🐂 boolish - top news
Polkadot Relay Chain processed 21.6M transactions in March.
ENS joined Project Liberty’s (Frequency parachain) bid for TikTok US.
2-day fast unstaking could be around the corner.
Sports Illustrated is launching a live in-game sports prediction market in partnership with Galactic Markets secured by Polkadot (via Truth Network, an Aventus rollup).
Robotics engineers from the Robonomics team posted a forward-thinking proposal about Developing a Polkadot Humanoid Robot SDK.
Snowbridge successfully transferred $DOT from AssetHub to Ethereum and back. Polkadot-native assets coming to Ethereum soon.
Alex Dimes (W3F’s Ecosystem Growth Lead) published the Polkadot Hub launch update, detailing the business development strategy that will be employed to ensure the success of the Hub.
⭕️ ecosystem
Astar announced that Startale will reinvest its Soneium sequencer revenue into ASTR token purchases.
Cohort 4 of the Delegated Voices program was announced: Hungarian Polkadot DAO, JAM Implementers DAO, KusDAO, PermanenceDAO, Polkaworld.
Cohort 3 of the Polkadot Social Media Editorial Board was announced.
Evrloot announced Season 2 of its play-to-airdrop campaign, scheduled for April 17th.
Hydration launched tBTC lending and borrowing on its money market.
Hydration joined Bifrost's reward share program, with plans to enable vToken minting and benefit from referrals.
Kilt achieved 500K on-chain decentralized identifiers (DID).
Mythical’s $MYTH token reached an all-time high in daily transaction volume of 83.9M MYTH.
Nova Wallet released v9.7 of the app, enabling governance votes with DOT staked in nomination pools.
Phala published Phala Cloud: The Next Chapter in Decentralized Confidential Computing, TEE vs. MPC vs. ZK: What’s the Best for Confidential Computing?, and Detailed Analysis of Phala Cloud’s Decentralized Root of Trust, KMS Protocol, and ZKP Enhancement.
The Polkadot Brand Hub has been updated. New open-source creative assets are now available on the Asset Library.
Polimec x Scytale Academy announced the first four projects that have made it through the application process: CognideX, Colb Finance, Joinn Finance, and Roam Network.
Silencio reached one million users, collecting over 34.8B noise-level data points.
WebZero announced The Kus as its official media partner for all upcoming Blockspace events.
Ecosystem updates were published by Bifrost, Snowbridge, and peaq.
💻 technical
Polkadot stable-2412.4 has been released. This is a patch update to the latest stable version stable-2412.
Interested in chatting about developing with Polkadot SDK? You can chat on Polkadot Developer Support channel on Telegram or Matrix.
BlockDeep Labs released ExBrid, an Eth-DOT message passing bridge adapter, allowing smoldot and subxt to submit extrinsics without relying on external relayers.
Parity announced that staking, governance, and DOT balances will be transferred from the relay chain to Asset Hub in the next quarter.
Polkadot Deployment Portal (PDP) partnered with Pop. Expect easy parachain/rollup builds through templates and the use of the Pop CLI.
The Chinese version of the JAM graypaper has been released.
💰 opportunities
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 1465: OpenZeppelin Support for Polkadot Hub and Polkadot Cloud in 2025
Ref 1485: Funding for Public RPC Providers via Bounty 31
Ref 1487: Topping up the Paseo developer testnet bounty
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1492: Funding OpenGuild to accelerate Polkadot builder activating in Asia
Ref 1497: Funding Polkadot Blockchain Academy for 9 months
Ref 1501: Converting 5,001,000 DOT into USDC and USDT
Ref 1502: Reimbursing accounts affected by Polkadot runtime upgrade to v1.1.2
Ref 1510: Setting Snowbridge-wrapped USDC & USDT as sufficient assets with an existential deposit of $0.01 on Asset Hub
Ref 1513: Ratify payout for Talisman Mobile Wallet approved by Ref 1390
Ref 1514: Polkadot x MotoGP Partnership & Integration Proposal
Ref 1516: Further funding for the Infrastructure Builders Program
Ref 509: Opening a request-for-proposal for Shielded Kusama Hub transfers at $50,000. To apply for the prize, fill out this form
Ref 511: proposing to increase the max_validators parameters on Kusama from 600 to 700
Ref 512: proposing to adjust the ideal bulk proportion for Kusama coretime sales
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1499: Retroactively funding Bounty Manager V2
Ref 1500: Sponsoring Frank Porté for the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Benelux
Ref 1503: Funding the development of an MVP integration for MinIO to be run in Acurast’s decentralized compute environment
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 1517: Funding the production of Guestlist+1 live panel podcast series
✅ approved
Ref 1474: Proposing curators for the Polkadot Fast-Grants Bounty
Ref 1475: Funding Subscan to integrate PVM to its explorer and indexer services
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 1486: Upgrading Asset Hub and Collectives system parachains to Runtime 1.4.2
Ref 1498: Registering several Polkadot native assets on Ethereum (including DOT, KSM, GLMR, HDX, and more)
Ref 1508: Tipping niftesty for developing the Polkadot next.js starter frontend template
❌ rejected
Ref 507: Reducing inflation on Kusama
📺 what to watch and listen to
Attempts at Governance #220 and Friday DOT News Pump (weekly news update) by The Kus.
Decentralization, Polkadot & AI: How Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Shapes Web3’s Future by Proof of Talk featuring Bill Laboon (Director of Education and Governance Initiatives at the Web3 Foundation) and Kori Higgins (Investments & Growth at Parity).
How Blockchain Gaming Can Be More Than a Facade by Lucas Moskau (Co-Founder, Evrloot) at ETHDenver.
Growing the Polkadot Economy X Space hosted by Alice und Bob.
Web3’s Unfulfilled Promises: Why Music Industry Problems Still Persist? GuestList+1 Live from ETHDenver.
📖 what to read
How Others Got Rekt, So You Don’t Have To by Thibaut Sardan.
How to set up a Polkadot wallet: A step-by-step guide and Security isn’t optional: What builders are factoring into chain choice by Polkadot blog.
How Does Computation Work in Polkadot’s JAM? by Daniel Cukier.
Interesting conversations from the Polkadot Forum:
I Asked a Web2.0 SaaS CTO to Explore Polkadot — Here’s What He Told Me by batman.
Unifying the Polkadot Developer Community by Alice und Bob.
📅 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.
Thank you for taking the Dot Leap!
