🐂 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
📺 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).
Thank you for taking the Dot Leap!
