I know that this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but there's a really interesting governance battle ongoing in the Polkadot governance forums right now

Hydration is arguably their leading parachain, and it already established itself as the DeFi hub for activity in that ecosystem. They are seeking further 5 million tokens in further DOT grants to incentivize liquidity provision (which we've been covering for a while now) and increase TVL...alongside some funding for building out direct stablecoin support with major CEXs to allow for easier access to the DeFi tools and incentives for GIGADOT minting.

There's been a vicious back and forth among the Aye's and Nay's, with a large DOT wallet flipping to Aye about a day ago to push the vote over 50%.

With about 36 hours left this one seems like it'll go down to the wire. Personally I hope it passes so we can continue having incentivized LPs for stables and other DOT pairs on Hydration for a good bit longer.

I think ecosystems do better when they kingmake the protocols that show real use case and users....and Hydration seems to be that right now for Polkadot.