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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~1.34b DOT | staking - 44.9% | parachains & crowdloans - 10%

• The Polkadot Release Analysis for Polkadot 1.0.0 has been released.

🔴 🏛 Governance

treasury balance - 45.65m DOT // 🔺3.42% from last week

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

  • Referendum 58, increasing the parachain validators to 250, was passed and executed.

• Staking Admin - for proposals related to staking and validation

  • Referendum 84, updating the collator sets and configurations for all Polkadot parachains, is passing with 99% in favor and < 11 days to vote.

• Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 52, funding the development of DAO_Terminal, was rejected.

  • Referendum 96, funding the development of Artificial Intelligence for security monitoring on a network level, is failing with 74% against and < 26 days to vote.

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

  • Referendum 64, funding 727 Ventures to organize the Polkadot Wink Event, is failing with 91% against and < 1 day 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 98% against and < 1 day to vote.

  • Referendum 68, funding the development of a DEX UI for the Asset Conversion pallet, was approved.

  • Referendum 70, funding the development of Finsig SDK for Apple products, is failing with 82% against and < 3 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 97% in favor and < 9 days to vote.

  • Referendum 78, funding Blockops for the development of 1-click parachain deployment, is failing with 80% against and < 9 days to vote.

  • Referendum 82, funding OnFinality for infrastructure maintenance, is failing with 64% against and < 10 days to vote.

  • Referendum 85, funding a 42-week media order from The Kusamarian, is failing with 49% against and < 13 days to vote.

  • Referendum 88, funding OnFinality for the development of a Unified NFT API, is failing with 60% against and < 20 days to vote.

  • Referendum 90, funding LimeChain for the phase 2 development of Gosemble - a Framework for building Substrate-compatible Runtimes in Go, is failing with 70% against and < 24 days to vote.

  • Referendum 93, funding Kodadot to migrate NFTs from Kusama relay chain to Polkadot Asset Hub, is failing with 57% against and < 25 days to vote.

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

  • Referendum 62, funding Alzymologist Oy and Zondax to create a new metadata protocol for offline signers, was approved.

  • Referendum 71, funding the WASM Smart Contracts Bounty which was already approved as Referendum 101 but failed to enact, is passing with 87% in favor and < 6 days to vote.

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

  • Referendum 73, rejecting Gov1.0 treasury proposals and facilitating bond reimbursement where applicable, is passing with 99% in favor and < 6 days to vote.

Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ

🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~13.86m KSM | staking - 53.9% | parachains & crowdloans - 0%

• LayerX won the most recent parachain lease auction.

🦅 🏛 Governance

treasury balance - 278.84k KSM // 🔻14.97% from last week

• Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 333.33 KSM

  • Referendum 243, funding ChaosDAO for the development of an OpenGov community voting Discord bot, is failing with 54% against and < 3 days to vote.

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

  • Referendum 239, funding a documentary on Gavin Wood, was approved.

  • Referendum 241, funding OnFinality for infrastructure maintenance, was rejected.

  • Referendum 242, funding the maintenance of Stakeworld's RPC infrastructure and bootnodes, was rejected.

  • Referendum 244, funding Supercomputing Systems for the maintenance of substrate-api-client from Aug-23 to Oct-23, is failing with 98% against and < 3 days to vote.

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Polkadot published a Parachain Dispatch for August.

• Acala published an update on the Acala 2.0 Exodus Upgrade.

• Astar announced the integration of Fireblocks multi-party computation (MPC) technology, bringing organizations and institutions a new secure way to handle digital assets.

• Aventus announced a partnership with Vodafone to bring Web3 to the latter’s business clients.

• Centrifuge published an introduction to the Centrifuge Credit Group, as well as details on how the group analyzes prospective pools. 

• Cosmize, a metaverse built on Astar, has released an iOS application.

• Moonbeam announced an integration with Nodle and the Internet of Things.

• Origin Trail core devs, Trace Labs, has joined forces with BSI UK to develop a new solution for cross-border food transfers in the UK.

• peaq announced an airdrop worth 13m $KREST.

• Polimec announced they will utilize reusable KYC credentials, issued by Deloitte and built on KILT.

• Polkaswap announced that its new synthetics XST platform is live on the public testnet.

• SubWallet announced its newest extension update, bringing users support for aSEED on Acala, LP tokens and q tokens on Interlay & Kintsugi as well as AVL transfers on Avail.

• SORA published 15 Amazing Facts About SORA.

• Tanssi published Bridging the Gap: Tanssi Makes Appchains as Developer-Friendly as Smart Contracts.

• Various projects released new ecosystem reports: Bit.country, Centrifuge, Interlay, Pendulum, Subsocial, Unique.

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

• Parity will be hosting a Twitter Space with SubWallet and Apillon to discuss How Polkadot Hubs Unite the Worldwide Community.

• Bill Laboon (W3F head of technical education) was on the latest episode of Web3 Innovators Podcast to discuss Polkadot OpenGov and other topics.

• Sub0, the Polkadot Developer Conference, is coming to Lisbon 19 - 20 Sep. Register to attend or give a talk here.

• The next Polkadot Pioneers AMA is August 8th, covering Web3 gaming with Evrloot, Moonsama, and Ajuna.

• The closing party for Polkadot Blockchain Academy in Berkeley is open to the public and happening on 9 August.

• Web3 Foundation researcher Jonas Gehrlein has posted an RFC advocating for burning the revenue generated in the upcoming Coretime sales. 

• A summary of the Polkadot Summit, bringing together leaders in the Polkadot ecosystem before this year’s Polkadot Decoded, has been posted.

• Web3 Foundation has created two EdX courses: Introduction to Blockchain & Web3, and Intro to Polkadot. Two more courses, Intro to Rust and Intro to Substrate, are coming soon.

• If you’re looking to dive deeper into the Polkadot ecosystem, check out A Hacker’s Guide to the Polkadot Galaxy to find more information about tools, languages, documents, etc.

• Filippo Franchetti has put together a good explanation of inflation and Treasury funding in Polkadot.

• Listen to the last Polkadot Community Call to hear from Astar, Origin Trail, Unique, peaq, Novasama, Polkadex, Ajuna, & Beatport.

🛠 Tools

• Polytope Labs announced the release of ISMP, a lightweight transport protocol allowing trust-free interoperability between blockchains with HTTP-style GET/POST requests. This was sponsored by a Web3 Foundation grant.

🌠 NFT Review

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

• RMRK released a beta of Emotes, a dApp that lets users drop emojis on Ethereum, Polygon, and Moonbeam NFTs. 

• Following the launch of its open beta, RMRK-powered RPG Evrloot tops dApps list on Moonbeam for most transactions and #11 on most unique wallets.

• Moonsama published Multiverse Customizer: Unleash Your Creativity.

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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.

DotLeap is put together by Bruno Škvorc and gbaci.

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