Weekly news from Kusama & Polkadot | 20–26th September
Weekly summary from 20–26th September 2021
1. Basilisk won the parachain slot in auction # 8
The 8th parachain auction on Kusama wasn’t without a surprise. Basilisk project finally won a slot and now we will be very cautiously waiting for the launch of the full functionality of this project.
Basilisk is a canary network from HydraDX. With the total cap of 222k KSM that was hit, Basilisk is now the most successful project in the 2nd batch of Kusama auctions in terms of raised funds.
2. Leaders for next slots # 9 and # 10 are Heiko, Altair and Kintsugi BTC
Well, this round will be very interesting, because the current auction leader changes almost every day. Altair was on a lead from the 21st of September, but Kintsugi BTC added a big portion of KSM on 24th followed by a huge KSM bag from Heiko supporters. This is probably the first time where the randomness of the candle auction will get to decide which parachain will win!
Actual auction progress on Kusama, source
3. Acala launches a whitelist for its crowdloan
Preparation for the parachain auction on Polkadot! have started by Acala. They just announced and launched the whitelist for the crowdloan for the upcoming parachain auction. If you join the waitlist now, you can get up to a 10% bonus on your crypto rewards.
Does it mean, that the parachain auctions on Polkadot are very close? YES, they are!
4. The Polkadot audit is finished
The Polkadot audit, which will forego parachain auctions announcement, is done. The last details are being finalized so wait a bit for it.
5. Shidden Network is now compatible with Metamask
Shidden Network & Metamask are now compatible, the integration audit has been completed by Quantstamp.
6. Polkadot-Kusama bridge news
A Polkadot-Kusama bridge may come sooner than expected. Just follow us and you will get the info first!
7. Crust Network goes to Polygon
Crust Network is bringing decentralized storage solutions to Polygon. This enables Polygon users and developers to access over 6,000 IPFS nodes and 2,000 PB of storage capacity
8. NFT marketplace on Moonriver network
The first NFT marketplace & first generative NFT collection was launched on the Moonriver network. 500 unique NFTs were sold out in only 30 mins.
Moonriver over 80k transactions from the beginning of September according to the Subscan. On the Moonriver network were created over 650 ERC20 tokens. Those are amazing numbers, that show the real usage of the Moonriver project.
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