🐂 boolish - top news

• DotLake announced 2.4M+ net new accounts on Polkadot in Feb 2025.

• Ethical Capital Partners (owners of Pornhub/MindGeek) just launched umanitek, a startup to fight against harmful content and the risks of AI, in partnership with OriginTrail.

• The Kus interviewed the founders of Vbricks, a leading end-to-end enterprise video solution provider (dubbed the Youtube for Enterprise) who announced plans to launch Verified Authentic, a video content ownership verification framework, on Polkadot.

⭕️ ecosystem

• UX Bounty launched the UX Audit Grants Program: Polkadot dApps can now apply for a funded UX audit to identify friction points and improve usability.

• OpenGov Tracker published its February 2025 Report.

• Frequency joined forces with AT Protocol, which powers Bluesky (the decentralized social network created by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey).

• Hyperbridge raised $2.8m in its Initial Relayer Offering where users bought the BRIDGE token.

• Polimec announced the One Token Model (OTM), which allows users to join a funding round using USDT, USDC, ETH, or DOT. Previously, users needed the PLMC token.

• Acurast has surpassed 40k mobile devices on its decentralized compute network. It also published its Tokenomics.

• Gavun Wud launched a new Discord server.

• Subwallet now supports OpenGov voting for directly nominated and nomination pool-staked DOT.

• Polkadot Deployment Portal was announced. It aims to allow developers to launch Polkadot rollups in 1 click (within 30mins).

• Bit.Country announced its migration to Solana.

• Integritee published a Feb warp-up.

🏛️ governance

For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.

🕓 confirming

• Ref 1412: Brave Wallet integration

• Ref 1439: Funding Hyperbridge/Bifrost 795k DOT liquidity campaign

• Ref 1440: Funding LimeChain for Giant Squid phase 2

• Ref 1462: Funding the 2025 development of Polkadot-API

👍🏾 passing

• Ref 1416: Marketing Bounty contract execution via PCF (99.9% in favor)

• Ref 1447: Funding Subsquid indexing infrastructure (99.9% in favor)

• Ref 1452: Retaining Basti Köcher (bkchr) at rank 6 of the Technical Fellowship (unanimous)

• Ref 1468: Upgrading the Snowbridge Polkadot-Ethereum bridge smart contract (unanimous)

• Ref 1474: Proposing curators for the Polkadot Fast-Grants Bounty (unanimous)

• Ref 1475: Funding Subscan to integrate PVM to its explorer and indexer services (unanimous)

⚖️ new

• Ref 1477: Funding for ReactiveDOT

👎🏾 failing

• Ref 1425: Peer3 SDK development (48% against)

• Ref 1426: Decentered retroactive funding (99.9% against)

• Ref 1433: WAGOI development (79.2% against)

• Ref 1463: Polkassembly Social Contract 2025 (38% against)

• Ref 1476: Retroactive funding for JUST Ventures (89.9% against)

✅ approved

• Ref 1410: RegionX Coretime marketplace

• Ref 1417: Closing technical support bounty

• Ref 1424: Force upgrade of Parallel parachain to address hack

• Ref 1436: Increasing schedulerParams.lookahead to 3

• Ref 1459: Upgrading the Polkadot runtime to 1.4.1

• Ref 498: Proposing a new vision for Kusama and authorizing 10 million DOT from the Web3 Foundation to be used for Kusama 🦅

❌ rejected

• Ref 1411: Spanish Bounty V3

📺 what to watch and listen to

• JAM: Running Regular Software On-Chain (full lecture) by Gavin Wood.

• What Running DOOM on JAM Means for Non-technical Folks by IPTS.

• Unlock Multi-Chain Liquidity for the Polkadot Ecosystem interview by Polkaworld x Seun Lanlege (Hyperbridge), Tyrone (Bifrost).

• Beyond Exit Liquidity: Community in Post-Memecoin Crypto ETHDenver panel with Jay (The Kus), Lucy Coulden (head ambassador), Birdo (Parity), and Cameron (Mythical).

📖 what to read

• Bounties Best Practices Guide by OpenGovWatch.

• Why Register-Based VMs (PVM) Are Faster Than Stack-Based VMs (EVM)? by Daniel Cukier.

• How Does Computation Work in JAM by Daniel Cukier.

• Polkadot 2.0 and the Benefits it Brings to Polkadot by Parity.

• From Speculation to Sustainability: Top ETHDenver Takeaways by Polkadot blog.

• A Blueprint for Unruggable AI with an MPC-TEE Hybrid Architecture by Phala.

• Why the Grid Needs a Digital Spine: Insights from the International Energy Agency by Energy Web.

📅 events

• Tickets for Web3 Summit 2025, 16 - 18 July in Berlin, are available now.

💰 opportunities

• Gavun Wud partnered with Airlyft for the Into the WUDs campaign. Climb the leaderboard and earn XP to increase your chances of winning a share of the 2B WUD raffle.

• Bifrost launched BNC Explorers, the second phase of the Bifrost Liquid Wave campaign. You can now earn WAVE points by minting vBNC, referring friends, and participating in governance.

• ChessOnChain has launched the Chess JAM Polkadot Leaderboard Bounty Campaign, with the top 1000 players sharing in a prize pool of $5,000.

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