We're pleased to announce we are partnering with a decentralized infrastructure services node network for Web3, Apron Network 🥳🙌🎆

We will both provide the dApp dev community with advanced infrastructure tools to leverage the full functionality of Web 3.0 on Polkadot 💪

The partnership benefits include:
• PolkaFoundry dApps will gain access to a large universe of API interfaces, better security guarantees, a multi-link ecological API choice, and the ability to use the Apron Market, an infrastructure services matching service for dApps.

• The Apron Network will optimize its DeFi dApps on the PolkaFoundry platform while providing infrastructure services.

• dApp developers and users will be able to access the powerful decentralized infrastructure services network of Apron through the user-friendly and secure PolkaFoundry UX and DeFi-friendly solutions.

PolkaFoundry dApps will benefit from easy access to Apron’s many service APIs like
👯‍♀️NFT auctions and marketplaces
💸Automated loan platforms,
⛓Cross-chain DEXs,
💠 DeFi derivatives
🏢Decentralized insurance
💹 Prediction markets

Apron is also built on Substrate- enabling them to scale and balance overloads- we can't wait to see what we can accomplish together ✨

Apron's website: https://apron.network/

Apron's Twitter: @apronofficial1

Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1380533071892647942?s=20

Full Medium Article: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/aprons-decentralized-services-node-network-for-web-3-0-to-integrate-with-polkafoundry-702c6bbdf959

We're happy to announce the next group of winners for yesterday's Daily Lucky Draw 🎊🎁

The addresses below will receive $10 USDT for their contributions testing PolkaFoundry in our bid for a Rococo #parachain

5EsZTuA2VVnhGJiVn5Hi7kBUB5UjLY62vfgkqt56tch8PLMT
5Ek5QEU33NaESU7HT95WTKr635mRhiJLmiCbUvWe6NudHAED
5F2DwYoG2hgga5erKVF3N1Ycoci6U5aU3Jc75kBSzWbZEFAd
5Cqey7db4JwUAdGZHY93SAuQvqRhHrGkSQQS5pUgrREp95Q1
5DF8kcGFECwudxAhT1WYuWA5oTgwNAQ2rfgmAGmWLo3xEKrd

**A huge thank you to everyone who has helped us with testing so far on Rococo, you rocked! However, due to Rococo doing a runtime upgrade, the stats were skewed and we will not be able to announce any new winners today/ tomorrow.

📢New PolkaFoundry staking pool has been LIVE on MANTRADAO and pool staking rewards started accruing yesterday!

📌Join here: app.mantradao.com/staking

📌Staking $PKF will increase the chance of winning IDO slots on projects launching on PolkaFoundry: https://forum.polkafoundry.com/t/pkf-is-now-available-on-mantra-dao-staking/113

🌷Spread the word: https://twitter.com/polkafoundry/status/1381079539846053888?s=21

🚩PolkaFoundry partners with Chainlink to integrate Oracle Feeds in DeFi dApp Ecosystem.

PolkaFoundry is integrating with Chainlink — a market-leading decentralized oracle network connecting smart contracts to real world data — to bring reliable, transparent, and trusted off-chain data to dApps in the PolkaFoundry ecosystem.

Chainlink’s Price Feed Oracles will provide reliable high quality data to smart contracts to support real time data exchanges in DeFi and other applications.

The integration of Chainlink decentralized data oracles is another way PolkaFoundry is making it easier for interoperable blockchains to interact and exchange more value by making DeFi and other applications frictionless.

By supporting high quality connections and off-chain data flows, both PolkaFoundry and Chainlink are advancing their efforts to make cross-chain connectivity seamless and intuitive for users.

🔹Full article

🎉Spread the word

Announcing the winners of the PolkaFoundry Meme Contest

We are super excited to share that the PolkaFoundry Meme Contest witnessed immense creativity and participation from the community.

After several closely evaluating the entries, we are ready with the results.

The Twitter handles of the winners are as follows:

1. @RiggiNardiansy2
2. @Iway_Crypto
3. @AbahAbyan
4. @DuyAnh151099
5. @CryptoProGOAT
6. @MeanDoYouWhat2
7. @denzypaulito
8. @0xthu
9. @daniel_mingoa
10. @MIkbaler

Congratulations to all the winners 🔥🔥

The winners are required to DM on the official PolkaFoundry Twitter account with their TRC20 addresses to claim the rewards.

We will be coming up with exciting things ahead✨

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1381981798796775424?s=20

We're happy to announce the next group of winners for yesterday's Daily Lucky Draw 🎊🎁

The addresses below will receive $10 USDT for their contributions testing PolkaFoundry in our bid for a Rococo #parachain

5EKraPo6rdr5wxH1QaLJTBXmJt1otJtPcs8y2EH8dsdGXtAG
5C4vB8KpM49XwVQgQPwdNGGqmsxy5pZMtwvnJzLf9HQn9Pox
5DfbddvuvceoDswwg21bPozoSmV32xvGdud7NDAyWdwH4ag3
5HNn4fkkudKvD8GGh8kFepSaCT79uLaF2DZUetJHmjq7Fmcb
5H4Erb4FHhN4vfBczcE3PjvQQasQ7XSEvh35C1pPzq2bzXkq

**A huge thank you to everyone who has helped us with testing, we love you! In order to accomplish our goals we need your consistent support in testing and participation, especially as we bid for Kusama and Polkadot Parachains.

📌PolkaFoundry Weekly Community Update 05-11 April 2021

🔹PolkaFoundry Core
- Started coding the crowdloan reward.
- Researched zkSync application to make layer 2 for PolkaFoundry parachain.
- Created docker-compose for Chainlink. The Compose file provides a way to document and configure all of the application’s service dependencies. Using the Compose command-line tool you can create and start one or more containers for each dependency with a single command (docker-compose up).
- Get token price data from smart contract Chainlink.
- Researched Kubernetes (K8s) to manage images docker. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

🔹Cooperation
- Tidal provides DeFi insurance coverage to PolkaFoundry ecosystem and dApps.
- Apron’s decentralized services node network for web 3.0 to integrate with PolkaFoundry.

🔹Community Event
- PolkaFoundry has won a bid to become a parachain on Rococo testnet.
- The program to call for the community to contribute ROC, to support the PolkaFoundry experiment on the testnet on Rococo Parachain was launched on April 6, 2021. As of April 9, 2021, PolkaFoundry had received ROC 65,000 from community contributions. In order for the Rococo API to be updated, the program was suspended for 2 days April 10–11, 2021, and started again from April 12, 2021.
- Introducing PEX exchange demo — A port of Uniswap on PolkaFoundry testnet.
- $PKF is now available on MANTRA DAO staking

🎉 More details: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/weekly-community-update-05-april-2021-11-april-2021-ea332c8f8410

🎉Spread the word: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1382178128819224577?s=20

💥Plethori Pledges to Build Polkadot version of its ETF Trading System on PolkaFoundry

PolkaFoundry is pleased to announce a partnership with the Plethori Protocol to bring the full advantages of Polkadot’s interoperable and scalable infrastructure to decentralized exchange traded funds (ETFs). Partnership benefits include:

- Plethori will build the Polkadot version of its decentralized cross-chain investment platform on PolkaFoundry to bring PolkaFoundry’s user-friendly environment including UX-enabling and DeFi-friendly solutions to Plethori investors.
- PolkaFoundry will be included in the first Plethori trustless ETF, alongside Polis, Kylin and other platforms, expanding its investor base through Plethori’s ETF investment universe.
- Plethora users will enjoy seamless trading across the cross-chain ETF investment platform supported by PolkaFoundry’s user friendly features — including UX, identify management and DeFi features — across a user-optimized, interoperable environment.

The PolkaFoundry-Plethori partnership is an example of how Layer 2 platforms built on Substrate — the flexible framework providing the modular building blocks to develop scalable blockchains — are bringing new unparalleled functionality to DeFi. With the limits of scalability, siloed systems, and failure of centralized systems removed, ETF investors can take full advantage of a fast, interchain trading environment.

Details: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/polkafoundry-partners-with-plethori-to-support-seamless-etf-trading-on-plethoris-cross-chain-etf-8b9c703d8d98

Spread the news: https://twitter.com/polkafoundry/status/1382337591224111108?s=21

The final Daily Lucky Draw winners are here!

The addresses below will receive $10 USDT for their contributions testing $PKF in our Rococo bid yesterday.

**The final jackpot will be announced tomorrow after carefully evaluating with our tech team for total $ROC raised 🎁

5E7KJXqnYxCY7hLBd82tjiV1kWRfPNEQAAJNUzx6vfsHMq4f
5H6a6aH9hTo9U2zg4qArBLr2vjeqBzBJTaJ21UFXKBPdYEA3
5FtEorW1q3Wp2aqjewVsMWKdyDihtAa6KMzkYWqfBwDKMhTt
5DHwQHJVZxj1L9NabyLwXXUrJ2rRsEnv5ezKBT85ovrQKLrW
5HmC9zZzTbzQSjKBmxX2ggNjTTpbmVRCRPtQfZHsUykak4MJ

Thank you for your support so far, you've been amazing! Let's keep testing and refining the PolkaFoundry platform as we onboard new and exciting projects ⚡️

We're excited to announce we have reached our goal of 100,000 $ROC 🙌🎉

The amount of support we have received from our community is SO encouraging. If we keep contributing and growing, there will be no limit to our success and abilities in upcoming Kusama and Polkadot Auctions. Keep it up!

💰The jackpot value is $100 USDT & the winner is:
5Gjt4veimurJDRuosjtJnrHFVEwATGyx19joRbxLApKu2MLE

**We're sending rewards to all winners of this event but unable to send amounts under $10 to ERC20 wallets. We need ALL daily winners to DM their BEP20 or TRC20 wallet along with their ERC20 wallet (which is registered in the form) by using their registered Telegram or Twitter acc.

Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1382719759284801537?s=20

🚩Phala to Provide Scalable, Privacy-Preserving Cross-chain Transactions for DeFi dApps and NFTs on PolkaFoundry

PolkaFoundry is delighted to announce its partnership with Phala to introduce cross-chain privacy-preserving tra
nsactions for DeFi and NFTs to the PolkaFoundry ecosystem.
—PolkaFoundry will complement its UX and other user-friendly features for DeFi dApps by adding cross-chain transactions with Phala for scalable and privacy-preserving execution.
—The Phala Network’s hybrid architecture will offer high-performance, composable smart contracts providing privacy, confidentiality, and compliance as a Polkadot parachain.
—dApps on PolkaFoundry will be able to execute faster, privacy-preserving transactions on public and private blockchains without leaking sensitive data.

Details: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/phala-to-provide-scalable-privacy-preserving-cross-chain-transactions-for-defi-dapps-and-nfts-on-fe65603bd4fe

Sharing: https://twitter.com/polkafoundry/status/1383058246026493955?s=21

PolkaFoundry's $PKF Token Distribution For Seed & Private Rounds Investors 🔥

All great effort is paid off well. Now it is time to claim your shares at https://distro.polkafoundry.com/

Read the detailed guide here: https://forum.polkafoundry.com/t/polkafoundrys-pkf-token-distribution-for-seed-private-rounds-investors/127

PKF tokens are released linearly every Ethereum block so basically, you can claim your tokens anytime✨
No longer rolling out monthly token release events.

The first distribution at the time of the listing is not shown in the distro page.

We're excited to announce the Polkadot Blockchain Development Association (PBDA) along with Rikkeisoft, Ekoios, & Sota Tek as founding members along with +2k devs 🙌🎆

The PBDA will invest in R&D for large, high-quality dev resources specializing in building decentralized apps in the $PKF ecosystem 🌏

According to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed last week, all four companies will contribute both human and technical resources to find, train, and build a team of high-quality developers🤘

⚡️The team will actively work as a part of the developer hub for new blockchain projects being created in the Polkadot ecosystem as a whole or in the PolkaFoundry platform specifically.

PolkaFoundry, Rikkeisoft, Sota Tek, and Ekoios have agreed to form a team of at least 50 qualified developers (during Q2/2021), who will be trained by professionals and technical experts from each of the four companies. 🤓

The PBDA is an exciting step towards growing a robust and effective blockchain ecosystem & we couldn't be more excited to see where this takes us! ✨

Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1384161162393124872?s=20

Full Medium read: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/polkafoundry-rikkeisoft-sota-tek-and-ekoios-join-forces-for-the-association-of-researching-and-825c08229ffc

Red Kite by PolkaFoundry 🔥

We are super-excited to announce a state of art launchpad, Red Kite by PolkaFoundry 🔥

Bundled with unparalleled features, Red Kite promises to give investors a new and surprising experience of an ordered and assured token sale process.

The first IDO will hit the Red Kite launchpad in the first half of May, launching a high-profile project in parallel with another top-tier launchpad. 🚀

Red Kite is starting as a launchpad, and this is just the beginning. It will transform into a platform offering a full suite of DeFi services in the future.

The smart contract is currently going through the audit process, and the team will soon provide an update once the audit is complete. 🔥

Stay tuned for more updates.

🔗 https://redkite.polkafoundry.com

📚Read more details:https://medium.com/polkafoundry/introduction-red-kite-a-cutting-edge-launchpad-by-polkafoundry-51707a446eea

👉Spread the word:https://twitter.com/polkafoundry/status/1384510870693154819?s=21

This past week has been dizzyingly productive, and we are happy to share our weekly report on all of the progress:

• Partnerships with Chainlink, Plethori, & Phala Network
• Creation of the Polkadot Blockchain Development Association (PBDA), giving us access to over 2,000 high quality developers for blockchain technical development & research
• Successful Rococo auction (you guys rocked, thank you so much for the testing support!)

We also want to thank you for your creativity in the meme contest, as well as provide more details for upcoming AMAs and events that you can participate in.

We are really catching some momentum, and we look forward to your continued support on the Kusama & Polkadot auctions!

$PKF

See our full Medium post here👇
https://medium.com/polkafoundry/polkafoundry-weekly-community-update-during-12-18-april-2021-494a7e2eec0

This past week was so busy that we weren't able to summarize everything in the Weekly Community Update that we posted yesterday.

We have our TestNet ready and successfully claimed our parachain slot on Rococo TestNet ✅

We will auction for Kusama and Polkadot parachains when that features open ⭐️

Many projects have pledged to build on PolkaFoundry: Mantra DAO, Genesis Shards, PolkaRare, Plethori, SigmaDEX, and a number of other projects that we are unable to mention yet 🤫

Projects are currently building on PolkaFoundry: NFTify, AngelDEX

Partners signed: Chainlink, Orion Protocol, DuckDAO, Kylin, Paralink, Tidal, Plethori, Genesis Shards, Apron, etc.

We are also backed by a big blockchain developer hub to support projects to build/port to PolkaFoundry. This is a HUGE step that will make a big difference for our development!
https://medium.com/polkafoundry/polkafoundry-rikkeisoft-sota-tek-and-ekoios-join-forces-for-the-association-of-researching-and-825c08229ffc

Lastly, we are just launching our own launchpad which will certainly boost the utility for our token:
https://redkite.polkafoundry.com

Website: https://polkafoundry.com
One pager: https://docsend.com/view/mdwibmzhm83vb8ps
Token metrics: https://docsend.com/view/jn4gucwaqvyqujeb
Deck: https://docsend.com/view/jpf4fh82yd97n4ij

Raze Network Brings Privacy-Preserving DeFi to the PolkaFoundry Ecosystem by employing zkSNARKs to the Zether framework

Developers can now add DeFi privacy building block to Polkadot dApps

Do you want to exploit cross-chain DeFi across a limitless combination of composable products, but are worried about protecting your privacy? To support privacy across the entire DeFi ecosystem, PolkaFoundry is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the Raze Network, a substrate-based cross-chain privacy protocol for DeFi and Web 3.0. Under the partnership agreement:

Raze Network will bring its privacy-preserving middleware powered by its advanced zero-knowledge proofs to the PolkaFoundry ecosystem.
The PolkaFoundry production hub for dApps will support the seamless implementation of a universal plug-and-play private DeFi infrastructure for Polkadot.
DeFi users will be able to securely and anonymously take advantage of cross-chain DeFi opportunities while ensuring financial information is not exposed online or on-chain.

Through the PolkaFoundry-Raze Network partnership, dApp developers can add a critical privacy layer while building frictionless, borderless DeFi solutions on PolkaFoundry. Both teams have committed to exploring other privacy solutions to support cross-chain DeFi applications in the future.

Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1384875036004212738?s=20

Full Medium article: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/raze-network-brings-privacy-preserving-defi-to-the-polkafoundry-ecosystem-by-employing-zksnarks-to-46eb1b20938

⭐️PolkaFoundry Advisor Spotlight – Eric Su, CEO, Exnetwork Capital

For our latest Advisor Spotlight, we are delighted to highlight Eric Su, CEO of Exnetwork. Eric is one of PolkaFoundry's highly valued advisors, bringing immense expertise as an accomplished serial entrepreneur in markets of key strategic importance.

In DeFi, Exnetwork is an investor in CoinMarketCap top 50 projects, including cross-chain swap network THORchain and crypto derivative exchange FTX, as well as other top coins including Celsius (CEL) and Reef Finance (REEF).

Furthermore, Exnetwork also has direct investment ties with the Polkadot multi-chain. The company's portfolio includes cross-chain token launchpad Polkastarter and liquidity aggregator Reef Finance.

Hence we relished the opportunity to take into account Eric’s views on the role of PolkaFoundry in the development of DeFi dApps for an interoperable future.

Be sure to catch the interview in our latest Advisor Spotlight.

🤓 Full Medium Article: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/polkafoundry-advisor-spotlight-eric-su-ceo-exnetwork-capital-3b88a9a2e239

🐦 Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1385234511039016961?s=20

ORAO Oracles to Create Customized Data Products on PolkaFoundry 🔰

We are pleased to announce our partnership with the ORAO Network, an oracle service for custom data feeds, to provide dApps building on PolkaFoundry a data gateway to virtually any blockchain 🌐

As native Polkadot chains, the partners will leverage their interoperability to fulfill the following commitments:

✅PolkaFoundry will integrate ORAO’s oracles into its one-stop production hub for DeFi dApps building on Polkadot
✅ORAO’s oracles will provide dApps with access to cross-chain and external data at high speed in real-time
✅DApps will be able to expand their DeFi and NFT-market use cases through new data products developed for PolkaFoundry

The PolkaFoundry-ORAO partnership supports the goals of both projects to advance interoperability among blockchains. The partners will cooperate on the development of custom data solutions to meet the evolving requirements of dApps. ORAO data providers will support these efforts by curating custom data solutions for any requirements.

We are excited to see where the this partnership takes us as our ecosystem continues to grow- particularly for DeFi &NFTs ✨

Full Medium article: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/orao-network-to-create-customized-data-products-for-polkafoundry-20f2e6c93436

🐦 Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1387065006248837134?s=20

We are excited to announce a partnership with NFTify, the Shopify for NFTs designed for the digital content world powered by Polkadot🔥

🔗Under the purview of the partnership,
PolkaFoundry will provide NFTify with the support to operate on Polkadot.

The NFT stores deploying on NFTify will be able to create powerful NFT stores without coding with the benefit of many PolkaFoundry add-on features and interoperability with other Polkadot chains and dApps👩‍💻

The partnership with NFTify will result in greater adoption of NFTs leveraging PolkaFoundry dApp production engine⚡

Read more: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/nftify-to-integrate-nft-marketplaces-into-polkadot-using-polkafoundry-one-stop-dapp-factory-cfcfef33a530

Spread the word:https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1387682363996393477

We're pleased to announce a new partnership with Pinknode, a node-as-a-service solutions provider for the Polkadot protocol 💠

They will support our immediate deployment & optimization of the network of apps running on PolkaFoundry 🛡

As blockchain platforms rapidly grow, they face technical, time, and cost issues scaling up blockchain node networks to meet higher resource demands.

Under the partnership, the parties have committed to the following:

✅PolkaFoundry has appointed PinkNode as its key node provider. As such, Pinknode will provide infrastructure support to all projects building on PolkaFoundry.

✅The PolkaFoundry network will utilize Pinknode's secure and reliable node infrastructure as its backbone.

✅PinkNode will collaborate with PolkaFoundry on node research and development initiatives to support the PF developer platform for DeFi and NFT apps.

The PolkaFoundry-Pinknode partnership meets the commitment of both parties to streamlining the onboarding process and supporting the smooth operations of projects on the Polkadot network.

Full Medium article: https://medium.com/polkafoundry/pinknode-to-provide-nodes-as-a-service-to-polkafoundry-dapps-and-ecosystem-93875296f366

🐦Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PolkaFoundry/status/1388147559110225928?s=20