News from the Finders Program (September 1st to September 7th)

News found by the community. Curated by the community. Backed by OpenGov

Written by yay.oi

News

• Check out People of Polkadot, a new series on showcasing members of the community. Episode 1 features Head Ambassador Max Rebol.
• JAMTON by CurioDAO has won Parachain Auction 80 with a self-funded bid of 3000 DOT. They have plans to build a bridge between Polkadot and TON,allowing for ecosystem and Telegram mini-app integrations.
• Sergei Lonshakov, founder of Robonomics, explains why his project has no plans to leave the Polkadot ecosystem, believing that many projects that do leave are more motivated by the riding hype wave than developing real-world applications.
• Peaq, a Layer-1 blockchain for DePIN and Machine RWA, will finally be ready to launch on Polkadot between September 22nd and September 30th, 2024.
• Peaq has confirmed that all Ledger devices will be supported at launch.
• Dutch food delivery platform Bistroo is migrating from Ethereum, bringing with them 100,000 active users and 25% of their token supply. They will be utilizing Peaq infrastructure for their bridging smart contract, staking mechanism, user reward system, and restaurant incentives.
• Aizel announces that they will be leveraging Acurast's decentralized compute network of mobile devices for their scalable modular network of verifiable AI co-processors.
• Acurast CLI for Developers v0.1.2 has been released and includes environmental variable support, fixes, and updated documentation.
• John Bartolome of Sunset Labs (Polkadot Brazil BD Team) announces a partnership with the Paraguayan Blockchain Chamber for the development of educational projects, enterprise solutions, and initiatives to promote the adoption of blockchain in Paraguay.
• The latest Decentralized Futures Grant recipient is Polkadot Music Events Initiative (PMEI), the team behind {bash}, who will develop a range of user onboarding and payment solutions for live events.
• Polkadot Music Events Initiative (PMEI) has initiated Big Spender Referendum 1141, requesting 1.13M USDC to onboard Billfold, a cashless POS system provider for entertainment venues with 3M active users.
• Spazcoin's mission to connect the parachains through governance continues. This week, he proposed to open 10 XCM channels on Astar and 5 XCM channels on Moonbeam.
• Polkadot OpenGov Whitelisted Caller Track Referendum 1143 is open for voting. If passed, it will upgrade the Relay Chain, Asset Hub, Bridge Hub, and People chain to runtime v1.3.0, and the People Chain to runtime v1.3.1. One more referendum will be required to finalize the migration of Agile Coretime to Polkadot.
• Jonas Gehrlein (Web3 Foundation) has initiated three concurrent referenda on the OpenGov Wish for Change track. The intention is to form a consensus on Polkadot inflation parameters at either 10%, 8%, or a linear inflation model that reduces over time.
• Two million MYTH are up for grabs at the Mythical Forest, in a campaign lasting until October 13th. Earn reward crystals by completing tasks and holding MYTH, with weekly bonuses for content creation, referrals, and the raffle.
• Over 800 people have already claimed a Sovereign Nature Institute POP NFT badge at ecosystem events. There’s still a chance to grab one at Polkadot Decoded Asia, TOKEN2049, and the European Blockchain convention. Stay tuned for news at TOKEN2049 about how to evolve your badge into Orbo, the first stage DOTphin evolution.
• Ajuna is running an Airlyft campaign for the Last Battle of Bajun, with a prize pool of 50,000 BAJU.
• Ajuna also wrapped a Discord campaign on Monday 9th September, with one lucky player receiving a very special Awesome Ajuna Avatars Mogwai pet.
• Bifrost announces their second partner for the vToken Reward-Program, Astar Degens, who will now take a 20% commission for integrating Bifrost into their marketing efforts.
• Polkadex has achieved the massive milestone of USD$30M in total trade volume.
• The marvellous milestones keep rolling in for Polkadex, and this week, they hit a whopping 2M total DEX trades.

Events

• Registration is open for Polkadot Decoded Asia 2024, which will be held in Singapore on September 16th and 17th.
• On September 3rd, Irina Karagyaur (Energy Web X) hosted Alessandro De Carli (Acurast) to discuss their partnership, communities, and mutual goals for a decentralized and sustainable future.
• Messari hosted Phala for a discussion about their Trusted Execution Environments on Tuesday September 3rd.
• Ellie and Sef (Aventus) recapped Phase 1 of the Aventus Marketing Campaign, and they gave a sneak peek of what's in store for Phase 2 on September 3rd.
• On Wednesday September 4th, Peaq hosted Roam to hear about how they'll be utilizing Peaq infrastructure to incentivize the collection of mobile network coverage analytics.
• From September 4th to 10th, at the Simian Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Polkadot hosted the official Heroic Hangout space for the TI 2024 DOTA2 Championships where fans watched live streams, met players, and grabbed some exclusive merch.
• On September 4th, LBank hosted Micha Bitteril (Deloitte), Fillippo Franchini (Web3 Foundation), Tawei Chang (Gotem), and Ken Bernheim (Polimec) to discuss the future of online identities. They also rewarded some lucky listeners from a reward pool of USD$300K PLMC.
• On Wednesday September 4th, the Polkadot Devs presented the next edition of their Asset Hub Webinar series, where attendees learned about the Asset Hub Conversion Pallet, and paying fees with other assets.
• On September 5th, Energy Web X CTO Mani Hagh Sefat and Director of Communications Daniyal Ajdadi shared all of the latest updates about pools, functionalities, and more.
• On Friday September 5th, Farmsent hosted Susmit Lavania (Huddle01), Suraj Chawla (Gpu.net), Scannit Network, and WatchxNetwork for a discussion about the new global supply chain solutions offered by blockchain and DePIN.