DOT DOT revolution
New Polkadot song, 1-click Polkadot rollup deployment, peaq crosses 2.5M wallets, and others
🐂 boolish - top news
Karim from Parity made a Polkadot song with AI and it is pretty good in my opinion (if you like pop music, give it a listen).
Remy from Parity published extensive details about the upcoming Polkadot Deployment Portal, a tool that simplifies how projects deploy on Polkadot. Anyone will be able to take advantage of the PDP’s intuitive UI and capabilities, allowing you to configure, deploy and manage a rollup with a few simple clicks. Fill this form if you would like to be an early tester.
Copper is expanding its institutional-grade digital asset custody offerings to include Polkadot Asset Hub and parachain tokens, thanks to the ongoing work of Velocity Labs.
peaq's tremendous growth continues, reaching an impressive milestone of 2.5 million wallets with access to 50 DePINs across 20 industries.
JAMdot Technologies, the team building a Python implementation of JAM, has achieved milestone 1 of the 10M DOT JAM implementation prize.
Polkadot has…it all by lolmcshizz.
Would you like to see liquid staking support, e.g. vDOT integration, on the Polkadot staking portal? Vote here.
⭕️ ecosystem
Acurast has partnered with decentralized VPN Nym to provide residential IPs through its DePIN compute network.
Acurast has integrated with OriginTrail to enable secure and confidential AI agents.
Ajuna’s Big Ballz of Bajun game has surpassed the massive milestone of one million mints.
Centrifuge-powered Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund was selected for a $200 million allocation in the Spark Tokenization Grand Prix competition.
EWT is now trading on Hydration.
InvArch's recently launched DAO management portal makes creating and funding a DAO easier than ever. You can now bootstrap your DAO treasury with a growing list of assets, including DOT, USDC, USDT, and even WUD.
Integritee’s privacy-enhanced transaction DApp Incognitee now supports Asset Hub USDT and USDC for private transfers, vouchers, and messaging.
peaq DePINs are now on JamboPhone—starting with Silencio.
peaq unveiled Universal Machine Time (UMT), a tool that enables any machine or DePIN to sync its clock with the network and timestamp any event with extreme precision.
Phala published Performance Benchmark: Running SP1 zkVM in TEE H200 with Low Overhead.
t3rn’s V2 Testnet is now live.
Vortex, powered by Pendulum, now supports seamless off-ramping of USDT and USDC to Brazilian Real using the Pix instant payment system.
Xcavate’s (real-estate fundraise on Polimec has progressed to the funding round, which will last for 14 days. Funding will be approved if participants commit at least 33% of the $250K target.
💻 technical
A KAGOME validator is now live in the active validator set. This is the second implementation of the Polkadot Host to be actively producing blocks on the Polkadot relay chain.
niftesty released a new Polkadot next.js app starter template that helps devs avoid setting up the same dependencies and configurations for every new Polkadot project, providing a solid foundation to jumpstart Polkadot App Development.
Interested in quickly creating a Polkadot dapp? Check out the create-polkadot-dapp NPM package.
Curious about how smart contracts on the Asset Hub will work? Check out Cyril Leutwiler’s talk at Sub0 here.
💰 opportunities
Encode Club is launching a 4-week Polkadot Scalability Hackathon starting April 7 with over $33,000 in rewards. Register here.
PBA-X’s (online Polkadot Blockchain Academy) next session begins on April 14. You can register here.
Polkadot Italia is running a community engagement campaign on Airlyft. The prize pool, which currently includes Polkadot and Inter Miami CF swag, is growing by the day.
Bifrost’s BNC token is now live on Ascendex. Deposit at least 1 BNC by March 24th for a chance to share in a 20K BNC prize pool.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🕓 confirming
Ref 1462: Funding the 2025 development of Polkadot-API
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1474: Proposing curators for the Polkadot Fast-Grants Bounty
Ref 1475: Funding Subscan to integrate PVM to its explorer and indexer services
Ref 1476: Retroactive funding for JUST Ventures
Ref 1463: Funding Polkassembly for 2025
Ref 1468: Upgrading the Polkadot Asset Hub and Collectives parachains to runtime 1.4.2.
Ref 1477: Funding for ReactiveDOT
Ref 1480: Increasing the Proof-of-Validity size to 10 MB, allowing for larger parachain blocks among other things
Ref 1484: Increasing the size of the validator active set from 500 to 600
Ref 1485: Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 31
Ref 1486: Upgrading Asset Hub and Collectives system parachains to Runtime 1.4.2
Ref 1487: Topping up the Paseo developer testnet bounty
Ref 1492: Funding OpenGuild to accelerate Polkadot builder activating in Asia
Ref 1497: Funding Polkadot Blockchain Academy for 9 months
Ref 1498: Registering several Polkadot native assets on Ethereum (including DOT, KSM, GLMR, HDX, and more)
Ref 1499: Retroactively funding Bounty Manager V2
Ref 504: Providing funding for public Kusama RPC providers
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1489: Retroactive funding for PolkaGate MetaMask Snap development
Ref 1490: Funding the AntiScam team
Ref 507: Reducing Kusama inflation to 5%
✅ approved
Ref 1425: Peer3 SDK development
Ref 1455: Statescan maintenance proposal from 2023.10 to 2025.03
Ref 1432: Propose Curators for OG Rust Bounty
Ref 505: Upgrading the Kusama Asset Hub runtime to v1.4.2
📺 what to watch and listen to
Friday DOT News Pump by The Kus.
Governance Side by Side with Ethereum, NEAR & Polkadot by Parity x W3F.
📖 what to read
How Polkadot’s JAM Upgrade Functions Similarly to Neural Networks by JAMman.
Parachains = Rollups (the not-so-techy explanation) by Joyce from Parity.
Polkadot Digest Part 7 by Polkadot Editorial Team.
Polkadot Adoption and Financial Metrics Series pt. 3: Addresses & Transactions by WagMedia.
The Evolution of Digital Ownership: How Tokenization is Transforming Gaming, Music, and Beyond by Polkadot blog.
Web3 Funding Playbook for Builders, Creators, and Founders by Polkadot blog.
Understanding Polkadot’s PVM (Polkadot Virtual Machine) Formula in JAM, From the Gray Paper by JAMman.
Blockspace is Abundant and That's a Problem by Daniel Cukier.
📅 events
Gavin Wood is taking JAM to Protocol Berg in Berlin (June 12-13).
Erin from Parity will lead a workshop on building test infrastructure from the ground up at Protocol Berg in Berlin.
Thank you for taking the Dot Leap!
