🐂 top news
Gavin Wood posted his thoughts on how Polkadot and JAM are synergistic on the Polkadot Forum.
Joyce (Parity) posted updated details on Asset Hub migration dates on the Polkadot Forum.
The Web3 Foundation is requesting feedback on a modified version of the Decentralized Voices program.
Distractive published a report for Polkadot’s impressive showing at Consensus 2025.
The Ambassador Fellowship kicked off the Polkadot Pop-up Summer, aiming to hit 1000 pop-ups during the campaign.
The SEC delayed its decision on the NASDAQ listing of the Grayscale Polkadot Trust for 35 days as it seeks further comments and rebuttals about fraud and manipulation prevention.
Nova Wallet issued over one hundred debit cards within four days of its launch.
Mimir, an enterprise-grade multisig solution for Polkadot, crossed $10M in TVL.
In the recent round of Coretime sales, all available Cores were immediately sold out at the opening price of 922 DOT.
⭕️ ecosystem
Encointer, a common good chain on Kusama, launched PayNuq, a local digital currency powered by the community in Zaria, Nigeria.
Aventus open-sourced the code of its prediction market technology which powers the Truth Network.
Magenta Labs onboarded Hive Intelligence into the Polkadot ecosystem. With the Hive API, developers can now tap into a wide range of AI-driven applications that utilize Hive’s LLM-ready blockchain data.
peaq launched the Machine Economy Free Zone, a sandbox environment for exploring regulation, deployment, innovation, and investment in the United Arab Emirates.
Acurast’s decentralized compute network has now onboarded over 85K mobile devices.
Bifrost now has over 12 million staked tokens for vDOT.
Stellaswap released the details of STELLA Maxi, its first auto-strategy for the upcoming veSTELLA token.
Acala has completed the aSEED collateral migration of Wormhole USDC to Asset Hub USDC in response to Wormhole's discontinued support.
The Moonbeam community has voted to diversify 1.8M GLMR in its Treasury into USDC using Hydration’s DCA feature.
Bifrost published How a 1M DOT Treasury Loan is Powering Polkadot Staking and DeFi with vDOT.
KILT published a token migration guide.
Phala published Build Trustworthy Fintech AI Agents With TEE and User-Owned Agents Everywhere — Case Study of AIMOverse TEE Integration.
Astar announced a new onramp channel with Alchemy Pay.
Polkadot published How to get involved with Polkadot DAO: A beginner’s guide to OpenGov and Polkassembly and Identity on your terms: How decentralized digital identity works.
Crust published its May ecosystem report.
The Polkadot UX Bounty welcomed Niftesty as its newest curator.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1595: Funding the further development of RegionX Hub (49K USDT)
Ref 1608: Seeking approval for the direction of the Polkadot Payment Card
Ref 1612: Funding the maintenance and further development of Subsquare (~444K USDC)
Ref 1614: Funding the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship for 9 months (1.98M USDC)
Ref 1611: Funding the development of JAMTON (~99K USDT)
🕓 confirming
Ref 1573: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for the next 6 months of development, marketing, tooling, and legal costs of the Polkadot App
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1584: Refilling the Marketing Bounty (200K DOT)
Ref 1583: Retroactively funding Gitorial VS Code Extension (1,660 DOT)
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1574: Funding the development of W3PI Token Index
Ref 1575: Funding milestone 1 of Inter Miami CF fan engagement campaign
Ref 1580: Funding the development and open source rollout of Epico — an Ethereum wallet compatibility layer for the Polkadot SDK
Ref 1585: Funding the development of Avatar Accounts which will enable Ethereum users use their ETH addresses on Polkadot without any friction (211K USDC)
Ref 1586: Funding Merkle Science to provide compliance and security capabilities to Asset Hub (100K DOT)
Ref 1587: Funding 1 year of Snowbridge development and maintenance (> 5M USDC)
Ref 1588: Reinstating bounty curators and doing some bounty housekeeping
Ref 1589: Funding milestone 4 of dAppForge development (108K USDC)
Ref 1590: Funding Gossamer for the Q3-Q4 development of Go, an alternative client implementation of Polkadot (815K USDC)
Ref 1591: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for 1 year (632K USDC)
Ref 1592: Funding a Pudgy Penguins <> Mubert Protocol Events Tour (81K USDC)
Ref 1593: Funding the development and release of WAGOI (660K USDC)
✅ approved
Ref 1572: Retroactively funding the development of Mimir, a multisig solution for Polkadot
Ref 1559: Funding a kick-start campaign for RISC-V smart home devices, secured by Polkadot
❌ rejected
Ref 1564: Funding milestone 1 of the development of Bounty Hub
Ref 1567: Funding media and marketing campaign for the APAC region led by PANews
Ref 1570: Approving NFT Mozaic’s MVP Grants Program
💰 opportunities
NFT Mosaic is looking for new creative cross-chain NFT use cases. Join the Zealy campaign to learn NFT XCM basics, submit your ideas, and potentially share in a prize pool of 300 DOT.
Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Technical Educator, Senior Investor Relations Manager, and Senior Software Engineer.
Fill out the OpenJobs form to be added to the directory so potential employers can find you.
Wave 3 of the PBA-X online Polkadot and blockchain fundamentals course kicks off on June 23rd.
📺 what to watch and listen to
Unpacking Mandala Chain's BIG Plans by Polkadot Twitter.
A Polkadot Payment Card? featuring Birdo (Parity) and Simon (Baanx) by Polkadot Twitter.
Friday DOT news pump (FIFA Rivals on Polkadot 100k Downloads HOURS after launch! 😱 Weekly Polkadot News Blast!) weekly ecosystem recap by The Kus.
Kylix: Cross-Chain DeFi Breakthrough ⚡️ Inside the Lend/Borrow Hub-&-Spoke Model - Space Monkeys 195 by The Kus.
📖 what to read
📅 events
The Web3 Foundation is hosting Kusama ZK Day in Berlin, Germany on July 17th. Applications for speakers are open now.
Thank you for taking the DOT leap!
