Polkadot rises in mindshare 🚀

Fast unstake coming soon, Polkadot going to consensus in style, new institutional integrations, and more

During the Coretime sale period, all available cores were bought by a rogue activist, seeking numerous changes to the way Coretime sales are handled. This sparked Ref. 1536

🐂 boolish - top news

• Jonas (research scientist at W3F) posted an update on the Fast Unstake feature. The implementation has been taken over by Blockdeep Labs and is expected to be ready for audits by the end of May.

• Copper has partnered with P2P.org to offer secure and yield-optimized staking of DOT to its institutional clients.

• Polkadot cracks the top 20 on 24h Kaito’s mindshare leaderboard. It was also top 3 in the Messari mindshare leaderboard.

• Polkadot has secured a high-traffic 20’x20’ booth for Consensus Toronto from May 14-16. Expect community activations, live talks, swag, and demos. Ecosystem teams and builders interested in showcasing their work are invited to apply now.

• The Polkadot ecosystem has been added to Chainspect, a top web3 blockchain tracker.

• The new Polkadot Rollups landing page (WIP) is pretty sleek.

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⭕️ ecosystem

• Alice_und_Bob would like to know what Treasury statistics you would like to see for the bi-annual Treasury Report.

• EasyA announced the winners of its London hackathon.

• OriginTrail has won a place in the European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI (ELSA) second Industry Call.

• peaq announced that Aira, SkyX, Beacon Protocol, Combinder, and DecenSpace have been selected to join its DePIN Base Camp accelerator program.

  • Project Zero is now live on peaq, offering DePINs access to its advanced real-time data infrastructure for the deployment of AI agents, dynamic dApps, and smart machines.

• Dot Shield v2.0 now supports EVM addresses, making its automated verification and moderation solution for Telegram available to communities such as Moonbeam, Mythos, and LAOS.

• LINK and SKY are now available for trading on Hydration.

• The Astar Finance Committee is now live on-chain.

• Crust partnered with the Australian AI Music Alliance to launch a global AI music encoding platform.

• The first ERC-20 transfer just landed on Kusama AssetHub thanks to Snowbridge.

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💰 opportunities

• You can win $100 through the new Polkadot challenges on the EasyA app.

• Parity is currently interviewing twenty graduates from the Polkadot Blockchain Academy Campus course in Lucerne.

• Evrloot Marks Season 2 has commenced, bringing the new Rift expedition and a revamped battle system.

• Bifrost distributed 50,000 BNC to its top yappers and aims to do so again in future.

• Polkadot (via WebZero) will host a hackathon at Consensus 2025 with $20,000 in prizes.

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🏛️ governance

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

🕓 confirming

• Ref 1522: Funding the operation and maintenance of Polkaworld

👍🏾 passing

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

• Ref 1516: Further funding for the Infrastructure Builders Program

• Ref 1528: Upgrading the Polkadot Bridge Hub runtime to 1.4.3

• Ref 1529: Setting Snowbridge-wrapped USDC & USDT as sufficient assets, their ED to $0.01, and their metadata on Asset Hub

• Ref 1530: Rewarding Amfroc for their work on The Spammening

• Ref 1535: Funding a 6 months extension for the PoKe Berlin team

• Ref 1536: Assigning Coretime to Xcavate and Mythical

• Ref 1538: Giving Bifrost a 1-year loan of 1M DOT for vDOT liquidity

• Ref 518: Proposing to upgrade Kusama Asset Hub to runtime 1.4.3

👎🏾 failing

• Ref 1514: Polkadot x MotoGP Partnership & Integration Proposal

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

• Ref 1518: Retroactively funding Integritee for developing Incognitee

• Ref 1523: Funding development of the Polkadot Humanoid SDK at Cyberpunk Labs

• Ref 1526: Retroactively funding Subsquid for indexing infrastructure

• Ref 1531: Funding the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute

• Ref 1533: Funding a meta-proposal combining 7 initiatives to strengthen the Polkadot Hivemind and enhance outward-facing projects

✅ approved

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

• Ref 512: Adjusting the ideal bulk proportion for coretime sales

• Ref 514: Proposing to register numerous assets on the Kusama Asset Hub

❌ rejected

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

• 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

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📺 what to watch and listen to

• From Coding at 8 to Polkadot’s JAM 🧑‍🚀Daniel Cukier: Man of the Future by The Kusamarian

• The JAM Toaster Explained by Gavin Wood in Hangzhou

• Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship: Sprint Update #3

• No chains attached with Cosmos, Agoric & Polkadot

• DOT Play: The Evolution of Evrloot (Polkadot’s most popular on-chain RPG)

• Bill Laboon interview at MERGE Buenos Aires

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📖 what to read

• Sales (a coordination article by Alice_und_Bob)

• The State of Business Development at Polkadot

• Polkadot GTM Model

• Magnificent Miami: Inspired by a Powerful Community (a spirited recap of the impeccable Polkadot Miami Community vibes)

• What the Gray Paper really means for JAM’s decentralized development

• The difference between Ethereum and Polkadot’s RISC-V play

• WTF is RISC-V and why are crypto nerds talking about it?

• The real future of blockchain gaming isn’t about money: It’s about meaning

• Scaling Polkadot: Does it come at a price?

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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.

• Polkadot is hosting a mini-summit in New York on April 25.

• OriginTrail’s DKGcon kicks off on May 6 in New York.

• JAM Experience - Testnet Launch Party is happening in Portugal in May.

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Thank you for taking the Dot leap!