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🐂 boolish - top news
Parity released create-polkadot-dapp (a tool that helps you build your Polkadot DApp in less than 5 minutes) and their 2025 Roadmap for Polkadot.
Björn (Parity CEO) and Pierre (Parity CTO) spoke to CBS News at Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting as part of a series of interviews with other tech leaders.
SOL and SUI are coming soon to Polkadot thanks to the chads at Hydration.
Referendum 1346, funding Token Terminal to build comprehensive and standardized datasets and metrics for the Polkadot ecosystem, was approved.
Mythical launched Football Rivals, a Telegram mini-app by Koni Stack, on Mythos chain - compatible with existing NFL Rivals assets. Almost $300M in NFT sales were registered on the Mythos Chain last year. With FIFA Rivals and Pudgy Party, imagine what’s next.
DOT was added to Coingecko’s ‘Made in USA’ category. Are these signs of big moves happening behind the scenes?
After two rejections, Conor Daly has returned with Referendum 1389 seeking $3.5M for the sponsorship of the 2025 Motorsports season, adding two more races at no extra cost.
Meet Vortex, your seamless USDC <> EUR gateway for the Polkadot ecosystem.
⭕️ ecosystem
Bifrost has added vPHA to their list of liquid staking tokens. Meanwhile, 80M vASTR has been minted.
Nova Wallet v9.2 brings an improved user experience to the DApp Browser, with DApps category filtering, multi-tabs, and a DApp minimize/maximize function. It’s almost unbelievable how smooth it is.
Phala announced partnerships with GoPlus Security, xNomadAI, and NOTAI.
Polimec is now accepting new fundraising applications.
vDOT is now available to supply as collateral or to borrow on Hydration.
Astar published Unlocking Opportunities with ASTR in the Soneium dApp ecosystem.
Various projects released their 2025 roadmap: Integritee, Origin Trail, NeuroWeb
Various projects had their community calls: Centrifuge, peaq, Ajuna, Darwinia
Silencio, the first DePIN to launch on the Peaq mainnet, has scheduled its SLC token genesis event for January 24th 2025.
Snowbridge DApp received a new UI redesign with a winter theme.
The Polkalottery has expanded to Acala. Participants can buy tickets using the SORA, Polkadot, and Acala networks for 0.1 DOT and gain the chance to share in a prize pool of 200 DOT.
Evrloot x KGeN's Green January campaign concluded after reaching 3500 new players in days.
💰 opportunities
Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Support Specialist, Growth Operations Manager, Research Scientist Intern, and Investor Relations Manager.
The Open Source Developer Grants Bounty (funded by Ref 1080) has begun. For details, see here.
Interested in helping the Polkadot community grow by hosting meetups? Polkadot Roots is accepting applications.
Applications for the next Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Luzern, Switzerland (24 Mar - 10 Apr) are now open. PBA Campus – Polkadot Blockchain Academy.
Polkadot is giving away 50 Ledger Flexes on Twitter.
Reservations to become a DeNet Datakeeper are now open. A deposit of $100 reserves you a spot to purchase a Datakeeper Node in the future and earn for providing storage space to the DeNet decentralized storage protocol which is being built on Peaq.
🏛️ governance
in progress
Referendum 1339, proposing to set the code for the Parallel parachain, is passing with 99.3% in favor.
Referendum 1370, funding Ross and Joel for the continued development of the Polkadot Staking Dashboard for Q1-Q2 2025, is passing with 99%.
Referendum 1371, funding Interstellar for the development of Next-Gen Smart Account Features, is passing with a slim margin of 61.8%.
Referendum 1374 by Easy A, funding the fast-grants programme for early-stage builders on Polkadot, is barely failing with 60% in favor.
Referendum 1377, funding the creation of OG Rust Bounties (designed to incentivize Rust engineers to carry out developer tasks that have been requested under OpenGov, or by some reputable authority such as the Fellowship), is passing with 99.5%.
Referendum 1383, funding Ideal Labs to develop the randomness layer for Polkadot, is passing with 99.9%.
Referendum 1388, sponsoring Team Vitality for 2 years as official blockchain partner, is preparing. This is a unique Esports sponsorship proposal that promises robust technical integration with Polkadot.
Referendum 1389, sponsoring the Conor Daly 2025 Polkadot Motorsports 2.0 Program with $3.5m, is failing with 30% against. This is an improved proposal with clear KPIs.
Referendum 1390, funding Talisman mobile wallet, is failing with 33.2% against. (approval at 86.8%).
Referendum 1391, retroactively funding Novasama for 9 months of work on various features, is passing with 99.9% in favor.
Referendum 1392, funding Polkadot Music Events Initiative to produce 4 {Bash} events with a KPI of bringing 1M+ minimum user wallets in 2025, is passing with 93% in favor.
Referendum 1394, (wish for change) to diversify 1m DOT into BTC, is passing unanimously, though with no decision deposit yet.
Referendum 1395, topping off the Polkadot system parachain collators Bounty, is passing unanimously.
approved
Referendum 1350, proposing a new Polkadot branding guideline.
rejected
Referendum 1357, sponsoring the Conor Daly 2025 Polkadot Motorsports 2.0 Program.
Referendum 1345, funding Colorful Notion to develop an Etherscan integration for PolkaVM/revive Smart Contracts.
Referendum 483, proposing funding the VCAP project on Asset Hub.
📺 what to watch and listen to
Polkaworld hosted a panel discussion about AI agents on Polkadot featuring Alexis (Gavun Wud), Leo (Neurolanche), and Branimir (Origin Trail).
The Polkadot Blockchain Academy hosted alumni Tony Riemer, Juan Girini, and Carlos Montoya, founding members of Ideal Labs, who are hoping to build the Ideal Network, a native randomness solution for Polkadot.
📖 what to read
Polkadot SDK 2024 Roundup by Kian.
Polkadot: Closer to the Rollup Model than you Realize by Parity.
Approaching NFT XCM Methods by Unique Network.
10 Teams Using Polkadot to Build Web3 - Case Studies by Polkadot.
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