Wag Roundup (December 10th to December 16th)

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DOT Ecosystem News

Written by yay.oi

• According to Electric Capital’s latest annual developer report, Polkadot has the third-largest developer community in Web3.
• In his latest Polkadot Forum post, Shawn Tabrizi has proposed to bring Kusama back to its cypherpunk roots, embracing anonymity, activism, and a DIY ethos. His proposal includes the introduction of privacy-preserving ZK primitives, which could position Kusama as the ideal Web3 Cloud for the dark renaissance.
• The Polkadot app is almost ready for launch in the United States. Sign up now for your chance to be one of fifty early-access testers.
• CME Group is now publishing the CME CF Polkadot Reference Rate New York Variant daily, offering an additional layer of standardized and regulated pricing transparency to the DOT token.
• Velocity Labs releases v2.0 of its Turtle bridging DApp. Turtle now supports one-click token bridging from Ethereum to Hydration, Bifrost, Moonbeam, and Mythos. Thanks to an integration of Paraspell’s XCM SDK, cross-chain support between popular Polkadot parachains has also begun rolling out.
• Apillon announces its new cloud function service, powered by Acurast, which allows developers to tap into Acurast’s decentralized compute network to enhance their projects by running backend code on demand.
• ZkVerify is now integrated into the Hyperbridge testnet, bringing it one step closer to fully decentralized relaying of messages.
• Mandala has chosen Hyperbridge as its native bridge and will extend the reach of its native KPG token by adopting the Hyperbridge ERC6160 standard for multi-chain native tokens.
• Silencio has won the race to become the first DePIN to deploy on the Peaq mainnet. Check out their Dune dashboard and watch them grow.
• Peaq announces the launch of its DePIN Enterprise Adoption Program, which aims to foster collaboration between businesses and more than 50 DePINs building on Peaq. The first five organizations to join are Bertelsmann Investments, Bosch, Deutsche Telekom MMS, Lufthansa Innovation Hub, and TUM School of Management. They will benefit from monthly Peaqosystem updates, strategy sessions, DePIN matchmaking, and access to mutually beneficial investment opportunities.
• Evrloot announces a pre-seed raise of $500k, with key contributors including Moonbeam, Arrington Capital, and Derek Yoo (Moonsong Labs).
• After a successful first phase, including 92 mints and the selling out of Citizens and High-born tiers, phase two of Evrloot Citizen minting is now live. The Citizen tier is available for minting at 299 GLMR and a very limited number of High-born tiers for 1199 GLMR. Low-born tier minting has been phased out.
• NFTMozaic is the most recent recipient of a Web3 Foundation Decentralized Futures grant. Its plans for 2025 include developing a standardized Polkadot toolset for NFT developers and fostering more NFT DApp development, resulting in a more marketable environment for Polkadot NFTs.
• BBB Tournament 7 commenced on December 14th. The highest SoulPoint Legendaries forged have a chance to share in a prize pool of 10K AJUN and 5% of the mints.
• Gavun Wud is preparing Degen Jam #1, a very special edition of the Flappening on Friday December 20th at 19:00 CET. Stay tuned for more details, as this one could be very special.
• NFL Rivals Arctic Blast kicked off on Thursday December 12th, bringing some frosty rewards and an icy makeover to the stadium. Join the fun now to earn Snowman cards, which will reveal exclusive Snow Day players on their melt date.
• The ChessOnChain Rooks Chess Jam got started on December 14th. Players of all experience levels have a chance to win collectible NFTs and share in a USDT $1500 prize pool.
• Acala’s first memecoin, Nemo, launched on December 15th. It can be obtained via Acala’s native swap.
• Let the real games begin! Mythos Chain governance is now live on Polkassembly.
• Polkadot Open Gov Wish for Change Referendum 1350 aims to ensure that treasury-funded projects acknowledge the support of Polkadot, and increase its visibility by displaying Polkadot branding.
• Khala Referendum 128 proposes to sunset the Khala Chain on Kusama, when its lease ends on January 10th 2025, and migrate its assets to a new Ethereum L2. In addition, the team has decided to cease development of the metaverse project Phala World (PW), and will be reclaiming PW NFTs and issuing refunds of the mint price.
• Polkadex has unveiled its 2.0 Roadmap with four major milestones for 2025. Cross-chain transfers are expected in Q1 with the integration of Hyperbridge, while high-frequency trading should be enabled by Q2. In Q3 and Q4 we will see barriers to entry lowered with the integration of EVM Wallets and credit card support for crypto purchases and sales.
• Nova Wallet has expanded its cross-chain transfer support of vDOT to include the Hydration and Moonbeam networks.
• Bifrost has begun the phased shutdown of the vFIL service. It has already ceased FIL deposits into Bifrost, and vFIL minting is expected to end by the end of the year. The final phase of the shutdown is expected to be completed in Q3 2025; however, users are recommended to complete vFIL redemption and cross-chain transfers of FIL by Q2 2025.
• Congratulations Stellaswap for becoming the first DEX in the Polkadot ecosystem to surpass $2B in trade volume!
• Polkasafe’s user-friendly multisig with enterprise-grade security is now supported on Centrifuge.

DOT Ecosystem Events

Written by yay.oi

• Peaq hosted Touchbrick on December 11th to hear all about how its DePIN ensures the privacy of sensitive AI training data.
• On December 12th, Daniyal Ajdadi (EnergyWebX) hosted Flavio (Polimec) for the latest episode of Monster Talks. The episode focused on the evolution of Polimec as it enters a new era of multi-chain, regulatory compliant decentralized fundraising.
• Pakman Media hosted Richard Houldsworth on December 12th for a deep dive into the upcoming Xcavate tokenized real estate platform.
• Silencio co-founders Eric, Theo, and Thomas hosted their community AMA on Friday 13th, luckily there was some big news about their future plans, and an upcoming major partnership.
• On December 15th, OneBlock+ hosted an end of year gathering at Wuhan University, celebrating the power of the Polkadot community. It featured guest speakers Suvi (Papermoon), Lurpis (Bifrost), and Brian (Crust)
• Apillon’s CPO Nino Kutnjak and Lead Developer Damien will host Acurast Co-founder Alessandro De Carli on Tuesday December 17th. They will discuss the enhancements their new partnership is bringing to Web3 development.
• On December 18th Polkadot Blockchain Academy hosts PBA alumnus Sergej Sakac to hear all about how his experiences with the program led him to found RegionX.
• The Polkadot Ambassadors Program livestream featuring Evan, Chrissy Hill, Pakman, Lucy Coulden, and Don Diego Sanchez has been postponed to December 19th.
• Peaq’s X Space with Teneo has been postponed to January 8th. Tune in to hear about Teneo’s community node incentivized data scraping network, which has just reached over 1M users.

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