🐂 top news
Polkadot Capital Group partnered with Blockdaemon to give institutions compliant and structured access to blockchain opportunities.
Nova Wallet launched digital gifts in multiple tokens, allowing recipients to claim via Nova installation or existing address.
JAMTON launched a Mini-App connecting Polkadot and TON ecosystems for DeFi, digital assets, and cross-chain trading.
Amforc launched Taxtrinsic for generating Polkadot and Kusama staking rewards reports without sign-up or data storage.
Mandala partnered with Bitlayer to enable Bitcoin liquidity flows into Polkadot.
Vortex reached $2M in transaction volume and began onboarding major API partners including IaCrypto, a Brazilian PIX-based on/off-ramp with 100K+ users.
Polkassembly reported some pre-Asset Hub Migration referenda are failing to execute properly, with a solution in development with Parity.
Polkadot Blockchain Academy released a Web3 engineering course filmed in Bali covering Rust protocol and TypeScript dApp development.
⭕️ ecosystem
Acurast postponed its launch from November 17th, citing the need for steadier market conditions.
Acurast surpassed 150K mobile compute devices and 500M transactions.
Banxa added Bifrost support to its regulatory-compliant on/off-ramp infrastructure.
Bifrost launched vMANTA 2.0 liquid staking token on Bifrost and Ethereum with cross-chain transfers via Hyperbridge.
Bifrost’s vBNC mints surpassed the all-time high of 12 million following BuyBack BNC launch.
Hydration passed Referendum 224 upgrading runtime to v42.1.0 with Hyperbridge support.
Moonbeam opened applications for Treasury Council positions offering 1,500 USDC monthly stipends for proposal review and community engagement.
Hyperbridge ranked 3rd in 30-day bridge transaction volume with $61.2M.
Mythical secured 3 Best Mobile Game nominations at GAM3S Awards.
sub0 hackathon winners were announced.
Sig.Network integrated with Hydration for direct transfers and smart-contract interactions across Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, and soon Hyperliquid without wrapped assets.
Over the Reality partnered with Silencio to offer spatial mapping DePIN users additional rewards for audio data collection on peaq.
John Linden announced plans to overhaul Mythical Marketplace with non-custodial in-game wallets, KYC removal, and EVM/Seaport compatibility.
Unique surpassed 5 million NFTs minted.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1791: Closing the Polkadot Marketing Bounty
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 1795: Closing the Polkadot Pioneers Prize Bounty and returning the remaining funds to the Treasury
🕓 confirming
Ref 1788: Funding the final milestone of RegionX development ($36.6K DOT)
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1783: Funding the Polkadot People Initiative ($3M)
Ref 1786: Topping up the Paseo Bounty (113.22K DOT)
Ref 1790: Ratifying the payment for already-approved Ref 1768 which failed to execute due to a technical error during the Asset Hub migration.
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1779: Funding for ReactiveDOT & related developments (~$25K)
✅ approved
Ref 1787: Set DOT Asset Rates for USDT and USDC
❌ rejected
Ref 1773: Funding ink! Alliance to finalize, audit, and stabilize ink! v6 on PolkaVM for Polkadot Hub with 6 months of developer support ($538K)
Ref 1776: Funding Treasury Guardian, a tool to promote milestone-based scheduled-payouts for improved Treasury efficiency and oversight ($68K)
Ref 1778: Allocating treasury funds to purchase bbBNC
📺 what to watch and listen to
The Friday DOT News Pump → Major Announcements at Sub0 in Buenos Aires by The Kus.
Talks from sub0:
DeFi at Scale by Velocity Labs
The Game Theory of Decentralized Interoperability by Hyperbridge
📖 what to read
Proof of Personhood: How Polkadot proves you’re real without KYC by Polkadot blog.
The EU’s two-tier encryption vision is digital feudalism by Bill Laboon (W3F VP of ecosystem)
Pudgy Party: The Web3 game that hides the blockchain by Polkadot blog.
Thank you for taking the dot leap!
