Weekly news from Kusama & Polkadot #52
1. DOTBrno revealed more speakers: members of Interlay, AstridDAO, Pendulum or Apillon
There are just 10 days left till the start of a one-day conference DOTBrno, which is being organized by the teams from the Dotsama ecosystem, namely KodaDot, Polkadotters and Apillon. The conference will take place in Brno, the Czech Republic, on November 10th as a side event to the ETHBrno hackathon.
There are already 7 speakers announced, while DOTBrno is revealing them with a two-day delay. There will be a panel discussion with the most interesting speakers at the end of the conference as well.
A new pack of speakers was revealed last week, namely:
- Speaker no. 4: Matjaž Sobočan, CEO of Apillon
- Speaker no. 5: Torsten Stüber, CTO of Pendulum
- Speaker no. 6: Matt C, community lead at Astrid DAO
- Speaker no. 7: Danilo Pereira, head of growth of Interlay
The tickets are free of charge, but the space is limited to +- 150 people, so make sure to grab your ticket in time. Go and reserve your spot on Eventbrite.com.
Previously announced speakers were Viki Val, co-founder of KodaDot, with the talk about Unified NFT developer experience, Alice und Bob, communications director at Mangata Finance, with the talk focused on solving the fundamental problems of DeFi and Tino Rusch, Web3 developer at KILT, with the talk about the importance of identity in web3.
2. Crust Files are now integrated with Aptos
Crust Files are now integrated with Aptos. Aptos users can use the Petra wallet or Martian wallet to log in to Crust Files and experience Crust storage for free.
This integration brings Aptos practical, powerful, and user-friendly IPFS-based decentralized cloud solution packages for developers and users. They can enjoy the capacity of ~800 Petabytes of available storage located on 2,000+ IPFS nodes.
Crust Network is a decentralized storage network that underpins the Web 3.0-style data & file architecture. Crust Files is a lightweight and open-source application, which provides decentralized storage space for users by connecting their Web 3.0 wallets to sign in. Such as MetaMask, Polkadot JS, or above mentioned Petra & Martian wallets.
Aptos is a PoS-based Layer 1 blockchain that combines parallel transaction processing by using a new smart contract language called Move. It aims to achieve a theoretical transaction throughput of 100k TPS and more.
3. Crust partners with Ternoa and helps back up NFT metadata
Crust Network has one more partnership worth mentioning. Crust partners with Ternoa helping to back up the NFT metadata, replicated across more than 50 servers, ensuring resilience and access for any files stored or linked to in its chain.
Ternoa is a blockchain dedicated to data encryption & transmission using NFT time capsules.
“Current NFT solutions often do not really address the question of how to store metadata in a way that’s accessible yet reliable. By adding Crust network to our storage partners, we’re making Ternoa even more powerful, ensuring that users’ data will be available, immutable and retrievable at all times without getting lost”.
Luke Fan, a Co-founder and CTO of Ternoa, source
4. StellaSwap relaunched the native bridge to move Wormhole tokens from and to Moonbeam
StellaSwap recently announced relaunching of the native bridge, which enables to easily bridge of tokens from and to the Moonbeam network via Wormhole.
The assets might be bridged from Moonbeam and vice versa to those EVM networks:
- Ethereum
- BSC
- Polygon
- Avalanche
Besides bridging assets via Wormhole, StellaSwap now allows users to easily move their Polkadot native tokens to and from Polkadot Relay Chain and various parachains such as Acala, Astar, or Interlay via XCM.
5. Bifrost updated their app to version 1.5.0
Bifrost recently updated their http://bifrost.app to version 1.5.0. It includes a redesign of the dashboard, various new features, and optimizations, which will help to make them even more user-friendly. Here is the list of them with a brief description.
Dashboard redesign into 6 main sections:
- TVL card showing the total value of locked funds on Bifrost
- Asset card aggregating information about assets supported on Bifrost’s network
- vCrowdloan card shows the real-time progress of slot auctions in the Polkadot & Kusama networks
- vStaking card allows users to readily view all the launched vTokens and the corresponding yield
- News update providing in-depth information about Bifrost
- Rainbow boost entry information
Besides the dashboard redesign, there are new features in the 1.5.0v of the Bifrost app such as vToken Function Optimization. It includes New Yield Analysis Panel, Mint Redemption Supports Bi-directional Input, Optimisation of vToken Price Curve Display Operation.
The farming card was refined in Farming 2.0 for better filtering and sorting.
6. vKSM single token farming pool high-yield bonus
Besides all the news about the Bifrost app, there is one more exciting bonus for all KSM holders! From Today, there will be a High-Yield Single-token $vKSM farming pool with a bonus APY, currently ~62%. This will last for the next 10 days.
How to do that?
Just go to https://bifrost.app/farming and pick the vKSM single pool and deposit your $vKSM.
7. Litentry’s bi-directional bridge to Ethereum is now live
Litentry parachain recently announced that the bi-directional bridge to Ethereum is now live. From now on, you can transfer your $LIT ERC-20 from/to Litentry parachain on Polkadot. The current transaction fee is set for 16 $LIT.
The simple way how to bridge your $LIT tokens is to visit directly the Litentry app and follow the steps:
- visit the Litentry app via this link https://apps.litentry.com/transfer
- in the left-top corner, pick Litentry
- go to “Token Transfers”
- select Litentry Network or Ethereum Network as the network from which you want to send the $LIT tokens
- link your wallets and submit the transfer
Consider supporting us by nominating your tokens to the Kusama or Polkadot validator going by the POLKADOTTERS name.
