Polkadot's first debit card 💳
Mythos flying high, Polkadot app update, DOT listed on stock exchange, and more
🐂 top news
The first Polkadot Debit Card is now available via Nova Wallet.
Mythos exceeded $40M in trading volume (previous ATH) for three months in a row since February.
DOT has been listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.
Birdo published an update about the Polkadot App–it’s finally been submitted to Google and Apple Play stores.
Adidas is teaming up with FIFA Rivals to bring exclusive in-game content for players, powered by Mythos Chain.
Polkadot has plans to survive the existential threat posed by the emergence of quantum computing.
Gavin Wood was on the When Shift Happens podcast, revealing why crypto has failed and how network founders can work together to save it.
⭕️ ecosystem
Kukabi, founder of Helikon and member of Permanence DAO, released dv.report, a comprehensive dashboard for Cohort IV of the Decentralized Voices programme displaying vote counts, policy direction and more.
BlockDeep Labs has taken over maintenance of the Polkadot Developer Console and other polkadot.js tools from Parity.
There is a discussion on Twitter about the future of the Polkadot Marketing Bounty’s Yapper Leaderboard program.
Nova Spektr (desktop wallet by Nova Wallet team) has been upgraded to v1.16.0 featuring enhanced WalletConnect integration, Fellowship reminders, and more.
Apillon’s embedded wallet now supports Substrate chains, Moonbeam, and Astar, allowing builders to offer easy onboarding without the need for seed phrases.
Astar published a recap of the Astar Contribution Score (ACS) campaign.
Talisman now supports Polkadot Vaults 7.0 smartphone-based cold storage.
Subwallet extension v1.3.39 is now live, bringing unified addresses on Hydration, support for the Xcavate network, and new tokens on Polkadot Asset Hub.
OriginTrail was recognised for its positive impact in entrepreneurship and features in Microsoft’s newsletter.
Kilt announced it’s entering a new chapter which will include launching a new set of consumer applications— Clans (Infofi), Sporran 2.0 (mobile identity super app), DIDsign 2.0 (document approvals), and Kilt Pay (compliant real-world payments).
Bifrost published Pioneering OmniChain Liquid Staking with Tokenomics 2.0
Various projects published new monthly reports: Integritee, Darwinia.
⚙️ technical
The Polkadot Deployment Portal (PDP) team published a new update on the progress of the 1-click deployment solution.
Jonas (W3F researcher) posted a new update to the Coretime market redesign RFC.
Blockdeep Labs published a PR for unbounding queue of staked DOT.
Polkadot UX bounty is initiating a UI component library for Polkadot to reduce developers' work by providing ready-made blockchain components like amount inputs and transaction buttons for dApps.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1589: Funding milestone 4 of dAppForge development (108K USDC)
Ref 1590: Funding Gossamer for the Q3-Q4 development of Go, an alternative client implementation of Polkadot (815K USDC)
Ref 1591: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for 1 year (632K USDC)
Ref 1592: Funding a Pudgy Penguins <> Mubert Protocol Events Tour (81K USDC)
🕓 confirming
Ref 1572: Retroactively funding the development of Mimir, a multisig solution for Polkadot
Ref 1559: Funding a kick-start campaign for RISC-V smart home devices, secured by Polkadot
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1573: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for the next 6 months of development, marketing, tooling, and legal costs of the Polkadot App
Ref 1584: Refilling the Marketing Bounty (200K DOT)
Ref 1588: Reinstating bounty curators and doing some bounty housekeeping
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1564: Funding milestone 1 of the development of Bounty Hub
Ref 1567: Funding media and marketing campaign for the APAC region led by PANews
Ref 1570: Approving NFT Mozaic’s MVP Grants Program
Ref 1574: Funding the development of W3PI Token Index
Ref 1575: Funding milestone 1 of Inter Miami CF fan engagement campaign
Ref 1580: Funding the development and open source rollout of Epico — an Ethereum wallet compatibility layer for the Polkadot SDK
Ref 1583: Retroactively funding Gitorial VS Code Extension (1,660 DOT)
Ref 1585: Funding the development of Avatar Accounts which will enable Ethereum users use their ETH addresses on Polkadot without any friction (211K USDC)
Ref 1586: Funding Merkle Science to provide compliance and security capabilities to Asset Hub (100K DOT)
Ref 1587: Funding 1 year of Snowbridge development and maintenance (> 5M USDC)
✅ approved
Ref 1542: Funding the Polkadot GIGAHydration campaign (the Hydration team reduced their ask to 2M DOT for a 6-month liquidity campaign with an agreement to return the remaining 3M DOT to the Treasury).
Ref 1562: Funding the development and 12-month maintenance of DotMemo V2
Ref 1560: Funding milestone 2 of the EasyA x Polkadot in-person hackathons
❌ rejected
Ref 1555: Funding Volmex’s integration with the Polkadot DEX ecosystem
Ref 1558: Funding Weever’s campaign to onboard Web2 developers in LATAM and beyond to Polkadot Hub
Ref 1557: Funding the integration of a certification system that ensures the authenticity and immutability of proposal documents
💰 opportunities
Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Technical Educator, Senior Investor Relations Manager, and Senior Software Engineer.
Fill out the OpenJobs form to be added to the directory so potential employers can find you.
Wave 3 of the PBA-X online Polkadot and blockchain fundamentals course kicks off on June 23rd.
📺 what to watch and listen to
LATAM CEX Ripio hosted Nico (Velocity Labs), Roco (Dotcast), and Lorena (Polkadot Ambassador) for an overview of the Polkadot ecosystem, CEX integration, and new token pair listing.
1.2m DOT Marketing Bounty Refill discussion hosted by Alice_und_Bob.
Friday DOT news pump (Polkadot Drops in on the Crypto Gong Show! 🪂 DOT Wins of the Week! Coretime, Truth Network, Mythos) weekly ecosystem recap by The Kus.
Umanitek & AI Harm ⚠️ OriginTrail's NeuroWeb & DKG for Online Trust & Safety - Space Monkeys 194 by The Kus.
📖 what to read
Post Quantum Cryptography Roadmap for Polkadot and JAM by Web3 Foundation research team.
Gavin Wood posted his thoughts on a potential JAM token.
The Polkadot blog published:
Thank you for taking the DOT leap!