New website for the next evolution of Polkadot! Say hello to the new and improved website by ecosystem core contributors Distractive. 🎨 New branding and design 💪 Simplified, approachable messaging ⚙️ Smoother user experience Explore what's new ⤵️ polkadot.com

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Gavin Wood sharing detailed 2025 JAM Roadmap @ JAM0 with JAM implementers in a one-of-a-kind meetup youtube.com/watch?v=Jq8XBs…

I wonder what prevents dissatisfied people and media from having an active account **also** on Mastodon. And possibly cross-posting on both platforms. The Guardian has one, but unfortunately, they stopped using it in June 2022. #TheGuardian #Mastodon theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

Polkadot ‘s JAM Prize pool currently worth $89,000,000. Probably the biggest programming prize in history. All you need to do to get your slice of it is make a compliant and original implementation of the Graypaper (graypaper.com) jam.web3.foundation

🚨 JAM Prize Hits $112M USD! The largest technical prize in history? 👀 The JAM Prize offers a piece of 10M DOT & 100k KSM to implementers of Gavin Wood’s JAM Gray Paper. JAM - or the Join Accumulate Machine - is a next generation architecture solving for coherency &

Own your content, not just your tweets chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2024/blue…

We're currently observing a massive surge in sign-ups for Proton VPN originating in the U.S. Typically, we see such spikes from countries with unstable governments facing internet shutdowns, meaning this is an anomaly.

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JAM → a Trustless Supercomputer. It can run any software. Even software never meant for a blockchain. Unmodified DOOM? Sure! 30 instances of it. On a single core. JAM has 341. That's up to 1M times the performance of Ethereum. Watch the JAM Tour recap video now ⤵️

Eager to keep learning about Sassafras, our new single leader election protocol? This second blog post dives into the details of how Sassafras operates, focusing on its technical design and the security it provides. research.web3.foundation/Polkadot/proto… Don’t worry, we keep things simple, so

Quantum computers haven't factored anything interesting yet. Peter Gutmann concludes that quantum computing is "not getting anywhere" (theregister.com/2025/07/17/qua…). The same logic 70 years ago would have said we'll never land on the Moon. More on this analogy: blog.cr.yp.to/20250118-fligh…

. Gavin Wood returns as CEO of Parity to lead the next phase of our journey. Björn Wagner steps down after three transformative years. With a strong foundation and clear direction, we’re accelerating. The next era of Polkadot starts now. parity.io/blog/back-at-t…

JAM Implementers First performance data coming in HOT! ... and Turbojam and JamZig are in the lead! Who will cross the finish line and win some coveted JAM Prize first?

First look at overall performance across JAM Implementors. Polkajam leads; JamZig (pure Zig language) is already competitive with debug logs enabled. Stripped benches coming soon — and yes, we expect to push this up! ⚡🤠 Polkadot Zig #JAMProtocol

JAM development is advancing rapidly this week and it is getting more competitive. Most teams are on version 0.7.0 of the Gray Paper. It is also the first time that we got performance metrics - even nicely rendered. We are not on the list yet, but remain thrilled to where we

Holy crap, here are JAM Implementations performance in ridiculously GORGEOUS form! Check it out here: paritytech.github.io/jam-conformanc… Man oh man do we have a lot of catching up to do 😉☺️ This @polkadot delight courtesy of byte!