Breaking News! Gavin Wood announces Polkadot enters the 'Second Era'!
This article is a summary of Dr. Gavin Wood's significant speech that just concluded at the Sub0 conference!
Hello everyone, friends in Buenos Aires! Greetings from Hitchin, UK (to be precise, the suburbs of Hitchin). I am very happy to connect with everyone through modern technology, so let's officially get started.
Just a month ago, Parity celebrated its tenth anniversary. This is indeed remarkable — we have been on this path for over ten years: Polkadot, Sub0… although Sub0 is still a bit younger, it is about to enter its seventh year.
The origin of Sub0 is actually quite simple. The first Sub0 event was almost like the first DevCon: we held it directly in our office. At that time, Parity had just opened its Berlin office, and we invited about a hundred early Polkadot developers to discuss the technology surrounding Substrate. The name 'Sub0' has been carried on from that time.