Wag Roundup (November 12th to November 18th)

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

DOT Ecosystem News

Written by Dodow & yay.oi

• According to token terminal, Moonbeam is the fastest growing parachain on Polkadot.

• Subquery’s indexing now supports Acurast’s decentralized compute.

• Acurast’s canary has hit a milestone of 100M transactions, with an average of over 750K transactions a day.

• Did you notice the improvements to Moonbeam’s dApp UI?

• Dotlake goes through a rebrand and do you see what’s in the lake?

• Energy Web introduces Katalist, a nonprofit platform focused on the decarbonization of maritime shipping.

• Ledger integration is coming soon to Energy Web.

• The community has embraced sustainability, as KILT delegator staking rewards have come to an end.

• Interlayer is the new owner to some Polkadot coretime.

• Amazon talking synergy with OriginTrail at the recent DKGcon2024.

• 25K worth of Ajun was up for grabs in Ajuna’s fourth BBB tournament, which began on November 15th. Players could boost their rank by minting and forging their way to Legendary with the highest DNA.

• Block #23467057 marks the beginning of the new inflation era for Polkadot.

• Xcavate has obtained the UK’s FCA approval to join the Regulatory Sandbox Accepted Firms.

• Evrloot introduces the new Behemoth character class, which will be available when their free-to-play game launches.

• Ajuna teases a sneak peek for their flagship game Battle Mogs, which is expected to launch in 2025.

• A quick flap recap shows that the Flappy Wud 2.0 Flappening event boasted 240 unique players and an impressive 1B WUD airdropped. As such, they brought back the event on Sunday, November 17th.

• Starting on November 19th, LAOS will be listed on centralized exchanges, including Bit2Me and MEXC.

• Check out the latest Age of Chronos update sneak peek.

• LAOS Network has partnered with Web3 gaming development platform Sequence to address the free-to-play gaming market. The partnership introduces a 190M LAOS token grant for developers. It also looks to expand bridgeless minting across EVM chains and offers an embedded wallet solution compatible with gaming engine stores in Web2

• $1000 USD is up for grabs. Join Stellaswap’s Galxe campaign for a chance to win.

• Triple farming is back, as Bifrost has replenished the vDOT pool in anticipation of Hydration’s money market.

• With the passing of Wish for Change Referendum 1217, Braille has begun working with the parachains to prepare them for the upcoming unification of Polkadot addresses.

• A proposal has been posted on the Venus Protocol forum to add DOT as a supported collateral asset on the Venus ETH Mainnet. If successful, Venus would become the first lending protocol outside of the Polkadot ecosystem to list DOT.

• Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 1297 proposed to shut down Business Development Bounty 39 due to a lack of activity and deliverables.

DOT Ecosystem Events

Written by yay.oi

• On November 12th Rish (KILT) appeared on a panel hosted by Bondex to discuss the growth of Web3 in emerging markets.

• Polkadot’s Decentralized Mic panel on November 14th featured Nate (Distractive), Nico (Velocity), Angie (DOTPlay), and Gautam (BlockDeep) to share their insights about gaming and DeFi on Polkadot.

• Parity VP of People and Ops Antony Lias appeared on a panel hosted by Calyptus on November 14th about leadership in Web3 organizations and how the emergence of AI might redefine the role of a leader.

• Parity held a post-Web Summit meetup on November 14th in their Lisbon office to promote networking in the Polkadot community.

• On November 14th, Miami AI Hub hosted a webinar about decentralized AI on Polkadot featuring Filippo (Web 3 Foundation), Branimir (OriginTrail), and Bekka (Phala).

• Eva Wong, Legal Director at Parity, presented at DevCon Bangkok on November 15th. In her talk, she explained how to navigate the legal pitfalls of open-source development.

• On Friday November 15th Polkaworld hosted a panel about DeFi Opportunities on Polkadot, featuring Aziz (Stellaswap), Gianluigi (Kylix), and Tyrone (Bifrost).

• Gavun Wud hosted The Kus and Polkadot Español on November 17th to chat all about the latest features in Flappy Wood v2.0 and get everyone hyped up for The Flappening.

• Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) hosted Gianluigi of Kylix Finance on November 18th to discuss how his experiences in the PBA prepared him to successfully launch a Web3 project.

Peaqy Finders

Written by yay.oi

• At 9am UTC on November 12th the Peaq mainnet went live, with the PEAQ token listed on 12 centralized exchanges from day one.
• A little late to the Peaq mainnet party, Crypto.com listed the PEAQ token on November 15th.
• Peaq announces the enormous milestone of $1B Total Machine Value (TMV) in the Peaqosystem.
• The Peaq Portal has launched for all of your PEAQ staking and bridging needs.
• With a genesis pool of 32 validators to choose from, PEAQ staking is now live on the Peaq network.
• You can now bridge PEAQ tokens between Ethereum and the Peaq network on Stargate.
• USDC is now supported on the Peaq network via Circle’s bridged standard.
• SubWalletand Nova Walletnow support the Peaq mainnet for managing, sending, and receiving PEAQ tokens.
• YOM announces the migration of its token from Solana to the Peaq network due to memecoin bloat hindering visibility.