DotLeap 133 - Multi-Rollup Interchain Infrastructure
New Astar tokenomics, new Polkadot Academy graduates, Crust EVM storage, and more.
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Polkadot Updates
🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain
total supply - | staking - % | parachains & crowdloans - %
Parathread 3346 won Polkadot Auction #46.
🔴 🏛 Governance
treasury balance - // % from last week
Staking Admin - for proposals related to staking and validation
Referendum 84, updating the collator sets and configurations for all Polkadot parachains, was approved with 2 days left to vote.
Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 10,000 DOT
Referendum 96, funding the development of Artificial Intelligence for security monitoring on a network level, is failing with 88% against and < 16 days to vote.
Referendum 97, reimbursing YieldBay for developing a yield farming dashboard for Polkadot, is failing with 83% against and < 18 days to go.
Referendum 104, funding the creation of premium personalized notebooks for Polkadot and Kusama users, is failing unanimously with < 22 days to vote.
Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 100,000 DOT
Referendum 64, funding 727 Ventures to organize the Polkadot Wink Event, was rejected.
Referendum 67, funding t3rn to carry out a security audit of its trustless Ethereum light client developed as a Substrate pallet, was rejected.
Referendum 70, funding the development of Finsig SDK for Apple products, was rejected.
Referendum 77, funding the development of Smoldot (an alternative implementation of the Polkadot client focused on using as little CPU, memory, and bandwidth as possible), was approved.
Referendum 78, funding Blockops for the development of 1-click parachain deployment, was rejected.
Referendum 82, funding OnFinality for infrastructure maintenance, was approved.
Referendum 85, funding a 42-week media order from The Kusamarian, was approved.
Referendum 88, funding OnFinality for the development of a Unified NFT API, is failing with 65% against and < 13 days to vote.
Referendum 90, funding LimeChain for the phase 2 development of Gosemble - a Framework for building Substrate-compatible Runtimes in Go, is failing with 64% against and < 14 days to vote.
Referendum 93, funding Kodadot to migrate NFTs from Kusama relay chain to Polkadot Asset Hub, is passing with 73% in favor and < 15 days to vote.
Referendum 98, funding Polkadot Insider for 28 weeks of operation and growth, is failing with 24% against and < 17 days to vote.
Referendum 99, funding Brushfam to develop Patron–a tool to verify & build smart-contracts in one step, is failing with 37% against and < 18 days to vote.
Referendum 101, funding milestone 3 of Polkadot x EasyA Hackathons at Harvard, is failing with 39% against < 22 days to go.
Referendum 102, retroactively funding Polytope Labs for the research and development of ISMP (Interoperable State Machine Protocol), is failing with 56% against and < 22 days to vote.
Referendum 103, funding milestone 3 of the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series, is failing with 40% against and < 22 days to vote.
Referendum 105, funding OpenZeppelin to create a dedicated open-source development team that will work with Parity and the Polkadot community to define and then deliver new Polkadot parachain runtimes, is passing with 93% in favor and < 22 days to vote.
Big Spender - for proposals requesting less than 1,000,000 DOT
Referendum 71, funding the WASM Smart Contracts Bounty which was already approved as Referendum 101 but failed to enact, was approved.
Treasurer - for proposals requesting up to 10,000,000 DOT
Referendum 73, rejecting Gov1.0 treasury proposals and facilitating bond reimbursement where applicable, was approved.
Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ
🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain
total supply - | staking - % | parachains & crowdloans - %
GM won Kusama Auction #96.
🦅 🏛 Governance
treasury balance - // % from last week
Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 333.33 KSM
Referendum 243, funding ChaosDAO for the development of an OpenGov community voting Discord bot, was approved.
Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 3,333.33 KSM
Referendum 244, funding Supercomputing Systems for the maintenance of substrate-api-client from Aug-23 to Oct-23, was rejected.
Referendum 252, releasing the second allocation of funds to HER DAO for hosting the Polkadot Safari, is passing with 86% in favor and < 8 days to vote.
⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others
projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains
Astar published a new tokenomics model.
Crust now supports EVM Storage.
Heal3, a Web3 health care app with game-fi features on Astar, is now available on AppStore.
HydraDX is now listed as an exchange on Coingecko.
Litentry introduced direct invocation, EVM sign-in, and a special airdrop.
Mangata released Multi-Rollup Interchain Infrastructure, providing a trust- and risk-minimized architecture compared to traditional bridges and avoids centralized parties or additional layers of economic security.
Manta published information about Universal Circuits, a versatile library of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) circuits specially designed for generalized use cases, providing a groundbreaking solution for developers.
Nodle, the smartphone-powered decentralized network, introduced Nodle Explorer.
Join Origin Trail & Google on August 10th at 4 pm CEST for a live demo on the seamless integration of Google Vertex AI and Knowledge Assets.
SORA announced that its SORA Card sign-ups are live.
Subsquid released a project roadmap.
Various projects released new ecosystem reports: CLV, Energy Web, HydraDX, Darwinia, Tanssi.
🌎 Community & Ecosystem
The Polkadot Blockchain Academy ended with 58 graduates in its third cohort.
Polkadot Blog published Polkadot Blockchain Academy: Forging Web3’s Future Innovators.
Registrations are open for the Polkadot Global Series: Relayers Incubator 2023, an exclusive, and community-first journey for visionary dApp builders on Polkadot parachains.
A new RFC, to modify the Treasurer Track confirmation period, has led to a longer discussion on modifying other OpenGov parameters.\
Watch a recording of the last Polkadot Pioneers AMA focusing on Web3 Gaming.
🛠 Tools
Reminder that separate Controller accounts are being deprecated on Polkadot and Kusama. You can set your controller account to your stash account on the Staking Dashboard. If you need the capabilities of a separate Controller account, you can use a Staking Proxy.
👷♂️ Jobs in Web 3.0
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That's it for this week - I hope this was as useful for you to read as it was for us to write!
Many thanks to Bill Laboon for his daily digest—which helps us not miss some important updates—and Raul Romanutti for helping us ensure that the governance news is accurate.
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