🐂 boolish - top news
Asset Hub has been integrated into the Uphold platform. Another big win for Velocity Labs and the Decentralized Futures program.
Gavin Wood smashed the ZK hype with cold hard truth from New Delhi (ZK is 2M times pricier than JAM).
DOT perpetual futures are now available for trading on BingX.
AquaSave (a water sustainability DePIN) has migrated from Solana to Peaq.
⭕️ ecosystem
Acurast powers xcBTC, making Bitcoin truly cross-chain.
DOT Yappers dApp has been added to Nova Wallet.
Evrloot teases Season 2 of its Marks campaign, which is set for early April.
Hyperbridge strategically partners with TVVIN, which will enable access to gold and other precious tokenized real-world assets across multiple chains.
Integritee published The Digital Euro is the EU’s Next Big Thing — But at What Cost?
InvArch DAO Management Portal has been updated with new features.
KodaDot has introduced an Atomic Swap feature for peer-to-peer NFT trading, ensuring a secure and trustless experience.
Stellaswap’s V4 pools are now on Gecko Terminal.
Moonbeam’s Season 3 incentives has been published by Gauntlet. While Stellaswap and Moonwell met and exceeded expectations, Beamswap and Prime Protocol struggled.
N3mus closes out March with 108K gameplays, 109% month-over-month growth, and 8% of all transactions on Moonbeam.
OriginTrail initiates an RFC to seek community feedback for trustless bridging its TRAC token on Ethereum to Neuroweb using Snowbridge.
Phala published How to Deploy a dApp on Phala Cloud: A Step-by-Step Guide and How Developers Can Build Secure Web3 Backends with TEEs on Phala Cloud.
Polimec released an investment guide on how users can secure their Xcavate tokens.
Xcavate announces a partnership with Lanes Exclusive Homes. The move is set to tokenize over £50M worth of UK prime new-build real estate on-chain.
💻 technical
Pop announced the pop bench, a tool that wraps the power of frame-benchmarking-cli into a dead-simple command—no setup, no guesswork, just clean output.
Interested in quickly creating a Polkadot dapp? Check out the create-polkadot-dapp NPM package.
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💰 opportunities
Registration for Encode Club’s Polkadot Scalability Hackathon has now started. The Hackathon begins on April 7.
XT exchange has opened up a launchpool with 6M of Bifrost’s BNC token up for grabs.
Encode Club is launching a 4-week Polkadot Scalability Hackathon starting April 7 with over $33,000 in rewards. Register here.
PBA-X’s (online Polkadot Blockchain Academy) next session begins on April 14. You can register here.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🕓 confirming
Ref 1475: Funding Subscan to integrate PVM to its explorer and indexer services
Ref 1477: Funding for ReactiveDOT
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1474: Proposing curators for the Polkadot Fast-Grants Bounty
Ref 1480: Increasing the Proof-of-Validity size to 10 MB, allowing for larger parachain blocks among other things
Ref 1485: Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 31
Ref 1487: Topping up the Paseo developer testnet bounty
Ref 1497: Funding Polkadot Blockchain Academy for 9 months
Ref 1498: Registering several Polkadot-native assets on Ethereum (including DOT, KSM, GLMR, HDX, and more)
Ref 1502: Reimbursing accounts affected by Polkadot runtime upgrade to v1.1.2
Ref 1503: Funding the development of an MVP integration for MinIO to be run in Acurast’s decentralized compute environment
Ref 1508: Tipping niftesty for developing the Polkadot next.js starter frontend template
Ref 1510: Setting Snowbridge-wrapped USDC & USDT as sufficient assets with an existential deposit of $0.01 on Asset Hub
Ref 509: Opening a request-for-proposal for Shielded Kusama Hub transfers at $50,000. To apply for the prize, fill out this form
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1492: Funding OpenGuild to accelerate Polkadot builder activating in Asia
Ref 1499: Retroactively funding Bounty Manager V2
Ref 1500: Sponsoring Frank Porté for the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Benelux
Ref 1501: Converting 5,001,000 DOT into USDC and USDT
Ref 1504: Funding PolkaBiz for business mentorship and ecosystem support for 2025
Ref 1505: Funding SportStake to support DOT staking for sports club donations
Ref 1509: Funding Ajuna for development of the Substrate Asset Game Engine
Ref 507: Reducing inflation on Kusama
✅ approved
Ref 1462: Funding the 2025 development of Polkadot-API
Ref 1476: Retroactive funding for JUST Ventures
Ref 1463: Funding Polkassembly for 2025
Ref 1484: Increasing the size of the validator active set from 500 to 600
Ref 1486: Upgrading Asset Hub and Collectives system parachains to Runtime 1.4.2
Ref 504: Providing funding for public Kusama RPC providers
📺 what to watch and listen to
Decentralized Mic Series: Polkadot, NEAR & Ethereum: How Web3 Really Governs Itself on Polkadot youtube.
March OpenDev Call from the Polkadot Technical Fellowship. Topics include JAM, BEEFY, and reducing inflation.
Attempts At Governance 215 (RFPs), 216 (Cloud), 217 (Rawdoggin), 218 (Porsche) by The Kusamarian.
Friday DOT News Pump (weekly ecosystem news recap) by The Kusamarian.
Space Monkeys 184: Dapps ARE NOT Decentralized by The Kusamarian.
📖 what to read
Where real-world value meets access: How Polkadot powers RWA and DePIN and Understanding DeFi: A starter guide to decentralized finance on the Polkadot blog.
Sub-second Finality Comes with Trade-offs and Ethereum is Dying — But Its Builders Can Still Thrive (on Polkadot) by Daniel Cukier.
Polkadot's JAM: Unlocking Synchronous Cross-Chain Composability with a Decentralized Data Lake by DavidBrain.
📅 events
Gavin Wood is taking JAM to Protocol Berg in Berlin (June 12-13).
Erin from Parity will lead a workshop on building test infrastructure from the ground up at Protocol Berg in Berlin.
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