🐂 top news
WhiteBIT enabled DOT deposits and withdrawals for Polkadot Asset Hub.
Gotyme, a Filipino digital bank with 6.5M users, launched in-app crypto trading supporting DOT and ten other tokens.
Alice und Bob published a summary of the November Polkadot Technical Fellowship OpenDev call.
Polkadot Builder Party winners announced: Agora (off-chain workers) won Build a Blockchain, Nani (event monitoring) won User-centric Apps, and Fanghorn (on-chain access control) won Polkadot Tinkerers category.
Abu Dhabi Global Market recognized Polkadot Asset Hub USDT as an Accepted Fiat-Referenced Token, enabling compliant institutional settlement and investment.
Check out the upcoming events in the Polkadot ecosystem.
⭕️ ecosystem
SubWallet added governance voting to its extension, enabling users to vote on referendums directly within the wallet.
Silencio Voice AI surpassed 1 million verified recordings in its third month of operation.
Silencio is offering 10x bonuses for voice samples in major languages to reach targets for two AI company partnerships requiring 1,000+ hours.
Talisman launched SEEK airdrops for Questers and Seekers on Ethereum.
Nova Spektr released v2.4.0 with vested transfer support.
WUD, DOT Bulls, and Bifrost hosted BIG Santa Flappening on December 6-7 with token airdrops and boosted WUD Universe Mystery Box drop rates.
Mubert Stacks AI music dApp will launch December 16th with Season Zero sign-ups offering airdrops, early access, and unlimited generations.
Hydration increased HOLLAR borrow cap to $7M.
Moonbeam integrated with 1Delta cross-chain DeFi platform for fee-free swaps and optimized liquidity bridging.
Houdini Swap added private payment requests for Polkadot Asset Hub DOT, USDC, and USDT with wallet-free payment links.
Hyperbridge surpassed $200M in transaction volume.
⚙️ technical
Polkadot-JS API was updated to v16.5.4.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1807: Closing the Games Bounty and returning the remaining funds to the Treasury
Ref 1808: Funding the development of AwesomeDOT ($75.48K)
Ref 1809: Closing the Legal Bounty
Ref 1813: Funding the maintenance of Statescan for 2 quarters of 2025 ($44.38K)
Ref 1814: Retroactively funding transparency and infrastructure work by Polkassembly ($147.2K)
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1791: Closing the Polkadot Marketing Bounty
Ref 1795: Closing the Polkadot Pioneers Prize Bounty and returning the remaining funds to the Treasury
Ref 1799: Retroactively funding the development of Mimir - a multisig tool for the Polkadot ecosystem ($138.39K)
Ref 1803: Appointing ECHO.RE as an identity registrar on the Polkadot People chain
Ref 1804: Appointing OpenSquare as an identity registrar on the People chain
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1793: Funding a 6-month initiative to cultivate a vibrant Polkadot presence in Hungary and Central-Eastern Europe ($88K)
Ref 1794: Funding Treasury Guardian, a tool to promote milestone-based scheduled-payouts for improved Treasury efficiency and oversight ($49.4K)
Ref 1796: Funding the completion, stabilization, and auditing of ink! v6 for PolkaVM ($362.5K)
Ref 1798: Retroactively funding Ideal Network randomness infrastructure development completion ($38.76K)
Ref 1805: Retroactively funding the development of Kitdot ($9.9K)
✅ approved
Ref 1786: Topping up the Paseo Bounty (113.22K DOT)
Ref 1800: Funding the development of ReactiveDOT ($24.75K)
📺 what to watch and listen to
How to run retro games on JAM by Dani Cuki
Solving Cross-chain with Polkadot & Sig Network (CEO David Millar-Durrant) by The Kus.
📖 what to read
Polkadot Builder Party Hackathon Report by Web3 Foundation
Polkadot Developer Feedback Analysis Report from the Polkadot Builder Party
Thank you for taking the dot leap!
