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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~1.35b DOT | staking - 48.9% | parachains & crowdloans - 3%

• Astar won the latest Polkadot parachain auction.

🔴 🏛 Governance

treasury balance - 45.42m DOT // 🔺0.55% from last week

• Root - for proposals that seek to update the network

  • Referendum 132, unbricking the Nodle parachain, is passing unanimously with < 19 days to vote.

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

  • Referendum 110, updating the parachain validation configuration, is passing unanimously with < 11 days to vote.

• Small Spender - for proposals requesting less than 10,000 DOT

  • Referendum 96, funding the development of Artificial Intelligence for security monitoring on a network level, was rejected.

  • Referendum 97, reimbursing YieldBay for developing a yield farming dashboard for Polkadot, was approved.

  • Referendum 104, funding the creation of premium personalized notebooks for Polkadot and Kusama users, is failing unanimously with < 3 days to vote.

• Medium Spender - for proposals requesting less than 100,000 DOT

  • Referendum 88, funding OnFinality for the development of a Unified NFT API, was rejected.

  • Referendum 90, funding LimeChain for the phase 2 development of Gosemble - a Framework for building Substrate-compatible Runtimes in Go, was approved.

  • Referendum 93, funding Kodadot to migrate NFTs from Kusama relay chain to Polkadot Asset Hub, was approved.

  • Referendum 98, funding Polkadot Insider for 28 weeks of operation and growth, was approved.

  • Referendum 99, funding Brushfam to develop Patron–a tool to verify & build smart-contracts in one step, was rejected.

  • Referendum 101, funding milestone 3 of Polkadot x EasyA Hackathons at Harvard, is failing with 80% against < 3 days to go.

  • Referendum 102, retroactively funding Polytope Labs for the research and development of ISMP (Interoperable State Machine Protocol), is failing with 73% against and < 3 days to vote.

  • Referendum 103, funding milestone 3 of the Polkadot Hackathon Global Series, is passing with 70% in favor and < 3 days to vote.

  • Referendum 105, funding OpenZeppelin to create a dedicated open-source development team that will work with Parity and the Polkadot community to define and then deliver new Polkadot parachain runtimes, was approved.

  • Referendum 106, funding Dacade to create a Polkadot learning community on its platform, is failing unanimously with < 6 days to vote.

  • Referendum 107, funding LayerX (a trustless Ethereum<>Polkadot bridge), is failing with 98% against and < 7 days to vote.

  • Referendum 109, retroactively funding the milestone 2 development of Polkasafe (a multisig tool), is failing with 83% against and < 10 days to vote.

  • Referendum 116, funding the operation and maintenance of PolkaWorld, is failing with 90% against and < 10 days to vote.

  • Referendum 117, funding the development of Societal (a potential parachain for building on-chain communities), is failing with 82% against and < 11 days to vote.

  • Referendum 118, funding Supercomputing the maintenance for the substrate-api-client, is passing with 90% in favor and < 12 days to vote.

  • Referendum 119, funding the development of an open communication layer for Polkadot, is failing with 66% against and < 12 days to vote.

  • Referendum 120, funding further development of Multix (a simple interface for managing complex multisigs), is passing with 94% in favor and < 13 days to vote.

  • Referendum 121, funding the implementation of a crypto-friendly Substrate scaffold to realize privacy and scaling functionalities, is failing with 41% against and < 16 days to vote.

  • Referendum 124, funding the development of Magnet–a smart contract platform based on the PAYG model with DOT as the gas fee, is failing with 64% against and < 17 days to vote.

  • Referendum 126, retroactively funding RadiumBlock for high performance public endpoint service (Q4 2022 and Q1 2023), is failing with 97% against and < 17 days to vote.

  • Referendum 129, funding the continuous development and maintenance of Encointer, is failing with 94% against and < 17 days to vote.

  • Referendum 131, reimbursing W3F for expenses accrued during Polkadot @ SXSW 2023, is failing with 86% against and < 19 days to vote.

  • Referendum 134, funding TRF to build a better understanding of blockchain across mainstream global media, is failing with 60% against and < 20 days to vote.

  • Referendum 135, funding the Community Moderation Team, is passing with 93% in favor and < 22 days to vote.

  • Referendum 137, retroactively funding Astar for work on the ink!Hub, is passing with 99% in favor and < 26 days to vote.

  • Referendum 138, funding OnFinality for high performance public infrastructure, is failing with 89% against and < 26 days to vote. 

• Big Spender - for proposals requesting less than 1,000,000 DOT

  • Referendum 111, proposing a curator for the Polkadot Assurance Legion Bounty, is passing with 81% in favor and < 11 days to vote.

  • Referendum 125, funding milestone 3 of Nova Spektr (an all-in-one Polkadot desktop application focused on enterprise adoption), is passing with 81% in favor and < 17 days to vote.

  • Referendum 128, loaning $1m in DOT to be used within the Cosmos ecosystem, is failing with 83% against and < 17 days to vote.

  • Referendum 133, confirming the curator candidates and approving the fee allocation of Bounty 19, is failing with 32% against and < 20 days to vote.

Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ

🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - ~13.97m KSM | staking - 54.6% | parachains & crowdloans - 0.2%

• Bifrost and Robonomics won the latest Kusama parachain auctions.

• Kusama parachains stopped including blocks, due to a dispute in a finalized block triggering an automated safety mechanism.

🦅 🏛 Governance

treasury balance - 285.44k KSM // 🔺 0.06% from last week

• Root - for proposals that seek to update the network

  • Referendum 253, performing a lease swap for Karura, was approved.

• Whitelisted Caller - for proposals approved by the Fellowship

  • Referendum 257, upgrading the Encointer common-good parachain to v15, was approved.

  • Referendum 260, retrying referendum 258 (to register DOT on Asset Hub), is passing unanimously with < 9 days to vote.

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

  • Referendum 252, releasing the second allocation of funds to HER DAO for hosting the Polkadot Safari, was rejected.

  • Referendum 256, funding Dwellir’s RPC services, was approved.

  • Referendum 259, paying the second allocation of funds for Polkadot Safari 2023, is passing with 78% in favor and < 4 days to vote.

  • Referendum 261, funding the activities of the AIWeb3 Chinese community, is failing with 37% against and < 9 days to vote.

  • Referendum 262, funding Brushfam for the development of milestones 8-11 of OpenBrush, is failing with 70% against and < 12 days to vote.

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Acala launched the Acala Multichain Asset Router 1.0 and announced an update on the Acala Exodus Plan.

• Composable and Picasso published a governance roadmap.

• Equilibrium announced that it has successfully handled the Multichain USDC situation.

• KILT launched w3ndi on Nova Wallet (making it easier than ever to attach digital wallet addresses to your digital identity) in collaboration with Apillon.

• OAK published Exploring the Future of Parachains & Polkadot 2.0.

• Origin Trail announced an XCM integration with Moonbeam and an integration with Gnosis.

• Pendulum has successfully completed two audits by Hacken, achieving 9.5/10 & 9.6/10 score for its Solidity Wrapper Contracts & Asset Chain Extensions.

• Parallel Finance announced that it will merge with ParaSpace and rebrand to ParaX.

• Various projects released new ecosystem reports: Subspace, Centrifuge, Bit.country, and Bifrost.

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

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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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