🐂 top news
Polkadot reached over 1 million monthly active accounts, excluding rollups.
Parity is considering making a soft pivot to the Polkadot Hub EVM compatibility strategy.
Web3 Foundation revised the JAM Implementers Prize with three tracks covering full validating nodes, lightweight nodes, and non-PVM nodes, offering rewards from 250K to 500K DOT and 2.5K to 5K KSM.
DIA launched native oracles for Polkadot DeFi platforms.
Nova Wallet added multisig management features.
Bifrost, Neuroweb, and Frequency were listed on Token Terminal.
Encointer published A Glimpse into the Nyota Community.
Web3 Foundation released part 3 of its blog series on Sassafras, the new consensus protocol that is planned to be integrated into Polkadot, replacing the current BABE+Aura consensus mechanism.
Polkadot Africa launched a new website.
$75,000 in prizes just added to the Web3 Summit hack.
⭕️ ecosystem
peaq surpassed 5 million registered addresses.
Mythical Marketplace netflow reached an all-time high of 4 million MYTH.
Bifrost's vDOT surpassed 19 million tokens.
StellaSwap launched a conversion tool for migrating from xSTELLA to veSTELLA.
Hydration reached an all-time high of HDX staked with over 3,000 holders.
Several projects released monthly reports: Crust, Integritee, RingDAO (formerly Darwinia).
Nova Spektr released v1.17 with multisig and proxy visualization, AI-generated RFC summaries, and Technical Fellowship voting history.
Acala launched validator elections, enabling LDOT holders to vote and earn ACA rewards.
Bifrost integrated Hyperbridge for trustless cross-chain transfers between Polkadot and Ethereum, supporting vTokens and other assets.
Astar's dApp Staking entered maintenance mode to recover staked ASTR following a Neemo Finance exploit.
PAPI hackathon winners shared insights with the Webzero community.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1650: Funding the development of the Polkadot BD Hub ($255k)
Ref 1651: Topping up the Polkadot System Parachains Collator Bounty (~$42K)
Ref 1660: Requesting the Web3 Foundation to create a Polkadot Agents program
Ref 1662: Refilling the UX Bounty for Q3 2025 (~67K DOT)
Ref 1666: Funding an Inter Miami CF rewards program ($250K)
Ref 1667: Funding the development of a Merkle Mountain Belt, a novel data structure that improves upon and replaces the Merkle Mountain Range such as used in BEEFY ($340K + 42K DOT)
Ref 1670: Funding the development of Pixelproof, a decentralized photo storage app
👍🏾 passing
Ref 1641: Funding 12 months maintenance for ParaSpell XCM tools (~$148K)
Ref 1651: Topping up the Polkadot System Parachains Collator bounty (~43K DOT)
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1619: Funding the development of Pop CLI ($577.5K)
Ref 1623: Seeking feedback to explore an alternate direction for Polkadot's Ethereum-compatibility layer
Ref 1624: Funding the development of Lunokit ($49.2K)
Ref 1625: Funding the continuous development of ReactiveDOT ($89K)
Ref 1626: Rebranding DOT to JAM in 2026
Ref 1627: Funding the Polkadot Art Space ($34K)
Ref 1631: Funding the development of Pixelproof ($575K)
Ref 1634: Sponsoring Politecnico di Milano’s Blockchain & Web3 Observatory (~$59K)
Ref 1635: Hire an ecosystem talent lead ($130K + 3K DOT)
Ref 1637: Funding Milestone 2 of the development of Cyborg Network (~$137K)
Ref 1638: Funding OneBlock+ and PaperMoon’s 2025 developer education & community expansion plan (~$376K)
Ref 1639: Funding the development of Papi Simulator, a developer and playground (21,960 DOT)
Ref 1640: Topping up the Polkadot Assurance Legion bounty (500K DOT)
Ref 1642: Funding Colorful Notion for 9 months of Dune integration work (~$610K)
Ref 1644: Funding LimeChain for phase 2 of devGround (~$172K)
✅ approved
Ref 1608: Seeking approval for the direction of the Polkadot Payment Card
Ref 1645: Upgrading the runtime to v1.6.1
Ref 1652: Funding crowdsourced research on the topic of capped DOT supply and step-change inflation
Ref 1588: Reinstating bounty curators and doing some bounty housekeeping
Ref 1612: Funding the maintenance and further development of Subsquare ($444K)
❌ rejected
Ref 1593: Funding the development and release of WAGOI (660K USDC)
Ref 1614: Funding the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship for 9 months (1.98M USDC)
Ref 1611: Funding the development of JAMTON (~99K USDT)
📺 what to watch and listen to
Why Stablecoins Are Eating Payments by Polkadot.
Polkadot Meets Solana by Polana.
Highlights from the Polkadot Blockspace Brooklyn by WebZero.
Tokenization, Ownership, Regulation, and Infrastructure with Polkadot and Centrifuge, by TradeTalks.
Gavin Wood's The JAM Tour Recap by Pala Labs.
KILT Reborn: New CEO, Rish Kumar, Reveals Consumer-Centric Roadmap for 2025 - Space Monkeys 199 by The Kusamarian.
Friday DOT News Pump (The Polkadot TVL Pump DOT Roadmap, FIFA Rivals, Data Analysis & More) by The Kusamarian.
📖 what to read
The fastest way to build on Polkadot by DavidBrain.
Polkadot Coretime Redesign: Can It Empower DOT Even More This Time? by Polkadot Ecology Research Institute.
Analysis of Stablecoin growth on Polkadot by Wag Media.
Polkadot Is Deadass Alive by TheDotsTalks.
10 top charts in Polkadot by Emil Kietzman.
Polkadot — Ethereum Compatibility: The Basics by Lily Mendez.
Thank you for taking the DOT leap!
