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Polkadot Updates

🔴 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - 1.18B DOT | staking - 52.5 % | parachains & crowdloans - 31%

• Phala has won the latest parachain slot auction and has onboarded.

• QuarksLab has released an article on auditing XCMv2, which also includes a good overview of the XCVM and how XCM works. 

• A new support article explains why you may have more than the minimum amount of DOT bonded but still are not getting rewards.

🔴 🏛 Governance

• Referendum 57, proposing to upgrade Polkadot to runtime v9180, passed.  

• Motion 179, funding the Treasury Proposal for maintenance costs of the Polkadot Ecology Research Institute, has passed. 

• Motion 181, to fund a Treasury Proposal for Tranches 4 and 5 of the Encode Polkadot Club, was passed and executed. 

• Motion 182 by Paulo Zago is up for a vote. His main goals are to facilitate the use of the Substrate portal, tools, and applications; publicize and share news about the entire Polkadot Ecosystem; share updates on community participation in governance and report about events, hackathons, and more. 36 educational pieces will be created during a period of 3 months with the frequency of 3 contents per week. More info on the roadmap, topics, and budget can be found on the post.

• Post 949, seeking feedback on funding continuing development of ask!, an AssemblyScript framework for smart contracts that compile to WebAssembly, has been posted.

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Kusama Updates ₑₓₚₑcₜ cₕₐₒₛ

🦅 ⭕️ Relay Chain

total supply - 12.15M KSM | staking - 42.9% | parachains & crowdloans - 11%

• With the passing and execution of Referendum 183, Kusama relay chain has been upgraded to runtime v9180. 

🦅 🏛 Governance

• OpenSquare has applied to be the curator for the Visualization Bounty (#11). You can now vote on Motion 452.

• Motion 450 to reject Treasury Proposals 137 and 141 has passed and executed.

• Motion 453, to fund Q2 of Chrawnna Corp video production, which includes the “Ser, Have Ya Heard?” videos, is now up for a vote.

• Dotsama Freelancer is seeking feedback on future development of their Kusama governance dashboard, developed for their NFT Rewarder system. 

• Bright Treasury is seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for funding maintenance of their Treasury App. 

• Dwellir is seeking feedback for a potential Treasury Proposal for maintenance of their RPC node service. 

• Remember that there is a Treasury-funded project for providing NFT rewards for accounts which vote in Kusama governance.

• CSaint02 is seeking feedback on a post about creating a gaming and metaverse fund for Kusama. 

⛓ Connected Parachains, dApps, and others

projects connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Acala and Karura will integrate with Wormhole, an industry-leading multi-chain bridging platform connecting high-value blockchain networks.

• CLV (formerly Clover Finance) has released its Q1 2022 roadmap review.

• Integritee has released an update on its parachain migration process.

• Astar has released its Q1 roadmap achievements.

• Interlay released Interlay: The Beginning, a video that describes its origins.

• Subsocial released its ecosystem review for March.

• Manta announced a successful XCM deployment with Moonbeam on its testnet.

• Moonbeam released its monthly dispatch for March.

• Astar announced a strategic partnership with Oasys, a layer-1 blockchain built for game developers.

• Bifrost released a new article on Building a Cross-Chain StakeFi Ecosystem.

• Bit.Country released Episodes 1 and 2 of Metaverse News. It also published a development update.

• Composable announced that it has raised over $32 million in Series A funding.

• Centrifuge published Real World DeFi With Centrifuge: Our Protocol Roadmap.

• Shiden published an article to explain ShidenPass, a way to map a Shiden Native Address to an EVM Address.

🔗 Candidate Parachains, dApps, and others

projects that are not yet connected to the DOT and KSM relay chains

• Following the $600m hack of the Ronin bridge, ChainX released an article explaining how it secures its Bitcoin-Polkadot bridge.

• In the latest Substrate Seminar hosted by Parity, Sam Elamin, co-founder of Imbue Network, explained what it takes to build a community crowdfunding parachain.

• Darwinia released an update to its security design strategy and philosophy. It also announced a partnership with Dwellir.

• Gear published its monthly update for March.

• peaq published What dApps Can You Build on peaq Today?

🌎 Community & Ecosystem

• Interested in building on Polkadot? Apply for the Polkadot DevCamp by 22 April. The course runs from 5 May until 31 May and is free. 

• Messari Crypto has written an overview of Polkadot and its ecosystem. 

• You can now vote on which talks you want to hear at Polkadot Decoded.

🛠 Tools

• Polkadot-JS API v7.15.1 has been released.

• Polkadot-JS Extension v0.42.10 has been released.

• Polkadot-JS Apps v0.111.1 has been released.

🌠 NFT Review

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

• RMRK published the Skybreach wiki, featuring extensive details about the metaverse and how it will work. There is also information on the upcoming land sale.

• New details have been revealed for RMRK’s Moonglade collection.

• Unique Network announced Re-fungible Tokens.

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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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