DEV UP! - Newsletter Edition 92
In this week’s edition:
Editorial: DAS vibes, Polkadot developments, and join in to develop yourself.
Top Story - Dotvelopment: the latest Polkadot ecosystem development updates.
Featured Wag Roundup: news from our Finders Program between March 20th and March 26th, plus some background and tips for those who wish to participate.
Extras: credits and anything else.
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Editorial
What is up, my friends!
History was made this past week at the Blockworks Digital Assets Summit (DAS), as it became the first crypto conference where a sitting president was a headline speaker. While President Trump was not present in person at the New York event, he addressed the audience on the big screen at the conference’s main stage.
The key takeaways appear to be more of the same messages since inauguration, which we touched upon in last week’s editorial. That said, since DAS is not a developer conference but rather aimed at the institutional crowd, the address certainly helped boost the already seemingly bullish sentiment.
Meanwhile, the Polkadot faithful were sorely missing Phunky in a referenda gone by, though he was positively AYE AYE from DAS. Away from the fanfare and market volatility, our ecosystem’s developers continue to build. This brings us to the top story of the week, where we're going to dive into what is being dotveloped.
For those who want to develop themselves, you could consider joining the WagMedia Finders Program. Not only does it contribute to our weekly news roundup, participants get to refine their research and writing foundations, as well as earn some rewards.
Be sure to check out this week’s news roundup, where we’ll also share some hints and tips on how to get started. If development goes well, you may eventually find yourself writing segments of this very newsletter.
Dodow, Chief Editor
Top Story of the Week - Dotvelopment
Written by yay.oi
What’s pushin’, coders? While shipping season is still in full swing, we may be waiting just a little longer for the next epic announcement. Nonetheless, behind the scenes, development is advancing on all fronts.
With the JAM Toaster ready to warm some toes in DOT Palace jacuzzi, the countdown is on for implementation teams to be deployment-ready when the testnet launches in May. This week, JAMdot Technologies advanced its rank with the announcement of full Milestone 1 conformance for its Python implementation of JAM.
During a break from airdropping its loyal community, Acala posted some updates on its own JAM implementation, based on Swift. First past the post, Jamixir, in the meantime, is well into Milestone 2, while simultaneously optimizing for the improved Kusama and Polkadot performance required in Milestones 3 and 4.
While not reaching the epic proportions of the 10M DOT JAM Implementers Prize, the Encode Polkadot Scalability Hackathon, kicking off next month, is offering a generous $30K prize pool spread across three tracks. Polkadot Africa, Subquery, Apillon, and OpenGuild have partnered with the event, providing educational events, support, and additional bounties.
Meanwhile, this week in Argentina, Crecimento held the Aleph conference and hackathon. Sponsor Polkadot sent an all-star envoy comprising Bill Laboon (Web3 Foundation), Nicolas Arevalo (Velocity Labs), Jakub Panik (Hydration), and local ecosystem rep Gabo Posta.
In his presentation, Bill Laboon covered topics such as the Polkadot Hub and Cloud, PolkaVM, and smart contracts.Judge,mentor, and speaker Jakub Panik held a workshop onbuilding interoperable blockchains, and then took a moment to strengthen the Polkadot-Ethereum community bond witha Flappy Wud sesh at the Polkadot gaming terminal...................…….
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Featured Wag Roundup
Written by Dodow
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As your experience within the Polkadot ecosystem grows, you'll be in a stronger position to read the room, capture sentiment, and adjust for your audience. Furthermore, your contribution in sharing news is also rewarded.
For those who are new to the ecosystem, take a look at our featured story, Wagtastic Tips & Tricks, published around Bonfire Night. Or, for a more personal take from someone who has been through the journey, check out Becoming a WagMedia Finder from our newsletter nearly a year ago.
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The news you share gets included in our weekly newsletter under the Wag Roundup section. Additionally, the top highlights of the week are published on our X account in a News Roundup. As we often say: News found by the community. Curated by the community. Backed by OpenGov.
This weeks highlights:
Hyperbridge strategically partners with TVVIN, which will enable access to gold and other precious tokenized real-world assets across multiple chains.
Acurast announces its integration with OriginTrail’s DKG, which is set to enhance the advancement of AI agents through secure decentralized compute powered by smartphones.
Xcavate announces a partnership with Lanes Exclusive Homes. The move is set to tokenize over £50M worth of UK prime new-build real estate on-chain.
Acurast hits the monumental milestone of onboarding 50,000 mobile devices, making it possibly the most decentralized compute network in Web3.
KodaDot has introduced an Atomic Swap feature for peer-to-peer NFT trading, ensuring a secure and trustless experience.
N3mus closes out March with 108K gameplays, 109% month-over-month growth, and 8% of all transactions on Moonbeam.
he second stage of Bifrost’s Liquid WAVE campaign, BNC Explorers, has ended after reaching an increased cap of 3.5M vBNC minted. Up next is bbBNC Riders.
Energy Web’s native EWT token is now available on Hydration via an Isolated Pool.
Polkadot OpenGov Referendum 1501 proposes renewing treasury acquisitions of USDT and USDC. This time, the approach involves selling a fixed amount of the 5M DOT into stables rather than purchasing a fixed amount. Furthermore, at the start, the full amount of DOT will be converted to yield-bearing aDOT and deployed in Hydration’s money market for capital efficiency.
Ajuna is seeking Polkadot treasury funding of 80K USDT to complete the open-source Substrate Asset Game Engine, as well as two playground games to showcase it.
On March 25th, Parity’s Vincent Di Gimbattista joins a panel of Hacken experts for a deep dive into security on Polkadot.
Check out the full newsletter for a roundup of all of the news from 20th March to 26th March.
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