🐂 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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