Wag Roundup - June 5th to June 11th
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DOT Ecosystem News & Events
Written by yay.oi
The Ambassador Fellowship has kicked off the Polkadot Pop-up Summer. It aims to hit 1000 pop-ups during the campaign, while pushing swiftly toward the grander goal of 10K pop-ups per month.
With only one core available on the general market, Polkadot Coretime Sale #10 sold out immediately at the opening price of 922 DOT. The Coretime Baron believes Parity is the purchaser.
A decision on the NASDAQ listing of the Grayscale Polkadot Trust (DOT) has been delayed by 35 days as the SEC seeks further comments and rebuttals about fraud and manipulation prevention.
The Polkadot UX Bounty has welcomed Niftesty as its newest curator.
Within four days of its launch, Nova Wallet issued over one hundred MercuryO Debit Cards.
Mimir, an enterprise-grade multisig solution for Polkadot, trusted by over 2000 users, has surpassed the TVL milestone of $10M.
Aventus has completed the open-sourcing of its prediction market technology source code. The code, which powers the Truth Network, is now fully accessible for auditing, contribution, and adaptation.
Magenta Labs has onboarded Hive Intelligence into the Polkadot ecosystem. With the Hive API, developers can now tap into a wide range of AI-driven applications that utilize Hive’s LLM-ready blockchain data.
Peaq, in collaboration with the Pulsar Group, has launched the Machine Economy Free Zone, a sandbox environment for exploring regulation, deployment, innovation, and investment in the United Arab Emirates.
Silencio’s Soundcheck browser extension is coming soon to Google Chrome. It will offer users the ability to overlay noise data onto in-browser maps, helping users make informed decisions, such as finding a quiet location for their next stay.
The XMAQUINA DAO Portal is now live, featuring governance proposals and in-depth treasury insights. A staking dashboard is coming soon.
Acurast’s decentralized compute network has surged past the massive milestone of 85K onboarded mobile devices.
Tokenized fractional real estate investors are bound to dig this development. The Xcavate network is now supported by the Mimir multisig wallet.
Mythical has partnered with Adidas to bring licensed in-game assets and branding to FIFA Rivals. Players can look forward to exclusive drops of Adidas-sponsored players, boots, kits, and more.
NFT Mosaic is on the hunt for new and creative cross-chain NFT use cases. Join the Zealy campaign to learn NFT XCM basics, submit your ideas, and potentially share in a prize pool of 300 DOT.
On June 8th, Tesselia, a generative art collection by Reptile, dropped on Koda. Interlocking cubes combined with organic textures juxtapose the logic of tessellation with the imperfections of nature.
This week’s second drop on Koda is Nemka, a generative art collection by Buitrago inspired by Colombia’s pre-Hispanic cultures.
Soaring to higher heights, Bifrost’s vDOT has passed the 12 million staked tokens milestone.
Stellaswap has released the details of STELLA Maxi, its first auto-strategy for the upcoming veSTELLA token. It aims to maximize and compound earnings by automatically voting in high-performing pools, converting earnings into veSTELLA, and continuing the voting and earning loop.
In response to the discontinuation of Wormhole support, Acala has completed the ASEED collateral migration of Wormhole USDC(et) to Asset Hub USDC.
While still not matching Hydration’s own calculation, the addition of Hydration Lending tracking to DeFiLlama has elevated its ranking into the top 50 chains by TVL.
Hydration Referendum 96 proposes to increase the vDOT lending supply cap from 666,666 to 1,333,333. In addition, for DOT-correlated assets in E-mode, the LTV ratio would be increased from 80% to 90% and the Liquidation Threshold from 90% to 92%.
Moonbeam Referendum 114 proposes to diversify the treasury by converting 1.8 million GLMR to USDC over six months using Hydration DCA and XCM transfers.
Polkadot Wish for Change Referendum 1608 seeks the Polkadot DAO’s approval to initiate the rollout of the non-custodial Polkadot Visa Debit Card. All integration costs would be covered by Referendum 1573, which is funding Polkadot App-related expenses for the next six months.
Polkadot hosted Michael Bennalack on June 5th for an in-depth look at Mandala Chain’s big plans for Indonesian enterprise and government blockchain integrations.
OriginTrail’s Town Hall on Track(k) on June 6th featured founders Ziga, Branimir, and Tomaz for a deep dive into DKG V8.1 and what to expect further down the line.
Polkadot hosted Birdo (Polkadot App) and Simon (Baanx) on June 10th to discuss a new proposal to launch a non-custodial Polkadot Visa debit card, which will be integrated with the Polkadot App.
On June 11th, Michael (Mandala Chain) hosted Gianluigi (Kylix Finance) and Filippo (Web3 Foundation) for a discussion on blockchain developments and opportunities in Indonesia.
In this week’s edition of the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship Meets on June 11th, Lucy Coulden hosted Nick (Ajuna), Ingo (KILT), Charu (Unique Network), and Kasper (Mythical) from the Advisory Core.
On Thursday July 17th, the Web3 Foundation is hosting Kusama ZK Day in Berlin, Germany. Applications for speakers are open now.