DotLeap 128 - Gavin Wood unveils Agile Polkadot
Polimec and Deloitte partner-up, Subsquid's private testnet, Startale secures $3.5m from Sony, and more.
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Polkadot Updates
🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain
total supply - ~1.33b DOT | staking - 43.5% | parachains & crowdloans - 10%
🔴 🏛 Governance
treasury balance - 46.11m DOT // 🔻1.69% from last week
Root - for proposals that seek to update the network
Referendum 9, proposing to set max_code_size to 3 MiB, is passing with 99% in favor and less than 9 days to vote.
Whitelisted Caller - for proposals that seek to update the network
Referendum 18, proposing to upgrade the relay chain and system parachains to runtime v9430, is passing unanimously with less than 13 days to vote.
Referendum 51, opening HRMP channels between system parachains (Asset Hub, Collectives, and Bridge Hub), is passing unanimously with less than 25 days to vote.
Referendum 55, updating the Nominations Pool settings (increasing the max pools, members, and commission), is passing with 99% and less than 25 days to vote.
General Admin - for proposals requesting up to 333,333.33 KSM
Referendum 23, proposing to set Polkassembly as a registrar for the Polkadot identity system, is passing unanimously with less than 13 days to vote.
Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 333.33 KSM
Referendum 1, funding OpenCommunity Governance (an initiative where auditors help review proposals and give a grade to enable the community and proposers better understand the strength and weaknesses of proposals), is passing with 75% in favor and less than 9 days to vote.
Referendum 2, funding the 5 months maintenance of the ParaSpell XCM SDK, is failing with 79% against and less than 9 days to vote.
Referendum 7, re-submitting the specifics of Motion 339 (to reward 'high quality' nomination pools using a deterministic evaluation system) which was rejected due to technical reasons, is passing with 90% in favor and < 9 days to vote.
Referendum 10, funding the Jan-Apr cloud costs of Polkashots, is passing with 62% in favor and < 10 days to vote.
Referendum 11, funding Polkadot Brazil to create tools and content to increase user onboarding, is failing with 99% against and < 10 days to vote.
Referendum 17, retroactively funding Integritee for the work on implementing privacy sidechains for any substrate-based chain, is failing with 64% against and < 13 days to vote.
Referendum 19, funding Stakeworld’s RPC and bootnode infrastructure costs for Q2 2023, is passing with 57% in favor and < 13 days to vote.
Referendum 40, retroactively funding Pinknode for running public infrastructure for Polkadot in Q2 2022, is failing with 64% against and < 19 days to vote.
Referendum 45, funding OnFinality for running public infrastructure, is passing with 50% in favor and < 19 days to vote.
Referendum 46, funding Polkadot Hubs, is failing with 82% and < 20 days.
Referendum 52, funding the development of DAO_Terminal, is failing with 98% and < 23 days to vote.
Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 3,333.33 KSM
Referendum 13, funding OpenSquare for old and new features for Subsquare and doTreasury, is passing with 88% in favor and < 12 days to vote.
Referendum 14, funding tranches 2 & 3 of the Encode Club x Polkadot education and hackathon series, is failing with 54% against and < 12 days to vote.
Referendum 19, funding Stakeworld’s data indexing infrastructure costs for Q1 2023, is passing with 57% in favor and < 13 days to vote.
Referendum 16, retroactively funding Equilibrium for building a common Ledger app that is compatible with all Polkadot and Kusama parachains, is passing with 78% in favor and < 13 days to vote.
Referendum 20, funding Subscan’s infrastructure costs from July to Dec 2022, is passing with 87% in favor and < 14 days to vote.
Referendum 24, funding the ink! design security review by OpenZeppelin, is passing with 63% in favor and < 15 days to vote.
Referendum 29, funding the development of Societal (a home base for decentralized communities), is passing with 70% in favor and < 16 days to vote.
Referendum 32, funding milestone 2 of the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2023: Europe Edition, is passing with 66% and < 17 days to go.
Referendum 33, funding the further development of Encointer (a common-good parachain that enables communities everywhere to generate their own, autonomous currency, and use it to stimulate the local economy), is failing with 62% against and < 17 days to vote.
Referendum 34, reimbursing RadiumBlock for Polkadot Endpoint Service (Q4 2022 and Q1 2023), is passing with 82% in favor and < 17 days to vote.
Referendum 35, funding Polkadotters for 2 years of content creation and event organization, is passing with 81% in favor and < 17 days to vote.
Referendum 36, funding OneBlock to organize the Polkadot Summer Hackathon in China, is set to pass with 52% in favor and < 16 days to vote.
Referendum 41, funding the development of Notifi, is failing with 92% against and < 20 days to vote.
Referendum 43, funding AngelHack to run the 2023 Polkadot Relayers Incubator, is passing with 62% in favor and < 20 days to vote.
Referendum 44, funding Polkassembly for new product development and OpenGov deployment, is passing with 98% in favor and < 20 days to vote.
Big Spender - for proposals requesting less than 33,333.33 KSM
Referendum 8, funding further development of Nova Wallet, is passing with 90% in favor and < 12 days to vote.
Referendum 21, funding Zondax for the maintenance of Ledger apps, is passing with 69% in favor and < 15 days to vote.
Referendum 30, resubmitting Motion 420 to help the Matrix.org Foundation with upstream funding, is passing with 95% in favor and < 16 days to vote.
Referendum 47, funding the Polkadot Assurance Legion Bounty, is failing with 87% in favor and < 21 days to vote.
Treasurer - for proposals requesting up to 333,333.33 KSM
Referendum 22, funding the frontend development of Genesis DAO (a Substrate-based blockchain designed to facilitate the creation and management of DAOs), is passing with 64% in favor and less than 15 days to vote.
Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ
🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain
total supply - ~13.75m KSM | staking - 52.9% | parachains & crowdloans - 1%
Tinkernet won the recent parachain slot auction.
🦅 🏛 Governance
treasury balance - 278.97k KSM // 🔻0.05% from last week
Whitelisted Caller - for proposals approved by the Fellowship
Referendum 219, proposing to increase parachain validators to 300, was passed and executed.
Referendum 221, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain, Asset Hub, and Bridge Hub to runtime v9430, was passed.
Referendum 230, updating the Nominations Pool settings (increasing the max pools, members, and commission), is passing unanimously with less than 10 days to vote.
Referendum 231, opening HRMP channels between the Asset and Bridge Hubs, is passing unanimously with < 10 days to vote.
Staking Admin - for proposals related to staking and validation
Referendum 224, a re-issue with corrected XCM of Ref 214 proposing to decentralize the collator set on Kusama system parachains, was passed.
Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 333.33 KSM
Referendum 228, funding ProStakers to develop a Small Toolchain, is passing with 65% in favor and < 7 days to go.
Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 3,333.33 KSM
Referendum 220 by KodaDot, funding the integration of RMRK v2 into KodaDot, failed.
Referendum 225, funding the development of Polkawatch, a tool that provides Kusama decentralization analytics, was passed and executed.
Referendum 229, funding infrastructure costs for Subscan from July to December 2022, is passing with 83% in favor and < 7 days to vote.
Big Spender - for proposals requesting less than 33,333.33 KSM
⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others
projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains
Astar’s Startale Labs secures $3.5m funding from Sony.
Ajuna announced a partnership with Evrloot to form a new game development team focused on building the immersive world of Stardust Colonies, a deep space strategy game.
KILT announced One Identity Across All Parachains Using KILT Infrastructure.
Moonsama announced that the beta of its gaming platform is now live.
OAK celebrated the one-year anniversary of its ambassador program.
Origin Trail presented AI-powered semantic search with OriginTrail's Knowledge Assets at Polkadot Decoded.
OT released a new website.
Polimec and Deloitte Switzerland introduce new KYC credentials to enhance regulatory-compliant fundraising.
Subsocial’s Grill.chat now supports donations on Moonbeam.
Subsquid announced the launch of its private testnet.
t3rn introduced Snorkel, a proof-of-concept interoperable application that demonstrates the potential of trustless cross-chain state access.
Unique relaunched its marketplace with a step-by-step tutorial on how to get started.
Various projects released new ecosystem reports: Pendulum, Bit.Country, Bifrost, Moonbeam, and HydraDX.
🌎 Community & Ecosystem
Are you looking to get more involved in building and developing on Polkadot? Check out the new Polkadot Developer Heroes program.
Notes from the recent Polkadot Ecosystem Technical Fellowship workshop have been posted on the Polkadot Forum.
Check out a recap of Polkadot Decoded posted by the Polkadot Twitter account: Day 1, Day 2.
Watch the talks from Polkadot Decoded 2023. We especially recommend Gavin Wood’s keynote speech where he unveiled the future of Polkadot.
Polkadot Blog published Blockspace & Blockspace Ecosystems: How Polkadot is Unlocking the Full Potential of Web3 and Introducing the Polkadot Developer Heroes Program.
🌠 NFT Review
A weekly newsletter keeping up with the evolution of NFTs in the Dotsama ecosystem.
Polkadot distributed POAP NFTs to participants of 2023’s Polkadot Decoded. View them on Singular.
Singular’s first GBM auction was concluded, netting 7280 GLMR for Evrloot. 13 bidders played, with 860 GLMR distributed as incentives.
Enjin (NFT-centric layer-1) unveiled a new Enjin Platform.
👷♂️ Jobs in Web 3.0
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