In 2025, @Polkadot Network finally crossed the watershed of "only doing technology"!
In the past 5 years, it has tackled the most challenging foundations: multi-chain architecture, shared security, parallel scalability, and SDK systems! Gavin's statement is very accurate: the first ten years was about core tech. Now, the key upgrades of Polkadot 2.0 (Agile Coretime / Elastic Scaling / Async Backing) will be implemented in phases in 2024–2025 and completed in SDK 2509: throughput, confirmation speed, block space supply, which finally enters the stage of "able to support applications".
A more crucial step occurs in November 2025: the migration of core states such as assets, governance, and staking to the new Asset Hub, transforming it from a "system parallel chain" into a super entry point / default landing of the ecosystem. Next, REVM and PolkaVM (PVM) will run here—Solidity developers can directly deploy contracts just like on Ethereum, addressing the long-standing complaints about Polkadot's "high threshold and scattered entry" for the first time.
But I think the real turning point is not just the technology, but the role change of Parity!
When Polkadot finally possesses the ability to support users and applications, the question becomes—who will create the first batch of truly user-facing products?
If Parity shifts from "only building the foundation" to "taking the lead in making products", then this marks the true beginning of Polkadot's second era.
The conditions for making products on Polkadot have never been so aligned:
- The Hub consolidates the entry points
- REVM / PVM completes and upgrades the execution environment
- Polkadot Mobile centralizes the user pathways
- Individuality lights up the new incentive / anti-witch mechanism "based on people rather than addresses"
- Coretime/elastic scaling makes expansion no longer a ceiling
What will happen this time? Let's look forward to it!
Learn more in the latest article from PolkaWorld 《Polkadot 第二纪元已开启！一文了解 Parity 正在构建什么产品！》 #paritytech #Polkadot
