DOT makes strides in Hong Kong
Kusama Asset Hub migration done, W3F increase DV voting power, Wud Universe launched, and more
🐂 top news
Polkadot became the first blockchain to partner with Hong Kong Government’s OASES, bringing Polkadot Cloud and Hub to Chinese tech firms via PolkaPort East.
Kusama Asset Hub migration was completed in 3 hours 13 minutes, migrating 348,000 accounts and 17 million KSM with all assets, pallets, accounts, and proxies from the relay chain.
Web3 Foundation increased DAO voting power to 3M DOT in the Decentralized Voices program.
Parity published Build on Polkadot: September 2025 Product Engineering Update.
sub0 announced a $31,000 prize pool with bounties from Polkadot, Hyperbridge, Kusama, and Web3 Marketing Hack for builders across all verticals.
Polkadot joined Staking Summit Buenos Aires as a Gold Partner for the November 15-16 event.
Gavun Wud launched the Wud Universe.
Phala’s governance proposal to migrate to Ethereum L2 passed, transitioning from Intel SGX to Intel TDX and GPU-based confidential compute.
DOT was added to the CoinShares Valkyrie ETF Trust.
Rex Osprey included DOT with staking in their batch of 21 ETFs.
21Shares Polkadot Trust ETF was listed on the DTCC.
⭕️ ecosystem
Acurast announced November 17th as its TGE date.
Astar joined the Polkadot Builder Party with dedicated bounties, twice-weekly office hours, and team support.
Astar opened RFC for Phase 2 of Astar Evolution, proposing a burndrop mechanism for ASTR holders to receive future Startale ecosystem token airdrops.
Bifrost and Integritee published their September reports.
Crust announced its response to an Intel SGX security vulnerability.
Chaotic launched Chaotic Cards, generating personalized NFT trading cards from X profiles and minting them on Polkadot Asset Hub.
Hydration announced that Pax Gold is coming soon to its DEX.
Hyperbridge surpassed $50 million in transaction volume.
Micropay won Best of Polkadot at Token2049 Singapore Hackathon for integrating x402 payment protocol with Hyperbridge for cross-chain AI agent micropayments.
Kusama Shield launched over 50 trading pairs for cross-chain swaps with ZK-powered privacy pools for ERC-20 tokens.
Mandala partnered with BRIN to advance digital identity and AI readiness in Indonesia.
Nova Wallet released v10.4 on Android with privacy-mode features, Kusama Asset Hub migration support, and Snowbridge token swaps.
Parity launched Polkadot Overview and Polkadot Hub pages on data.parity.io with interactive documentation and metrics for contracts, swaps, NFTs, and assets.
Paseo Testnet has a new launch page with guides and insights for new Polkadot ecosystem builders.
peaq added x402 support for automated payments in the Machine Economy.
Polkadot Meetups bounty confirmed over 40 worldwide technical meetups for the Road to sub0 Builder Party hackathon supporting developer onboarding.
StellaSwap’s stGLMR-GLMR pool now offers single-sided LP with over 20% APR.
Velocity Labs extended the DeFi Builders Program application deadline by two weeks for the first cohort.
⚙️ technical
Snowbridge experienced a brief outage from runtime mismatch resulting in six failed transactions, with corrective measures now implemented. An incident report has been posted.
Parity released the all-in-one Polkadot Smart Contracts DevContainer, a ready-to-code DevContainer for building, testing, and deploying smart contracts for Polkadot using either Hardhat or Foundry. In parallel, legacy smart-contracts docs have been sunset and redirected to docs.polkadot.com.
Web3 Foundation’s research arm published BEEFY Or the rise of decentralised blockchain bridges: Say goodbye to trusted intermediaries.
Polkadot SDK was updated to stable2509.
Polkadot-JS was updated to v0.62.2.
Polkadot-JS Apps was updated to v0.166.1.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1767: Funding the development of Treasury Guardian, a tool that incentivizes community members to oversee scheduled payouts and intervene when necessary to protect the Treasury (~$84K)
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1758: Authorizing the curators of Bounty 31 to continue funding of Public RPC Providers for one year and two months (~111K DOT)
Ref 1763: Upgrading the Snowbridge Gateway contract on Ethereum
Ref 1765: Replaying failed Snowbridge transactions after Polkadot runtime upgrade 1.7.1
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1749: Appointing 2 directors to the Polkadot Community Foundation
Ref 1750: Funding The Dots to keep producing Polkadot-related content on X and TikTok ($39K)
Ref 1751: Funding the expansion of @noble/curves to Polkadot ecosystem through the curations of micro-sr25519 package (~$37.4K)
Ref 1752: Funding a Polkadot for New Ventures acceleration program ($108K)
Ref 1757: Funding completion of the integration of BRC721, a protocol that enables bridgeless minting of NFTs directly on the Bitcoin network (40,000 DOT)
Ref 1759: Funding development of RegionX coretime marketplace on Polkadot (~196K)
Ref 1760: Creating the ink! Alliance Bounty in preparation for Polkadot Hub (261,137 DOT)
Ref 1761: Seeking community input on implementing pUSD, a DOT-collateralized stablecoin for Polkadot Hub using the Honzon protocol
Ref 1762: Funding development of RegionX coretime marketplace on Polkadot (~66K)
Ref 1764: Enabling fiat access on Polkadot Hub (50K DOT)
Ref 1766: Funding the maintenance of Polkawatch (~$39K)
📺 what to watch and listen to
Polkadot Builder Party Launch:
The WUD Universe Launch Day Presentation by Gavun Wud.
Attempts at Governance (AAG) #274 - Ink! by Polkadot.
LIVE HACKS: Inside the Shield and Behind the Code Powering Privacy for Polkadot by WebZero.
AMA with Bill Laboon - VP @ W3F by Polkadot.
The Weekly Friday DOT News Pump - Polkadot DeFi TVL hits $500M 🤯 9x Higher than HDX Market Cap by The Kusamarian.
Thank you for taking the dot leap!