Happy New Year, nerds 🥳🎉

Securing funding for Open Source projects doesn’t have to be hard. The Polkadot OS Developer Bounty is offering 15 grants of $30K each. → Community-curated funding for PoCs, libraries & dApps. → Streamlined process with milestone-based payments. Learn More & Apply Now 👇

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After recent improvements Quadrvium KAGOME Kusama validator is hitting A+ grade in turboflakes app. That means your validator should get the same amount of rewards after switching from Polkadot-SDK to KAGOME

"Polkadot effectively has native rollup functionality included at the protocol level." Plus... ✅Rigorous processes ✅Rapid finality ✅Data availability built-in Joyce Siqueira (joyce) explains all in this new blog article. ⬇️ parity.io/blog/polkadot-…

open source is a super power

The argument of a sharded and non-sharded TPS differing is valid. But the answer is not as simple as Justin Bons's "any sharded system can achieve millions TPS". 🧵 Let's dive into the meaning of TPS in a sharded system:

We've just released NOMT v1.0-preview. The new state database we've been working on for a year is just about ready for production. On hardware that costs less than $1200 we have achieved >50,000TPS with 100M accounts and >25k TPS with 1B accounts. Full post in next tweet.

"Polkadot rollups scale with zero compromises on security" The second post in a three-part series on SCALABILITY on Polkadot by Andrei This one looks at the tradeoffs that protocols make when running speed and efficiency upgrades. parity.io/blog/scalabili…

Devs, it's your lucky day. Part 1 of the PolkaVM Preview is live on Kusama! → start testing PolkaVM features today: 1️⃣ follow new Parity Technologies docs + tutorials 2️⃣ deploy to the Paseo Testnet, then Kusama 3️⃣ share feedback Check out the forum for details:

Today's the day! We're migrating all balances as well as governance and staking functionality (+more) from the Polkadot Relay Chain to Asset Hub. This is the beginning of the end of over a year of work

The internet was meant to set us free. Instead, it turned us into the product. Nearly 2,000 participants of The Polkadot Builder Party Hackathon are reclaiming the web. They're creating open, privacy-preserving apps that defend freedom and fairness.

🚨 Polkadot Runtime v2.0.0 is now in vote. This is a major upgrade that: • Enables and schedules the Asset Hub Migration (block #28490502 ≈ Nov 4 @ 08:00 UTC) • Finalises Polkadot optimisations - Asynchronous Backing, Agile Coretime, Elastic Scaling • Introduces all

Huge feat! Congratulations to everyone involved 🎉💪

Really nice work by our peers at Amforc 👊

"It is, and will always be, your tool, under your own control." Agency where it matters. Let's keep building!

Polkadot just leveled up. Today's runtime upgrade marks the beginning of a faster, simpler, more usable network designed for real apps. What changes for you? → Apps feel fast and fluid → Transactions confirm quicker → Builders can focus on products, not protocol engineering

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Polkadot nominators: wake up! There are validators in the active set that have been completely down for months. Others have had terrible performance for weeks. No blocks. Missed votes. Little or no rewards for you. Meanwhile, active and performant validators struggle to stay