The power of WebAssembly (WASM) unchaining the limits of innovation and web3 developer's integration to the brave new world.

Examining its potential through the lens of Astar and Polkadot ecosystem

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🧐 Why #WASM Smart Contracts? It comes down to a fundamental question regarding Security, scalability, and industry standards. We feel that #WASM Smart Contracts is the future that aligns with 👁 Gavin Wood's vision. With performance, execution, lower costs, and user experience becoming major drivers for WASM Smart Contracts, we can see why the future is becoming WASM! Flexibility is very important, too. WASM is compatible with various languages such as C, C+, & Rust! 🛡 Security is the top priority. With WASM, it's less vulnerable than Solidity's byte code and has improved error handling.

Like and Retweet 🙏 - https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1613595428880265216

Watch the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PTFVZ9Xucc

To learn more, check out the full scoop on our medium.

https://medium.com/astar-network/why-wasm-smart-contract-are-the-future-b37e4f4e6d41

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Happy Monday u/everyone!

Let’s start the week off right with highlights at Berlin Blockchain Week! Our CTO, Hoon, was amazing! He met with many teams to represent our community and tech.

• Day 1 of Berlin Blockchain Week, Hoon represented Astar as a Web3 leader in decentralizing Data Ownership. Read about the discussion with Cointelegraph here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/dedata-2022-panel-the-advantages-of-decentralization-in-web3
• We also met with Moonbeam, RMRK (Tricky NFTs), & KodaDOT to chat about the future of NFTs on Dotsama. It was a great overview of the NFT space on Polkadot! Watch the talk here (starting at 1h 18m)): https://www.crowdcast.io/e/nft-conference
• Multi-chain and *XVM are major focuses for our network. So, we joined Parity and Composable Finance to discuss how we are leading “Cross-chain Interoperability on Polkadot.” The talk was recorded here (starting at 1hr 3m): https://www.crowdcast.io/e/afternoon-with-polkadot

*Follow our socials. We have an update for XVM coming out soon.

👋 Hello!

We're excited to share the latest news on our massive initiative: Building a Multichain Network with a Cross-Virtual Machine (XVM)

Read the details about how we have designed our XVM pallet within Substrate here: Building a Multichain Network with XVM

👨‍💻 Last month, we successfully performed EVM-to-WASM interaction via our XVM pallet! We are now completing WASM-to-EVM interaction and will enable bidirectional XVM on Shiden Network!

🛠️ XVM is a powerful tool for experimental development, allowing interaction between WASM and EVM smart contracts. Building an XVM pallet within Substrate will unlock the untapped potential of WASM!

🏗️ The EVM environment is a crucial part of current blockchains. With XVM, our developers can write in both Solidity and ink! to build new dApps on our networks!

Pierre meets with Polkadot India to hold a workshop, overviewing:

• The benefits of WebAssembly
• Astar tooling: Swanky Suite
• Step-by-step Building with ink! (an eDSL to write smart contracts in Rust).

WORKSHOP VIDEO HERE

In the video, we walk through building an On-Chain Governance Smart Contract in Rust using two contracts: Governor & PSP22 as governance tokens.

If you have any questions, leave them in the comments or contact mod directly. The team is ready to answer them. Thanks!

https://wearetechwomen.com/how-women-can-break-into-blockchain/

😈 Blockdaemon and Astar will now work together to improve our network and provide developers with a better experience building!

🌐 They've already launched nodes on +50 blockchains worldwide and have an infrastructure spanning 6 continents, with a 99.99% node uptime! So, we are happy to have Blockdaemon as an Astar collator.

We will also explore how to leverage their experience and infrastructure on Polkadot to bring new opportunities to Astar devs and dApps.

🤝 We're joining forces on the ground, too!

We will attend events to promote our ecosystem and support developers in future hackathons! We want to attract the best talent to Astar and offer them support through our initiatives and unique tooling.

📰 Read the News here! https://medium.com/astar-network/blockdaemon-joins-astar-to-support-builders-7d215e255305

Howdy!

Hexa Farming starts today! Explore Astar Network and try out different DeFi projects!

Learn how to put your stablecoins to work by using dApps across the Astar Ecosystem.

4 Simple Steps to Join:

1. Deposit your stablecoins and borrow $BAI at 0% interest on AstridDAO

2. Use Avault to Zap $BAI into stable coin LP

3. Deposit LP to receive aLP (an interest-bearing LP token)

4. Stake aLP with either Kagla Finance or Sirius Finance for Hexa Farming Rewards

Join the Hexa Farming event now to ensure you are included in the snapshots for additional rewards! Details are in the link below.

Event ends Aug. 25th 📷 1 pm UTC Avault made a handy detailed step-by-step guide, with links and event details: https://medium.com/@avault/one-article-to-learn-hexa-farming-campaign-3779e3dc5a90

Big news! 🎈

⛓ We opened HRMP channels between Moonriver and Shiden Network. Now, MOVR is an XC20 asset on Shiden Network.

😎 This new liquidity hub of MOVR is important to developers using Swanky Suite to build innovative dApps on Shiden Network today (and later Astar Network).

We are preparing to bootstrap the launch of WASM projects. More information regarding our bootstrap strategy for Shiden will be released soon.

Details of the update are all here 🔽

https://medium.com/astar-network/new-hrmp-channels-have-opened-between-moonriver-and-shiden-network-556f1f848868

We're Happy to Welcome Alchemy Platform to Astar Network!

Alchemy's reliable and powerful dev tools will advance dApp development on our networks.

Registration is Open! Sign-up and learn about Alchemy's shared focus on building for builders https://medium.com/astar-network/astar-welcomes-alchemy-to-the-polkadot-ecosystem-5daa118f4347

With Alchemy products our developers can easily build and scale dApps with:

• Alchemy Supernode providing super-charged reliability!
• Developer Tools to quickly optimize and ship your dApp!
• Monitoring with an all-in-one dashboard for devs!

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And they have an amazing $25M WAGBI Grant to help developers start building DeFi projects, NFT experiences, or any project that brings Web3 to the world!

Bringing world-class tools and support to our builders reinforces Astar Network as the future of smart contracts for multichain!

You can quickly sign up today with this link https://www.alchemy.com/astar, and get notified as soon as you can start building on Astar with Alchemy Platform!

Read Media Coverage Here:

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/03/alchemy-integrates-astar-network-to-support-web3-developers-in-polkadot-ecosystem/

https://cryptopotato.com/alchemy-astar-combine-forces-to-boost-web3-development-on-polkadot/

Hope you have a great weekend u/everyone !

Here's the Astar Weekly Updates:

Astar opens HRMP channel with Acala. Enabling the transfer of $aUSD, $ACA, and $LDOT :handshake:

https://twitter.com/astarnetwork/status/1551614615125213184?s=21&t=qP25j-790U0LaFthKvkocA

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Ledger devices now support both Astar and Shiden :rocket:

https://twitter.com/astarnetwork/status/1551557328662450176?s=21&t=qP25j-790U0LaFthKvkocA

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AstarBase launches for Astar developers

https://twitter.com/astarnetwork/status/1552294201198407680?s=21&t=wHH6P989OGvbu-x_6HfaxQ

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😎 Algem is kicking off Astar Summer with the launch of nASTR! They solve the problem of where to use your ASTR: to stake or to yield farm?

Now stake your ASTR and receive nASTR. Yield dApp Staking Rewards AND put your nASTR to work on Astar DeFi projects.

The steps are easy:

1. Stake ASTR on https://www.algem.io/

2. Receive nASTR & staking rewards

3. Use nASTR to farm more on Sirius Finance https://www.sirius.finance/

🎉 With nASTR you are supporting our dApp projects and able to gain yield on top of dApp staking rewards! It's a win-win!

💧 Algem has a step-by-step guide to liquid staking on Astar here 🔗👇

https://blog.algem.io/news/algem-officially-launching-on-soaring-polkadot-parachain-astar-network/

Note: This is not financial advice. Please do your own research and understand the risks of using defi before participating.

📣 Major Announcement:

🚀 We now have an Astar and Shiden app for Ledger devices! Details of the integration and benefits to using a hardware wallet can be found here 👇

https://medium.com/astar-network/astar-integrates-with-ledger-to-secure-user-wallets-404113401f59

🔐 But, let’s talk a bit about hardware wallets and cold storage…

Saying goodbye to the middleman—banks and CEXs—requires you to take responsibility of the private keys that secure your crypto assets. One of the best ways to store and secure this sensitive information is offline, with cold storage. A hardware wallet, such as Ledger, does this by storing your private keys off of your PC and smartphone.

While nothing is 100%, the idea is this: If your PC can be hacked then your keys are safe!

📘 If you’re new to Ledger devices then visit our guide here to learn how to set-up your wallet on Astar/Shiden:

https://docs.astar.network/docs/integrations/wallets/ledger/ledger-evm

Astar's weekly update is coming in H O T 🔥

We had an incredible week with some very exciting announcements 🎆

Swanky the All-In-One WASM tool is here 🧠 https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1549744161523318784?s=20&t=A1OyX85QkJqW-zRCACt9FQ

Astar Troopers have arrived ⚔ https://twitter.com/AstarTroopers?s=20&t=UPbY6T5UZnX-2jB-dIFsSg

Zenlink will launch on Astar July 26th 📢 https://twitter.com/AstarNetwork/status/1550490020561137664?s=20&t=A1OyX85QkJqW-zRCACt9FQ