Weekly digest November 2nd - November 8th

WEB3 FOUNDATION

⭐️ 10 projects are in the new, 8th wave of Web3 Foundation Grant program:

Sean Young - Solidity to WASM compiler Phase 2 (GitHub) Nuclei Studio - Governance OS (GitHub) NBLTrust - Dart SCALE Codec (GitHub) Nsure.Network - Open Insurance Platform for Open Finance (GitHub) Kylin Network- Cross-chain Platform for the Data Economy (GitHub) Bit.Country - A decentralized world (GitHub) MIDL.dev - Polkashots.io: Snapshot website for Polkadot and Kusama (GitHub) Ares Protocol - Decentralized Oracle Protocol (GitHub) Saito - Polkadot Gaming Protocol and Library (GitHub) LimeChain - Subsembly: Framework for building AssemblyScript Runtimes (GitHub) ⭐️ Web3 Foundation called for community evaluations: Fractapp has completed their first milestone for their Open Grant. Anyone can evaluate it and will be paid up to 10 KSM in proportion to the quality of evaluation and the level of details they provide. Github.

POLKADOT

⭐️ Polkadot presented an overview of the Polkadot DeFi ecosystem as it stands today.

⭐️Polkadot is a one of the Gold partners at Encode Club 4th blockchain Hackathon.

There will be 3 categories of challenges by Polkadot. Prize pool is $36,000. Registration till November 9th. Details.

KUSAMA

⭐️ "The Third Generation" - an amazing film made by Miguel Marques. This film is funded from Kusama treasury. It describes the third generation of blockchains, as well as “the new socio-politico-economic decentralized organizations that technology allows us to build”. Watch here.

BIFROST

⭐️ Bifrost released a new version of White Paper: Tokenmint, Incentives, BNC Distribution and more new details.

⭐️ October Recap: Testnet and Event Season.

DARWINIA

⭐️ Darwinia Network opens the Ethereum-Darwinia one-way bridge. The users who hold Gringotts deposit receipt or Ethereum ERC20 $RING and $KTON can transfer their assets to the mainnet. It's the third stage of Darwinia’s mainnet launch process, and the next will be the opening of two-way Ethereum-Darwinia bridge. More info.

EQUILIBRIUM

⭐️ Equilibrium will integrate the most widely-used oracle in DeFi - Chainlink's price feeds.

⭐️Equilibrium reported on successfully completing the second of three milestones of developing a Substrate financial pallet, that utilizes oracles for external price feeds on featured assets and uses this data for further financial calculations.

⭐️ Equilibrium started its testnet, including almost all its core technical components: on-chain risk management, pricing, balances, bailout modules, deposits, transfers, and withdrawals. To try the system To read more

DOCK

⭐️ Dock Network shared several details about $DOCK migration to the mainnet in the end of the year - how and where to swap, swap bonuses and more.

STAFI

⭐️ StaFi calls up the community to join an Ambassador program named "StaFi Warriors". If you have a strong interest in DeFi, Staking derivatives, PoS, and a deep understanding of the Polkadot ecosystem - read the article and apply.

MOONBEAM

⭐️ PureStake, the company developing the Moonbeam Network, has launched the Moonbeam Truffle Box. Truffle is one of the most popular development tools on Ethereum, and Moonbeam Truffle box will help Ethereum projects quickly deploy smart contracts to Moonbeam. The announcement.

REEF

⭐️ Reef announced two new collaborations with Centaur Inks, a bridge between decentralised and traditional finance, and with Paraswap, an aggregator of multiple decentralized exchanges.

PHALA

⭐️ Phala Network and Bluzelle reached a partnership.

“With such partnership, Web3 Analytics (W3A) — the flagship product of Phala ecosystem — will be able to compute and store thousands, even millions of user data, in a reliable, scalable, and decentralized way. Also, Phala technology will enable Bluzelle to be a Web3.0-driven, privacy-friendly, and more competitive storage solution across the world." - says Phala in the announcement.

CHAINX

⭐️Chainx started ChainX 2.0. testnet on 5th of November. It will last till November 25th. Node election, asset mining, Web Wallet, Browser, Chain Governance, and so on are included this time. Excellent test nodes have the opportunity to become a genesis node of the ChainX 2.0 mainnet. Beside node running there are 6 tasks that can be completed for rewards.

KILT

⭐️ Kilt and Moonbeam will work on Polimec - a fundraising mechanism for the Polkadot Ecosystem. Polimec is built on Substrate and other Substrate-based blockchains can utilize Polimec to issue tokens and make them available to the market. Details.

PLASM

⭐️ Plasm Network will freeze the mainnet due to technical updates.

Freezing date: Between 9th and 20th.

Re-launch date: Around January 5th

Planned updates:

PoS migration Implement dAPPs Reward Prepare for the final DOT lockdrop

BONDLY

⭐️ Bondly released their “BCCG” (Bondly Collectible Card Game) on the 3rd of November. There were 750 NFT cards, all of them were sold out in under 6 hours. These cards will give several VIP entries to tournaments and will bring a free airdrop of $BONDLY tokens. Bondly stated that it was the first BCCG sale and others are coming soon. Details are here and here.

CELER

⭐️ 109th progress report: https://t.co/45Cv5HTz6b?amp=1

HOT DOT NEWS

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