Algem Liquid Staking v1.5 on Astar is heading for retirement, so it’s time to upgrade to v2. Users should unstake nASTR and closing lending positions on Sio2 then restake to xnASTR on the v2 platform.
Congratulations to Micropay, winners of the Best of Polkadot category at Token2049’s 2025 Singapore Hackathon. Their project fuses the x402 HTTP payment protocol with Hyperbridge to power cross-chain automated micropayments between AI agents.
With the assistance of the Polkadot UX Bounty, Crust is making progress on implementing Unified Address Format. Before long, we may finally have one address to rule them all.
