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One Last Boost for The Kus
DAO
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

One Last Boost for The Kus

It’s the end of an era. After four years of tireless work, 42.7M Youtube views, and 55M X video views, The Kus wrapped its final broadcast with Sunday’s episode of Space Monkeys. As Polkadot enters its next chapter, funding appears to be shifting away from ecosystem communications. Things may be getting a little quieter around here.

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A Mint-Condition Milestone
DeFi
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

A Mint-Condition Milestone

Within 5 days of launch, 154 stakers helped to push Bifrost vETH mints past the 500 ETH milestone, representing a TVL of over $1.5M.

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Old McLurpis Has a Farm
DeFi
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

Old McLurpis Has a Farm

To kickstart adoption, Bifrost has deployed vDOT incentives in the vETH Single-Token Farming Pool with initial APRs of over 254%.

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Welcome the Ethereal Omnipotent Liquid
DeFi
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

Welcome the Ethereal Omnipotent Liquid

Bifrost has launched vETH 3.0. Powered by the ERC-4626 standard and SLPx 2.0, it delivers native omnichain minting to Bifrost, Polkadot, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.

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Filipino Fee-free Festivities
Parachain
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

Filipino Fee-free Festivities

Continuing its mission to drive Polkadot stablecoin adoption in the Philippines, is offering free withdrawals for Asset Hub USDC and USDT from December 17th to January 15th.

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Undelegate and Elevate
DeFiOpenGov
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

Undelegate and Elevate

With a more self-sufficient ecosystem strategy in development, Hydration Referendum 241 proposes undelegating 540k of protocol-owned DOT from OpenGov. Freeing this capital will expand the possibilities for the protocol's new direction.

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Gettin’ GIGADeHydrated
DeFiOpenGov
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

Gettin’ GIGADeHydrated

Following the withdrawal of Web3 Foundation support for future DeFi incentives, Hydration Referendum 240 proposes streamlining the GIGAHydration campaign. If passed, the proposal will eliminate non-critical farms and reduce remaining incentives, with the exception of HOLLAR, which will be boosted.

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A Graceful Hare-well
OpenGov
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 23, 2025

A Graceful Hare-well

In light of the Web3 Foundation’s increased participation in OpenGov, The White Rabbit is stepping down from his DV Guardian delegation, choosing to focus more on family while remaining an active independent voter.

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Jinglin’ Bells of Discord
DeFi
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 22, 2025

Jinglin’ Bells of Discord

Bifrost has launched its Discord Points Program, which will reward community engagement tasks, and vToken holdings. To celebrate it has kicked off Jingle Jam Week, featuring unique tasks and reward pool of $1000 in BNC.

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Robonomics Reaches for Elastic Potential
Parachain
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 22, 2025

Robonomics Reaches for Elastic Potential

Thanks to a successful referendum and support from Parity, Robonomics Freemium (Kusama) has resumed block production and completed its runtime v4.0.4 upgrade. When v4.0.4 deployment follows on the Polkadot parachain, the team will trial newly unlocked performance enhancements using multiple cores.

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Dom-inating the Issuance Model
Parachain
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 22, 2025

Dom-inating the Issuance Model

The code for the DOT Hard Pressure issuance model has been merged by Dom (Polkadot Fellowship). It’s now set for inclusion in an upcoming Polkadot SDK release, in time for the first-ever DOT halving on March 14, 2026.

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Hub’s Smart Contract Revive-al
Parachain
yay.oi
yay.oi·December 22, 2025

Hub’s Smart Contract Revive-al

Revive, the PVM/EVM smart contract platform for the Polkadot Hub, is nearing completion and expected on Kusama by the end of the month. Enactment on Polkadot has been scheduled for January 20th.

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