Wag Roundup (December 24th to December 31st)

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

Written by yay.oi

• Polkadot founder and chief architect Gavin Wood has published his annual Polkadot roundup, highlighting the major achievements of 2024 and giving some hints about what we can expect in 2025.
• OriginTrail announces the launch of DKG V8, which brings a 1000x boost to scalability, privacy-preserving DKG Edge Nodes, and batch minting which will facilitate faster Knowledge Asset creation.
• The number of Knowledge assets published on Origin Trail’s V8 DKG has already surpassed the total for the entire V6 period, surging past 50M on January 1st 2024.
• Decentralized AI Agent compute network iGam3 is expanding from Arbitrum to Peaq. It will be migrating 50% of its token supply to the Peaq network and plans to leverage Peaq’s modular DePIN functions to optimize its systems.
• In its first month on the Peaq mainnet, Silencio has already surpassed 40k registered devices and 1M transactions. With transactions now averaging more than 100k per day, expect many millions more in 2025.
• The XMAQUINA DAO will begin the first round of DEUS genesis auctions soon. Wave one is exclusively for PEAQ tokens, but later auctions will allow a more diverse array of tokens in order to fulfill the DAO’s objective to bootstrap its multi-token treasury.
• Blockchain data indexing platform Subquery has now integrated with the Tanssi appchain infrastructure protocol.
• The Turtle 2.0 bridging DApp now supports MYTH transfers between Mythos and Hydration.
• Bifrost has chosen Hyperbridge as its native bridge for multi-chain interoperability, and is now integrated with the Hyperbridge testnet.
• Mimir, the enterprise-grade multisig wallet, now supports the Hyperbridge network.
• Evrloot’s v1.0 launch has been a roaring success, attracting more than 2500 players to its free-to-play campaign. Remarkably, 50% of players have already been converted and purchased their first NFT citizen.
• Bluez, the community-driven NFT marketplace for Astar Network, has announced plans to sunset in January due to low user activity and high operational expenses.
• Auto pools on Stellaswap, powered by Beefy Finance, are now benefiting from additional rewards thanks to the DOT Incentives campaign.
• After just 24 hours of DOT Incentives, Stellaswap auto vaults on Beefy Finance surged past $1M TVL.
• If you’re interested in trying out the beta of veSTELLA, head on over to the Stellaswap Discord to claim your spot.
• Pendulum announces PEN Tokenomics 2.0, which will halt new token issuance, burn 162M tokens, cap the maximum total supply to 150M, and divert unused token allocations to the Pendulum treasury. With the treasury coffers boosted to 55.6M PEN, opportunities open up for the community to fund initiatives such as liquidity incentives and development projects.
• The first OpenGov referendum on Hydration is open for voting. It proposes to add vDOT to the money market and adjust the risk parameters of several lending pools.
• Peaq hosted decentralized robotics DePIN XMAQUINA on December 26th for some updates on the launch of its DAO and the upcoming mainnet launch.
• Polkaworld hosted Gianluigi and Pakman on December 30th to hear all about the upcoming Kylix Finance bridgeless cross-chain lending platform. They also discussed what we can expect from them in 2025.

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