Wag Roundup (October 25th to October 28th)

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DOT Ecosystem News

Written by yay.oi & Sanchez

• The latest Web3 Foundation Decentralized Futures grantee is Logion, a protocol that will provide a legal framework that ensures users are able to recover their lost cryptographic key pairs.
• After a slight delay to prepare for listing on major exchanges, Peaq has announced November 12th 2024 as its mainnet launch date.
• Over 25 million users in East Asia will now be ready for the Peaq token genesis, as popular multichain wallet TokenPocket integrates the Peaq network.
• LAOS is preparing to launch bridgeless minting on Bitcoin, and is inviting marketplace, wallet, and DApp developers to collaborate and help develop the necessary tools and infrastructure.
• Decentralized social apps chain Frequency has enabled Async Backing, allowing for 6 second block times.
• Litentry is shifting strategically towards chain abstraction services. Take a look at their techdive to get the lowdown.
• Curio has launched the JAMTON AggLayer mainnet, which will enable bridging between TON, Polkadot, and Ethereum.
• Beamswap is offering over 140% APR on its platform. Users can provide single-sided liquidity for any USDT, USDC, ETH, BTC, GLMR, or DOT, and stake the BLP tokens earned after providing liquidity.
• Ajeesh Kumar, an early investor in Polkadex, has been nominated as the CEO of Polkadex OÜ, the body behind the development of the protocol. A new CTO is set to be appointed, and the protocol is changing things and seeking to break into the US market.
• The Hydration DEX is finally integrated into Dexscreener. This comes after the consistent petitions by Gavun Wud. Users can now track the price movements of tokens listed on Hydration on Dexscreener.
• To make dApps more accessible and its use more seamless for users, Bifrost now supports using any of BNC, DOT, GLMR, ASTR, MANTA, ETH, and their LSTs for transaction fee payments on the network.
• Over 100 million ($3.4 million) Stella tokens, equivalent to 20% of the total token supply, have been burnt. Thus far, Stellaswap has removed 200 million tokens from their total supply.
• Bifrost has set out answers to the FAQ regarding their liquid wave campaign, which will be launching soon. Waves are points that users earn when they complete various tasks in the campaign. They have shared the waves allocation ratio per participating token, and all waves earned will be converted to bbBNC at the end of the campaign.
• The Centrifuge Protocol has been mentioned in S&P Global’s research report as a source of real-world lending, with over $289 million in active loans as of July 26, 2024.
• To enhance governance and empower the community, Moonbeam has launched the Moonbeam Governance Guild. Five delegates on Moonbeam will receive 5 million GLMR of voting power, and five on Moonriver will be delegated 50 thousand MOVR.
• Bitcountry has been focusing on gamified user engagement, and as part of their September update, there is an emphasis on mobile.
• The Astar Degens DAO has increased its dApp staking rewards to 30% to reach 80 million ASTAR tokens staked on their dApp. They currently have 65 million ASTAR tokens staked.
• Mythical has announced the results of their Mythical Forest campaign. With over 3 million participants, the top 3000 participants are eligible to mint participation NFTs, guaranteeing MYTH token rewards. They have also extended their content creation contest, which has a total prize pool of 120,000 MYTH tokens but is limited to participants of the Mythical Forest campaign.
• Big Ballz of Bajun (BBB) has completed its migration from Bajun, and is now live on Ajuna. The first tournament runs until October 29th, with a prize pool of more than 16K AJUN.
• On Friday October 25th, Acala hosted an AMA about their new Ambassador program for interested applicants.

DOT Ecosystem Events

Written by yay.oi

• Luuu and Viki (KodaDot) are hosting a meetup in Bratislava at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies STU in Bratislava on Tuesday October 29th. Stop by to hear some talks, grab some merch, and enjoy some pizza and drinks.
• Merkle Science is hosting an online training session on October 29th about Polkadot and regulatory compliance, featuring Radhakrishna Dasari (Web3 Foundation), Pavla Mijić (Parity), Jonathan Rufrano (Digital Chamber), and Ian Lee (Merkle Science).
• On Tuesday 29th of October, join Gianluigi (Kylix), Michael (Mandala), Pakman (Pakman Media), and Vivek (Polkadex) as they discuss how their projects will impact the DeFi, enterprise, and DEX landscapes in the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Phala is hosting a workshop on October 31st for developers new to the ecosystem. Participants will learn to build an AI agent for online transactions using the Viem SDK. Book your spot now!

Recently Shared News (missed news from previous weeks)

Written by yay.oi & Sanchez

• In his latest blog post, Joe Petrowski of Parity outlines four projects that they are working on to improve the accessibility of Polkadot for users and developers. They are Ethereum compatibility, protocol consolidation, chain abstraction for developers, and data aggregation and visualization.
• Astar’s canary network Shiden will be implementing their Async Backing upgrade on November 4th.
• Earning rewards on Energy Web just got a whole lot easier. You can now run your worker node in the cloud.
• Unique Network has set up a spooky story competition for the Halloween season. To participate, write a scary story, create spooky NFTs, share on Unique socials, and stand a chance to be one of the 5 winners from the total prize pool of $200.
• GameDAO is rewarding stakers who have staked to their dApp with 5 million tokens, equivalent to 5% of the total supply of GAME. While the exact reward details are still being worked out, the amount of ASTR tokens staked will play a role.
• Doudi launched his generative art collection ‘Wanderwave’ on Kodadot. Users can mint this NFT for free.
• Evrloot has teased a new game/product/chapter. Whatever it is, we’ll find out in a month. Keep an eye out.
• CEX listings for the LAOS token are expected from mid-November.