Polkadot News

Hello World! by Polkadot is live. It’s a Gitcoin-powered learning challenge where you can earn DOT and KSM. http://bit.ly/0x2HcwPtd 

The latest episode of the Polkadot-focused podcast, Relay Chain, covers staking with Bison Trails. https://relaychain.fm/26-running-node-infrastructure-easier-with-bison-trails

The latest Technical Explainer video explains the existential deposit and keep-alive checks on Polkadot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKpTgxDp_4

There is a Treasury Proposal by Patract Labs for large-scale infrastructure for Substrate-based chains (like Polkadot and Kusama). https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/16

Polkadot has now produced over 2,000,000 blocks. Congratulations Polkadot! https://twitter.com/subnotif/status/1315855933432623104

Referendum 7 was submitted incorrectly, so the upgrade to Runtime v25 is being re-run as Referendum 8. Voting is currently ongoing. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/8

If you're interested in the details of the incorrect submission, see here: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/motion/30

Tuesday's Substrate Seminar was about key management and using Parity Signer. Watch it here. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/substrate-seminar/18

If you are running a Polkadot node, we highly recommend upgrading to the latest version (at least 0.8.24) as breaking networking changes will occur in the next upgrade. See https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/pull/7076 for details on the change.

Watch "Polkadot Conversations - Session 1 - Fireside Chat with Joe Petrowski", a discussion on Polkadot architecture hosted by Zoe Meckbach. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/polkadot-conversations-session1/register

Referendum 10, to force transfer a balance, is currently failing. Details here: https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/10

A few days ago, several wallets had an issue where they displayed a larger amount of DOT on accounts than users had. If you are curious, this is the reason why it occurred: https://polkadot.js.org/docs/api/FAQ/#on-a-non-current-non-substrate-20-branch-my-balances-are-wrong

Bitcoin is coming to Polkadot through the Interlay bridge in early 2021. https://polkadot.network/bitcoin-is-coming-to-polkadot/

Polkadot Decoded, the event for the Polkadot community, is coming on 3 December 2020. https://decoded.polkadot.network/

Bill Laboon gave an overview of proof of stake and engaged in a roundtable discussion with reps from Ethereum 2.0, Tezos, Cardano and Concordeum at CV Labs' "2020 - The Year of Proof of Stake" discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maJYnqsuhms&t=301s

Sub0, the online conference for Substrate / Polkadot developers, is over!  Thanks to everyone who attended. You can watch all of the sessions at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/axvfinsv

Tips and Tricks

Can't figure something on Polkadot? Try checking out the Polkadot Support site - https://support.polkadot.network/support/home

Interested in knowing which projects are working to create parachains for Kusama and Polkadot? Check out the Rococo testnet and which projects are creating parachains for it. https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frococo-rpc.polkadot.io#/parachains

Want an address with specific letters, words, or numbers in it? For example, make your address have "Yay" in it, such as 1YaYDVuFPFMt6exU4gTzgVvXXRaKXmAv4D8FD6H2aZ4fBtK. You can use the Polkadot-JS vanity generator (https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/accounts/vanity). Learn how at https://support.polkadot.network/support/solutions/articles/65000171416-dot-vanity-addresses-and-recognizable-dot-icon-avatars

Interested in interacting with Polkadot programmatically? You can find information and tutorials on using the Polkadot API here: https://polkadot.js.org/docs/api/

If you are the type of person who reads down to here in the Weekly Digest, you'd probably make an excellent grants evaluator at Web3 Foundation! https://web3.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=85

Or perhaps a Technical Educator intern / entry-level candidate, teaching people about Polkadot. https://web3.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=84

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