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News found by the community. Curated by the community. Backed by OpenGov.
General
Jonas Gehrlein (Web3 Foundation) has published a proposal for the Polkadot Dynamic Allocation Pool. Integrated with the new DOT issuance schedule, it would provide a financial buffer, adjustable by governance, to enable flexible allocation of protocol expenses.
Snowbridge V2 is now live, allowing XCM messaging from Ethereum to Polkadot, smart contract execution from Polkadot to Ethereum, cheaper bridging, and faster transfers.
WisdomTree has filed with the SEC to list an ETF benchmarked to the Coindesk 20 Index. The index tracks the performance of twenty of the largest digital assets, including DOT, while specifically excluding stablecoins, memecoins, and privacy tokens.
Simplified staking for DOT and KSM is now available on Revolut, giving mainstream users access to 100% of their rewards with zero commission fees.
Bringing even more staking opportunities for the normies, DOT staking is now available on Bybit On-chain Earn. After staking for more than 24 hours, users become eligible for an APR bonus.
The PAPI Polkadot Staking dApp is now live, offering optimized performance and a truly decentralized user experience via light-client compatibility.
Banxa has partnered with Polkadot to integrate its regulatory-compliant on/off-ramping infrastructure. This provides developers across the ecosystem with ready-to-use payment rails, supporting 100+ payment methods globally and significantly easing the inflow of new liquidity.
OriginTrail has just achieved the momentous milestone of 100M TRAC staked across Neuroweb (47.2M), Gnosis (39.3M), and Base (13.6M).
ROS2, a popular open-source robot operating system, is now supported by the Peaq Robotics SDK.
After last week’s sellout, Peaq has initiated another Vested Emission Offering on Lucid Labs. This time, 4.6M PEAQ is available at a 12.5% discount.
Early access was snapped up by 420 swift investors, but now it’s time for the general public to grab their share. Dual Mint’s Robofarm RWA, powered by Peaq, goes on sale November 11th.
Citing challenging broader market conditions and a lackluster intake of new developers, Apillon has announced it will wind up operations at the end of 2025. Users are advised to migrate their projects and data from the platform by January 1st 2026.
Pop CLI v0.11.0 is live, now defaulting to ink! v6.0.0-beta smart contracts and featuring ongoing refinements that continue to streamline the developer experience.
NFT & Gaming
This year, BLAST Premier Rivals Season 2 2025 heads to Hong Kong, and the NovaShots prediction dApp is offering another chance to share in $25K. BLAST tokens can be claimed and traded for team tokens from November 10th.
Continuing its crawl from the Moonbeam dungeons, Outmine has now surpassed 1M transactions since launch.
Quartz, Unique Network’s canary chain on Kusama, is migrating to an internal testing environment for JAM. As a result, QTZ can be redeemed for UNQ at a rate of 25:1 until 31st March 2026.
DeFi
Velocity Labs has selected five projects for the first cohort of the DeFi Builders Program. Let’s congratulate Joinn (Yield Bearing Wallet/Mastercard), SigilSafe (Estate Planning), WinCoins (Prediction Market), Koni Finance (Multi-chain Trading and Launchpad), and TidalX (Gasless Perps).
This week, Hydration’s HOLLAR lending cap was increased to $6M, but as usual, it filled in a flash.
Opening up the vault, PAXG tokenized gold is now available for borrowing and lending in the Hydration money market.
Bifrost is now part of the Blockworks Token Transparency Framework, scoring 38/40. It has room to improve in airdrop eligibility disclosure and quarterly reporting.
In the first week since the launch of Bifrost’s BuyBack BNC, over 5M vBNC have been locked, with more than 130K BNC bought back for burning and revenue distribution.
The DefiLlama Fees and Revenue Dashboard is now tracking Bifrost, offering some useful insights for bbBNC holders.
Governance
Polkadot WFC Referendum 1781 proposes to immediately halt the 1% treasury burns that occur every 24 days, as the new DOT Capped and Stepped Inflation model already puts significant pressure on treasury inflows.
Polkadot People Chain has initiated Referendum 1783, requesting 3 million HOLLAR to incentivize mass proof-of-personhood onboarding. Incentives include a one-time new-user bootstrapping grant of $50 to $200, $10 per week for active participants, and large regular random prize drops ranging from $250 to $2,500.
Polkadot Whitelisted Caller Referendum 1782, now passed, urgently deployed Runtime 2.0.1 to patch a security vulnerability discovered shortly after the Asset Hub Migration.
The issue, described in Kian Paimani’s (Parity) post-mortem, was a coding error in the election-provider-multi-block pallet that bypassed an origin check, letting any user execute a specific governance-only function.
The patching continues with Polkadot Referendum 1785, which, if passed, will resolve an error that has reduced DOT issuance by 33% and staking rewards by approximately 60%.
Bifrost Referendum 158, now passed, has resumed two cross-chain DOT transactions that became stuck during the Asset Hub Migration.
XMAQUINA Referendum BOT-07, now passed, approved an 800K USDC strategic investment in 1X Technologies, the company behind NEO Gamma.
Applications are now open for the third term of the Moonbeam Governance Guild. Selected delegates will receive substantial voting power, including 5 million GLMR for Moonbeam and 50,000 MOVR for Moonriver. They will also be compensated with a portion of the staking rewards generated by these tokens.
Hydration Referendum 222, now passed, decreased the GDOT amplification rate to 222. As a result, price volatility will increase, reopening arbitrage opportunities that will help rebalance the pool.
Events
Once again, it’s reporting season. On November 4th, Tommi Enenkel (Opengov.Watch) presented the Polkadot Q3 2025 Treasury Report.
Sacha (WebZero) hosted a live workshop on November 4th, demonstrating how to build privacy-preserving ZK dApps using Noir and Ink.
As the submission deadline looms, the Polkadot Builder Party Hackathon AMA on November 5th featured Tommi (Opengov.Watch), Mideg (Web3 Foundation), Bekka (Polkadot Africa), Todor, and Nikolai (Parity).
The Kus hosted Gavin Wood (Parity) on November 6th for a deep dive into the incentivized proof-of-personhood bootstrapping program.
Polkadot Decentralized Mic, on November 6th, introduced the five teams making up the first cohort of the Velocity Labs DeFi Builders Program. It featured Ryan (Koni Finance), Leo (Joinn), Antonio (WinCoins), Pavel (TidalX), and Charlie (SigilSafe).
JizzleSzn hosted Zafer and Thom for the FintraDex AMA on November 6th, to hear about their upcoming Polkadot orderbook and vision for the future.
DotJobs, the new recruitment platform for the Polkadot ecosystem, held an AMA on November 7th focused on successful application strategies and the roadmap ahead.