Author: @cheng-shuqi
In the past month, Polkadot can be regarded as the "beautiful cub" in the crypto world.
Since Christmas last year, DOT has surged from around US$5 in less than a month. At its peak, it exceeded US$19, an increase of nearly 300%. In addition to DOT, KSM, PHA, CRU, PLOS and other Polkadot ecosystems The performance of a number of projects within is equally astonishing, and basically all have recently hit a record high. Investment is always something that some people are happy about and others are worried about. Investors who were holding their cars in the early morning are now busy counting their money in the bed, while short-sellers and sellers have already shot their thighs (don't tell me there are short-selling heroes).
From a fundamental point of view, the biggest benefit of Polkadot in the near future is undoubtedly the qualitative progress made in the implementation of the parachain -the Rococo V1 parachain test officially started. As of 13:00 on January 22, 27 projects have submitted Rococo V1 test applications, among which Plasm and Acala have become the first two parachains on the testnet.
Image source: Polka Project, as of January 19, the waiting queue has now increased to 11.
Since Rococo V1's test qualifications are allocated on a "first come first served" principle, the official quickly calculated the approximate batches of all project access tests. After Plasm and Acala, it is expected that the second batch of access (should be completed this week) will be Kilt and Interlay (PolkaBTC); the third batch will be Darwinia, Phala, Crust, HydraDX; the fourth batch will be Bifrost, Starks Network, Clover, Zenlink; the fifth batch is ChainX, Robonomics, Jupiter, MathChain; projects that have not entered the first five batches will be temporarily in a waiting state.
In order to help everyone understand the current situation of Polkadot's ecology more clearly, this article will conduct a systematic review of all the projects that have submitted the Rococo V1 test application. The introduction dimensions include their track, profile, whether to accept Grant, token status, official website, etc. It should be noted that the Polka Project project library shows that there are now 343 projects in the Polka Ecosystem. Although the 27 projects that have been submitted for testing are only a small part of the Polka Ecosystem, the application for testing is in some way In a sense, it actually means that the development work of these projects has basically matured. Given that most of these projects have not yet issued coins, as the parachain implementation continues, these projects may have the opportunity to lead a new wave of wealth. With DOT, you must not miss these again.
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The first batch of access projects
Plasm Network
Track: Smart Contract Chain
Introduction: Plasm Network is a Polkadot layer 2 network solution based on Substrate, which aims to provide a scalable and decentralized application development platform. In this Rococo V1 network test, Plasm Network got the first parachain released to the outside world.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: PLM, unlisted, has experienced two rounds of lock-up airdrops before.
Website: https://www.plasmnet.io/
Acala
Track: DeFi
Introduction: Acala may be one of the most highly anticipated projects in the Polkadot ecosystem at present. Its vision is to become the DeFi center of the entire Polkadot network. It has launched the cross-chain multi-asset mortgage stable currency Honzon protocol and releases the flow of staking assets Core business modules such as the Homa protocol and decentralized exchanges. It is worth mentioning that Acala also has an advance network Karura, which can be simply understood as Acala built on the Polkadot advance network Kusama.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: ACA, unissued. Karura's token KAR has already conducted a warm-up airdrop.
Website: https://acala.network
The second batch of access projects
KILT Protocol
Track: DID
Introduction: KILT Protocol is developed by BOTLabs. The team is located in Berlin, Germany. It can be used for the issuance, storage and maintenance of verifiable digital certificates and supports privacy protection functions such as anonymous verification. The goal of the agreement is to become a standardized solution for decentralized identification (DID), providing verifiable credentials for projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: KILT, unlisted, officials have emphasized that subsequent public offerings may not be open to residents of China and the United States.
Website: https://www.kilt.io/
Interlay (PolkaBTC)
Track: Cross-chain bridge
Introduction: Interlay is a corporate entity that has launched a cross-chain interoperability framework XCLAIM. Its vision is to establish a fair, decentralized, and zero-trust cross-chain settlement layer. Interlay’s most well-known product is the cross-chain bridge between the Polkadot network and the Bitcoin network. This product allows users to mint the BTC anchor coin PolkaBTC 1:1 on the Polkadot network, thus introducing BTC into Polka’s DeFi ecosystem .
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: Not issued. The official 2020 review mentioned that "XCLAIM does not need tokens".
Website: https://www.interlay.io/
The third batch of access projects
Darwinia
Track: Cross-chain bridge
Introduction: Darwinia Network is a cross-chain bridging network based on Substrate. It provides a heterogeneous cross-chain solution that does not rely on third-party multi-signatures, connecting Polkadot, Ethereum, TRON and other heterogeneous chains. The main application areas include DeFi, cross-chain NFT trading market, games, etc. The Darwin Network launched its main network in September this year, and is gradually unlocking the main modules. Currently, the fourth phase of the network is about to "Ethereum-Darwin two-way cross-chain bridge/transfer".
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: RING has been listed on exchanges such as Uniswap, Huobi, and Matcha.
Website: https://darwinia.network/
Phala Network
Track: Privacy
Introduction: The privacy computing project Phala Network is based on a PoW-like economic incentive model, and will build a distributed privacy computing cloud composed of hundreds of thousands of miners around the world, and then serve as a Polkadot parachain, radiating DeFi and data for all blockchain ecology Services and other applications.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: PHA has been listed on exchanges such as Uniswap, Huobi, and Matcha. At present, OKEx is carrying out the Polkadot ecological project deposit and listing activity. PHA is on the first batch of candidates. Phala has announced that it will provide PHA worth US$20,000 to encourage voting users.
Website: https://phala.network/zh
Crust Network
Track: Storage
Introduction: Crust Network provides a decentralized storage network for the Web3 ecosystem, supports multiple storage layer protocols including IPFS, and provides interfaces to the application layer. Crust Network's technology stack can also support a decentralized computing layer, aiming to build a distributed cloud ecosystem that values data privacy and ownership.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: CRU has been listed on exchanges such as Uniswap and Huobi. At present, OKEx is carrying out the Polkadot ecological project deposit and listing activity, and CRU is on the first batch of candidates.
Website: https://crust.network/
HydraDX
Track: DeFi
Introduction: The cross-chain liquidity provision agreement HydraDX just completed the seed round of financing last month. In the official introduction, HydraDX stated that it hopes to break the status quo of isolated liquidity pools under the AMM DEX model and establish a comprehensive liquidity pool that can accommodate multiple assets.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Nothing found in public information
Token situation: HDX is expected to be issued in early February. Initially, 5% of the tokens will be distributed on the Balancer in the form of a liquidity guide pool (LBP).
Website: https://hydradx.io/
The fourth batch of access projects
Bifrost
Track: DeFi
Introduction: Bifrost is the basic protocol of Polkadot's ecological DeFi. It is committed to becoming an infrastructure for pledged assets to provide liquidity. Currently, it has launched a derivative vToken for Staking and Polkadot Parachain Slot Auction (PLO).
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: BFC has been listed on exchanges such as Uniswap and Upbit.
Website: https://thebifrost.io/
Starks Network
Track: Privacy
Introduction: The Starks Network project is positioned as a zero-knowledge proof parachain based on zk-STARK technology, and is committed to providing zero-knowledge proof services for other parachains in the Polkadot ecosystem. Its core technology is similar to the Cairo project designed by Israel's StarkWare company for Ethereum. It uses the zk-STARK virtual machine to provide zero-knowledge proof verification services for general computing.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: unissued
Website: https://starks.network/
Clover
Track: Smart Contract Chain
Introduction: Clover is a high-performance smart contract platform based on Polkadot. It supports Ethereum smart contracts or DApps to migrate to Polkadot at very low cost using common tools such as MetaMask, Truffle, and Remix.
Have you ever accepted Grant: No record yet
Token situation: CLV, not issued. The project was initiated by the South Korean exchange Bithumb. There may be a chance to go online on the exchange in the future.
Website: https://medium.com/projectclover
Zenli
Track: DeFi
Introduction: Zenlink is a cross-chain decentralized transaction network based on Polkadot, dedicated to building a new generation of cross-chain DEX network. By integrating the Zenlink DEX Module, Zenlink can enable parachains to quickly have DEX capabilities and share liquidity with other parachains; Zenlink DEX aggregator can link all DEX DApps on Polkadot. Users can not only complete the exchange easily and quickly, but also enjoy a low slippage trading experience.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: ZLK, unlisted, the first round of token airdrops took place in November last year.
Website: https://www.zenlink.pro/
The fifth batch of access projects
Chain
Track: Cross-chain bridge
Introduction: ChainX is committed to achieving cross-chain messaging (information, assets) between Bitcoin, ERC-20 networks and Polkadot. Most of the existing blockchain projects are not compatible with the Polkadot network in terms of technical architecture. ChainX will standardize these digital assets and then import them into the Polkadot ecosystem.
Have you ever accepted Grant: No record yet
Token situation: PCX has been launched on exchanges such as Matcha and Hotbit.
Website: https://chainx.org/zh/
Robonomics
Track: Internet of Things (IOT)
Introduction: Robonomics is an infrastructure project of Polkadot. The project will house more than 1 million IoT devices to achieve security and global availability that cannot be provided by IT cloud platforms. Robonomics uses a variety of technical support such as Ethereum, Polkadot, IPFS, etc. It is a Web3 framework suitable for smart city and Industry 4.0 application developers.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: XRT has been listed on Uniswap, Huobi, Hotbit and other exchanges.
Website: https://robonomics.network/
Jupiter
Track: Smart Contract Chain
Introduction: Jupiter is a test blockchain for the Rococo network launched by Patract Labs, a provider of Polkadot parachain contract solutions. In the future, Patract Labs will deploy a parachain specifically for smart contract development in the Polkadot network to create a new generation of cross-chain smart contract platform. Compared with Ethereum’s EVM, Patract uses more advanced WASM smart contract technology to support Developers write smart contracts with high complexity, high security and high performance.
Have you ever accepted Grant: No record yet
Token situation: unissued
Website: https://twitter.com/Patractlabs
MathChain
Track: Wallet
Introduction: MathChain is a "smart chain wallet" developed by the MathWallet team based on the Substrate framework. When talking about the relationship between MathChain and MathWallet, the team said: “MathWallet is a front-end, MathChain is a user's on-chain account end, MathChain will be connected to the Polkadot parachain in the future, and interact with other Polkadot parachains. ."
Have you ever accepted Grant: No record yet
Token situation: MATH has been listed on exchanges such as Uniswap, FTX, and HBTC. At present, OKEx is carrying out the Polkadot Ecological Project deposit and listing activity, and MATH is on the first batch of candidates.
Website: https://mathwallet.org/zh-cn/
Apron
Track: Infrastructure
Introduction: Apron Network is committed to building a decentralized infrastructure service network platform to provide application developers, application users and infrastructure operators with a decentralized network based on blockchain technology infrastructure services. Apron Network will provide node services, on-chain data indexing, quotation and other infrastructure services for Kusama and Polkadot.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: APN, unissued.
Website: https://apron.network/
Encointer
Track: UBI, DID
Introduction: Encointer provides a platform for local community cryptocurrency with UBI function. Encointer's goal is to provide everyone with a digital proof of their personal identity, and each identity will receive a fixed amount of cryptocurrency every month to achieve UBI.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: unissued
Website: https://encointer.org/
Laminar
Track: DeFi
Introduction: Laminar aims to create an open financial platform, and its Flow Protocols (Laminar Flow Protocol) implements an on-chain mirrored asset and margin trading platform. It is committed to solving the problems of opaque pricing and price manipulation in today's market, bridging on-chain and off-chain asset transactions and financial players, increasing the liquidity of funds on the chain, and increasing asset exposure and transaction diversity.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: unissued
Website: https://laminar.one/
Snowbridge
Track: Cross-chain bridge
Introduction: Snowbridge is a cross-chain bridge project built by the research and development team Snowfork. The project aims to achieve data interoperability between Polkadot and the Ethereum network in a trustless manner.
Have you ever accepted Grant: No record yet
Token situation: unissued
Website: https://snowbridge-docs.snowfork.com/
Edgeware
Track: Smart Contract Chain
Introduction: Edgeware is committed to building a fair distribution, WASM smart contract platform based on POS consensus. It is also the first smart contract chain in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Have you ever accepted Grant: No record yet
Token situation: EDG has been launched on exchanges such as Matcha and Gate.
Website: https://edgewa.re/
Ares Protocol
Track: Prophecy
Introduction: Ares Protocol is a decentralized cross-chain oracle service protocol verified on the chain, which can provide safe and reliable data services for the interconnection of blockchain and digital economy.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: ARES, unlisted
Website: https://www.aresprotocol.com/
Litentry
Track: DID
Introduction: Litentry is a decentralized cross-chain identity protocol based on Polkadot. It provides refined on-chain identity and credit services for DeFi, on-chain governance and other ecological internal and external applications, and jointly creates a credible decentralized blockchain network. The personalized identity aggregator has become an important infrastructure in the Web 3.0 network, ready for large-scale applications.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: LIT, unissued.
Website: https://www.litentry.com/
Subsocial
Track: Social
Introduction: Subsocial is a decentralized social network open platform built on Substrate and IPFS, with upgradeability (Substrate) and censorship resistance (IPFS), and allows its users to use any cryptocurrency supported by the Polkadot ecosystem. Users can think of Subsocial as a decentralized version of Reddit or Medium.
Have you ever accepted Grant: Yes
Token situation: SUB, not listed.
URL: http://subsocial.network/
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the above projects, several applications signed by IntegriTEE (ID: 1983), Tidot (ID: 3), Platdot (ID: 8), Automata (ID: 58111) are also waiting for testing in Rococo V1. In the queue, but these projects were not found in the Polka Project project library, and relevant information was not found in the media and social applications, so I cannot introduce them for the time being. I hope to understand.
The Polkadot ecology is still developing rapidly. In addition to the above-mentioned more than 20 projects that have already submitted applications, there are many high-quality projects in the ecology that have not yet submitted test applications, such as the second-tier expansion plan Celer, the unsecured loan agreement Bandot, Comprehensive DeFi project Equilibrium, synthetic asset agreement Coinversation, DEX Polkastarter, which is very popular recently, insurance agreement PolkaCover... In the future, we will continue to sort out the entire Polka Ecological map according to different tracks, so stay tuned.