🐂 boolish - top news

• Stablecoin usage on Polkadot has reached a new all-time high.

• Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit has joined Project Liberty’s bid to purchase the U.S. operations of TikTok, which would be powered by the Frequency parachain.

• Mythos Chain had one of its best trading days yet, peaking at first place on the 24-hour chart for trading value, volume, and user numbers.

• Mythical Games revealed a first peek into the Pudgy Party and FIFA Rivals mobile games dropping this summer.

• Snowbridge released a new update that massively improves cross-chain functionality. You can try it now on the Turtle or Snowbridge UIs.

• Gavin Wood created the JAM logo.

⭕️ ecosystem

• Acurast introduced the Acurast Hub, an all-in-one destination for real-time network status and deeper engagement with the Acurast community.

• Artemis has integrated 10 Polkadot ecosystem chains into its blockchain analytics platform.

• Awesome DOT released an excellent list of new tools for Polkadot released in February.

• Bifrost has upgraded to runtime 0.17.0, bringing Async backing, a transition to OpenGov, and multi-chain vToken minting powered by Hyperbridge and SLPx.

  • Bifrost launched Season 2 of its DOT Unbonding Subsidy Program. Stakers who unbond DOT and mint vDOT between March 1st and May 2nd will be eligible for a 12% APR subsidy to cover missing rewards during the 28-day unstaking period.

  • Bridging of Bifrost vDOT, vBNC, vGLMR, vASTR, and their corresponding native tokens to Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB is now available on the Hyperbridge DApp.

• Crust received a $1M strategic investment from Victus Global to foster its innovation and growth.

  • Crust announced a partnership with Ruffie AI, an AI-enhanced pet healthcare platform, to provide secure and decentralized storage for its pet health data.

• Decentralized Voices Cohort 3 is now over, although delegations will last for another few weeks.

• Evrloot offered a sneak peek of The Rift, a new expedition that will require a party of three free-to-play Warborns or NFT Souls.

• InvArch launched its DAO Management Portal, offering a seamless experience for creating DAOs, adding and removing members, transferring assets, and voting on proposals.

• Nova Wallet has released v9.5, adding price charts and asset navigation enhancements.

• Phala announced partnerships with Mind Network and Spore.fun to address the potential pitfalls of governance when it comes to Al agents and AI-FI.

• Polkadot Hydration Campaign incentives are live for tBTC in the Omnipool, achieving APRs of up to 28%.

• Polkadot Brazil published a report for their activities in January and February.

• Polimec released its mobile DApp. Pre-TGE funding opportunities are now in your pocket.

• Robonomics has released its first hardware device for home use. Altruist is an air quality and noise sensor for indoor and outdoor use, and it’s on sale now for $95.

• SubWallet unveiled one-click liquid staking token minting for Bifrost, Stellaswap, and Acala on its mobile app.

⛓️ technical

• Polkadot stable2412-3 has been released.

• Want to talk about JAM or the Gray Paper? Join the Matrix chats for JAM and Gray Paper.

💰 opportunities

• Web3 Foundation is looking for a senior software engineer to join their SecOps team.

• Bifrost is looking to reward the top 100 Polkadot Yappers with a 50K BNC bounty. It’s offering rewards of up to 5000 BNC for Bifrost-related infographics, posts, threads, and articles.

• Applications for Wave 2 of PBA-X are open until April 14th, reserve your spot now for $100.

🏛️ governance

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

🕓 confirming

• Ref 1425: Funding for Peer3 SDK development

• Ref 1455: Statescan maintenance proposal from 2023.10 to 2025.03

• Ref 1432: Propose Curators for OG Rust Bounty

👍🏾 passing

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

• Ref 1472: Funding Polkadot Blockchain Academy for 9 months

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

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

• Ref 1476: Retroactive funding for JUST Ventures

• Ref 1463: Funding Polkassembly for 2025

• Ref 1477: Funding for ReactiveDOT

• Ref 1480: Increasing the Proof-of-Validity size to 10 MB, allowing for larger parachain blocks among other things

• Ref 1484: Increasing the size of the validator active set from 500 to 600

• Ref 1485: Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 31

• Ref 1486: Upgrading Asset Hub and Collectives system parachains to Runtime 1.4.2

• Ref 1487: Topping up the Paseo developer testnet bounty

• Ref 504: Providing funding for public Kusama RPC providers

• Ref 505: Upgrading the Kusama Asset Hub runtime to v1.4.2

👎🏾 failing

• Ref 1489: Retroactive funding for PolkaGate MetaMask Snap development

✅ approved

• Ref 1412: Brave Wallet integration

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

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

• Ref 1440: Funding LimeChain for Giant Squid phase 2

• Ref 1447: Funding Subsquid indexing infrastructure

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

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

❌ rejected

• Ref 1426: Decentered funding request for Decoded 2024

• Ref 1433: Funding the development of WAGOI

📺 what to watch and listen to

• Bill Laboon: Decentralised Governance and Web3 Innovation with Polkadot by Off-Chain Podcast.

• Friday DOT News Pump (recap of the week’s top news) by The Kus.

📖 what to read

• Polkadot’s Proof-of-Validity Demystified by BlockDeep Labs.

• ETH Denver 2025 Feedback posted by Birdo on the Polkadot Forum with comments from other attendees including Shawn and Alex.

• ETHDenver: Good vibes, plus round-the-clock networking by Parity blog.

• Polkadot Growth Strategy by Alice und Bob on the Polkadot Forum.

• Wait so can anyone explain why we build Web3? Great answers by the Polkadot Community.

📅 events

• Gavin Wood is taking JAM to Protocol Berg in Berlin (June 12-13).

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