Congratulations to Astar Network & Sota Watanabe for being named both Product and Person of the Year by 日本ブロックチェーン協会／JBA（Japan Blockchain Association）. It's thanks to Polkadot’s incredible innovators and builders alike that the ecosystem can work together to build a better version of the web:

1/ The Polkadot 2022 Roundup is here🚀 Despite the difficult year for the industry, the Polkadot and Kusama community were busy building the largest, & most diverse ecosystem of use case specific layer-1 blockchains in the world, making huge strides toward building a better web.

The Polkadot Blockchain Academy is in full swing! During the next four weeks, the University of Buenos Aires, IALAB UBA, will host the second wave of Polkadot's flagship educational course to equip engineers with all the necessary knowledge for building a better web.

After exactly 15 months in development, @polkadot XCM version 3 is merged. This enables bridges, cross-chain locking, exchanges, NFTs, conditionals, context-tracking and more. github.com/paritytech/pol…

1/ Polkadot ecosystem is at #SXSW 2023 and ready to demonstrate the true potential of Web3! For the next 4 days, visit the Polkadot Demo Stations to dive into practical use cases being built on Polkadot. For the full program: dot.li/sxsw2023 Check the🧵for more detail:

THREAD - Polkadot #PolkadotDigest 29 Mar 2023 #Polkadot News Referendum 111, adjusting nomination parameters in Polkadot, has passed and executed (details below). polkadot.polkassembly.io/referendum/111

1/ Uniswap Labs 🦄 - the most popular decentralized exchange by daily traded volume - is coming to Polkadot via the Moonbeam parachain, increasing volume & liquidity across the ecosystem!

Create your portoflio of trusted Knowledge Assets that can be used in AI solutions! Brana Rakic showcased it at Polkadot Decoded and you can find out more on OriginTrail new website at origintrail.io ! #AI #TrustedKnowledge

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood proposed a Polkadot 2.0 solution in new speech, abandoning the lease period and slot model, and treating Polkadot as some "cores" , core time will be divided into bulk purchases and instant purchases, using Polkadot core cost will be determined

Happy to release the initial Jam spec in the Gray Paper (10 years after my release of the Yellow Paper): A proposal for the future of Polkadot. Graypaper.com

🚨 Record-breaking chaos at Spammening HQ: 82,171 TPS. Kusama, Polkadot’s canary network, hit an astounding 82,171 TPS (transactions per second) during the Spammening—a groundbreaking stress test. Not on a testnet, but on a live blockchain. Here’s how: 🧵👇 1/4

My first 2025 Starbucks purchase beta testing the Polkadot Pay app - worked like a charm 🚀☕️

Stablecoin transfers should be: ⚡️ Fast 🫰 Inexpensive 👀 Payable in stables PS — the amount of USDT + USDC on parachains has surged from $22M in January 2024 to $114M today. That's over a 400% increase in the last 12 months 💥 screenshot from Nova Wallet

Soon → pay with DOT in USA 🇺🇸 🔹 DOT accepted at over 1,000,000 stores! 🔹 Stake with 1 click 🔹 Up to 10 % cash-back rewards 🔹 No seed phrase, no password Sounds too good to be true? It's not. Coming soon ⤵️ x.com/itsbirdo_/stat…

"It's normal ... Not normal for blockchain. Normal for software developers." -Gavin Wood on running DOOM on JAM

Bitcoin created a calculator Ethereum created a computer Polkadot is creating a cloud super-computer 🕶️

The Snowbridge update you’ve been waiting for is here - bridge your ERC-20 tokens directly from Ethereum to Hydration, Moonbeam, and Bifrost. 🫳🎤 Available on Turtle and Snowbridge UI. And, you can transfer tokens back to Ethereum from Hydration & Bifrost, with a single click.

A trip down memory lane…

Gamers built this industry, but studios call the shots. Polkadot gives players real ownership. Keep what you earn, trade freely, and take assets anywhere.