Astar is flourishing in a vibrant ecosystem, leading the way in international corporate acceptance and consumer enthusiasm for Web3 technologies. The recent introduction of the Astar zkEVM mainnet, created in partnership with Polygon Labs, is expanding its cross-chain functionalities and addressing adoption and scalability hurdles. Additionally, Astar zkEVM stands out as the initial chain to incorporate Polygon AggLayer.

Alchemy Pay’s On-Ramp offers broad compatibility with different cryptocurrencies, allowing smooth fiat-based transactions. Operating in 173 countries worldwide, Alchemy Pay guarantees widespread access to purchasing cryptocurrencies through a variety of payment methods. These methods range from traditional choices like Visa and Mastercard to modern options such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as localized mobile wallets and domestic transfers. By utilizing a network of more than 300 local payment channels, Alchemy Pay expands beyond standard credit cards, granting users access to local mobile wallets for a seamless checkout process.

Moreover, Alchemy Pay actively pursues and secures licenses for payment and financial services to better serve users in various countries and regions. This proactive strategy enhances regulatory compliance and security measures. In March, Alchemy Pay acquired its third Money Transmitter License in the United States, complementing its existing five regulatory licenses encompassing Canada, Europe, Indonesia, and the United States. Furthermore, Alchemy Pay has received recognition from industry giants Visa and Mastercard, reinforcing its position as an accredited third-party payment service provider.

What is Astar Network

Astar Network facilitates projects in enterprises, entertainment, and gaming in Japan and globally, promoting web3 adoption with blockchain solutions. It utilizes Polygon and Polkadot technology for interoperable solutions, including zkEVM for Ethereum Layer 2 Scaling.

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Leveraging this expertise, Astar Foundation is committed to developing innovative products that will enable billions to enter web3 by working with NTT Digital and Astar technology.

NTT Digital was established by NTT DoCoMo, one of the largest Japanese telecommunications companies. It is an entity dedicated to providing a safe and accessible environment for businesses as well as individuals looking to build in web3.

This partnership will focus on the following two areas:

• Web3 Talent — Both companies recognize that talent is a crucial factor hindering mass adoption. To address the growing demand for Web3 professionals, including engineers and business leaders, Astar Foundation and NTT Digital will collaborate to support individuals considering a career in the Web3 domain. Their initiatives will include skill development programs. Offering opportunities to gain practical experience, and creating a collaborative community where web3 talent and companies can come together.
• Technical Infrastructure Enhancement — Web3 continues in a nascent stage while innovating at a rapid pace. This presents new unexplored opportunities as well as challenges. Questions around price volatility, cybersecurity, and the prevention of fraud are crucial for businesses. Astar Foundation and NTT Digital will combine their expertise to create the tools. Measures necessary to enhance security, combat fraud and create an experience that builds trust, as new users continue to enter Astar Network.

“We’re excited to partner with NTT Digital, who bring decades of experience in building tech infrastructure to drive adoption and innovation. Together, we will empower individuals and businesses to embrace the potential of Web3, enabling a more inclusive, decentralized future.”—Sota Watanabe, Founder of Astar Foundation

ABOUT Astar Foundation

The Astar Foundation is one of many entities in the Astar ecosystem. It is currently the main contributor and maintainer of the Astar Network Source Code. The Foundation deploys resources to expand Astar Network through partnerships, community activities, hiring developers, awarding grants, supporting projects, and other initiatives.

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NTT Digital, established by NTT DoCoMo. It is a global web3 enabler dedicated to creating a safe and accessible environment for individuals and businesses to leverage Web3 and blockchain technologies.

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Astar Network is the TVL Smart Contract Hub for WASM + EVM on Polkadot. Since winning its Parachain auction in January 2022, Astar Network has become the top Parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem in Total Value Locked and most Ethereum assets transferred over.

Astar Network is the leading smart contract hub that connects the Polkadot ecosystem to Ethereum, Cosmos, and all significant layer 1 blockchains. Furthermore, Astar Network supports dApps using multiple virtual machines — WASM and EVM — and offers the best technology solutions and financial incentives via its #Build2Earn and Astar Incubation Program for Web3 developers to build on top of a secure, scalable, and interoperable blockchain.

What is staking dApps?

For great dApps to be built, developers need to build them. For developers to build great dApps, they need financial incentives. That’s where dApp staking comes in.

On the Astar/Shiden Network, dApp staking is how developers who build dApps can get compensated. By having an income, developers can keep building and improving their dApps.

At its core, dApp staking is similar to staking on validators. The difference is that dApp stakers — also known as nominators — can nominate their Astar tokens on dApps they want to support.

At every block, a portion of the rewards goes to dApp staking. This reward is then divided between operators (developers) and nominators. Overall, this creates a powerful incentive for developers to build dApps on Astar and for nominators to support developers via dApp staking.

In addition,when building on other blockchains, dApp developers need to apply for grant programs, issue tokens, and fundraise to earn money. Not only that, they often need to pay steep gas fees.

On Astar, as long as a dApp has been nominated, developers can receive a basic income. Moreover, as a dApp grows in popularity, more members of the community nominate the dApp, and this, in turn, enables the developers who built the dApp to receive a greater percentage of the block reward

ABOUT SiO2 Finance

SiO2 Finance is the multi-VM lending hub on Astar for Polkadot. We aim to become the best lending product with excellent user experience, easy-to-use one-click features, and transparent governance.

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The two companies will work together to formulate solutions using Web3 technology to various issues facing modern society, such as regional development and addressing environmental problems.

Web3 is a next-generation web that utilizes blockchain technology and incorporates mechanisms such as “decentralization” and “token economy”. The expansion of Web3 is expected to solve issues and create economic blocs. That has been difficult to realize using conventional economic principles alone.

On the other hand, Web3 is still in its early stages of technological development, and issues such as lack of awareness, difficulty in understanding how to use it, and lack of a secure environment for its use are also becoming apparent. By combining DOCOMO’s knowledge with Astar Network’s technology and operational know-how, we aim to resolve these issues.

Astar Network supports dApps using multiple virtual machines — namely WASM and EVM — and offers the best technology solutions and financial incentives via its Build2Earn and Astar Incubation Program for Web3 developers to build on top of a secure, scalable, and interoperable blockchain.

ABOUT Astar Network

Astar Network is the #1 TVL Smart Contract Hub for WASM + EVM on Polkadot. Since winning its Parachain auction in January 2022, Astar Network has become the top Parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem. Total Value Locked and most Ethereum assets transferred over. Astar Network is the leading smart contract hub. Connects the Polkadot ecosystem to Ethereum, Cosmos, and all major layer 1 blockchains.

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Astar dApp Staking Portal V2 is Live! DApp staking is one of the easiest ways to participate in their ecosystem and support the ethos of a decentralized network that grows with the community. The portal page is the shared space of the close-knit community; the first meeting point where users, stakers, and developers directly interact with each other. Here, users can explore the dApps of their ecosystem–DeFi, NFTs, Tooling, and Utility. You, as a user, can choose your favorite dApp to use and become a dApp staker by supporting your favorite projects. Both dApp stakers and developers receive ASTR inflation rewards. An economic relationship is created that incentivizes stakers to financially support our number 1 human asset: developers.

What we were missing?

While dApp staking offers the benefits of financial incentives and creating a developer-centered architecture, the portal interface hasn’t delivered this in the most user-friendly way. We are at a point in our journey where staking must be a great user experience. Our portal needs to encourage user participation and improve everyone’s understanding of dApp staking. DApp staking portal v2 now improves staking information, user experience, and portal functionality.

There will be several stages to complete the full rollout of v2. We will announce new features and UI as they are added. Once complete we will have an intuitive page with clear information that better connects the community of stakers to dApp developers. Below we will walk you through this first batch of new features, and then share what we are adding over the upcoming months to complete v2.

The Portal Page V2 — MVP

Three areas of the portal page have been developed to address the limitations mentioned above: user panel, projects page, and the staking page.

1. New User Panel

Staking Metrics

At the top of the page you’ll notice a new header that clearly highlights the major metrics that are important to stakers:

• TVL in dApp staking
• Current era
• Staking APR
• Total dApps whitelisted for dApp staking

These four metrics will continue to track the evolution of our networks.

Developer Incentives are now displayed to clearly communicate to new builders about the portion of inflation rewards directed to our dApps. That currently sits at 287,712 ASTR each era (roughly every 24 hours)!

User Panel

There are three tabs in your User Panel:

• My Rewards: staking details, including total rewards earned
• Unbonding: a list of ASTR that are currently unbonding
• My dApps: a single list with all nominated dApps and management functions to add or reallocate staked assets

2. New Projects Page

Projects Page

The new Projects Page is designed to aggregate all the important information about a dApp into one spot, including:

• Important dApp-specific graphics
• Staking information (number of stakers and total staked)
• Builders bio for the team
• Project-specific information (socials, official links, & basic dApp architecture)

Each project on the portal staking page can share important messages and general information. Sharing this publicly makes it easier for users and stakers to learn about the dApp’s products and keep up-to-date about the project’s goals and achievements. Ultimately, the projects page is a way for dApps to build trust with the community by sharing their progress and improving transparency.

3. Improved Staking Page

The portal Staking Page now displays links to help everyone navigate our ecosystem; we will highlight the most useful tutorials and videos for you. Additionally, the new staking page will promote the developers that contribute to the network. In addition to providing the UI that allows you to easily support developers via staking, we want the portal to celebrate the hard-working projects found on Astar and Shiden.

Finally, you will see our dApps grouped into four categories: DeFi, NFTs, Tooling, and Utility. It will be easier to find a new dApp project on the portal.

Future Improvements

Over the upcoming months we’ll add additional features and UI elements to improve clarity and enhance the usability of the staking page. Three major updates to look out for are:

1. Visualization of Dynamic Inflation

Providing a visual of the network’s current distribution of inflation rewards (see example below). Currently, the portion of rewards that is shared between the treasury and stakers is dynamic, meaning these rewards fluctuate based on the TVL and other parameters of the network. With the addition of this visualization, stakers can better understand the inflation structure of ASTR/SDN directly on the portal staking page. No digging through docs or polkadot.js.

2. Enhanced Staking Functionality.

Staking should be a painless and enjoyable process. Both Astar and Shiden stakers will have the option to easily Rebond their tokens that are unbonding from a staked dApp. It’s a small feature that will give you more flexibility and greater control of your assets.

They are also excited to introduce a new feature to the Shiden community, thanks to their XCM integration with Oak’s Turing Network: Autostaking. Autostaking through Turing will be the first example of using XCM for a non-token transfer use case on their network. Long-term Shiden stakers will no longer have to log in weekly to claim and restake their rewards. Just stake, set to autostaking, and receive rewards. Final details on this feature will be released once live.

Of course, they will bring autostaking to their Astar stakers shortly after.

3. Customized Design.

This feature is fun. They  will be able to customize the portal display. So, yes… we can celebrate holidays and events from across the world: Christmas or Japanese New Year? Though I vote for Oktoberfest! Most importantly, we can further highlight the builders of Astar–our dApps and their current events will be displayed and promoted on the portal.

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Astar Network — The Future of Smart Contracts for Multichain. Supports the building of dApps with EVM and WASM smart contracts and offers developers true interoperability, with cross-consensus messaging (XCM).

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Astar Network is the TVL Smart Contract Hub for WASM + EVM on Polkadot. Since winning its Parachain auction in January 2022, Astar Network has become the top Parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem in Total Value Locked and most Ethereum assets transferred over.

Astar Network is the leading smart contract hub that connects the Polkadot ecosystem to Ethereum, Cosmos, and all major layer 1 blockchains. Astar Network supports dApps using multiple virtual machines — namely WASM and EVM — and offers the best technology solutions and financial incentives via its #Build2Earn and Astar Incubation Program for Web3 developers to build on top of a secure, scalable, and interoperable blockchain.

What is dApp staking?

For developers to build great dApps, they need financial incentives. That’s where dApp staking comes in.

On the Astar/Shiden Network, dApp staking is how developers who build dApps can get rewards. By having an income, developers can keep building and improving their dApps.

At its core, dApp staking is similar to staking on validators. The difference is that dApp stakers — also known as nominators — can nominate their Astar tokens on dApps they want to support.

At every block, a portion of the rewards goes to dApp staking. This reward divides into operators (developers) and nominators. Overall, this creates a powerful incentive for developers to build dApps on Astar and for nominators to support developers via dApp staking.

In addition, when building on other blockchains, dApp developers need to apply for grant programs, issue tokens, and fundraise to earn money. Not only that, they often need to pay steep gas fees.

Moreover, on Astar, as long as a dApp nominates, developers can receive a basic income. As a dApp grows in popularity, more members of the community nominate the dApp, and this, in turn, enables the developers who built the dApp to receive a greater percentage of the block reward.

How to use dApp staking

1: Buy ASTR Tokens

• Get your hands on some Astar tokens $ASTR.
• You can buy them on Binance, BKEX, and OKX.
• The full list of markets can be found here: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/astar

2: Create a Substrate-based Wallet

• To learn how to create a Substrate-based wallet
• Please click the link below: https://polkadot.js.org/extension/

3: Go to Astar Portal and Connect Your Wallet

• When you have the ASTR tokens go to the portal: https://portal.astar.network/
• Connect your wallet to Astar Network.
• Click on ‘Store’ and look for our project: Zenlink.
  

4: Add Your Staking Amount

• You can click on a project to know more about the smart contract used for dApp staking.
• To add your staking amount, just click on ‘Stake’ in the box and sign with your wallet on Polkadot.js extension.

 5: Add, Unstake, or Claim

• Once you have staked your tokens you can do three things: add, unstake, or claim.

1. Add: to stake more, you can add more ASTR in dApp staking.
2. Unstake: to unstake, you can claim your ASTR back.
3. Claim: (top of page): claim your rewards from all dApps you staked on. Every ERA you can claim for your rewards, but we recommend doing this once every week.

Furthermore, dApp staking is a unique differentiator that only Astar and Shiden have in the Polkadot ecosystem. As developers, Zenlink has chosen to build on Astar because this gives them the opportunity to earn tokens while building out their product.

ABOUT Zenlink

Zenlink is an underlying cross-chain DEX protocol base on Polkadot and commits to becoming the DEX composable hub of Polkadot.

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Astar is the largest smart contract platform in the Polkadot ecosystem, supporting both Wasm and EVM. While providing native access to the Polkadot ecosystem through its parachain slot, Astar also has bridges into other major ecosystems, including Ethereum, BSC, Cosmos, Polygon, and more.

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By accessing the ultimate, open, and universal cross-chain DEX protocol based on Substrate, Zenlink DEX Protocol enables all parachains to build DEX and achieve liquidity sharing in one click. Zenlink DEX Protocol also includes Module, WASM, and EVM implementations, which are flexible and adaptable, allowing for customizable compositions and interoperability with different DeFi modules.

In addition, the Zenlink DEX Aggregator connects all DEX DApps on Polkadot and aggregates liquidity. It also provides users with a low slippage trading experience. Furthermore, Zenlink DEX Composable Hub enables developers to access the Zenlink DEX Module to build their unique DEXs, forming a DEX composable hub for the Polkadot ecosystem.

Moreover, Zenlink has received 2 rounds of Web3 Foundation Grants and investments from well-known institutions such as Alameda Research, Hashkey, IOSG, as well as OKX Blockdream Ventures, and Hypersphere.

Currently, Zenlink is live on Bifrost, Moonriver, and Moonbeam, and Astar is the next primary parachain it plans to integrate.

Zenlink Tokenomics

Moreover, Zenlink will issue only one set of ZLK tokens on both the Kusama and Polkadot networks. With a maximum supply of 100 million. In both networks, a 40% and 60% distribution ratio. For example,  40% of the tokens (40m ZLK) will be issued on the Kusama network and 60% of the tokens (60m ZLK) will be issued on the Polkadot network.
(plan to distribute the remaining 10M ZLK on the Astar network)

General Functions

Zenlink planning to deploy the full functions of Zenlink to Astar Network, which include:

• Hybrid AMM: inspires by Curve and Uniswap
• Smart Router: it can calculate the best swap routine for users.
• LP Farming & Staking: LPs can deposit their LP tokens into the contract to earn incentives after supplying liquidity to farming pools. Staking refers to the single token deposit, e.g. ZLK staking.
• Trade Minning: Zenlink gives certain incentives to traders who perform high-value swap transactions.

As the first native cross-chain DEX protocol base on Polkadot. Zenlink was use widely by the dotsama community on several parachains. This time, they want to bring Zenlink to the Astar Network. In this manner, users of the Astar Network can have the same great experience.

Furthermore, deploying Zenlink to the Astar network will not only provide a smooth and validated DeFi platform on the Astar network. It also helps the entire Astar ecosystem grow, but Astar users will also connect to other parachain ecosystems through Zenlink.

ABOUT Zenlink
Zenlink is the one-stop shop for trading Polkadot assets, the DEX Composable Hub between all parachains.

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