the estimated price of $SRS token from $0.1 to $0.036, they made progress with beginning on-chain voting and launching tri-pool for main assets. Check out thefirst airdrop campaign to Sirius Finance from PolkaEx.
Polkadex Orderbook is now available on the public open beta. Offering rewards for testing their order book.
Bifrost releases a monthly report - highlighting treasury integration, farming 2.0, Bond Market, and continuing with round two of the Rainbow Boost Event. And the first batch of Kusama vsBond will expire on August 6, so be sure to process the redemption on time.
Starlay adding more utility to veLAY. Holding tokens grants governance rights and protocol fees from a list of tokens.
Check out Starlay Newsletter, and to simplify it you can review the thread by @PNP
StarSwap is live, with LP promotion. Cardholders will start receiving fees from swaps. And, Interest is building with StarSwap’s liquidity generation event. Their new liquidity pools offer high rewards for LP stakers.
Amber, a Proactive Market Maker being incubated on Pendulum has released their whitepaper. Promising low slippage fees and mitigation of impermanent loss.
Zenlink shares updates on the last two months, including the introduction of the first 4pool to Dotsama. And updates to Moonriver/Moonbeam/Bifrost UI & UX and integrates with Talisman and Subwallet.
You can now move assets from Cronos to Astar with the XY Finance bridge. Also, XY lists ARSW token.
Stellarswap tightens farm emissions to improve $Stella scarcity. Now launching gas refunds to xSTELLA holders for transactions on protocol.
Orcus Finance announces launching ARSW vaults soon.
Centrifuge makes moves stating they are close to launching pools on Altair and announces listing AIR/aUSD pair on Karura.
Visit the Web3go page. It has improved the interface and you can easily bond more through the website,
Wagger @iff found a nice tutorial on using cDOT on Parallel.
Equilibrium integrates with Polygon chain. Which will introduce MATIC to Equilibrium’s money market.
Lark Davis tweets CEX Voyager just filed for bankruptcy!
Hydra DX is now officially producing blocks on Polkadot!
Talisman v1.5.2 is out on Firefox and very soon on Google Chrome.
Avault is now tracked on Dapp Radar.
InsureDao partners with Arthswap so users can purchase insurance on protocol.
Urgent Security Patch Released: Immunefi bug bounty program discovered 2 critical bugs, which were fixed via fast-tracked referenda. No funds were lost and Interlay is not affected.
Composable Finance launching Composable Research to focus on long-term critical issues that threaten Defi sustainability.
KODA offers rewards for testing out integration with Basilisk Finance.

Content Creation

@lucasyoda discusses the difference between Moonwell’s two protocols: Artemis and Apollo.
@PNP predicts the DOT will have new utility in Defi and continues to update us on the latest defi news.
This week @pitcoin.astr updates on Starlay and
Watch @MaxTheo great tutorial on how to farm, lend, and borrow assets on Moonwell Artemis.
@CSaint takes us on a ride on how Composable is leading Dotsama to mass adoption by building new DeFi products. The alpha here cannot be missed.
@Cris_Pap talks about the potential of liquid staking with DOT derivatives.
@Blinkin.chaos can’t wait for a future of XCMP interoperability.
@digitaldealer demonstrates why they believe Parallel is the one-stop shop for everything DeFi-related.
@Bapt15ta makes an infographic on the latest Moonriver's DeFi Landscape.
@DrCAO provides valuable educational videos and complementary articles covering a number of Dotsama news. This week he tries out Polkadex Orderbook beta testing.
@Bapt15ta created an infographic that provides the latest on Moonbeam's DeFi Scene

Governance

A couple of chains added to Polkassembly

Turing and Robonomics have been added to Polkassembly.
Kusama Referendum 212 has passed and Bifrost now has 50,000 KSM to incentivize further adoption of vKSM, Bifrost’s liquid staking derivative. Check out this discussion post for more detail on how the KSM will be put to work.
Parallel consults with their community on whether or not to list $HKO on a centralized exchange. 99% of voters agreed it should be listed, and Parallel has committed to following through.
Altair’s 9th referendum resulted in a runtime upgrade passing with 100% support! This runtime upgrade enables the Real World Asset pools we’ve been anxiously awaiting.
Check out the new Twitter account from governance participation rewards! This account announces each new referenda and provides a brief description of what the referenda is about.
Kusama Referendum 213 is still live! This runtime upgrade lays the groundwork for Governance 2.0 and also provides other minor updates. Learn more here.
@digitaldealer takes their first steps into content creation through WagMedia with a description of Dr. Wood’s talk on Governance 2.0.
Follow this link to watch Dr. Gavin Wood’s full talk on Governance 2.0. Here’s a fun meme to sum it up.
@DrCAO has been doing a lot of great work with Centrifuge and breaks down their recently passed runtime upgrade to enable RWA.
@Niftesty created an impressive web app to help voters figure out if their governance rewards dragon is eligible for an upgrade or not.

Rumors & Alpha

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

The recent surge in MOVR price might be linked to a finished sell-off of the token by 3AC.
Possible partnerships that could occur between Oak Network and Composable Labs. This is a rumor at this point as it was discussed in an ideas thread on the Oak Discord.
According to the vote, it appears that it is all over for the Rome DAO.

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:

Pendulum Bringing Fiat Rails to Polkadot - SER Have ya Heard?
NFT Tech - What's Been and What Will Be - SER, Have ya Heard?
Gavin Wood His Life and Chaos Building Polkadot, Kusama & Gov2.0 - Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 055.
Ferrum Network and Interoperability 2.0 on Polkadot w/ Nick Odio- Space Monkeys Crypto Podcast 056.

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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