Polkadot
Last week, after concluding the PBA trip in Argentina, Gavin Wood and the PBA team visited Uruguay and met with Minister of Economy Gabriel Oddone. Gavin proposed establishing a Polkadot College locally to conduct blockchain and Web3 skills education, believing that Uruguay has a stable and flexible environment suitable for nurturing technical talent. This visit focused on exploring potential paths for educational cooperation and Web3 talent development. Learn more here: https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998982801601999237
Breaking news! After the official listing of Bitwise 10 Crypto Index ETF (NYSE: BITW), it announced its latest holdings—Polkadot (DOT) enters the top ten of the world's largest crypto index funds!
In the eyes of institutional investors, assets that can enter BITW must not only be 'large in market capitalization' but must also meet:
Liquidity is sufficiently robust.
Safety and compliance are verifiable.
Able to withstand long-term screening and monthly rebalancing.
In the structure dominated by BTC and ETH, Polkadot still firmly holds a seat, representing a clear signal—truly secure, high-performance, and decentralized infrastructure is becoming an 'indispensable' sector in institutional allocations, and Polkadot is the most representative underlying chain among them. Regardless of how small the proportion, being included in the list itself is already a 'ticket for entry' into the institutional world. https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998590708865970373
In addition, this week DOT was also included in the list of purchasable assets by the licensed digital bank GoTyme in the Philippines! GoTyme is a joint venture between the largest local consortium Gokongwei Group and South Africa's Tyme Group, currently having over 6.5 million users. https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998296195123556473
Bloomberg ETF & crypto asset analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart tweeted about the latest 'Overview of U.S. Listed Crypto ETP/ETF' to show the 'scale of listed products' and the 'number of ETFs still in registration'. From this chart, we can see that among the 125+ crypto ETF/ETP applications still in the registration stage, at least 3 independent applications for Polkadot (DOT) have already appeared, including:
21Shares Polkadot Trust
Grayscale Polkadot Trust
REX-Osprey DOT + Staking ETF
At the same time, DOT has also been included in several mainstream crypto index/ETF baskets, such as CoinShares, WisdomTree, Bitwise, etc.
What does this mean?
Polkadot is no longer just a 'technical narrative'; it is being systematically incorporated into institutional product structures.
It is not just a single ETF bet, but an index-level, portfolio-level long-term allocation logic.
When the ETF wave truly lands, what remains are often networks with clear structures and defined compliance paths.
It's still just the declaration stage, but the direction is already very clear. Polkadot is being seen as 'configurable infrastructure.' https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1999387098479231456
Parity released a practical demonstration of JAM: following the same path demonstrated by Gavin Wood on-site, compiling real DOOM game code into PVM and running it on a local JAM chain with 6 nodes, outputting results in real-time through JAM's data availability layer. This demonstrates that verifiable, deterministic on-chain computing can now be personally tested by developers.
Parity encourages the community to run examples and provide feedback, offering real development feedback for the continuous iteration of JAM. https://x.com/paritytech/status/1999399795606036531
Parity has been selected as a Top 100 Best Employers in Web3!
Parity Technologies ranked 14th in the Talent Titans Web3 Best Employers Top 100 list. The official stated that this recognition reflects Parity's efforts in team culture, talent growth, and long-term engineering investment, which is being seen by a broader industry. https://x.com/paritytech/status/1998817740761821285
This week, the Web3 Foundation North America BD team (Magenta Labs) shared its judgment on RWA, AI, and DPIN in the latest Space, believing these are the three core directions for Polkadot's next wave of adoption. The discussion pointed out that RWA needs chain-level asset standards, compliance execution, and shared security, AI requires verifiable data and predictable execution, while Asset Hub, XCM, JAM, native EVM, and Project Individuality are making Polkadot a unified carrier layer for these needs.
Learn more here (The latest Polkadot ecosystem live broadcast: The future of RWA and AI will happen in Polkadot!) (From compliance, verifiability to scalability: The underlying capabilities that RWA and AI need are all present in Polkadot!)
This week, the PBA team conducted a two-day blockchain application exchange in Catamarca Province, Argentina, discussing the practical applications of blockchain in public management, education, production, and labor with the provincial government and multiple departments. Governor Raúl Jalil personally met with the PBA team, with over 35 provincial decision-makers participating; and held a public lecture at the local technology center to share the practical opportunities of Polkadot / Web3 with government technical personnel and academia. https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1999272235392209402
This week, the official Twitter accounts of Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation simultaneously conducted a live broadcast summarizing the recently concluded Polkadot Builder Hackathon!
This is the largest hackathon in Polkadot's history, attracting over 2,000 participants and 230 project submissions.
This hackathon is particularly aimed at new developers: about 60% of the 2,800 registrants are first-time blockchain users, and their feedback will be directly used to improve the Polkadot SDK and toolchain.
The live broadcast also highlighted award-winning projects such as Chopdot, Agora, IVF & Inklings.
W3F stated that this event validated Polkadot's ability to organize global development activities without centralized coordination, marking an important step for the ecosystem from 'laying the foundation' to 'product era.'
The next hackathon is expected to be held in Q1 2026, focusing on the Polkadot Hub. Learn more here: https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1999149174865195512
According to the latest developer activity leaderboard from Chainspect, the Polkadot ecosystem continues to rank first in developer numbers and code submission volume, maintaining its lead among multiple mainstream public chains. This means not only are more developers participating, but more code is being continuously delivered. Against the backdrop of market sentiment fluctuations, Polkadot's engineering momentum continues to grow steadily, demonstrating strong long-term building capability. https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998993441414590734
Ten years ago, Gavin Wood invented EVM, which then became the consensus of the industry; everyone started creating chains based on EVM, and since then, the industry has only EVM chains and non-EVM chains.
Ten years later, Gavin has launched JAM again, hoping that JAM will also become the industry consensus. In the future, there will only be JAM chains and non-JAM chains!
Check out Gavin's latest interview in the latest PolkaWorld article (Gavin Wood: After EVM, JAM will become the new consensus in the industry!)
Reminder that there are less than 100 days until the Polkadot halving. On March 14, 2026, the new token economic model will officially take effect:
Total supply: from infinite to 2.1 billion DOT per year.
Issuance: from 120 million DOT down to 55 million DOT.
Inflation rate: from 6.8% down to 3.1%, gradually reducing to zero over two years.
Learn more about the impacts and significance: https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1997915164960866369
On December 16, Polkadot will jointly initiate the first 'Cross-Ecosystem Roundtable Dialogue' with Cardano, inviting governance and practitioners from multiple ecosystems to discuss the long-term sustainability of decentralized treasuries. Topics include: the definition of sustainability, real challenges, different communities' responses, and key questions such as 'Is sustainability necessarily a goal?'. Learn more here: https://x.com/Cardano/status/1998771063321215243
The W3F governance team initiated a vote #1807, proposing to officially close the Games Bounty (Bounty #38) and return approximately 34,000 DOT of remaining funds to the Polkadot treasury. This bounty was initially used to support the development of the Polkadot gaming ecosystem, and this bounty project has now ended. Once the vote passes, the curator will be automatically released, and unspent funds will be returned to the treasury, while requiring the Games Bounty to submit a 'project closure report' to the community. https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1807
Ecosystem projects
Dotlake shares the latest data, showing that in the past year’s growth, 4 of the top 10 L2 (by number of token holders) have used the Polkadot tech stack, totaling about 16 million token holders. These include: Mythos, peaq, Unique Network, Astar. The growth paths of these projects are different, but the commonality is that they are all built based on Polkadot's multi-chain architecture. https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998424147203125366
Since its launch on September 22 this year, the total supply of the decentralized stablecoin HOLLAR issued by Hydration has already exceeded 10,000,000 pieces in less than 3 months!
For reference, Hyperliquid's USDH has been online for nearly 2 years, with a current total supply of 58.63 million pieces. MegaETH's USDm has been online for more than two years, with a current total supply of 152.1 million pieces. https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1999095970462839144
Hyperbridge announces the launch of a points program! From now on, every cross-chain operation you make on Sovereign Intents will earn you points. Exchanging coins will earn points, and inviting friends to use it will also earn you extra points! Come try it here: https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998787541718413385
With the successful conclusion of the bbBNC Riders event, Bifrost's core growth plan Liquid Wave for 2025 has officially come to an end. This round of activities significantly boosted the synchronized increase of vToken minting, user participation, and protocol activity, with vDOT and vBNC becoming dual growth engines. Key results include:
bbBNC locked up 14 million BNC, vBNC TVL exceeded 18 million.
BNC, during the event period, achieved a doubling growth of BNC buyback of 1.7 million pieces and destroyed 170,000 pieces, strengthening the buyback and destruction mechanism.
The long-term locked position continues to increase, with APY maintained at 33%–110%.
In terms of rewards, bbBNC Riders rewards have started to be distributed, and part of the BNC rewards will be released linearly over 12 months, with WAVE points airdrop progressing simultaneously. The official stated that the core goal of Liquid Wave is to truly align protocol growth with community benefits. In the future, Bifrost will continue to expand multi-chain assets, consolidating its position as a Staking Yield Layer. https://x.com/Bifrost/status/1998407380951036021
AI music platform Mubert will launch a new Web3 DApp, supported by Polkadot. This product focuses on generative music, creator identity, and on-chain incentives, marking an important step for Mubert towards full on-chain integration. Mubert has provided music services for brands like Canva, Adidas, and FIFA, generating over 100 million royalty-free music pieces and has 1.5 million creators. The waitlist is now open, and a complete Web3 creator toolchain will be released soon. Learn more: https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998658856176759045
Astar's parent company Startale announced the launch of the US dollar stablecoin USDSC (with M0 providing the underlying infrastructure, and assets supported by short-term U.S. Treasury bonds)! USDSC will serve as the core settlement currency for the Soneium ecosystem and Startale App, used for payment, trading, rewards, and e-commerce scenarios. Meanwhile, STAR Points will be launched, a native incentive system where users can earn points by completing on-chain actions (holding USDSC, completing tasks, providing liquidity, using Mini Apps), which can be used to unlock airdrops, rewards, priority token allocations, and other benefits! Learn more here: https://x.com/polkaworld_pro/status/1998169972359811325
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