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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~1.22B DOT | staking - 52% | parachains & crowdloans - 11%

• Para ID 2055 has won the most recent parachain lease auction. 

• Gavin Wood published Gov2: Polkadot’s Next Generation of Decentralised Governance.

🔴 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 69, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v9250, is currently passing by a wide margin.

• Motion 231, to fund Manta’s development of OpenZL, was approved.

• Motion 232, to top-up the anti-scam bounty funds, was disapproved.

• Motion 233, to increase the maximum number of HRMP channels from 10 to 30, was approved. 

• Motion 234, to fund development of a cross-chain transaction history service, is under Council consideration.

Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ

🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~15.55M KSM | staking - 49.8% | parachains & crowdloans - 22%

• Kintsugi won the 44th parachain slot auction.

🦅 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 215, removing 18 proposals from the public queue each seeking to remove a different Kusama Council member, is currently passing unanimously with 2 days left to vote.

• Referendum 216, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain to runtime v9260, is passing by a wide margin.

• Motion 514, to fund RadiumBlock’s public endpoint service for Kusama, was approved. 

• Motion 515, to fund a liquidity proposal for Genshiro, was approved by the Council and is up for a community vote.

• Motion 516, to fund further governance participation rewards, was approved. The Governance experiment powered by RMRK’s advanced NFT system is a resounding success, creating a 700% increase in governance participation.

• Jay Chrawnna published a post for feedback for further developing WagMedia, which, among other goals, aims to incentivize individual contributors to produce Kusama content.

• There is a post looking to make a virtual reality documentary about the Polkadot/Kusama ecosystem. 

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Subsocial published The State of Subsocial: Where Are We Going?

• Composable published Notes from The Composable Team.

• KITL published The History of Web3 in a Nutshell.

• Moonbeam published Cross-Chain Connected Contracts with Axelar and What Are Cross-Chain Contracts?

• New XCM connection between Integritee and Karura.

• InvArch published a new ecosystem update.

• Astar published Swanky: The All-In-One WASM Tool.

• Encointer published How to Claim Your Encointer NFT From Polkadot Decoded.

• Manta published The State of Manta and Calamari Network Q1/Q2 2022.

• Litentry published a new ecosystem update.

• OriginTrail announced that OriginTrail DKG v6 is feature-locked and ready for stage 2 release.

• Equilibrium published How Equilibrium Embeds Bailouts and Mitigates Risks to Stability in DeFi.

• Watch this introduction to PhalaWorld.

• Robonomics and Crust entered a partnership.

• Watch the latest episode of Bit.Country discovery. 

• Unique Network released a new ecosystem update.

• Polkadex published Up Next for Polkadexers.

• ChainSafe published a new privacy feature for Polkadot-JS Extension.

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

• Polkadot co-founder Robert Habermeier discussed a cross-chain vs multi-chain future in a panel at Composable Unchained. 

• Polkadot is sponsoring RustConf, August 5th in Portland, OR, USA.

🛠 Tools

• Polkadot-JS API v8.14.1 has been released.

• Polkadot-JS Extension v0.44.2 has been released.

• Polkadot-JS Apps v0.118.1 has been released.

🌠 NFT Review

A weekly newsletter keeping up with the evolution of NFTs in the Dotsama ecosystem.

• Final Fantasy VII 25th Anniversary cards will be minted on Efinity.

• Secondary sales and transfers have been enabled for Skybreach.

• RMRK published an interview with Shawn Tabrizi and a vlog series recapping the NYC experience of Polkadot Decoded.

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That's it for this week - I hope this was as useful for you to read as it was for us to write!

Many thanks to Bill Laboon for his daily digest—which helps us not miss some important updates—and Raul Romanutti for helping us ensure that the governance news is accurate.

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