News from the Finders Program (September 29th to October 5th)

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

Written by yay.oi

News

• Let’s welcome the second cohort of Polkadot Social Media Editorial Board content contributors, featuring Wagmedia Director Goku, Creator/Director (Ajuna Bounty) Emil Kietzman, and Creator/Unique Network Content Lead Esther. In addition, they are joined by Flavio (Polimec), and Irvin 104 (Polkadot OG).
• The Web3 Foundation announces the Decentralized Nodes Program. Successful applicant validators will benefit from Web3 Foundation nominations for four-month periods, resulting in enhanced recognition, trust, and earnings in the Polkadot network.
• Looking for a job in Web3? Perhaps you should consider applying at Parity. This week, Calyptus named them the sixth best employer in Web3.
• Thanks to the continued good work of Velocity Labs, Polkadot Asset Hub USDC, USDT, and DOT are now supported for deposits and withdrawals on CoinEx.
• IoT and blockchain solutions company Staex has received a Web3 Foundation Decentralized Futures grant. Their grant project involves automating cell tower compliance certification by collecting and logging EMF radiation data to the blockchain.
• Peaq welcomes crowd-sourced weather data DePIN SkyX to the Peaqosystem. Users will be able to purchase SkyX weather stations, issued with Peaq IDs, to collect weather data and be rewarded with SKY tokens natively minted on Peaq.
• Energy Web X announces the beta launch of AutoGreenCharge, an app for verifying and ensuring that EV charges are coming from 100% renewable sources.
• Hyperbridge has integrated EVM compatible, community-owned network Gnosis Chain into its testnet.
• Hyperbridge has also joined forces with Hashi Alliance, an EVM hash oracle aggregator. By collaborating with Hashi, Hyperbridge can enhance the security of cross-chain applications by leveraging multiple oracles for the validation and verification of block headers and messages across networks.
• Snowbridge has been working on a new architecture that will switch message delivery from ordered to unordered. This will result in lower fees and enhance transfer flexibility by enabling bi-directional arbitrary contract execution.
• The Runtime 1.3.3 changelog has been published by the Polkadot Fellows. Most notably, this is the runtime that will enable adjustable inflation parameters on Polkadot.
• If passed, Whitelisted Caller Referendum 1202 will upgrade Polkadot to runtime 1.3.3 at around 08:00 UTC on October 15th.
• With the passing of Referendum 1139, the Polkadot community has indicated a sentiment for reducing inflation to 8%, decreasing linearly over time. Jonas Gehrlein (Web3 Foundation) plans to initiate a Root referendum to implement the changes after the enactment of runtime 1.3.3.
• With the new Ambassador Program drama continuing this week, Referendum 1195 proposes to remove all 20 Head Ambassadors and requests that the Polkadot Technical Fellowship remove the Ambassador Collective from the Collectives Chain.
• Marvin Tong (Hashforest/Phala) has initiated a discussion on OpenGov proposing to build a USD $1.5M community-owned Polkadot Super AI Center, featuring 2 Nvidia DGX H100 systems that would be available to Parity, Web3 Foundation, and Polkadot Ecosystem teams free of charge. In addition, computing resources would be offered to Web3 and AI partners, and the public at a discount.
• Lolmcshizz has initiated a discussion on Hydration governance regarding the diversification of Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL) using ~1.258M USDS that is currently unallocated. He proposes diversifying $400K into SOL, $400K into AAVE, and $200K into SUI, all onboarded by Moonbeam Routed Liquidity. The remainder would be put into HDX.
• Week 4 of the Stellaswap DOT Incentive campaign has kicked off. This is the first round of boosts to Polkadot parachain projects, with additional DOT rewards boosting the BNC-DOT, MANTA-DOT, NCTR-DOT, and PEN-DOT pools. The BNC pool led the charge with initial APRs of 500%!
• As part of Stellaswap Reborn, 50% (250M) of the STELLA token supply will be burned over 5 weeks. This week marked the beginning of the burn-off, with 10% of the total supply incinerated.
• Stellaswap announces its membership in the Circle Alliance, opening up opportunities to collaborate and innovate with a global network of organizations that have the common goal of expanding the reach and adoption of stablecoins and Web3.
• Kylix has launched their Uptober Airlyft campaign with a prize pool of 200 USDT. Ten lucky participants will receive 20 USDT each.
• Check your wallets, the Mythical airdrop was distributed this week! Ten million MYTH were distributed to over 450K wallets thanks to Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 643.
• On Sunday, Gavun Wud held the first-ever Flappy Wud Flappening. With a prize pool of 500M WUD and no farming limits, users were able to witness Surge Mode activation for the first time, with rewards doubled for every 25 active players.
• Ajuna has launched its October Airlyft campaign with 15K AJUN, 3 Warlord NFTs, and 900 Free Mints up for grabs.

Events

• In the latest episode of the Decentralized Mic Series on October 1st, Polkadot hosted DevRel and Onboarding Decentralized Futures grantees PaperMoon, PlayOnPolkadot (POP), and AcceleratePolkadot.
• On October 3rd, Mandala Chain hosted Sam Shev (Ava Protocol), Flavio (Polimec), and JC (Polkadot Español) to discuss the impact of communities in Web3 projects.
• On Thursday, Alexander Mitrovich, Charu Sethi, and Filip Filipovic shared all of the latest updates from Unique Network in their October 2024 Community Call.
• Sacha and Roman from WebZero and Crane (ChaosDAO) got together on October 3rd to talk about all of the changes coming at the Sub0 reboot in Bangkok.