Tinkernet, the Invarch canary network on Kusama, will be halting operations on October 9th 2024.
TNKR balances will be snapshot on October 8th, and 4 VARCH will be allocated for each 1 TNKR. No further action is required by holders.
Congratulations to Micropay, winners of the Best of Polkadot category at Token2049鈥檚 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.