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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~1.24b DOT | staking - 51.1% | parachains & crowdloans - 11%

• Polkadot 0.9.30 has been released with LOW upgrade priority. 

🔴 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 79 was passed and executed, upgrading the Polkadot relay chain to runtime v9291 and Statemint to runtime v9290. 

• Referendum 77, proposing to approve a Treasury Proposal to fund development of Gossamer, a Polkadot Host implementation written in Go, is passing. 

• Referendum 78, proposing to set up initial configuration for Polkadot nomination pools, is currently passing. 

• Referendum 80, seeking sufficiency for USDT on Statemint, is currently passing. Sufficiency means that this asset can be used for transaction fees without having any DOT on the relevant Statemint account.

• Motion 279, to onboard the Collectives parachain as a common good parachain, has been approved by the Polkadot Council and is currently in the external queue to be voted by the community soon. 

• Motion 280, to fund the development of Sequester (which would allow parachains to become carbon-neutral), is under consideration by the Polkadot Council. You can hear an AMA on Sequester (hosted by Bill Laboon) here.

• Motion 277, approving a Treasury Proposal for reimbursement of funds for expenses related to Web Summit, has passed. 

• There is a discussion on the Polkadot Forum for an alternative UI for exploring node storage and extrinsics. 

• There is a discussion on Polkadot Forum for bringing the Kusama Governance rewards project entirely on-chain.

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🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~12.85m KSM | staking - 53.6% | parachains & crowdloans - 7%

🦅 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 237, proposing to move funds related to the Mangata X sovereign account, has failed. To understand why it is failing despite a majority being in favor, see quorum biasing.

• Referendum 238, proposing to set the minimum validator commission to 8.5%, is failing with 64% in favor. 

• Referendum 239, proposing to upgrade the Kusama relay chain to runtime v9300, is currently passing. 

• Motion 558, proposing to fund OnFinality’s public infrastructure, has been approved by the Council.

• Motion 559, proposing to top up the Infrastructure Bounty, has been approved by the Council. Maintaining the already existing products/services is the Infrastructure Bounty’s primary goal, not funding new ones.

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Following the theft and recovery of 11,700 KSM in a governance attack, Mangata published an incident report.

• Darwinia announced XCM integration with Moonbeam.

• CLV released a new website and portal.

• Kylin published a new weekly update.

• Moonbeam expands cross-chain capabilities with Hyperlane deployment.

  • Moonbeam also published Designing Multichain-Aware dApps for Connected Contracts.

• Fukuoka City joins Astar Japan Lab.

• Turing published $TUR Auto-Compounding & Yield Boost Staking Guide.

• Bit.country published Metaverse News (episode 7).

• The InvArch LBP on Basilisk was a “smashing success”.

• ACA, LDOT and lcDOT are now supported on the Parallel AMM.

• Robonomics published Smart home based on Web3 technologies.

• Phala’s PhalaWorld Shell NFTs will begin mint on Oct 31st.

• ACE Dashboard by Web3Go has been added to the Nova Wallet dApp catalog. The ACE Dashboard makes it easy to schedule future events, check auto-compounding status, and display task history on Turing Network.

🔗 Candidate Parachains, dApps, and others

projects that are not yet connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Pendulum published a new ecosystem report.

• GameDAO announces partnership with European esports giant WAVE.

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

• Robert Habermeier, one of the founders of Polkadot, published Polkadot: Blockspace over Blockchains. 

• Watch highlights from the 2022 Polkadot Blockchain Academy.

🛠 Tools

• Polkadot-JS API v9.5.2 was released.

🌠 NFT Review

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

• RMRK published RMRK on EVM: the path to wider adoption.

• Proof of Chaos sent out the last Referendum item to be added to the Kusama Governance Participation Shelves and published a report.

• Bit.country’s Xenoform event–auctions of sub-dividable Raw Land Block–sold out in 4 mins.

• Singular users can now sort Statemine NFTs according to price and latest listing.

More NFT news

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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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