Weekly news from Kusama&Polkadot #39
1. Kintsugi won the 44th auction on Kusama by self-funding
Kintsugi is the winner of the 44th auction on the Kusama network by self-fund 2 944 KSM worth $173 134. Kintsugi now has another parachain slot while winning the 11th auction last year. While the previous slot ends its leasing period on 8th August 2022, Kintsugi needed to take action to grab one more slot which might swap between. The leasing period of this slot is between 11th August 2022 and 19th July 2023.
Kintsugi is the canary network of interBTC which is developed by Interlay. The main purpose of Kintsugi is to have its own decentralized version of bitcoin on Kusama in the kBTC form. kBTC is a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset maintained by a decentralized network of collateralized Vaults. Users can use kBTC on DeFi on Kusama once minted.
2. ParisDotComm conference starts today
ParisDotComm is a 3-day conference and workshop session organized by some of the leading projects of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems including DOT Validator Alliance, which we (Polkadotters) are proud members of.
When? 19.07.–21.07.2022
Where? Arab World Institute, Paris, France
Tickets? Still available on this Eventbrite link for 60 EUR
Program&website? https://www.parisdotcomm.org/#conference
Special guests? Gautam Dhameja from Parity, Radha Dasari from Web3 foundation, Hoon Kim from Astar, Lucas Vogelsang from Centrifuge, Kenny Li from Manta, Bruno Skvorc from RMRK, and many more!
3. Astar Summer: Round 2 is coming
Astar Summer continues with Round 2. There are four more new projects coming on the Astar Network — Algem, Sio2 Finance, Starfish Finance and Zenlink, so let’s describe them briefly.
Algem is the first liquid staking solution for ASTR. For your ASTR tokens, you can get the nASTR, which is the liquid representatin of ASTR which you can farm. In other words, with liquid staking you maximize your assets’ earning potential.
Sio2 Finance is the first multi VM lending platform on Astar, so it will support both Ethereum Virtual Machine and WebAssembly. In other words, Sio2 can handle ERC-20 tokens and also all tokens or other parchains’ tokens in their platform.
Starfish Finance is the DeFi × NFT-Fi headquarter in the Polkadot ecosystem. It’s a one-stop DeFi with multi-token stablecoin swap, cross-chain aggregation for crypto assets and NFTs, and unleashing liquidity potentials in NFTs.
Zenlink is a cross-chain DEX protocol on Polkadot, that allows users to swap Polkadot ecosystem tokens. Zenlink DEX Protocol includes WASM and EVM implementations such as Moonbeam or Moonriver at this moment. This solution allows customizable compositions and interoperability with different DeFi modules.
4. Moonsama has integrated KILT’s SocialKYC
Moonsama has recently successfully integrated SocialKYC by KILT protocol. SocialKYC will allow users to log into its multiverse bridge using their decentralized Web3 identity.
SocialKYC implementation will eliminate the need of traditional Web2 login which uses username and password. From now on just use the KILT’s Sporran wallet and SocialKYC credentials and login into the Moonsama multiverse!
KILT Protocol is a fully decentralized blockchain identity protocol for issuing self-sovereign, anonymous and verifiable credentials.
Moonsama is a project from the Moonriver community, which was launched in September 2021 and become the leading NFT project on Kusama by market capitalization supported by 1000+ weekly unique players.
5. Midas Capital integrated into Moonbeam Network
Midas Capital has been integrated into the Moonbeam ecosystem. Users of Midas Capital Fuse pools can unlock the full potential of their assets through customized and isolated lending and borrowing pools. There is a possibility to create own custom money markets and use a wide range of assets as collateral.
Midas Capital is a DAO within the Tribe DAO ecosystem. Fuse is a permissionless money market that allows anyone to create customized and isolated pools for lending and borrowing any asset on EVM-compatible blockchain. Pool creators are able to flexibly modify various parameters such as interest rate curves, oracles and collateral factors.
6. Moonbeam Foundation announced the Orbiters program
Moonbeam Foundation has announced the Moonbeam Orbiters Program. It’s a ollator rotation program with a new way to engage collators on both Moonriver and Moonbeam networks. The trial program will launch to Moonriver today, on 19th July, Moonbeam will follow later on.
7. Basilisk enabled transfers of BSX tokens
$BSX tokens are now transferable, so you can send your BSX around the Basilisk mainnet on the Kusama network. Let’s now wait for $HDX tokens on HydraDX parachain that could be transferable in the close future.
Besides the transfer possibility of $BSX tokens, Basilisk has another news. They just released the Beta version of Basilisk AMM, so you can now go through and play with the interface. We expect the mainnet version to be released within a couple of weeks!
Here is the link to the Basilisk Beta version https://bsx.play.hydration.cloud/#/trade
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