🐂 top news
Parity announced Kusama runtime v1.9.1 rollout enabling Asset Hub Migration, requiring developers to implement dynamic reserve discovery to prevent failed cross-chain transfers during KSM/DOT reserve location transitions.
Polkadot Africa teased the launch of BuidlZero, a platform for builders to earn rewards through bounties.
Phala initiated a governance proposal to sunset its Polkadot parachain when the lease expires November 20th, shifting focus to TDX CPUs and Ethereum L2.
Hyperbridge surpassed $20 million in transaction volume, doubling in less than two weeks.
A team building on Polkadot & Hyperbridge made it to the TOKEN2049 hackathon finals.
Web3 Foundation will now selectively participate in Polkadot OpenGov Treasury votes, providing input while keeping decision-making with the community.
Turtle now enables direct native USDC and USDT transfers from Arbitrum to Polkadot.
Polkadot UX Bounty launched the Community Feedback Program, enabling users to report UX issues and earn DOT rewards.
Polkadot Digest is passing from Bill Laboon to Radha Dasari starting October 13th after more than four years and 1,267 posts.
⭕️ ecosystem
Acurast announced cACU to ACU conversion details with a flexible locking mechanism offering 1:1 conversion for 3.7-year locks.
Acurast is releasing mystery lootboxes on October 6th priced at 15K MIST.
Acurast partnered with Beamable Network to explore decentralized compute for Web3 gaming checker nodes.
Hydration Boost Wars Round 4 selected GETH for a 3-week farm with 15K GDOT incentives.
Hyperbridge expanded its proof-based finality verification to Polygon Mainnet.
Moonbeam and Moonriver launched a trustless native bridge for GLMR, MOVR, USDC, and USDT transfers.
Moonbeam and Hello Labs launched the Gaming Incubator program offering grants up to $30K with marketing support.
Mimir launched Mimo, an AI assistant for enterprise-grade multisig wallet operations.
Nova Wallet added Houdini Swap to its dApp catalog for privacy-enhanced cross-chain swaps.
peaq welcomed Robo Rumble, the world’s first prediction market for fighting robots, to its ecosystem.
Kanaya is building a tokenized robotic farm in Hong Kong via Dual Mint on peaq, offering 20% APR on smart grow-tray investments.
Silencio’s Voice AI program collected 70K validated multilingual speech clips in six days.
KodaDot announced it is sunsetting after onboarding 130+ artists and minting 6,000+ NFTs since its 2021 Kusama launch.
StellaSwap launched a $250K liquidity incentives campaign for nine pairs on OKX V4 pools.
Talisman launched an OG NFT Quest offering bonuses to holders of Spirit Key, Commendations, and Ghosts of the Past NFTs.
⚙️ technical
Polkadot UX Bounty launched Polkadot UI, a React library with 11 components for building on-chain apps.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1762: Funding development of RegionX coretime marketplace on Polkadot (~66K)
Ref 1763: Upgrading the Snowbridge Gateway contract on Ethereum
Ref 1764: Enabling fiat access on Polkadot Hub (50K DOT)
Ref 1765: Replaying failed Snowbridge transactions after Polkadot runtime upgrade 1.7.1
Ref 1766: Funding the maintenance of Polkawatch (~$39K)
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1758: Authorizing the curators of Bounty 31 to continue funding of Public RPC Providers for one year and two months (~111K DOT)
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1749: Appointing 2 directors to the Polkadot Community Foundation
Ref 1750: Funding The Dots to keep producing Polkadot-related content on X and TikTok ($39K)
Ref 1751: Funding the expansion of @noble/curves to Polkadot ecosystem through the curations of micro-sr25519 package (~$37.4K)
Ref 1752: Funding a Polkadot for New Ventures acceleration program ($108K)
Ref 1757: Funding completion of the integration of BRC721, a protocol that enables bridgeless minting of NFTs directly on the Bitcoin network (40,000 DOT)
Ref 1759: Funding development of RegionX coretime marketplace on Polkadot (~196K)
Ref 1760: Creating the ink! Alliance Bounty in preparation for Polkadot Hub (261,137 DOT)
Ref 1761: Seeking community input on implementing pUSD, a DOT-collateralized stablecoin for Polkadot Hub using the Honzon protocol
✅ approved
Ref 1743: Funding the DeFi Infra & Tooling Bounty (1M DOT)
Ref 1745: Retroactively funding development and maintenance of SubWallet from August 2024 - March 2025 (~$796K)
Ref 1748: Sponsoring active devs and community members to attend sub0 Symbiosis Conference in Buenos Aires (~$58K)
📺 what to watch and listen to
Scaling Enterprise Adoption & Utility on Polkadot: Aventus Cloud Explained by Polkadot X.
LIVE HACKS: Create Polkadot DApp, Say What? by WebZero and Polkadot X.
Blockchange Ventures: Secrets to Spotting Billions with GP, John Squire - Space Monkeys 210 by The Kusamarian.
Weekly Friday DOT News Pump - Polkadot Eco TGEs Keep Rolling! PLUS DeFi, Bridging & Gaming Wins by The Kusamarian.
DV meets Community Ep. 8 “Daniel Olano” by Vibe Hub.
DV meets Community Ep. 7 “Reeeeeeeeee DAO” by Vibe Hub.
Polkadot Roundtable – September Edition: HOLLAR, pUSD, Polkadot 2.0 by PolkaWorld.
AAG (attempts at governance) #272 - pUSD? by Polkadot X.
📖 what to read
Thank you for taking the dot leap!
