Good morning, builders 🏗️ Smart contracts on Polkadot are entering their final release phase. Here’s where we stand today, what’s been built, and when it goes live 🧵👇

50 things Polkadot shipped in 2025！ 1. Gavin Wood returned and became CEO of Parity Technologies 2. The new Polkadot website launched: Products for People 3. Gavin led the JAM Southeast Asia tour 4. The #DOOM demo ran on JAM 5. The JAM Graypaper was updated to version 0.7.2 6.

Hyperscale is back! 269k TPS during an internal test. A new record! Rewriting the test scripts to multi-threading, to make use of fewer but more powerful nodes sending transactions, seems to be a good approach on AWS. This is also the first time we moved beyond 40 shards, which

Timan has shared a new Hyperscale testing update with the community: • 269k TPS achieved during an internal test (new internal record) • Test scripts were rewritten to support multi-threading, improving throughput on AWS using fewer but more powerful nodes • This marks the

🔥 Big move on Kusama! The referendum is live, and Revive — the new smart contract platform — is set to go live on kusama Hub on Dec 29! ⚡️ This upgrade also introduces Elastic Scaling to Kusama Hub, with block times dropping from 6s → 2s shortly after enactment. 👩‍💻👨‍💻

Max TPS today: 381k TPS 🤘 That is even faster than my own internal tests. A really, really good run today. Thanks to everyone in the private testing group for participating on a Sunday at the end of December. Really appreciate all your help ❤️ It's good to see my own

Kusama now prints blocks 3 times faster and talks in Solidity language! • block time: 6s → 2s Elastic Scaling magic 🪄 • PVM & EVM smart contracts are now LIVE and fully interoperable Polkadot Hub upgrade: January 20, 2026

Once again, the year's @polkadot roundup is out. Get it while it's hot 🔥🎄 medium.com/polkadot-netwo…

A new year. A new focus. → Products that matter, built on the strongest foundation in Web3. Welcome to the Second Age of Polkadot.

Polkadot solved the blockchain trilemma already: We are keeping security and decentralization the same, increasing scalability for rollups and app chains 👇 3x block time reduction for rollups will land on Polkadot Hub this 2026 👀 Elastic scaling is now enabled for Kusama Hub

Hey Polkadot gang! So since we're not having AAG anymore, but I think the weekly beat to have Polkadot people meet in a room and talk about everything Polkadot is very important, I think we should just continue and transform the tradition and have a streamed weekly call to talk

2026 is shaping up to be the year of @polkadot JAM. Not because of promises. Because builders are shipping. 🧵 1/

Web3.0 was coined in April 2014 by Parity CEO Dr. Gavin Wood (Gavin Wood), not as a slogan, but as a technical response to a broken trust model. CoinDesk republished the original piece on Jan 4, 2022, as the term regained momentum. On Jan 6, 2026, Web3 is no longer a theory.

What`s happening here Polkadot? - Youtube all videos deleted youtube.com/The Kus - Twitter 0 posts - KusDAO Discord - closed What is going on here: Polkadot Web3 Foundation @TheKusamarian / Anon // Asking for a friend

If you build in Web3, this is worth bookmarking. Kian Paimani (Kian Paimani) spent the holidays finishing a short online book that captures what he’s learned over 7 years of building blockchain systems. NO hype cycles. NO marketing layer. ONLY hard-won lessons from the inside.

Top Blockchains by Repositories (Last 30 Days) ➡️Over the past 30 days, the Polkadot and kusama ecosystems led repository activity with 467 repos each. ➡️ Ethereum led among single chains, while Multiversᕽ, NEAR Protocol, TON 💎, and Algorand Technologies showed strong

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Polkadot is expanding US adoption 🇺🇸 DOT just landed on Robinhood and now tradable and accessible to millions of American investors

DOT on Robinhood

Our Head of Product Engineering, Karim Jedda, built a simpler and fully decentralized implementation of the Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ x402 payment protocol. • No facilitators • No RPC providers • No API keys smol402 replaces trusted API services with an embedded Polkadot light client