Tokens, Parachains, and Community News.
- “Statemint” Generic Assets Chain: Proposing a Common Good Parachain to Polkadot Governance.
- Darwinia and Apron reached a strategic cooperation to jointly contribute to Polkadot ecosystem.
- Konomi Chooses Darwinia As Bridge Between Polkadot and Ethereum Assets.
- Crust and Darwinia Announce Partnership to further strengthen the Polkadot Ecosystem.
- Plasm’s Journey on Polkadot.
- Plasm Joins the World of PolkaPets!
- ShadowX Synthetic Assets Anchored by BTC.
- Bridge Mutual Rises to Shield Against Risks for ChainX.
- XCLAIM: Polkadot’s trustless and interoperable Cryptocurrency-Backed Assets.
- ChainX X-BTC 2.0 Testnet Coming Soon.
- The encrypted messaging app is ‘Coming’ from ChainX.
- ChainX Officially Released the 2.0 Desktop Wallet.
- Stafi AMA Recap with STONE.
- PSWAP Rewards Part 2: The SORA Token Bonding Curve.
- Crust and Darwinia Announce Partnership to further strengthen the Polkadot Ecosystem.
- Crust Network and Ares Protocol Announce Partnership.
- Crust Network and Saito Collaborate For Decentralized Storage.
- Raze Network Partners with Kylin Network.
- Kylin Network W3F Grant Milestone 1 Successful Completion.
- Kylin Network Transparency Report.
- MANTRA DAO Partners with Kylin Network.
- PolkaFoundry Partners with Kylin Network.
- Rage.Fan Partners with Kylin Network.
- Apron Network Partners with Kylin Network.
- 0Chain Network Partners with Kylin Network.
- RioDeFi expands to Latin America.
- LABS Launches The RioDeFi Limited Edition Of Their NFT Membership Cards.
- Poolz Partners with RioDeFi to Help New Projects Conduct Their IDO.
- Introducing our NFT PolkaPet: LITENTRY!
- Litentry to Provide Aggregated Identity Service to Cere Network and Aggregate its Enterprise Customer Identity.
- Consensus through Collators: KILT as a Nominated Proof of Stake Network.
- Parachain Runtime and SDK Split-up in KILT.
- Presenting Reef Chain – The First DeFi Blockchain on Substrate for DeFi Applications of the Future.
- Equilibrium’s First Milestone For Another Grant Is Almost Completed.
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Polkadot Core
- Gilts Pallet.
- Minimum nomination limit on Polkadot: Status of the off-chain election fix.
- Pallet-staking: add RewardDestination::None for explictly not receiving rewards.
- Finish removing support for legacy network protocol.
Polkadot Referenda and Motions
- #67 Cancellation of Proposal 10 on Proposals queue has executed.
- #68 SubstraTEE Scalability M8.3 has executed.
- #70 Upgrade of Polkadot runtime to v29.
Polkadot Bounties
- Polkadot Brand Update Immersion Phase.
Polkadot Proposals
- #13 Lawyer to Verify Legal Names.
- #2 Set the new runtime code.
- #4 Increase the number of Validators to 299.
- #5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
- #6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
- #10 Send a call through an indexed pseudonym of the sender.
Kusama Proposals and Referenda
- #276 Treasury Proposal – High Performance Public Infrastructure (Milestone 2)
- #76 Proposal: Parachain Lease Offering Dashboard.
Dates of Note
- March 16, 15:36 UTC: Start of a new staking era
- March 17, 11:29 UTC: Election of new council candidates.
- March 22, 12:43 UTC: Voting ends on council motion 70.
- March 31, 22:31 UTC: Voting ends on referendum 18.
- March 31, 22:31 UTC: Start of next referendum voting period.
- April 4, 22:29 UTC: Start of next spending period.
- April 28, 22:31 UTC: Potential dispatch of referendum 18.
- May 20: The next Polkadot Decoded event.
- June 23, 15:00 UTC Substrate Seminar by Bill Laboon.
- Q2 2021: Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot (PolkaBTC).
- Q2 2021: Ethereum bridge is coming to Polkadot.
- Q2 2021: Kusama Parachain relsease.
- Q2 2021: Polkadot Parachain release.
- Q3 2021: Secure Protected Runtime Execution Enclaves release.
Top Videos of the Week
- Polkadot: A Bet Against Maximalism (w/Gavin Wood and Sebastian Moonjava).
Top Reddit Posts of the Week
- Promising projects on Polkadot.
Crypto Regulation
- US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Clarify Crypto Regulations.
- Binance under CFTC investigation over trading activities: report.
- Blockchain Gets First Mention in China’s 5-Year Policy Plan.
- South Korea deepens probe on tax evasion via cryptocurrencies.
Developer Related
- Substrate Seminar Replay.
Other Crypto Related News
- Ethereum Cofounder Reveals How Radical Upgrade Could Challenge Bitcoin For Crypto Price Dominance.
- New EIP hopes to quell tensions between Ethereum’s miners and developers.
- How Rollups Could Make Ethereum Cheaper to Use.
- Ripple Execs Ask Court to Block SEC Requests for Personal Financial Records.
Job Listings
- Web3 Full-Stack Engineer with Interlay.
- Formal Verification Research Engineer.
- Community Manager at Web3 Foundation
- Technical Grants Evaluator.
- Technical Education – Entry Level.
- Technical Education – Internship.