In this week’s edition:
Editorial: Satisfactory Momentum? And this week, there’s a journey vibe in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Top Story - BRIDGEin’ Chains & Regions!: Developments this past week show just how much we have progressed since the Polkadot 1.0 era.
Wag Roundup: News from our Finders Program between September 9nd to September 15th.
Extras: Credits and anything else worth a mention.
Editorial
What is up, my friends!
Things are tethering into some satisfactory momentum in cryptoland, with the stable company making moves stateside. While the natives win the hyped ticker, another expansion round is announced. Even based comments are signalling tokens in the air.
The spotlight also turns to Polkadot, as the approval of limited supply becomes big news. That said, there’s just no satisfying some folk, especially those with a DED mindset. Perhaps our Top Story this week can better convince on DOT demand, showing how an ecosystem evolves in its journey.
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Dodow, Chief Editor
Top Story of the Week - BRIDGEin’ Chains & Regions!
Written by yay.oi
What’s good, intents? As summer holidays wind down, our founder’s been spotted on a distant tropical island. While there may have been a bit of time for some sun and cocktails, he was there primarily in support of the latest cohort of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Bali.
Journeys of that length were once perilous, though commercial air travel has made them routine. Cross-chain transactions, on the other hand, are still navigating their own wild terrain.
More than $2.8B has been lost to cross-chain bridge exploits, and shortcuts to decentralization are often to blame. Time and time again, funds are lost because the vast majority of cross-chain bridges are glorified multi-sigs.
Polkadot, on the other hand, has all of the necessary infrastructure to implement a fully decentralized permissionless bridge. Hyperbridge is the latest step in that direction, providing on-chain authentication powered by light-clients and ZK proofs.
The launch of the Hyperbridge native BRIDGE token this week, brought back a touch of Dotsama nostalgia for some, as they received their rewards from the last ever Polkadot parachain Crowdloan. Each contributor, including those via Bifrost, received 100 BRIDGE per DOT bonded to support the Hyperbridge core lease until February 2026. Er…despite winning their auction earlier, Mandala Chain contributors will need to wait a little longer.
Anyways, $2.8M was raised from the Initial Relayer Offering, along with $2.5M of seed funding from the Web3 Foundation and Scytale Digital. This week also saw Harbour Industrial Capital announce a strategic investment, signaling continued confidence in the project.
Hyperbridge has already shown its strength with the DeFi Singularity campaign, helping pushtransaction volume past $10M, and spreading more than4M DOT in multi-chain liquidity. The launch of the BRIDGE token now marks the next phase, setting the stagefor even larger growth in transaction volume....………………
Continue with this week’s top story: BRIDGEin’ Chains & Regions!
Wag Roundup
Written by Dodow
News found by the community. Curated by the community. Backed by OpenGov.
Acurast’s testnet blasts past 400M transactions!
Coretime gets chaotic as the RegionX secondary marketplace goes live on Kusama!
Hyperbridge’s TGE took place on September 15th, with approximately 12.5M BRIDGE circulating at launch and a total supply of 1B tokens.
Blockdeep Labs introduces disposable parachains with Efímero. This adds flexibility to Polkadot’s mission to provide a secure, scalable, and resilient platform for Web3.
2049 participants shared a $25K prize pool in the Nova Shots prediction contest tied to the Blast Premier Open London 2025, with the top payout at $741 USDC.
Pudgy Party hits a Mythical 500K downloads only in its second week since release.
As per the Hydration vote, AAVE gets a boosted Omnipool farming APR.
Hyperbridge’s DeFi Singularity hits $4M TVL in its multi-chain DOT liquidity pools and surpasses $10M in transaction volume.
DOT set to become a limited-supply asset, as the world’s largest DAO backs Referendum 1710 to cap supply at 2.1B tokens and cut issuance.
A special panel at PBA Bali on September 12th featured Gav, Shawn, Maciej, Kian, and Cisco.
The dark renaissance continues October 3rd to 5th with Kusama sponsoring Dark Prague, featuring presentations from Gav and Bill.
Full Wag Roundup September 9th to September 15th.
Extras
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