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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - 1.18b DOT | staking - 52.4% | parachains & crowdloans - 9%

• The latest monthly update on Polkadot staking changes is now available.

🔴 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 56, unbricking the Composable Finance relay chain via the forceSetCurrentCode extrinsic, has been passed and executed. 
• Referendum 57, upgrading the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v9180, has been passed and executed.
• Motion 182, to fund the production of Polkadot Ecosystem content in Portuguese language, was passed.

Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ

🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - 12.17m KSM | staking - 42.7% | parachains & crowdloans - 29%

• As part of the recent v800 runtime upgrade, fees to teleport KSM from Kusama relay chain to Statemine have been reduced from 0.004 to 0.000010666 KSM, a 98.7% decrease.
• Pichiu has won the latest parachain slot auction and will onboard in Lease Period 21.

🦅 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 184, to upgrade Statemine to runtime v800, has been passed and executed. 
• Referendum 185, to update the genesis state of the Mangata X parachain, has passed and been executed. 
• Referendum 186, to remove Zug Capital from the Kusama Council, is failing.
• Motion 453, to fund Q2 of Chrawnna Corp video production, which includes the “Ser, Have Ya Heard?” videos, was passed and executed.
• Motion 455, to upgrade the Encointer common-good parachain to full functionality, was passed and has become Referendum 187 for the community to vote on. 
• Motion 456, to fund maintenance and development of Dwellir’s RPC tools and nodes, has passed.
• Polkachu made a post seeking feedback for ongoing funding of their Node Snapshots, Payout Guards, and other resources useful for the Kusama community. 
• The Dotsama Experience has issued their first report on their Treasury-funded virtual museum.

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• KILT introduced web3name, a way to create a recognizable name for your digital identity.
• A new Singular changelog has been published, featuring updates for collection locks, curation, migration, and more.
• Phala released Phala Weekly Vol. 78.
• Parallel Finance published an explanation to the Parallel Heiko Money Markets.
• Astar announced that its dApps are now tracked on DappRadar.
• Astar published Introducing #Build2Earn: What is dApp Staking and Why it Matters for Web3.
• Astar announced the launch of v2 of its dApp Portal, a one-stop hub where you can find all Astar applications and use all tokens including ERC20 tokens, Polkadot Parachain tokens, and Cosmos tokens
• Watch Web3 Path to Enterprise Adoption featuring founders of KILT, Moonbeam, Authrail.
• Zeitgeist published an ecosystem update for March.
• Manta announced a partnership with Axelar to bridge private assets.
• Integritee published an ecosystem update for March.
• Interlay published Announcing XCC: Non-custodial and Cost-Efficient BTC Bridging.
• Phala announced the launch of SubBridge, the first cross-chain assets router bridging parachains, EVM, and other chains.
• Centrifuge published The Strategic Framework for Scaling Centrifuge.
• Darwinia announced a partnership with Oak Network.

🔗 Candidate Parachains, dApps, and others

projects that are not yet connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Unique Network published an ecosystem update for March.
• Subspace published Archiving Polkadot on the Subspace Aries Test Network.

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

• The latest Polkadot community call recording is now available, with discussions on nomination pools, treasury proposals, RMRK, and the Talisman wallet.
• Are you interested in building on Polkadot, but not sure what needs to be done? There are numerous RFPs that W3F Grants Team are interested in funding. 
• Are you interested in working on the future of Polkadot? Web3 Foundation and Parity are seeking developers, grant evaluators, technical educators, and more.
• There are only three days left to vote on the talks you are interested in hearing for Polkadot Decoded 2022. 

  Please vote for Bruno to speak about RMRK at this year’s Polkadot Decoded

• Jonas from W3F is looking for more participants for his study on nomination behavior. You can earn a DOT reward and a unique NFT upon successful participation. Send a DM to W3F Experiments#2077 (Discord) or @experiments:web3.foundation (Matrix) for more details.
• W3F’s Technical Education Lead, Radha, explains account portability across networks in this video.
• Polkadot published XCMv2 Audit Completed by Quarkslab.
• RMRK, in collaboration with MichelAngelo Labs, are auctioning off limited edition custom Kanaria statues with Skybreach perks.

🛠 Tools

• Polkadot-JS Apps v0.112.1 has been released.
• Polkadot-JS Extension v0.43.1 has been released.
• Polkadot-JS API v8.0.2 has been released.

🌠 NFT Review

A weekly newsletter keeping up with the evolution of NFTs in the Dotsama ecosystem.

• Listen to episode 3 of the RMRK Roundtable, featuring alpha from DonnieBigBags, Exosama and Moonsama founder.
  Episode 4 is also available, which focuses on the Cross Chain NFT Experience.
• First look at the digital marketplace in Bit Country.
• gbaci published new article on The Power of Music NFTs with RMRK.

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That's it for this week - I hope this was as useful for you to read as it was for us to write!

Many thanks to Bill Laboon for his daily digest—which helps us not miss some important updates—and Raul Romanutti for helping us ensure that the governance news is accurate.

DotLeap is put together by Bruno Škvorc and gbaci.

Got any links for Bruno for the next edition? Find Bruno on Riot at @bruno:web3.foundation, on Twitter, or via email at [email protected].