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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~1.32b DOT | staking - 44.2% | parachains & crowdloans - 10%

• peaq has won Polkadot Auction #45.

🔴 🏛 Governance

treasury balance - 46.82m DOT // 🔺0.86% from last week

• Root - for proposals that seek to update the network

  • Referendum 9, proposing to set max_code_size to 3 MiB, was passed and executed. 

• Whitelisted Caller - for proposals that seek to update the network

  • Referendum 51, opening HRMP channels between system parachains (Asset Hub, Collectives, and Bridge Hub), is passing unanimously with less than 12 days to vote.

  • Referendum 55, updating the Nominations Pool settings (increasing the max pools, members, and commission), is passing unanimously with less than 12 days to vote.

  • Referendum 58, increasing the parachain validators to 250, is passing unanimously with less than 14 days to vote.

• General Admin  - for proposals that seek to manage the registrar

  • Referendum 23, proposing to set Polkassembly as a registrar for the Polkadot identity system, is passing with 99% in favor and less than 1 day to vote. 

• Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 1, funding OpenCommunity Governance (an initiative where auditors help review proposals and give a grade to enable the community and proposers better understand the strength and weaknesses of proposals), was rejected. 

  • Referendum 2, funding the 5 months maintenance of the ParaSpell XCM SDK, was rejected.

  • Referendum 10, funding the Jan-Apr cloud costs of Polkashots, was rejected. 

  • Referendum 11, funding Polkadot Brazil to create tools and content to increase user onboarding, was rejected.

  • Referendum 17, retroactively funding Integritee for the work on implementing privacy sidechains for any substrate-based chain, was rejected.

  • Referendum 19, funding Stakeworld’s RPC and bootnode infrastructure costs for Q2 2023, was rejected. 

  • Referendum 40, retroactively funding Pinknode for running public infrastructure for Polkadot in Q2 2022, is failing with 90% against and < 5 days to vote.

  • Referendum 45, funding OnFinality for running public infrastructure, is failing with 70% against and < 5 days to vote.

  • Referendum 46, funding Polkadot Hubs, is failing with 92% and < 7 days.

  • Referendum 52, funding the development of DAO_Terminal, is failing with 77% and < 10 days to vote.

• Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 3,333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 13, funding OpenSquare for old and new features for Subsquare and doTreasury, was approved.

  • Referendum 14, funding tranches 2 & 3 of the Encode Club x Polkadot education and hackathon series, was approved.

  • Referendum 19, funding Stakeworld’s data indexing infrastructure costs for Q1 2023, was rejected. 

  • Referendum 16, retroactively funding Equilibrium for building a common Ledger app that is compatible with all Polkadot and Kusama parachains, was rejected.

  • Referendum 20, funding Subscan’s infrastructure costs from July to Dec 2022, was approved.

  • Referendum 24, funding the ink! design security review by OpenZeppelin, is passing with 77% in favor and < 1 day to vote.

  • Referendum 29, funding the development of Societal (a home base for decentralized communities), is passing with 67% in favor and < 2 days to vote.

  • Referendum 32, funding milestone 2 of the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series 2023: Europe Edition, is passing with 68% and < 2 days to vote.

  • Referendum 33, funding the further development of Encointer (a common-good parachain that enables communities everywhere to generate their own, autonomous currency, and use it to stimulate the local economy), is failing with 65% against and < 2 days to vote.

  • Referendum 34, reimbursing RadiumBlock for Polkadot Endpoint Service (Q4 2022 and Q1 2023), is failing with 54% against and < 4 days to vote.

  • Referendum 35, funding Polkadotters for 2 years of content creation and event organization, is failing with 53% against and < 2 days to vote.

  • Referendum 36, funding OneBlock to organize the Polkadot Summer Hackathon in China, is set to pass with 63% in favor and < 3 days to vote.

  • Referendum 41, funding the development of Notifi, is failing with 82% against and < 5 days to vote.

  • Referendum 43, funding AngelHack to run the 2023 Polkadot Relayers Incubator, is set to pass with 71% in favor and < 5 days to vote.

  • Referendum 44, funding Polkassembly for new product development and OpenGov deployment, is passing with 97% in favor and < 5 days to vote.

  • Referendum 64, funding 727 Ventures to organize the Polkadot Wink Event, is failing with 82% against and less than 16 days to vote.

  • Referendum 67, funding t3rn to carry out a security audit of its trustless Ethereum light client developed as a Substrate pallet, is failing with 82% against and less than 16 days to vote.

  • Referendum 68, funding the development of a DEX UI for the Asset Conversion pallet, failing with 99% against and less than 16 days to vote.

  • Referendum 70, funding the development of Finsig SDK for Apple products, is failing with 70% against and less than 19 days to vote.

  • Referendum 77, funding the development of Smoldot (an alternative implementation of the Polkadot client focused on using as little CPU, memory, and bandwidth as possible), is passing with 87% in favor and < 25 days to vote.

  • Referendum 78, funding Blockops for the development of 1-click parachain deployment, is failing with 65% against and < 26 days to vote.

  • Referendum 82, funding OnFinality for infrastructure maintenance, is failing with 63% against and < 26 days to vote.

• Big Spender - for proposals requesting less than 33,333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 21, funding Zondax for the maintenance of Ledger apps, was approved.

  • Referendum 30, resubmitting Motion 420 to help the Matrix.org Foundation with upstream funding, is failing with 80% against and < 1 day to vote.

  • Referendum 47, funding the Polkadot Assurance Legion Bounty, is failing with 81% in favor and < 7 days to vote.

  • Referendum 62, funding Alzymologist Oy and Zondax to create a new metadata protocol for offline signers, is passing with 94% in favor and < 15 days to vote.

  • Referendum 71, funding the WASM Smart Contracts Bounty which was already approved as Referendum 101 but failed to enact, is passing with 92% in favor and < 22 days to vote.

• Treasurer  - for proposals requesting up to 333,333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 22, funding the frontend development of Genesis DAO (a Substrate-based blockchain designed to facilitate the creation and management of DAOs), is failing with 52% against and less than 1 days to vote.

  • Referendum 73, rejecting Gov1.0 treasury proposals and facilitating bond reimbursement where applicable, is passing with 98% in favor and < 22 days to vote.

Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ

🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~13.8m KSM | staking - 53.6% | parachains & crowdloans - 0%

• Heiko and Parathread 2274 won Kusama Auctions 92 and 93.

🦅 🏛 Governance

treasury balance - 328.33k KSM // 🔻 1.05% from last week

• Whitelisted Caller - for proposals approved by the Fellowship

  • Referendum 230, updating the Nominations Pool settings (increasing the max pools, members, and commission), was passed.

  • Referendum 231, opening HRMP channels between the Asset and Bridge Hubs, was passed and executed.

  • Referendum 232, increasing the parachain validation no_show_slot configuration, was passed.

  • Referendum 233, increasing MaxMemoryPages to 512MB, is passing unanimously with < 5 days to vote.

• Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 3,333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 239, funding a documentary on Gavin Wood, is failing with 97% against and < 12 days to vote.

  • Referendum 241, funding OnFinality for infrastructure maintenance, is failing with 45% against and < 12 days to vote.

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Bit.country released a new BC Space feature, giving users the ability to host daily meetings, virtual events, and virtual classrooms in 2.5D & 3D.

• Crust launched the EVM Storage Module.

• Litentry published Your Questions in Decoded 2023 — Answered.

• Manta launched Manta Pacific, a modular ecosystem for ZK applications.

• Nodle released a new roadmap.

• Origin Trail unveiled a first of its kind public Decentralized Knowledge Graph Explorer.

• OAK/Turing brings transaction automation to Moonriver thanks to new HRMP channels.

• Pendulum announced that it has gained access to Ledger Developer Mode.

• Ternoa published an article describing how NFTs on brought value to a postal services industry leader.

• Various projects released new ecosystem reports: Subsocial, Interlay, Societal.

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

• Web3 Foundation researcher Jonas Gehrlein has requested for community feedback on his proposal to adjust the Polkadot inflation model.

• Messari published State of Polkadot Q2 2023.

• Polkadot Blog published Polkadot Sustains Enterprise Momentum Alongside Native Web3 Innovation.

• Wave 3 of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy is in full swing.

🛠 Tools

• Novasama (team developing Nova Wallet) announced Nova Spectr, an all-in-one desktop app for the Polkadot ecosystem.

• The Polkanalyzer app helps you select validators from the Polkadot 1KV Program, thus ensuring that your stake is used to support small nodes and keep Polkadot's NPoS decentralized, healthy, and robust. Here is a tutorial on how to use it.

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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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