Polkadot is not slowing down ☄️

Relay chain processes 21.6m txns, Polkadot Hub launch update, ENS joins Tiktok US bid, and more

🐂 boolish - top news

• Polkadot Relay Chain processed 21.6M transactions in March.

• ENS joined Project Liberty’s (Frequency parachain) bid for TikTok US.

• 2-day fast unstaking could be around the corner.

• Sports Illustrated is launching a live in-game sports prediction market in partnership with Galactic Markets secured by Polkadot (via Truth Network, an Aventus rollup).

• Robotics engineers from the Robonomics team posted a forward-thinking proposal about Developing a Polkadot Humanoid Robot SDK.

• Snowbridge successfully transferred $DOT from AssetHub to Ethereum and back. Polkadot-native assets coming to Ethereum soon.

• Alex Dimes (W3F’s Ecosystem Growth Lead) published the Polkadot Hub launch update, detailing the business development strategy that will be employed to ensure the success of the Hub.

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⭕️ ecosystem

• Astar announced that Startale will reinvest its Soneium sequencer revenue into ASTR token purchases.

• Cohort 4 of the Delegated Voices program was announced: Hungarian Polkadot DAO, JAM Implementers DAO, KusDAO, PermanenceDAO, Polkaworld.

• Cohort 3 of the Polkadot Social Media Editorial Board was announced.

• Evrloot announced Season 2 of its play-to-airdrop campaign, scheduled for April 17th.

• Hydration launched tBTC lending and borrowing on its money market.

  • Hydration joined Bifrost's reward share program, with plans to enable vToken minting and benefit from referrals.

• Kilt achieved 500K on-chain decentralized identifiers (DID).

• Mythical’s $MYTH token reached an all-time high in daily transaction volume of 83.9M MYTH.

• Nova Wallet released v9.7 of the app, enabling governance votes with DOT staked in nomination pools.

• Phala published Phala Cloud: The Next Chapter in Decentralized Confidential Computing, TEE vs. MPC vs. ZK: What’s the Best for Confidential Computing?, and Detailed Analysis of Phala Cloud’s Decentralized Root of Trust, KMS Protocol, and ZKP Enhancement.

• The Polkadot Brand Hub has been updated. New open-source creative assets are now available on the Asset Library.

• Polimec x Scytale Academy announced the first four projects that have made it through the application process: CognideX, Colb Finance, Joinn Finance, and Roam Network.

• Silencio reached one million users, collecting over 34.8B noise-level data points.

• WebZero announced The Kus as its official media partner for all upcoming Blockspace events.

• Ecosystem updates were published by Bifrost, Snowbridge, and peaq.

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💻 technical

• Polkadot stable-2412.4 has been released. This is a patch update to the latest stable version stable-2412.

• Interested in chatting about developing with Polkadot SDK? You can chat on Polkadot Developer Support channel on Telegram or Matrix.

• BlockDeep Labs released ExBrid, an Eth-DOT message passing bridge adapter, allowing smoldot and subxt to submit extrinsics without relying on external relayers.

• Parity announced that staking, governance, and DOT balances will be transferred from the relay chain to Asset Hub in the next quarter.

• Polkadot Deployment Portal (PDP) partnered with Pop. Expect easy parachain/rollup builds through templates and the use of the Pop CLI.

• The Chinese version of the JAM graypaper has been released.

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💰 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.

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🏛️ governance

For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.

🕓 confirming

• Ref 1465: OpenZeppelin Support for Polkadot Hub and Polkadot Cloud in 2025

• Ref 1485: Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 31

• Ref 1487: Topping up the Paseo developer testnet bounty

👍🏾 passing

• Ref 1492: Funding OpenGuild to accelerate Polkadot builder activating in Asia

• Ref 1497: Funding Polkadot Blockchain Academy for 9 months

• Ref 1501: Converting 5,001,000 DOT into USDC and USDT

• Ref 1502: Reimbursing accounts affected by Polkadot runtime upgrade to v1.1.2

• Ref 1510: Setting Snowbridge-wrapped USDC & USDT as sufficient assets with an existential deposit of $0.01 on Asset Hub

• Ref 1513: Ratify payout for Talisman Mobile Wallet approved by Ref 1390

• Ref 1514: Polkadot x MotoGP Partnership & Integration Proposal

• Ref 1516: Further funding for the Infrastructure Builders Program

• Ref 509: Opening a request-for-proposal for Shielded Kusama Hub transfers at $50,000. To apply for the prize, fill out this form

• Ref 511: proposing to increase the max_validators parameters on Kusama from 600 to 700

• Ref 512: proposing to adjust the ideal bulk proportion for Kusama coretime sales

👎🏾 failing

• Ref 1499: Retroactively funding Bounty Manager V2

• Ref 1500: Sponsoring Frank Porté for the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Benelux

• Ref 1503: Funding the development of an MVP integration for MinIO to be run in Acurast’s decentralized compute environment

• Ref 1504: Funding PolkaBiz for business mentorship and ecosystem support for 2025

• Ref 1505: Funding SportStake to support DOT staking for sports club donations

• Ref 1509: Funding Ajuna for development of the Substrate Asset Game Engine

• Ref 1517: Funding the production of Guestlist+1 live panel podcast series

✅ approved

• Ref 1474: Proposing curators for the Polkadot Fast-Grants Bounty

• Ref 1475: Funding Subscan to integrate PVM to its explorer and indexer services

• 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 1486: Upgrading Asset Hub and Collectives system parachains to Runtime 1.4.2

• Ref 1498: Registering several Polkadot native assets on Ethereum (including DOT, KSM, GLMR, HDX, and more)

• Ref 1508: Tipping niftesty for developing the Polkadot next.js starter frontend template

❌ rejected

• Ref 507: Reducing inflation on Kusama

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📺 what to watch and listen to

• Attempts at Governance #220 and Friday DOT News Pump (weekly news update) by The Kus.

• Decentralization, Polkadot & AI: How Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Shapes Web3’s Future by Proof of Talk featuring Bill Laboon (Director of Education and Governance Initiatives at the Web3 Foundation) and Kori Higgins (Investments & Growth at Parity).

• How Blockchain Gaming Can Be More Than a Facade by Lucas Moskau (Co-Founder, Evrloot) at ETHDenver.

• Growing the Polkadot Economy X Space hosted by Alice und Bob.

• Web3’s Unfulfilled Promises: Why Music Industry Problems Still Persist? GuestList+1 Live from ETHDenver.

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📖 what to read

• How Others Got Rekt, So You Don’t Have To by Thibaut Sardan.

• How to set up a Polkadot wallet: A step-by-step guide and Security isn’t optional: What builders are factoring into chain choice by Polkadot blog.

• How Does Computation Work in Polkadot’s JAM? by Daniel Cukier.

• Interesting conversations from the Polkadot Forum:

  • I Asked a Web2.0 SaaS CTO to Explore Polkadot — Here’s What He Told Me by batman.

  • Unifying the Polkadot Developer Community by Alice und Bob.

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📅 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.

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