Polkadot Core
- Coming Soon: A design establishing a min threshold for nomination + DAO design to aggregate small token holders with an option percentage fee for delegated participation.
- XCM primitives crate merged to master. This is a step towards version 0.
- Multiple Polkadot.js application changes added with v0.60.1 (list of changes here).
- Setting Specified payment account on Ledger gives ‘Value out of range’ error.
- Polkadot.js API has been updated to v2.0.1 (list of changes here).
- New wiki page added to help prevent from scams.
- Polkadot.js reading json files issue has been fixed.
- client/network: Stop sending noise legacy handshake.
- Governance Wiki Page has been updated to add new changes.
Polkadot Referenda
- Democracy Referenda #6 passed which fixed migration issues from the v24 upgrade.
Polkadot Treasury Proposals
Polkadot Proposals
- #7 Increase the number of Validators to 599.
- #2 Changing the calculation of the commission when sending from a Polkadot wallet.
- #4 Increase the number of Validators to 299.
- #5 Increase the number of Validators to 399.
- #6 Increase the number of Validators to 499.
- #8 Increase the number of Validators to 259.
- #9 Exactly as transfer, except the origin must be root and the source account may be specified. (Returning money from a scammer account to original owner account).
- #10 (Wrong proposal. Fixed the proposal in #11).
- #11 Proposal to recover a users lost account.
Kusama Referenda
- #7 Increase number of Validators by 1 for 100 eras. (It currently would add 1 new validator slot each day for 100 days).
Kusama Proposals
- #36 A proposal to gradually increase the number of active validators by 1 every era for 400 eras (1 era is 6 hours, and this would increase the total to 1000 active validators.).
- #87 Increase the number of active validators to 1000.
Polkadot Community
- Reef Finance Raises $3.9M for Cross-Chain DeFi on Polkadot.
- DOT owner claims losses over 56,000 DOT after Polkawallet crashes causing account owners iPhone to reboot.
- Mantra Dao and Polkastarter for partnership.
- The Crust Network team launched the internal beta Crust Cloud.
Dates of Note
- October 7, 2020 5:00 UTC: Election of new Council candidates.
- October 8, 2020 9:19 UTC: Voting Ends on Motion #26.
- October 8, 2020 9:20 UTC: Voting Ends on Motion #27.
- October 8, 2020 11:17 UTC: Voting Ends on Referenda #7.
- October 8, 2020 13:17 UTC: Potential dispatch of referendum #7 (if passed).
- October 8, 2020 16:00 UTC: Polkadot Webinar: Digital Asset Tracking using Blockchain Technology: Use Cases and Benefits.
- October 14, 2020 1:56 UTC: Start of the next referendum voting period.
- October 15, 10:00-17:00 UTC: The Substrate Developer Community Conference.
- October 18, 5:08 UTC: Start of next treasury spending period.
- October 29, 22:00 UTC: Polkadot Webinar: Conheça a Web 3.0. O que é Polkadot? (em Português).
Top Youtube Videos of the Week
- How to use Ledger with Polkadot.
- Polkadot y Kusama Español – Meetup de Venezuela.
Top Reddit Posts of the Week
- Substrate 2.0 is here.
- Polkadot projects started to claim their spaces on Subsocial.
- Hiring: Help build the trustless Bitcoin <> Polkadot bridge with Interlay.
Tokens
- Sora (XOR) roadmap and implementation plan for the SORA v2 tokenomics.
- Polkastarter’s (POLS) token soars 10x on day 1 of its Uniswap launch on Septermber 29 landing it the number 4 spot.
- Ocean Protocol and Balancer Labs Partner for The First AMM-Based Data Market.
- Plasm Network is waiting to list PLM token until more of the parachain auction information on Polkadot Network arrives. Becoming a parachain is their first priority.
- Crust Network launched CRU on Uniswap and Huobi.
- Dock launches their mainnet.
- Live testing of Acala and and Laminar’s Rococo Parachain (Polkadot’s Testnet).
Upcoming Token Launches
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Crypto Regulation
- Venezuela approves DeFi for trading stocks and derivatives on Ethereum.
- Co-founders of major cryptocurrency trading platform BitMex are charged with violating the US Bank Secrecy Act.
- China State Media reports calling crypto 2020’s best performing asset.
- Russian ministry proposes criminal charges for failure to report crypto tax.
- Major Indian cryptocurrency exchange BuyUCoin proposes new regulatory framework to avoid crypto ban.
- The EU announces its first ever plan to regulate cryptocurrencies.
- Coinbase has told some of its users it is passing their details onto the U.K. tax authority, HMRC.
Developer Related
- Polkadot Webinar: Conheça a Web 3.0. O que é Polkadot? (em Português).
- Bill Laboon Blockchain Fundamentals New Lecture.
- Perform a forkless runtime upgrade on a running substrate network.
- Governance Wiki Page has been updated to add new changes.
- New wiki page added to help prevent from scams.
Other Crypto Related News
- First time in Ethereum’s history, miners made more from fees than from block rewards.
- Vitalik Buterin claims Ethereum in its current state is useless for many app types. Base scalability still may be a few years out.
- More than 32,000 bitcoin or about $335M has been withdrawn from BitMEX after the US government charges its owners.
- The World Economic Forum (WEF) cited XRP (Ripple) as the most suitable currency for the recently developing CBDC (central bank digital currency).
- Ethereum Layer SKALE Launches Mainnet Phase 2 With $78M Already Staked.
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