Weekly digest October 19th - 25th

POLKADOT

📍 Polkadot was featured as one of the 10 diverse projects in "Scanning the European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good" by the European Commission. Read the full report

📍 Ontology will build on Polkadot. First step is integration of Ontology's DeID, building a parachain is the next one. This parachain will provide a series of credit-based services on decentralized identity and cross-chain communication. Read more.

KUSAMA

📍 Kusama spending proposal submission: step-by-step guide by R.I.Rtti (@nachortti).

📍 The staking rate has dropped to 46% on Kusama. This is expected and due to the migration of some W3F accounts to a more secure setup (funds must be unbonded before being transferred). Source.

PHALA

📍 Phala Network announced the start of testnet named Vendetta in November 2020 and defined the date of pre-mainnet launch. Read more.

📍 Phala parachain roadmap one-pager.

PLASM

📍 Ethereum Virtual Machine was integrated into Plasm Network testnet last week. Solidity smart contracts can be deployed now by using Metamask and Remix just like Ethereum. This and other updates in Plasm's weekly report.

PAID

📍 Paid Network, a borderless legal system powered by DeFi and built on Polkadot, explained PAID Network’s Token Utility & Use Cases.

STAFI

📍 In cooperation with Edgeware, StaFi now has a Treasury DAO on Commonwealth platform. In the future, StaFi will introduce rToken into Edgeware and design rEDG tokens to release the liquidity of staked EDG token assets. Source.

📍 StaFi announced Sticker, Memes and GIFs Design Competition. Prizes are up to $80! Details.

DOCK

📍 Dock shared with community results of security audit, performed by Quantstamp.

No high-severity issues were found in either of the codebases.

📍 Verifiable, the company that works with Dock Network just raised $3 million for its API toolkit that verifies healthcare credentials.

SORA

📍 Soramitsu introduced KAGOME - a C++ implementation of the Polkadot Host.

KAGOME will complement parallel development work in Rust, Golang, and Javascript, contributing to the overall resilience of the Polkadot ecosystem. About KAGOME.

BONDLY

📍 Bondly a crypto-enabled e-commerce platform confirmed the partnership with Phala Network. “We look forward to working with Phala to enable smart contracts to create more privacy for buyers, sellers, and OTC traders" - Brandon Smith, CEO of Bondly. Details.

📍 REN protocol included Bondly in October Ecosystem Report as a new Ren Alliance Member.

PATRACTLABS

📍 Patract announced creation of Patract Hub - Polkadot Smart Contract Developer Center - community based non-profit organization, providing open source toolkits and one-stop cloud smart IDE.

BIFROST

📍 Bifrost started a video contest aiming to introduce Bifrost network to a wide range of users. Top 15 videos will be rewarded. Prize pool is 1450 $BNC. Terms.

📍 Bifrost started the next part of its incentive testnet Asgard CC3: EOS Cross-Chain transfers. Step-by-step guide.

REEF

📍 Reef announced a partnership with Aleph.im Network, a DeFi focused crosschain scalability network. What it will bring to Reef, read here.

📍 Another collaboration of Reef was announced with Covalent. Covalent provides a unified API to bring full transparency to assets across all blockchain networks and Reef will use this API to provide their users with more advanced portfolio analytics.

CRUST

📍 Crust Network defined period of Incentivized Testnet “Profit Ark” - mid-November to early December. Participants are welcome to participate in the currently running non-incentivized testnet as a node for better understanding what Crust Network is.

ACALA

📍 Karura Network - a canary network of Acala - plans to participate in Kusama parachain auction and introduced the Paradrop - approach to the Parachain Lease Offering (PLO) on Kusama. How it will be.

MOONBEAM

📍 Moonbeam has put forward a proposal to collaborate and launch Sushi Swap on Moonbeam network thus bringing Sushi Swap to Polkadot ecosystem. The original proposal can be viewed here. 99,09% of voters said "YES"!

CHAINX

📍 ChainX will Issue a Kusama Parachain as the First Test of ChainX in the Polkadot Ecology. https://t.co/ZXLdRj91zX?amp=1

CELER

📍 Developer, community and applications updates.

SUBSCAN

📍 Subscan will support Larminar and Equilibrium in October. Twitter post.

SUBSOCIAL

📍 Subsocial attracts new bloggers: Bill Laboon with Polkadot Digest, Bruno Skvorc with DotLeap, Raul R.I.Rtti with All Things Governance and Polkadot News with Weekly digest October 19th - 25th

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