sub0 weekend
Polkadot app teased at sub0, decenetralized nodes fourth cohort, Apillon winding down, and more
🐂 top news
sub0 Symbiosis started yesterday and continues until Sunday. You can stream live here. Below are some talks from day 1:
Jonas Gehrlein (Web3 Foundation) published a proposal for a Dynamic Allocation Pool—to provide a financial buffer, adjustable by governance, to enable flexible allocation of protocol expenses.
Apillon announced it will close operations at the end of 2025. Users are advised to migrate their projects and data from the platform by January 1st 2026.
Web3 Foundation opened applications for the Fourth Cohort of Decentralized Nodes, emphasizing diversity and decentralization, with a deadline of November 23.
peaq launched the world’s first tokenized robo-farm mint, with early access NFTs at 167 USDT each yielding 18% annually.
Phala announced its Polkadot parachain slot ends November 20, with asset freeze and migration claims via Phala App.
Bybit now supports on-chain DOT staking.
⭕️ ecosystem
Acurast raised $11M in funding, turning smartphones into decentralized compute nodes ahead of its TGE.
Crust now supports Polkadot’s unified address format for better interoperability.
Hydration’s HOLLAR lending cap was increased to $6M.
PAXG tokenized gold is now available for borrowing and lending on Hydration.
KILT announced operational challenges, seeking stewardship transition by November 18 or full sunset.
Moonbeam opened applications for Moonbeam Governance Guild Term 3, deadline November 17, after reviewing 28 referenda last term.
NovaShots is offering another chance to share in $25K at the BLAST Premier Rivals Season 2 2025 in Hong Kong.
OriginTrail now has 100M TRAC staked across Neuroweb (47.2M), Gnosis (39.3M), and Base (13.6M).
The PAPI Polkadot Staking dApp is live, offering optimized performance and a truly decentralized user experience via light-client compatibility.
peaq initiated another Vested Emission Offering—4.6M PEAQ is available at a 12.5% discount.
Polkadot tweeted about upcoming events happening in the next week.
Quartz is migrating to an internal testing environment for JAM. Holders can trade their QTZ for UNQ at a rate of 25:1 until 31st March 2026.
Snowbridge V2 is live, allowing XCM messaging from Ethereum to Polkadot, smart contract execution from Polkadot to Ethereum, cheaper bridging, and faster transfers.
Subscan introduced real-time alert monitoring for on-chain events.
Talisman added NFT support on Asset Hub for browsing and details.
0xGasless partnered with Magenta Labs for x402 + ERC-8004 on Asset Hub, enabling <200ms intent verification and gasless payments.
⚙️ technical
Pop CLI v0.11.0 is live, now defaulting to ink! v6.0.0-beta smart contracts among other updates.
Polkadot-JS Apps was updated to v0.168.1.
Polkadot-JS Extension was updated to v0.62.4.
Polkadot-JS API was updated to v16.5.2.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1786: Topping up the Paseo Bounty (113.22K DOT)
Ref 1787: Set DOT Asset Rates for USDT and USDC
Ref 1788: Funding the final milestone of RegionX development ($36.6K DOT)
Ref 1790: Ratifying the payment for already-approved Ref 1768, which failed to execute due to a technical error during the Asset Hub migration.
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1779: Funding for ReactiveDOT & related developments (~$25K)
Ref 1783: Funding the Polkadot People Initiative ($3M)
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1773: Funding ink! Alliance to finalize, audit, and stabilize ink! v6 on PolkaVM for Polkadot Hub with 6 months of developer support ($538K)
Ref 1776: Funding Treasury Guardian, a tool to promote milestone-based scheduled-payouts for improved Treasury efficiency and oversight ($68K)
Ref 1778: Allocating treasury funds to purchase bbBNC
✅ approved
Ref 1768: Funding Chaotic for the maintenance and development of a public good Polkadot NFT marketplace ($180K)
❌ rejected
Ref 1771: Funding a StellaSwap incentive program (1M DOT)
Ref 1772: Funding the development and maintenance of the Polkadot staking dashboard ($154K)
📺 what to watch and listen to
Polkadot’s Future 🔮 Replace Everyday Tools with Web3 Apps - w/ Parity VP Pierre Aubert by The Kus.
How Acurast is turning smart devices into decentralized cloud infra by Polkadot X.
📖 what to read
By Polkadot blog
Unique Network redefines trust in decentralized AI with NFT-based proof of compute by Cointelegraph.
Polkadot Digest Part 15 by Polkadot X.
The state of Polkadot AI projects and their updates #39 by Magenta Labs.
Three major takeaways from Dr. Gavin Wood’s keynote address by Polkadot X.
Thank you for taking the dot leap!
Great roundup of the sub0 Symbiosis highlights. Gavins keynote was particuarly interesting with the new features he discussed. Its unfortunate about Apillon winding down operations, but the ecosystem continues to evolve. The Fourth Cohort of Decentralized Nodes sounds like a strong initiative for expanding decentraliztion across the network.