Dot is ded Eggshilarating! (March 24th to March 30th)
The Easter long weekend provided an opportunity for many to take a break, indulge with some treats, and gather with friends and family. Some much needed respite given the eggstraordinary first quarter of 2024 we had.
Our top story this week delves into the situation with the eggshilarating Indy 500 Polkadot treasury proposal, we also cover a few other captivating news items too. Supplementing this is our usual basket of news and events via our finders program.
And if you want to know more about how we keep the hot stories and news flowing, then skip to our feature to discover the treasures that await the journey for our top finders.
Of course wag is about creators too, so chick out a recap on the latest insights as those carrots are dangled in our Bounty Hub.
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Dodow, Chief Editor
Top Story Of The Week - Indy eggshilarating news!
Written by Sanchez
It's always exciting to see the community come together and surmount challenges like saving the Indy 500 proposal. Despite some unforeseen difficulties which threatened the participation in the races, the community band together and ensured the continuity of the partnership.
The Indy500 proposal is a marketing proposal which intends to provide a full Polkadot sponsorship for Conor Daly over 3 car races which includes the 2024 Indianapolis 500, NASCAR Truck Series Race, and Nitro Rallycross Race.
An average of 5 million viewers and over 300,000 attendees are present at the Indy 500 races year on year. The cars will be fully wrapped with Polkadot logos and colors and the driver, Conor Daly, will also be serving as a Polkadot ambassador for these events…….
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General News basket
Written by Giggs
An anonymous bidder wins Kusama Auction #135 with a self-funded bid of 210 KSM.
Moonbeam Network introduces 10 powerful tools to promote innovation in its ecosystem.
Polkadot Wiki has added a new page discussing Agile Coretime.
Parity Tech releases runtime updates on Polkadot and Kusama, focusing on Snowbridge and Agile Coretime improvements.
NFT & DEFI hunting News
Written by Giggs
Evrloot partners with PINK to conduct the PINK VILLA auction.
JAM token minting, facilitated by DOTins, commences.
HydraDX lists DED.
Spacewalk Bridge goes live on Pendulum, letting users to bridge assets like XLM with transaction fees paid in PEN.
Carrot(er) building Governance News
Written by Gigs
Novasama Technologies requests funding of over 45K DOT for a period of six months for the research and development of Telenova, a Telegram-integrated Polkadot wallet.
Referendum Analytics on Polkassembly launches, enabling access to OpenGov and Gov1 data for all partner networks.
Bill Laboon, director of Education and Governance Initiatives at the Web3 Foundation, presented a proposal to register Billcoins as an XCM asset (XC-20) on the Shiden Network.
Events gathering News
Written by Turing Machine
The Game is on at The Kusamarian, participants from Scytale Digital x Mythical Games Gaming Academy joined for an interactive AMA on 27th of March.
Bifrost’s Product Manager, Tyrone, gave us a unique look at the LST leverage engine associated with the new staking strategy feature, the session was hosted by Polkaworld on March 28th.
Polkaworld will host Decoding Polkadot 2.0 on 5th of April, during the Hong Kong Web3 Festival.
Exciting weeks in Austin from April 15th to May 6th! The Polkadot Hackathon will take place in Texas for the North America Edition.
Eggstras
Check out what’s it like becoming a WagMedia Finder with my eggscellent adventure down the Polkadot rabbit hole written by yay.oi
Get further insights about what is happening in the Bounty hive (hub) in our brief report by Turing Machine and Dodow.
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