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Thank you for taking the Dot Leap! We cover Polkadot, Kusama, Polkadot-SDK, and all related Web 3.0 projects! Want your content featured? X marks the spot! Alternatively, submit links via telegram. If you feel some links are missing or we made a mistake, please tell us! Note that announcements of “coming soon” features and launches, as well as “partnerships” will no longer be featured in Dot Leap. Video versions of all Dot Leap editions will be posted on our Youtube channel. What is $DED may never dieAccording to the world outside Polkadot, Polkadot is dead. You know me. I think the entire industry is “dead”. Or more accurately, it never came to life. And every time a new memecoin goes up 1000x and revitalizes the bot farms on a particular chain, a part of me dies because I know the ~three retail people it drew in will get rugged and will then tell ~300 more to stay away. And yet… it’s memecoin season. We have (only) two main competing ideas: PINK and DED (though that might change - see Dogfood section below 😏). Here’s a brief recap. PINK emerged organically as a grassroots effort from a slightly degen community inside Polkadot. It burst onto the scene with strong memes and a fun game promising a “pinkdrop”, so go play (the physics angle is really what makes it addictive!). The launch date is unknown but the PINKDROP stapshot has been taken and the basic tokenomics are out. The game itself will still evolve as part of the Pink gaming universe. PINK “captures new mindshare by reinforcing the image that Polkadot is Pink, a color of positivity and laughter.” Moonbeam, Astar, Acala, Bifrost, and 10+ blockchains will allegedly be launching native utility for Pink upon TGE. On the other hand, DED appeared as a way to board the hype train of memecoins as other chains explode in that direction, but in a more “official” way. The friendly neighborhood whale, GiottoDF, thought it was time to put the Polkadot treasury to work by organizing a real marketing effort around the meme, which spawned technical, promotional, and content-related proposals around the theme, resulting in the iconic design too. One example is the recently passed Lunar proposal for marketing $DED - Giotto even bet 10000 DOT on the successful outcome of this campaign. It is quite fascinating to see these almost opposite efforts emerge at the same time. In my opinion, $PINK - despite a strong start - certainly has its work cut out for it without treasury support. As we all know… what is $DED may never die. On a more serious and honest note, I have to say that these shenanigans make me very disappointed as all it once again shows is Polkadot playing catch up with other ecos (with a significant delay) rather than trailblazing.
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Dogfood of the DayIn this DOTD, we will take a look at how to launch arbitrary fungible tokens (aka shitcoins) in the Polkadot ecosystem. To celebrate the launch of DOTD and reward those who go through the effort of following along, we will be accepting donations in your tokens and rewarding senders with 100 \$LEAP! Manual DEXing ftw! Conditions for the drop:
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