Worldwide AIS, a crowdsourced maritime data DePIN building on Polkadot, is launching its alpha network on July 23rd. Coastal residents can purchase an AIS receiver to and connect to the WAKE app to start receiving incentives.
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.