Wag Roundup - June 19th to June 25th
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DOT Ecosystem News & Events
Written by Dodow
Check out the new Polkadot Staking Dashboard, which features faster performance and an enhanced user experience. It now includes support for multiple languages and currencies, along with a handy rewards calculator.
Ser, have you heard about Polana Network? It aims to fuse the Solana dev experience with the resilience and parallelized processing power of Polkadot JAM. This week marked a breakthrough, as the JamZig team has successfully completed a proof of concept by executing Solana contracts inside the PVM.
Zeroing in on the Polkadot ecosystem! Leading stablecoin infrastructure platform Zerohash has integrated Polkadot Asset Hub. It provides developers with an easy onboarding path, with support for DOT, USDC, and USDT.
Reminder to those running Acurast processors to upgrade to version 1.16.0. In addition to bug fixes and minor UI improvements, this release adds support for processor metrics with benchmark reports.
Building demand for RWA on Polkadot is being raised, as Polkadot VC fund Harbour Industrial Capital makes a six-figure investment in Xcavate.
Check out Xcscan, the new crosschain explorer for Polkadot and Kusama.
Peaq is set to be listed on Kraken on July 2nd.
XMAQUINA’s DEUS Genesis Auction is heating up. Wave 2 kicked off on June 24th, with its first tranche valued at $333.3K snapped up in just 5 mins. Final call on the second tranche!
The SEC has requested comments on 21Shares Polkadot Trust ETF, which will delay a decision by another 35 days.
Harbour Industrial Capital welcomes a new funding advisory board composed of prominent agents from the Polkadot ecosystem. Members include Angie Dalton (DOT Play), Pakman (Kylix/Mandala), Tommi Enenkel (OpenGov.Watch), Xiaojie Pang (Polkaworld), Pauline Cohen Vorms (PBA), and Michael Bennallack (Mandala).
Time to curate the chaos on Kusama! Applications are now open for bounty curators in the fields of ZK and advanced cryptography, proof-of-personhood, and art.
Crossing the lines between geometry and failure, Threshold, a generative art collection by Playman, dropped on Koda.
Nova Wallet was prominently featured at BLAST.tv Austin, a major CS2 tournament held on June 19th. The event included a special integration of Nova Shots, enabling attendees to trade virtual team tokens to predict match outcomes for a prize pool of 2,000 USDC.
Sweetening the $500 prize pot at the N3mus Flappy Wud tournament on June 22nd was a pool of 100M WUD for participants to farm.
Calling Astar Degen dApp stakers to claim their Season 3 ASTR rewards by June 26th.
The Mythical momentum isn’t showing any sign of slowing. Mythos Chain has exceeded 1 million sales transactions for the ninth month in a row, and June isn’t even finished yet.
The StellaSwap ve era begins on July 1st, as veSTELLA is finally set to launch.
Demand for Bifrost’s vDOT continues to grow as it surpasses 13M liquid staked tokens.
The 100th Hydration Referendum sees the Technical Committee whitelist any referenda involving associated assets related to the launch of GIGAETH. The target launch date for GIGAETH is June 30th.
Kusama Referendum 541 has passed a whitelisted caller track to upgrade the Kusama Asset Hub runtime to v1.6. This will enable the pallet-revive module and, with it, Ethereum-compatible smart contracts.
Colorful Notion has initiated a Polkadot Wish for Change proposal to rename the DOT token to JAM by the end of 2026. The reasoning behind the rebrand is to better align with the evolution from the Relay Chain that secures parachains to a trustless supercomputing protocol.
If passed, Hydration’s Referendum 105 will see Interlay’s iBTC removed from the omnipool due to low volume and ongoing growth plans. The removal will also involve exchanging iBTC for tBTC and transferring it back to the protocol’s treasury.
Moonbeam & Moonriver Referendum 114 sees the community approve treasury diversification through the DCA of GLMR into native USDC, as well as the enablement of stablecoin use for spends.
The recent Runtime 3701 upgrade for Moonbeam and Moonriver includes auto maintenance mode for migration failures, along with various bug fixes.
Up for voting on Polkadot and Kusama are upgrades to runtime v1.6.0 for chains that use Coretime. If passed, the proposal would increase the number of available cores and adjust pricing to address Coretime purchasing issues.
Subscan now supports Governance v2 on Hydration and Basilisk.
The Polkadot Pink Bus makes its return at Permissionless and NFT NYC. Things kick off with Web Zero’s Blockspace Brooklyn Opening Party on June 23rd. This is followed by the Ready Player DOT gaming night on June 25th, featuring Mythical, DOT Play, and Heroic, with a Pudgy Penguins after-party to close out the night.
Check out the Phunky session from June 20th, which provides an introduction to Polkadot.
On June 26th, NFT Mosaic hosted their second community call to provide the latest NFT updates in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Get the rundown of what’s in store for Wave 2 of the DEUS Genesis Auction, as Peaq hosted XMAQUINA on June 20th.
On June 19th, Peaq discussed liquid staking as Parasail launched stPEAQ.
Polkaworld interviewed the Mubert Protocol team on June 19th about building the creator economy on Polkadot.
Mandala Chain hosted Max Rebol of Harbour Industrial Capital on June 25th for a discussion on the role capital plays in Web3 mass adoption.