News from the Finders Program (August 25th to August 31st)

Written by yay.oi

• Inter Miami CF announces Polkadot as its official Global Training Partner. The Polkadot logo appears front and center on all training tops, and on various signage throughout Chase Stadium. Check out the first public appearance at the Chicago Fire FC away match pre-training on Saturday, August 31st.
• Parathread 3378 has won Polkadot parachain Auction 79 with a self-funded bid of 350 DOT.
• EasyA has now educated more than 100,000 developers in the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Hyperway has joined the peaqosystem, and will be leveraging Peaq infrastructure to launch community-owned 5G and satellite connected ground relays to provide a network of reliable communication connections for delivery drones.
• SafeWallet, a leading EVM multisig wallet, has been deployed on Peaq's pre-launch network and will be available to users at mainnet launch.
• Acurast announces the release of the Acurast Processor Lite app, giving users the option to earn compute rewards from their daily phone’s idle time.
• Thanks to the hard work Velocity Labs and the Defi Infra and Tooling Bounty, Polkadot Asset Hub USDC can now be deposited on Kucoin.
• To celebrate the support of Polkadot Asset Hub USDC and USDT, Kucoin have launched a DOT deposit campaign with a prize pool of USD$20K.
• Get ready yield farmers! The Stellaswap 1M DOT Liquidity Incentive Program funded by Polkadot Referendum 580 is launching on September 11th.
• Liquid staking token vMANTA has surged past the epic milestone of 9.5M mints on Bifrost.
• Highlights from the Centrifuge Q2 Treasury Report include a record breaking TVL of nearly $300M, the first treasury revenue from protocol fees, and the initiation of the RWA Lending Market Liquidity Bootstrap.
• Mythos Chain's NFL Rivals announces an official collaboration with the Super Bowl LVIII champions to become the "Official Mobile Game of the Kansas City Chiefs" for the NFL Season in 2024. The partnership will involve pre-game promotions, in-stadium branding, and prizes, including tickets and VIP experiences for NFL Rivals players.
• Mythos Foundation has confirmed that a new set of criteria for the upcoming MYTH airdrop will see a larger allocation going to the most active Polkadot wallets. Check your allocation here.
• Mythical has enlisted with Web3 marketing firm AnkhLabs for their next big marketing push.
• The Gavun Wud community is refusing to let the dynamic airdrop come to an end. Some savvy donors have worked out that they can keep replenishing the pool by sending WUD to the airdrop account on Hydration.
• On Monday, August 27th, Polkadot en Español hosted ambassadors Audi Garcia and Harvey Cardenas who explained Archisinal's vision to transform the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industries.
• The Polkadot Community of Japan hosted a WebX 2024 side event in Tokyo, featuring music from DJ Emma, and talks by Seraya Takahashi (Web3 Foundation), Vincent Chan (PolkaPort East), Rhee Sang Hyun (Moondance Labs), and Charu Sethi (Unique Network) on Monday August 27th.
• In Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 1118 Subwallet is requesting 168K DOT for eight months of retroactive development costs.
• Polkadot OpenGov Whitelisted Caller track Referendum 1127 proposes to lower the pricing of Snowbridge Ethereum > Polkadot transfer fee to 0.000317 ETH, and the Polkadot > Ethereum transfer fee to ~6 DOT.
• On Wednesday, August 28th, Moonbeam hosted a grants information session and detailed how you can get nominated for the upcoming vote to fill the vacant seats on the Grants Season 4 committee.
• Tanssi held a wrap party for the Let's Forking Dance incentivized testnet campaign featuring Casta Crypto and Katherine QB (Tanssi), with special guests from Dodao.dev, Immu3, and Sonica on Wednesday August 28th.
• Alex (JitoSOL) hosted Travis (Acala) and Wilguish (Wormhole) for a chat about multichain staking on Thursday 29th August.
• Unstoppable Domains hosted Yog (Farmsent) to hear all about how their decentralized agricultural marketplace platform will cultivate new opportunities in the agtech industry on Thursday 29th August.
• Bill Laboon (Web3Foundation) will be appearing in the panel discussion Blockchain: Hype or Revolution? hosted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Berlin on Thursday 12th September.