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Feb 01, 2025

Gavin Wood spoke to The Kus at the Ambassador Meetup in Vancouver, Canada.
The first block-producing JAM implementation is now running and producing test blocks.
SOL is now tradable on Hydration.
OpenGovWatch has released their 2024 overview of Polkadot OpenGov, entitled The Year of Waste - The Year of Reforms.
Referendum 1400, proposing to register Ether as an asset on Asset Hub, make it sufficient, and lower the cost of Polkadot-Ethereum transfers via Snowbridge, is now up for vote.
Miami pizzeria owner and Polkadot enthusiast prints network's logo and QR code on pizza boxes. Impressive grassroots marketing initiative funded entirely by his passion for the project.
Tuttle Capital has filed an application with the SEC for a 2x leveraged Polkadot ETF.
Nitro Nation World Tour coming to Polkadot via Mythical.
Did you know? Mythos (Mythical) is a DAO and alongside its holders there are many companies who are founding members. Developers like Ubisoft and Krafton, esports groups like FaZe Clan and Talon Esports, and major Web3 companies like Animoca.
Robonomics showed that a humanoid robot can be controlled via Polkadot.
peaq has reached 1,000,000 total users & machines on its network.

The Web3 Foundation has announced the Wave 24 recipients of its grants program (now renamed Ecosystem Development). 13 applicants received funding in the categories of Dev & Deployment Tooling, Runtime Development, Runtime Modules/Chains, DApps & APIs, Wallets, and DePINs.
The Marketing Bounty published its December 2024 report.
Talisman has upgraded its fiat on and off ramping capabilities, offering support for DOT, ETH, and stablecoins thanks to an integration with Ramp.
AssetHub USDC and USDT are now available for swapping, paycheck payments, and on/off ramping to EUR with Electrocoin.
Token Terminal continues building its support for the Polkadot ecosystem, this week integrating Energy Web X and Peaq.
Hyperbridge executed its first cross-chain governance action, which upgraded the consensus client across all supported EVM chains.
Hydration increased the lending cap of vDOT by 111,111 this week. However, some very enthusiastic lenders managed to fill it in under seven minutes.
Bifrost has proposed to add vDOT as a collateral asset on the Moonwell money market.
$KMA holders must migrate their tokens to Manta Pacific before February 22, 2025, 24:00 GMT. After this date, the migration tool will no longer be available.

polkadot-api@1.8.4 has been released.
Polkadot stable2412-1 has been released.
Hyperbridge identified a critical vulnerability affecting the ismp-grandpa crate. It is strongly recommended to immediately upgrade various crates to the patched versions.
The KAGOME implementation of the Kusama validator is now hitting A+ grade on Turboflakes.

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.
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.

Referendum 1389, sponsoring the Conor Daly 2025 Polkadot Motorsports 2.0 Program with $3.5m, is passing with 97% in favor.
Referendum 1339, proposing to set the code for the Parallel parachain, is passing with 99% in favor.
Referendum 1371, funding Interstellar for the development of Next-Gen Smart Account Features, is passing with 61.7% in favor.
Referendum 1374 by Easy A, funding the fast-grants programme for early-stage builders on Polkadot, is barely failing with 60.2% 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 99.3%.
Referendum 1383, funding Ideal Labs to develop the randomness layer for Polkadot, is passing with 99.7%.
Referendum 1388, sponsoring Team Vitality for 2 years as official blockchain partner, is failing with 83.9% against.
Referendum 1390, funding Talisman mobile wallet, is passing with 94.3% in favor.
Referendum 1391, retroactively funding Novasama for 9 months of work on various features, is passing unanimously.
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 74.7% in favor.
Referendum 1399, retroactively funding WebZero for representing Polkadot at Consensus, is passing with 99.9% in favor.
Referendum 1407, setting 4 curators for the Legal Bounty.

Referendum 1339, proposing to force a runtime upgrade for the Parallel parachain.
Referendum 1370, funding Ross and Joel for the continued development of the Polkadot Staking Dashboard for Q1-Q2 2025.
Referendum 484, proposing to increase the maximum number of parachain validators from 500 to 600. [kusama]

Polkaworld hosted Travis (Acala), Max (Harbour Industrial Capital), and Seun (Hyperbridge) on January 27th for the January 2025 Polkadot Roundtable to discuss their projects and the latest about JAM, OpenGov, and the 2025 Roadmap.
Messari Q4 2024 Brief w/ Moonbeam, DataHaven and EigenLayer.
Build a modern DAPP with Polkadot-API Polkadot Decoded 2024 session by Carlo Sala and Josep Sobrepere.

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