This month, Moonbeam's ecological support has entered the next milestone! To explore more high-quality early Web3 projects, the Moonbeam Accelerator Program has announced 10 start-up companies that have entered the final accelerated incubation stage. These lucky projects will receive training from top incubators and professional investment institutions in the next 3 months, and will be released to the community in the second half of the year. and investors presenting its latest achievements and business plans.
Governance community governance is improving day by day. The first batch of ecological Grants has been approved by the community. With the participation and supervision of GLMR holders, the project can obtain the Grant amount jointly decided by the community, and the Grant will be used to stimulate the initial liquidity growth of the project. and user acquisition programs.
Where are you in April? Moonbeam is in Hong Kong, Hanoi, in Austin and Boston! The Moonbeam team flashed the Vietnamese community and exchanged Moonbeam progress with local Web3 developers. Hong Kong is a popular Web3 hotspot in Asia this year. Moonbeam was invited to participate in the Web3 Hackathon supported by the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Web3 Festival and a number of peripheral activities. During Consensus 2023, Moonbeam attended as a sponsor and co-hosted the side event Moonbeam Community & Drinks with StellaSwap and Exiled Racers.
For more exciting content, let's take a look below~
1. The latest progress of Moonbeam & Moonriver
Official Announcement of the First Batch of Moonbeam Accelerator Incubation Projects
With the support of professional incubator Rokk3r , the list of Web3 startups selected for the Moonbeam Accelerator program finally surfaced. More than 231 start-up teams participated in the competition, and finally 10 lucky teams got the chance to incubate. The program aims to support early and growth-stage startups and assist them in all-round business development in the multi-chain ecosystem. The first batch of selected projects spans tools for DeFi, games, infrastructure and user acquisition. read more
The community approves the first batch of latest ecosystem Grants
The Moonbeam community has approved a new batch of ecosystem Grants. The total amount of this round of Grants is 4.5 million GLMR, which will inject continuous liquidity into the development of the ecosystem. A total of more than 29 million GLMRs participated in the voting for this Grant quota proposal. Granted project parties will allocate these GLMRs under the supervision of the community for user acquisition and liquidity plans on Moonbeam. Projects that have received Grants include: Beamswap, DAM Finance, Prime Protocol, StellaSwap. read more
Hong Kong Hackathon Moonbeam Competition Winners Announced
The BlockBooster Hackathon, co-sponsored by the University of Hong Kong, OKX, Moonbeam Foundation and other institutions, ended recently. After rigorous screening by a number of judges, three outstanding teams stood out and won the hackathon competition award and GLMR award sponsored by the Moonbeam Foundation, including Public. AI, Splash and Applauds. read more
HackaDOT 2023 with Moonbeam is now open for registration
The Moonbeam community enters the Korean market! HackaDOT is the first hackathon held by Polkadot in East Asia in 2023. It is jointly organized by devillage, Parachainkorea and kryptoseoul. Moonbeam will join it as a Polkadot parallel chain and Layer1 public chain. read more
Moonriver has completed Runtime 2302 upgrade
Moonriver has completed the Runtime 2302 upgrade , and Moonbeam will follow. This upgrade introduces some updates to Moonriver, including XCM v3 version upgrade, etc. read more
Moonbeam block production outage resolved
On April 5, 2023, the Moonbeam network experienced a brief block production pause, an unexpected result of the approved referendum 88. The Moonbeam team quickly found the root cause, which was resolved by deploying a client upgrade. read more
2. Moonbeam & Moonriver new integration partners & projects
Kapa.ai
Kapa.ai is an AI bot powered by ChatGPT that can answer most of the questions developers build on Moonbeam. Kapa.ai has been trained on the full Moonbeam developer documentation site , Moonbeam community forum , Substrate developer documentation site, etc., but is currently only able to answer developer-related questions. read more
ZooDAO
ZooDAO is a cross-community battle experience protocol that combines NFT and DeFi. Through this integration, users can use their own NFTs to participate, vote and support their favorite NFTs. read more
HashKey DID
HashKey DID is a decentralized identity service based on NFT. Users can use HashKey's decentralized storage function and smart contract-based privacy technology across chains through LayerZero. read more
Bounce Finance
As a fully decentralized platform, Bounce empowers users to create auctions on their own, including various custom parameters such as reserve price and duration, and more. read more
Cumulon Protocol
Cumulon Protocol is a staking and liquidity management platform for parachains on Polkadot and Kusama, users can leverage Cumulon to stake/unstake across multiple networks from one place. The platform provides APY, historical data, reward forecast and other information. read more
CoinSender
CoinSender is a multi-transaction encrypted payment platform, users can use the services provided by CoinSender to distribute tokens among employees, pledge participants, etc. read more
AirLyft
AirLyft’s AirTokens, AirPools and AirBoost are now available on Moonbeam&Moonriver, allowing projects to lock Token/digital assets for rewarding the community. This increases the feature richness of the AirLyft platform, opening up new possibilities for its breakthrough growth and community growth in the Web3 space. read more
De.Fi Scanner
De.Fi introduced the first encrypted anti-virus software on Moonriver —— De.Fi Scanner, which has been launched on the Moonriver network and provides related services. Any user can check the security and high-risk functions of the contract through the De.Fi Scanner product , liquidity and Token distribution analysis. read more
3. Operation Guide & Contributing Articles
Operation Guide｜Setting up Moonbeam development nodes
Moonbeam development nodes are personal development environments for building and testing applications locally. For Ethereum developers, being comparable to Ganache allows you to get started quickly and easily without the overhead of the relay chain. The article explains two ways of setting up a development node. read more
How-To Guide｜Running Nodes on Moonbeam Using Docker and Systemd
Running a full node allows you to store a local copy of the chain, validate new blocks, gain local access to RPC endpoints, configure collators to author blocks, and more. The article introduces the specific operation method of using Docker and Systemd to run Moonbeam nodes. read more
Operation Guide｜How to use Polkasembly on Moonriver to participate in OpenGov
Polkaassembly is an open-source platform where anyone can explore and participate in Moonbeam's on-chain governance. Currently, Polkasembly fully supports OpenGov. The article explains in detail how to use Polkassembly to participate in OpenGov on Moonriver from the aspects of registering/logging in to a Polkassembly account, how to participate in discussions, how to vote on proposals, and how to unlock democratic locks. read more
Operation Guide｜How to create x-chain DAO
This how-to guide aims to share a primer on running a DAO, as well as a high-level overview of how it works. read more
Operation Guide｜How to Transfer Funds from Bobabeam to Moonbeam
Bobabeam is Boba Network's Layer2 scaling solution on Moonbeam. This guide explains how to transfer funds from Bobabeam back to Moonbeam. read more
In April, the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, looking for the presence of Moonbeam around the world
In April, Moonbeam was active all over the world and participated in many offline activities, including Polkadot Vietnamese community offline gathering, Moonbeam x BlockBooster Hackathon, Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Consensus Conference and so on. read more
Introduction to the first batch of projects selected by Moonbeam Accelerator
Moonbeam Accelerator is an acceleration incubation program that assists the growth of on-chain projects and development teams. It is dedicated to screening potential projects and uniting forces from all parties to help entrepreneurs become better leaders. After three months of application, review, and selection, the Moonbeam Accelerator accelerated incubation program finally selected 11 start-up projects. read more
4. Community Activities & Activity Review
Concensus 2023 competition
The annual encryption community conference Consensus was held in Austin from April 26th to 28th, and Moonbeam attended the event as a sponsor. And co-organized the side event Moonbeam Community & Drinks with StellaSwap and Exiled Racers. Event Details
A comprehensive analysis of the latest progress of Polkadot
On April 28, PolkaWorld held an online live broadcast with the theme of Polkadot Focus: Comprehensive Analysis of the First Quarter and sharing of the latest developments of parachain projects. Moonbeam Chinese community manager Yuki shared the latest progress of the Polkadot parachain project with the heads of Gear, Manta, Astar and Subwallet. Event Details
2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival
The 2023 Hong Kong Web3 Carnival will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center from April 12th to 15th. The "Web3 and Security" theme forum held at the same time was jointly organized by the co-organizer SharkTeam and the event organizer. Moonbeam and the ultra-hard core experts who are closely related to the development of the underlying security technology in the Web3 industry will explore in depth how to use technology to converge into a Web3 moat.
Link Web3 to PolyU
On April 14th, Moonbeam participated in the Side Event "Link Web3 to PolyU" jointly organized by Chainlink, PolyU and Hong Kong Polytechnic, and discussed the future of Web3 with Avalanche, BNBCHAIN and TrustWallet. Activity review
Talk With Us: Connecting Innovators, Builders and Developers in Web3
On April 13th, Moonbeam Chinese community manager Yuki Pan participated in an offline event held by TinTinLand in Hong Kong, discussing "endogenous power leading the development of blockchain" with many excellent projects in the Web3 industry. Activity review
Polkadot 2023 Trends and Changes
On April 11th, PolkaWorld, together with Moonbeam and other Polkadot ecological teams, held an offline Polkadot event in Hong Kong - Polkadot 2023 Trends and Changes, discussing the current market structure, industry trends, and how Polkadot is growing from volume to flying encryption The world gets more users and grows. Activity review
Beyond The Chain Vietnam 2023
Beyond The Chain Vietnam 2023 is an offline meetup and workshop event co-hosted by Parity Technologies and SubWallet. Moonbeam was invited to participate in this event to discuss "how to use the Polkadot project in the Web3 field" together with other Polkadot ecological projects. Activity review
Moonbeam Eco Talk AMA — — Hashkey DID
Hashkey DID was a guest in the Moonbeam community, and conducted an AMA answer on what is Hashkey DID, how to contribute to web3, and their latest progress . Activity review
Web3 Art, World Art Day and Web3 Celebration
Artists and experts in the web3 field discussed topics such as the impact of blockchain technology on art, environmental sustainability and new opportunities for artists. Activity review
Singapore Polkadot Offline Meetup Starts with Prizes
On May 11, the Singapore offline Meetup event with the theme Introduction to Moonbeam will introduce Moonbeam by Chinese community manager Yuki, a fireside chat with Aziz from StellaSwap, and an opportunity to meet the Ledger team. read more
5. Technology update
Runtime 2301
- The referendum Pallet completes the migration and adds relevant details
- Updated MinCandidateStk and MinCollatorStk constants for Moonriver and Moonbeam
- XCM Transactor completed the migration from V2 to V3
- Moonbeam updated to use dynamic fee algorithm
Runtime 2302
This release introduces fixes for RT2301 GMP precompilation (Alphanet only) and Referenda precompilation (Alphanet and Moonriver)
- Avoid binary search on potentially unsorted data
- GMP: Only depends on the amount transferred
Moonbeam v0.30.1
This client release fixes the block production process which could incorrectly include a transaction even if it exceeds the allowed Proof size (currently limited to 5Mb by Relay)
Moonbeam v0.31.1
- Complete bootnode updates to library, Moonriver and Moonbeam
- Enable the EVM Tracing module on the collector
- Add dynamic gas support on Moonbeam
- Update Substrate/Polkadot/Cumulus/Frontier dependencies to v0.9.38, add XcmV3 support