Featured Roundup - May 29th to June 4th
News 101
Written by Dodow
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DOT Ecosystem News & Events
Written by yay.oi
The latest (v1.15.6) release of Nova Spektr, a Polkadot Treasury-funded desktop wallet developed by the team behind NovaWallet, is live. It includes support for Unified Address Format, improvements to WalletConnect, and further Polkadot Vault features.
Birdo’s update about the Polkadot App reveals that all is on track for a US release by the end of June, following recent submissions to Google Play and the Apple App Store.
Episode 5 of A Glass with Gav dropped on May 30th. Mark Cachia and Gavin Wood discussed proof-of-personhood, JAM, and the Polkadot Hub over a glass of 16yo Lagavulin.
Blockdeep Labs is taking over from Parity for support and maintenance of the Polkadot JS suite.
Wave 3 of the PBA-X online Polkadot and blockchain fundamentals course kicks off on June 23rd. The four-week program costs $100, and registration is open now.
Apillon’s embedded wallet now supports Substrate chains, Moonbeam, and Astar, allowing builders to offer easy onboarding without the need for seed phrases.
The much-anticipated Polkadot Debit Card is now available via Nova Wallet. Currently limited to the EEA, you can top up your flexible friend with DOT and spend wherever they take Mastercard.
Talisman now supports Polkadot Vaults 7.0 smartphone-based cold storage. Users don’t need to update metadata after a runtime upgrade. Everything is automated by scanning the Polkadot Vault animated QR code.
Subwallet extension v1.3.39 is now live, bringing unified addresses on Hydration, support for the Xcavate network, and new tokens on Polkadot Asset Hub such as MPC, DON, and an array of Snowbridge tokens.
Aira, a DePIN that collects air quality data, is building on Peaq. Users of the Aira wearable device and app will be incentivized to collect and share air pollution data that will contribute to a global air quality map.
Wave 2 of the XMAQUINA DEUS Token Genesis Auction kicks off on June 24th. For $1 USDC, participants will be able to purchase 22.22 DEUS tokens with 33% unlocked at TGE and 67% vested linearly over 12 months.
OriginTrail has been recognised for its positive impact in entrepreneurship and features in Microsoft’s newsletter.
As part of its multichain expansion and mainstream adoption plans, Kilt will be launching a new set of consumer applications. These include Clans (Infofi), Sporran 2.0 (mobile identity super app), DIDsign 2.0 (document approvals), and Kilt Pay (compliant real-world payments).
Kukabi, founder of Helikon and member of Permanence DAO, has dropped a new dashboard for Cohort IV of Decentralized Voices. Eight graphs offer insights into voting behavior and alignment.
The Marketing Bounty is seeking a top-up of 1.2M DOT to cover expenditure for the next six months. The team is onboarding two new curators. Mark Cachia (Scytale) will guide investment strategy, while Sergi Mata (Magenta Labs) will take on a business development role.
For more sustainable validator node operations, Kusama Referendum 533 proposes increasing the minimum commission from 10% to 15%.
Hydration has opened discussions for a second development funding proposal. The plan involves a request for $2.5M in stablecoins from protocol-owned liquidity to fuel development for the next 12 months.
Hey big spender! Snowfork is requesting $5M USD equivalent in vested payments for completed milestones and 12 months of operational costs of Snowbridge. As with previous funding, vested future incentives for the team may be allocated to the bug bounty and exploit insurance.
Snowbridge is now the bridge of choice on Stellaswap, with one-click access enabled on the Bridge tab. Should any assistance be needed, a Snowbridge rep is available for customer support on the Stellaswap Discord.
Let’s talk about CEX, baby! Trading of the Bifrost BNC token is coming soon to Bitmart.
Fill your wallet with Transcendence. White Koala’s latest drop is available on Koda from June 1st.
Well, that took root quickly! On June 6th, Ascii-Tree, a generative art collection by Agoston Nagy, dropped on Koda and minted out in 8 minutes.
Make sure to pre-register for FIFA Rivals to Enter the Mythos on launch day and receive a set of rare collectibles.
Better get those collectibles into cold storage. Ledger is now supported for safer Mythos transactions on Nova Wallet.
Mythos enters a new month after three consecutive months of trading volume exceeding a recent ATH of $40M.
Another high score! N3mus has continued its growth this May, passing more than 614K gameplays.
Peaq welcomed edge data intelligence DePIN 375ai on May 29th for a discussion on how it will incentivize its app and device users to collect and verify real-world data.
Lucy Coulden held a pair of X Spaces on May 29th to discuss Phase II of the Ambassador Fellowship and its upcoming treasury proposal.
On May 29th, LATAM CEX Ripio hosted Nico (Velocity Labs), Roco (Dotcast), and Lorena (Polkadot Ambassador) for an overview of the Polkadot ecosystem, CEX integration, and new token pair listing.
Mythical Mondays hosted Lucy Coulden on June 2nd for a rundown of the Ambassador Fellowship and how you can get involved.
On the June 4th episode of Paul’s Penthouse DePIN Disclosed, Alessandro de Carli introduced Acurast’s verifiable, scalable, and confidential compute capabilities.
Peaq hosted Keith (Serious People), Derek (Steer Protocol), Mike (Blocky), and Anthony (Lucid) on June 4th to discuss bootstrapping liquidity in the Machine Economy with a Vested Emissions Offering on Lucid.
On June 4th, Silencio held an AMA on its innovative data-driven approach to tackle noise pollution.