Wag Roundup (November 5th to November 11th)

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DOT Ecosystem News

Written by Sanchez and yay.oi

• Acurast is hosting a series of weekly quests throughout November, where participants will earn Mist for completing them. The campaign tagged ‘The Cloud Rebellion’, is open to Android and Apple mobile users.
• Artist Skullz created 54 collectible TOD sticker sets, available at the Sub0 Reset event for a small DOT donation. Tod is a Polkadot mascot created by Skullz and Polkadot lead developer Shawn Tabrizi.
• Jupiter Innovations Lab Inc. is the latest recipient of a Decentralized Futures Grant from the Web3 Foundation. The grant was awarded for developing True Network, an on-chain reputation system to which dapps can issue records.
• The Web3 Foundation has announced the third cohort of Decentralized Voices (DV) delegates. The delegates include ChaosDAO, KusDAO, Saxemberg, Le Nexus, Luck Friday Labs, and Polkadot Hungary, whowill be delegated voting powers on Polkadot and Kusama.
• Hyperbridge has been launched, enabling the trustless bridging of DOT and other tokens across Polkadot, Ethereum, BNB, Base, Arbitrum, Gnosis, and Optimism. Currently, users can only bridge DOT. More tokens will be integrated soon, with liquidity for DOT made available on these networks. They also announced the launch of their Initial Relayer Offering (IRO) and changed the token name from NAND to BRIDGE.
• Peaq, which launches tomorrow, has announced that its token will be listed on the following centralized exchanges: BingX, Bitget, Bitvavocom, Bit2me, CoinList, Coin W,Gate.io, Hashkey Global, Kucoin, Lbank Exchange, and MEXC.
• Acurast is calling for users to upgrade their processors to the new version 1.12.0.
• Is Algem bringing back liquid crowdloans? Actually, this is a novel approach to project financing, leveraging Astar’s dApp staking.
• Integritee is hosting a bug bounty campaign on Immunefi and inviting hackers and developers to participate.
• The Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) has announced PBA-X, a 4-week online course on understanding blockchain technology, which begins on January 6th, 2025. Instructors include Polkadot developers Shawn Tabrizi and Kian Paimani, and participants will be given a certificate of completion.
• Archisinal has partnered with Blockdeep, who will provide them with technical planning and execution support.
• Improvements coming to Subsocial with the latest Polkadot SDK updates.
• Sign up for alerts on Tanssi’s upcoming season 2 of their LFD campaign.
• Don’t forget to claim your Sovereign Nature Initiative POP NFT at Sub0 Reset. You can now evolve your DOTphin POP NFT into its fourth and final stage, Eidon, the Poseidon Whale.
• LAOS Network announces a strategic partnership with Life’s Meta, an AI social simulator. LAOS will help enhance the game with advanced NFT functionalities, boosting player engagement through ownership of digital assets.
• Flappy Wud v2.0 dropped on November 9th. To celebrate, Gavun Wud held a massive Flappening airdrop event on November 10th, livestreamed on Polkaworld Pro.
• The wait is over: Evrloot’s grand release has been scheduled for December 5th.
• Clan creation on Evrloot opens soon. Active clan members receive boosted release points, but don’t fall behind or you might get the boot.
• In time for launch, Evrloot has integrated EasyPay, which allows players to quickly and easily top up their gas credits with credit card and Google Pay.
• Binary Lands, a generative art collection featuring retro pixel-style landscapes by Fernando Jerez, dropped on KodaDot on November 7th.
• The Ku Collection NFT project, originally on Kusama but now migrating to Moonbeam, has released the beta for its new game Ku Krush.
• Projekt.lol, the memepad for Aleph Zero, has now added support for Moonbeam. Now anyone can create a Moonbeam token without requiring initial liquidity. Once it accumulates 18.5K GLMR of sales it auto-transitions to DEXs.
• Darwinia has renamed the HelixBridge to the HelixBox, which perfectly encapsulates their new vision of it being a cross-chain order flow and liquidity aggregation system. This comes with their shift in focus towards cross-chain DeFi.
• Bifrost extended the booking period for participants to November 8th, with more than 130,000 addresses booked for the campaign.
• The Acala X Fufuture campaign is live. Interested participants can claim test tokens, open trading positions on Acala, and stand a chance to win ACA rewards. The event will end on November 21st, 2024.
• Basilisk has put up a referendum to introduce Asynchronous Backing on the network, reducing the block times to 6 seconds.
• Kylix has teamed up with Mandala Chain to provide institutional-grade lending services to corporations in Indonesia. Kylix will provide the DeFi infrastructure, while Mandala will provide local market and institutional access.

DOT Ecosystem Events

Written by yay.oi

• WebZero kicked off Devcon week with the DevRel brunch on the Sub0 Reset rooftop. Members of the DevRel space across all ecosystems enjoyed a morning of networking and an all-you.can eat spread served by the in-house private chef.
• The Sub0 Reset opening party was a hit, reaching capacity at 8:30pm. The attendees that were lucky enough to make it inside enjoyed a tuktuk disco experience with DJs and a live performance by Kukabi, who transforms Polkadot blockchain data into an interactive audio-visual art.
• On the Sub0 Reset Day 1 Hacker Stage, Peter White introduced Pop, a developer platform that simplifies and streamlines building on Polkadot.
• Next up on the Sub0 Reset Day 1 Hacker Stage, Kian Paimani (Parity) explained runtime development in Substrate using FRAME, including its newest features and how to use them.
• Lucas Vogelsang (Centrifuge) has a very busy DevCon week. He talked about the hidden centralized risks of DeFi at the Bangkok Unstable Summit on Sunday November 10th. On Monday he joined a Fireside Chat on oracles and RWA at the Blockchain Oracle Summit, and on Wednesday he will be speaking at DeFi Renaissance Day.
• Check out the big plans Phala has for DevCon week in Bangkok too, hosting and sponsoring numerous events.
• On Tuesday November 12th, in Lisbon, both Peaq and Acurast will appear at DePIN Day as part of the Web Summit.

From the Sub0 Reset Main Stage, for your viewing pleasure…

Day 1

• Pauline Vorms (Polkadot Blockchain Academy) kicked off the mainstage for Day 1 of Sub0 Reset with the announcement of PBA-X, an online flexible 4-week part-time course covering the fundamentals of blockchain, Web3, and Polkadot.
• Prabal Banerjee, co-founder of Avail,unveiled the Vector Bridge, a trust-minimized bridge between any GRANDPA enabled gadget and Ethereum or any other blockchain.
• Polkadot co-founder Rob Habermeier introduced NOMT, a high-throughput state database designed to improve the performance of blockchain nodes.
• The first panel at Sub0 Reset featured Viet Nguyen (Celestia), Hannah Howard (Filecoin), Ayush (Cere Network), and Qinwen Wang (Lollipop) and discussed how DePIN can address the challenges of data accessibility and storage in Web3.
• Will Scott (Protocol Labs) explained how the InterPlanetary Naming Indexer (IPNI) increases the speed and efficiency of data retrieval on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
• Jakub Panik (Hydration) shared his experiences of using the Polkadot SDK, to build the Intent Composing Engine, a Hydration upgrade that will result in dramatic increases in swap throughput, improved MEV protection, and no slippage.
• Branimir Rakic took a deep dive into how Origin Trail’s model of collective neuro-symbolic AI is fulfilling its vision of a Verifiable Internet for AI.
• Sergei Lonshakov introduced Robonomics Hardware’s inaugural line of smart devices designed for end users.

Day 2

• On Day 2 of Sub0 Reset, Justin Frevert opened the Main Stage to speak about Midnight, a data-protection-based DApp development chain built on Polkadot SDK
• Carlo Sala (Streamsphere Labs) introduced the Polkadot API (PAPI), the next generation of development tools for Polkadot. Victor Oliva followed up with a live demonstration of the new PAPI Console.
• Alessandro De Carli explained how the Acurast decentralized compute network helps users reclaim their digital privacy.
• Leemo gave an overview of some of Nova Wallet’s new and upcoming features, such as Swipe Gov, Debit Cards, Polkadot Pay, and one-click cross-chain swaps.
• John Linden (Mythical), Miguel Moorcraft (Star Atlas), Jason Brink (LFG Inc.), and Anya (Bitcash) featured in a panel on the challenges surrounding mainstream adoption in Web3 gaming.
• The final panel discussion of Sub0 Reset gave some insights into governance on both Polkadot and Cardano and featured Jay Chrawnna (The Kus), Leemo (Novasama), Xylo Drone (WebZero), Hinson Wong (DeltaDeFi), and Sheldon Hunt (Emurgo).

Day 3

• Shawn Tabrizi (Polkadot Fellow) talked about the impact that JAM will have on Web3 ecosystems.
• Polkadot founder and head architect Gavin Woodgave a comprehensive overview of JAM, what it is, why we’re doing it, how far it has progressed, and wen.