I personally don't think Plaza will ship for $DOT in time to make the 2025 bull cycle. However, I am confident the following will: 1. Lowered Inflation Rate 2. 2 Day Unstaking Period 3. Polkadot 2.0 in full 4. Asynchronous Backing in full 5. Snowbridge in full Couple that

The Pop team is paving the way for ink! Just watched this video that shows how their command line tool simplifies the process for creating and deploying smart contracts and it gets me excited to try it out

For Halloween, Polkadot dresses up as a pumpkin. Every other protocol dresses up as Polkadot... 🙄

Hyperbridge is now LIVE Gnosis Chain mainnet! Hyperbridge equips developers with arbitrary message passing and cross-chain state reads, Powered by finality proofs, state proofs and fully permissionless relayers. Join the revolution today: docs.hyperbridge.network

just leaving this here...

10 rollups of the top20 rollups by transactions are hosted on Polkadot. 10 of the top20! 🔟 Still think no one’s using Polkadot? Think again.

Justin Trudeau: "Today, the US launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

DeFi on Polkadot is gaining momentum. The easiest and fastest way to onboard anyone is to show them how it will profit them in the future, and they will ride with you.. On DefiLlama.com, it shows the TVL across Polkadot's DeFi ecosystem is zero, yes $0. Meanwhile you have:

An L2 that changes from optimistic to ZK is like a guy that got lost on the high sea for 7 days tying a stone to his foot to end the misery faster. A curse that Ethereum has run into is illusion that an L2 has to choose between 2 evils: - wait 7 days for finalization

Big news — the RegionX Kusama parachain is live! We have purchased a core in the current sale cycle, which will be usable from the start of the next cycle Until then, we’ll be using on-demand to test things out and have the first trustless resale of Coretime on kusama 👀

Things I wish L2 teams understood ✌️ – zk over fraud proofs = unneccessary, just rent a Polkadot core – 7d exit window = unneccessary, just rent a Polkadot core – blobs or altDA bridge = unneccessary, just rent a Polkadot core All these problems are already solved. Just switch

Nova Wallet 10.3 just dropped 🔥 What’s inside: — Multisig push notifications (Polkadot, Kusama, PAH, KAH, Hydration & more) — Swap GIGADOT, GIGAETH & aDOT — Unique NFTs — Upgraded staking, governance, proxies features — Added cross-chain transaction safety checks — Improved

I finally finished my smol block article about 500ms blocks: blog.kchr.de/from-12s-to-50…

Today, the first-ever purchase on a secondary Coretime marketplace was made on kusama 🚀 Our marketplace—with full UI support—is now officially live on Kusama. This is a big milestone for us. We’re the first—and the only—team to deliver a secondary Coretime marketplace!

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

We’re pushing the limits of on-chain performance. Join us for a live demo of a classic Web3 game running fully on-chain, powered by 12 Polkadot cores and 500 ms block times. No off-chain shortcuts. Just real throughput and real user experience. 🎥 Watch the demo ↓ 👏