Writing History & Chaos! (September 9th -...

What is up, my friends!

This week’s feature is around the WagMedia Writer’s Rooms.

Launched with the intent to help foster writers and produce high-quality work through collective intelligence, @pnin, a professionally published writer, offered to direct the effort.

Aside from conveying information accurately and efficiently, skilled writing conveys intelligence, authority, and reliability to readers. When public-facing accounts release information with typos, grammatical errors, and otherwise confusing writing, it leads to embarrassment and an erosion of community trust.

Anyone who has requested the role of “Writer” can access three channels: The Research, Drafting, and Reference Rooms.

In the Research Room, Writers discuss content they are thinking of covering. Here, they brainstorm and ask for help, even collaborating if several writers are interested in the same topic.

In the Drafting Room, Writers submit their work as a public google document to request edits and critiques. Anyone with a Writer role can edit and comment on the document.

After 24-48 hours have passed, the Writing Room’s Director will review all work done, including the quality of the initial draft and the quality of the editors, applying his own edits as necessary.

Both the Writer who submitted work and the editors are rewarded KSM for their efforts.

Higher rates of KSM are rewarded to drafts of higher quality rather than lower quality to incentivize personal growth. Similarly, insightful comments, quality, and thorough edits are rewarded at greater rates.

Finally, for works that Writers are particularly proud of, they can post their work in the Reference Room for other Writers to reference in the future.

As with all art forms, the skill and technique of the artist lead to better engagement and impact. WagMedia hopes that, in time, the quality of work produced through the Writing Rooms will be an inspiration and a point of pride for the Dotsama ecosystem.

Simply request the Writer role from any WagMedia Director if you are interested in participating.

TOP NEWS OF THE WEEK

From the writing room to writing history, the top news story this past week in all blockchain is the Ethereum merge. It has been a long wait, but it is something long-awaited in our industry and fits the interoperable multichain ethos of DotSama.

Check out Polkadot co-Founder Rob Habermeier's CoinDesk interview on Ethereum's outlook following the merge. He responds to the interviewer by establishing that Polkadot is an ETH collaborator and not an ETH killer. Moreover, Polkadot is about interoperability and collaboration with other chains as well, including Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, and Avalanche.

As we all know, Polkadot and Kusama’s other co-founder Dr. Gavin Wood was a founding member and the CTO of Ethereum. He was responsible for coding its first working version, authored its Yellow Paper, as well as invented its Solidity programming language. You will find that there are a number of other prominent DotSama members with a long history working with Ethereum, and all share an interoperable multichain vision.

In terms of the merge impacting DotSama, this can mainly be seen with bridging. Parachain teams such as CLV, and Genshiro, as well as prominent bridges Celer and Multichain for Astar and Moonbeam/Moonriver respectively, put out suspension notices.

Not all teams with ties to Ethereum were impacted. Phala confirmed no impact, Efinity that it wouldn’t affect services, whilst OriginTrail had already decided to use teleporting instead of bridges.

On the other hand, some parachain teams had a bit more work. Darwinia is working on a major update post-merge centered around their LCMP approach, which is expected to come out of two weeks of development and testing soon.

Bifrost, who offers a vETH derivative staking product, put out a comprehensive article covering their roadmap and their required updates. Note that vETH is not redeemable until further Ethereum POS upgrades happen though it can be traded on the open market as always.

Whilst the merge has been successful with no incidents reported thus far, it may make you think of the benefits of forkless upgrades. This and other sound points were raised in some threads about Polkadot and Ethereum by some of our WagMedia content creators.

This includes @Csaint’s response to Bankless, @pitcoin’s Polkadot and Ethereum 2.0 comparison, and @pnp’s thoughts on Ethereum and Polkadot.

To wrap up, here are a couple of fun commentaries on merge day from parachain teams: fusing Polkadot and Ethereum results in Moonbeam, and how about earning high APY from DOT on Parallel after realizing that not much changed.

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

Speed Reading

The Unstoppable Code of GitArch!

Nitty Gritty

As the Ethereum Merge comes into effect Darwinia will be doing a major update of its light-client cross-chain messaging protocol(LCMP), which is responsible for bridging EVM chains and Substrate-chains.
Astar introduces its Portal V2, which includes a new UI, recent transaction history, and a manual input function.
Bi-directional HRMP channels are now open between Parallel & Phala and Heiko & Khala simultaneously. The move will provide another outlet for swapping Phala tokens, as well as introduce another token into the Parallel ecosystem to use in their DeFi Super App.
A useful feature to add your on-chain identity is now on GM Parachain app. Users can add their discord usernames and receive notifications when they receive a GM or GN.
Parallel Finance’s bounty program will be concluding on September 16th. The winners will be the top 10 most popular videos or articles as voted by the community.
Check out the EXO x Public Pressure twitch stream here.
Here’s an introduction to GitArch, an unstoppable alternative to GitHub. It is built using InvArch's INV4 protocol. More information on it here, and here’s a demo of its dashboard.
Astar details their new XVM pallet. XVM allows developers to build with both Solidity and ink! Together. Bi-directional XVM is expected to launch on Shiden by Q2 of 2023.
Peaq provides details about joining the move.id initiative in their official news blog.
$CRU is now tradable on Ofero Exchange on Elrond. You will need to bridge CRU to Elrond via the Crust App.
Parallel Heiko XCM integration with Crab is now live. A potential use case that could be in the works is a cross-chain NFT marketplace, which allows bidders on one chain to bid on an auction on another chain.
Algem (a liquid staking dApp on Astar) is holding a contest to reward the 999th, 1000th and 1001st users. Check it out to see how you can participate.
Invarch announces a partnership with Subquery, which will provide data indexing on Invarch and Tinkernet networks.
Oak network launches the ACE dashboard in partnership with Web3Go (Litentry). The dashboard shows functions like scheduling future events, status for auto-compounding, and task history.
Integritee has announced the release of its SDK (software development kit) for developers looking to build with a privacy-native approach.
The Subview Explorer for Darwinia’s Smart Chain is live.
Binance.US lists Astar's native token ($ASTR). The first parachain asset to list on Binance.US trading market. Trading pairs available are ASTR/USD and ASTR/USDT.
You can now use prediction markets in DotSama, as the Zeitgeist application is now live.
Tinkernet announces an important announcement, and the announcement is they are partnering with Basilisk to host their first Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool. Expected to take place at the end of September/beginning of October.
Applications for Polkadex ambassadors program is now open, where you can help build, educate and nurture the Polkadex community and earn $Pdex whilst doing so.
Ajuna partners with OnFinality, and will provide scalable API services to both Ajuna and Bajun.
MEXC exchange adds support for Darwinia’s Smart chain, previously they supported the ERC20 versions of Darwinia’s token. Here’s a tutorial on how to set it up.
Check out the launch of the Crust Files landing page.
Kylin Network drops a thread to help you better understand some of the abbreviations associated with its ecosystem.
Calamari has a tokens update. The 10% reserved for crowdloan rewards of Kusama parachain renewal is no longer required as the team self-bid, so this can now be repurposed for staking and development fund. This introduces a staking model that previously did not exist where holders can participate in delegated proof of stake nomination for rewards. Token burns and other measures will be in place to maintain a deflationary token.
Nodle has introduced some new features for its app. They have simplified how to set up; introduced the ability to send and receive NFTs (with minting ability coming soon); and provided QR functionality to make things convenient.
Check out Rob Habermeier's CoinDesk interview on Ethereum's outlook following today's merge. "Eth Collaborator" not killer people! Interoperability & collaboration with other chains including Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, and Avalanche.

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

This image is taken from @pitcoins thread covering the difference between Polkadot and Ethereum 2.0.

@pitcoin covers the main differences between both Polkadot and Cosmos in his awesome thread. He follows this up with another thread covering the main differences between Polkadot and Ethereum.
@pnp creates a thread about $POOP and naturally shows you how you can get it via Astar.
On the day of the merge, @DrCAO drops a video covering Ethereum 2.0 and Polkadot updates.
@Bapt15ta provides us with a weekly recap of the Moonbeam/Moonriver ecosystem in his GLMR news thread.
@pnp writes a thread to share his take on Ethereum and Polkadot.

Messages From the Treasuries

Make sure to migrate any Subsocial NFTs from RMRK 1 to RMRK 2 as the OG marketplace will soon be out of service. Notifications are back, and you can check this article for more details. Equilibrium paired up with Subsocial to talk about their closed beta and how members of the Subsocial community can get involved.
Remember that community-led proposal for Moonbeam’s Interim Grants Program? Well if you voted on this now passed proposal, you got a commemorative NFT. Speaking of NFTs, An NFT marketplace, Omnisea, is soon to deploy on Moonbeam, highlighting an interesting case of Connected Contracts that uses XCM and general message passing.

Crowdloan Updates

Bitcountry wins the 52nd parachain auction and is set to renew on Kusama

OAK’s crowdloan is starting on September 20th, they will be partnering with Parallel again, so you can use the Parallel App and stay liquid. Additionally, Parallel is also supporting Bitgreen’s Polkadot crowdloan that had started.
Bitcountry wins the 52nd parachain auction with a self-bid auction.
An unknown Parathread 2058 enters the Polkadot auction and is so far winning all blocks with a self-funded bid.
Bitgreen's crowdloan details became clear over the week, in spite of contributions being open directly from Polkadot.js. The minimum DOT contribution is 5 and this will be capped at 200K DOT with token rewards being 0.3% of the supply.
Amplitude tokens have been distributed to those who contributed to the crowdloan.

What's in Your Wallet?

Subwallet announces that their treasury proposals have been approved. The proposals are about improving UI, more integrations, and NFT support. Furthermore, mobile support is expected to launch in Q3.
Ledger integration on Nova Wallet is finally here and will offer users enhanced security of some DotSama assets.
Arthswap (DEX on Astar) partners with Subwallet. Users can now use the full DEX functionality of the Arthswap with the Subwallet extension.
Nova Wallet announces support for Ternoa's $CAPS token. For those who are unfamiliar with Ternoa, then here’s an article that might help.
Did you know that you can use Talisman with the polkadot.js app? Complex extrinsic anyone!

AMA and IRL Events Round-up

Check out the full talk of Talisman's Alexander Popiak, as he introduces XCM and explores its use cases.
Zeitgeist did a live demo of their NFT profile on September 12th. Here’s a link to the crowdcast for a replay, and if not too late it comes with details for a chance to win the new NFT.
Darwina’s AMA session this past week on September 16th features Oak Network.
Evolution Land hosted Raregems on their discord for an AMA session on September 15th.
Centrifuge/Altair governance call where you could win some free POAP NFTs took place on September 15th.
Bifrost’s community call on September 16th features Oak Network.
Set your reminders as Rob Habermeier will be joining Brainjar on Composable's Chaos Composed Twitter Spaces Session on September 21st.

Zeitgeist app launched this past week, check out the crowdcast for a demo of their app

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.
@Nachito and @rocosape have recently launched their Dot Cast Spanish youtube channel. Here’s a link to their videos, as they cover Acala, Moonbeam, Bitcountry, and more. They have also added an Astar video to the WagMedia en Español channel.
@johnrhodel continues to his prolific translation of Bifrost content to Portuguese: Eth merge impact on vETH, SALP overview, Bifrost’s August monthly report, primer article on vDOT, vSBond via SALP, and RainDrop campaign announcement. Additionally has been doing Portuguese translations on Phala, Heiko, Phala’s TEE, Parallel and Phala partnership
@paulll also working hard with Bifrost translations, as he translates to Italian a review of Rainbow Boost 3.0, SALP overview, and Bifrost’s August monthly report.
@LIL_Mango also translated Bifrost content, with a Vietnamese translation of a primer article on vDOT.
@pitcoin translates into Portuguese a couple of articles, Astar XVM, and notifications back on Subsocial’s app.

Content Dojo (Tier 3 Creator)

Did you catch the 48hr time-sensitive bounty this past week!

@johnrhodel reviews Scytale’s NFT project and Interviews Jay from WagMedia.
@Csaint compares Polkadot to other Layer 1s and shares opinions on Eth Merge on Bankless podcast, and what they got wrong about Polkadot.
@paulll creates infographics on vsKSM defi strategies and benefits of vDOT.
@zooeys | pixeltrip had a busy week keeping up with Dotsama and argues why you should use Talisman.
@gambo brings us Polkadot Consensus Demystified.
Did you Have Coffee with @LV #1?
@Everythingblockchain details Parachain Slot Auctions & Crowdfunding. Wow!
@Hamzik53 overviews what Gov 2.0 brings.
@aemonk details the loudest NFT called PODS.
@Bidaoleermeester88 recaps the Moonbeam ecosystem and introduces Zircon Finance.
@DrCAO starts off with a video showing how to Transfer ASTR to Moonbeam, Darwinia’s Cross-Chain Mapping Token $xWRING, PolkaPet NFT project, GM parachain token, how to use $FREN token on GM, Parallel Finance and Phala XCM Integration, Bitgreen crowdloan, the latest Parallel events, and Centrifuge.
@Yuli Kay creates fun videos on Bifrost’s vDOT and vDOT SLP.
@TheFVK tweets why you should pay attention to the Public Pressure Sale.
Keep up with weekly parachain auctions by following @brhnk61.
@kryptoschain talks about Acala’s Kucoin discussion, Bitcountry Metaverse Has Launched, and a FANTASTIC Interview with Derek Yoo, from Moonbeam.
@MaxTheo explains Zeitgeist App & NFTs,
@prophet discusses Parallel Finance’s AMM DEX, Money Market, Liquid Crowdloans, and Is Parallel Finance SECURE?
Unbound & Unleash the Chaos! (September 2nd - September 8th Newsletter) with @pnin, @Csaint02, @JB and @Dodow. NOTE: this is included here so all roles on the discord server can find it!

NFTs and the Metaverse: The Heartbeat of Dotsama

NFT Gaming, Metaverse, and Marketplaces are amongst the main news stories this past week!

Bit.Country & Metaverse.Network post a new podcast!
Governance Participation rewards reveals a “hack” that has been exploited to earn rarer NFT rewards, with a plan to mitigate it. Referendum 224 was sent.
A new NFT Marketplace and launchpad, Kolofon, is coming.
Beamswap (a DeFi hub on Moonbeam) partners with Raresama
Phalaworld previews their modified Pandroid shell and their customizable X-Gene species.
A new NFT Collection, Cult Bear NFT is coming on Moonbeam and will be offering free mints to holders of various GLMR NFTs. Here is some more information revealing what the Cult Bear project is.
Check the re-designed landing page on Kodadot's beta platform!
Evrloot’s V0.5 (beta) launch has made a splash when it went live. But it has undergone some downtime to deal with scaling issues due to the huge influx of player participation.
Archiverse’s 2nd tailor-made pyramid is minted!
Metaverse by Moonsama coming?
This 20-tweet long thread explains the structure of YoudleDAO and the architecture of the DAOist CDK. YoudleDAO also does a giveaway of 1M $FREN tokens.
Zeitgeist does a live demo of their NFT profile.
A recap about Buddies Bank achievements thus far. 53x!
Pioneer went live and NEER staking is now available, with 1 million $NEER staked in just 9 hours.
Skylab’s "frostfire" is mentioned.
Hog Lordz’s first multi resource collection dropped on Singular.
The first playable NFTs on Efinity have been minted.
There’s a new Singular twitter account, SingularApp with a focus on artists, collections, creative activities, tips, events, and platform developments.
Chaos Collective has dropped their newest album, with a Special Edition that has an animated, extremely rare Kanaria background.
Astar is doing a video series on dApps building on their chain. The first episode features Cosmize.

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

@MarcoRo writes a summary of a live stream on RMRK, and on the conference in Berlin.
@Je writes an article on Kodadot
@Cris_Pap discusses the value of the Moonsama Multiverse, as well as a throwback thread to Moonsama’s journey.
@Everythingblockchain covers Kodadot in depth.
@DrCao shares a video about the PolkaPet NFT project.
@pnp and @Everythingblockchain both join in the 48hour bounty to put out a thread about the whitelist for the Public Pressure and EXO drop.

DeFI

DEFI news includes new trading pairs, bonus liquidity, airdrops, IDOs, competitions, campaigns, and $POOP!

$POOP is live on Stellaswap and Beamswap.
Alnair Finance, which is a synthetic protocol on Astar Network is launching an IDO for their $ALNR token on September 15th.
Arthswap has opened farming pools for SRS/ASTR and ATID/ASTR.
A guide for depositing Interlay's $iBTC on Beamswap to farm and earn triple rewards.
Zircon Finance has released details about their ZRG airdrops, including the conditions by which the airdrop is graded and who receives it.
For those who contributed to the TUR/MGX Bootstrap (on Mangata Finance), your bonus has been dropped. And if you want you can add it into the liquidity pool for some sweet APR.
Equilibrium released a series on how to earn using the various use cases available on their dApp–great alpha for Closed Beta participants.
YieldBay List is now tracking $POOP.
Bifrost has announced that they are also launching a campaign: RainDOT, essentially Rainbow Boost on Polkadot.
There is a new contest by Algem(a liquid staking project on Astar Network). The team will award $ASTR tokens to the 999th, 1000th and 1001th users to use their dApp.
Amplitude tokens have been distributed to those who contributed to the crowdloan. Governance, staking $AMPE, and token transfers will soon follow. The team is also doing a token giveaway until Sept 25th!

Content creation (Tier 1 & 2 Creator)

@PNP introduces Railgun–a privacy project, Bifrost’s liquid staking solution vDOT, and a Hitchhiker’s guide to the Polkadot Ecosystem.
@Cris_Pap has an epic thread of $POOP on day 1.
@Crane writes a thread about Bifrost’s SALP vsKSM and an article about Bifrost's SALP vsbond. Follow and upvote his Dotsama posts on Reddit, username u/Myraan.
@DrCAO provides valuable educational videos and complementary articles covering a number of things. See his video What is SALP on Bifrost Finance.

Governance

Governance stories included conviction, discussion, making changes, and don't forget to reject referendum 229!

Polkassembly releases an interesting article on conviction voting. This article deep dives how the referendum process works and how conviction can boost your vote.
Referendum 229 is expected to fail as it was made in error.
A referendum to ready KILT’s Kusama chain for migration to Polkadot has passed with flying colors! We can’t wait to see what’s next.
Parallel is listing CLV? Curious to know what Parallel’s plans are for this multichain wallet.

Rumors & Alpha

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

Check out the use of verifiable credentials and imagine GitArch featuring integration with KILT Protocol.
Subquery’s indexing solution now supports Cosmos. Potentially opens the door to more interoperability with 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.

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:

Predicting Crypto Markets & Gromlin NFTs in Kusama and Polkadot News - SER, Have ya Heard?
Aggregated Identities for Airdrops on the Blockchain w/ Kai from Litentry - Space Monkeys Podcast 068.
They turned a Popular Board Game into NFTs w/ RMRK - P-Ninja on the Road.
Zeitgeist Opens Low Fee and Trustless Prediction Markets - Csaint's Alpha Shots.
Learn How to keep your $DOT Tokens LIQUID by Crowdloaning through Parallel Finance with $cDOT!

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 new Bifrost bounty campaign relates to the RainDOT campaign!

Writing History & Chaos! (September 9th - September 15th)