100% EVM compatibility locked in

Aug 09, 2025

Parity has published an update to Polkadot Hub development - “Parity has basically deprioritized all other technical work at Parity (except for Asset Hub migration) so that we can deliver a 100% EVM compatible solution before the Dec holidays”.
Harbour Industrial Capital invested $1.2M in Mandala Chain, Kylix Finance, Xcavate, and Hyperbridge through HIC Fund II.
Birdo (Polkadot Community Foundation) posted an update on the Polkadot app.
Nova Wallet added bounty management features to its mobile app.
Alice und Bob (OpenGovWatch) proposed Economic Growth Incentives, a new model to incentivize protocols that grow the Polkadot economy.
Radha (Web3 Foundation) posted an update about the Polkadot 2.0 launch party.
Polkadot Blockchain Academy opened applications for PBA-X Wave 04, a 4-week online blockchain course.
Parity published Polkadot is closer to the rollup model than you realize.
Jay Chrawna is seeking candidates to join OpenSync, a collective of supervisors tasked with managing Polkadot RFPs from proposal to delivery. If you have a strong track record in project management, now’s the time to apply.
Web3 Foundation's research team had four papers accepted to CRYPTO 2025 in Santa Barbara, California from August 17-21.

Acala launched an incentive plan distributing 1.2 million ACA tokens to LDOT holders who participate in Polkadot validator voting starting August 1st.
Acurast launched Season 4 of Cloud Rebellion with final MIST harvesting opportunity.
Bifrost Reward Share Program generated $13 million TVL in July, led by Hydration's $7.2 million in vDOT and Subscan's $4.2 million.
- Bifrost v1.9.4 added vDOT bridging with Asset Hub and automatic fee deduction.
Energy Web announced migration from standalone Energy Web Chain to parachain Energy Web X, with EWT transitioning to Ethereum ERC-20 via bidirectional bridge.
Evrloot paused operations to conserve resources ahead of Polkadot Hub launch.
StellaSwap distributed $44K protocol revenue to 279 veSTELLA holders over four epochs.
Lido's LDO token is now live in the Hydration Omnipool with 69% GIGAHydration incentives.
Nova Wallet’s Nova Shots returned for Blast Bounty Series 2 CS2 tournament in Malta with $25K USDT prize pool.
Nova Wallet added support for Unique Network NFTs in its NFTs tab.
RegionX's recent core purchase signals the arrival of trustless coretime resales on Kusama.
SubWallet launched cross-chain swaps between Asset Hub, Relay Chain, Bitcoin, and Ethereum via ChainFlip partnership with Velocity Labs.
Turtle, the cross-chain transfer dApp, surpassed $10 million in volume.
Various projects published monthly reports for July: Integritee, Bifrost, peaq.

Pres launched Create Dot App, a CLI tool for Polkadot development supporting React and Vue with PAPI and Dedot SDK options, including wallet integration and multi-chain connections.
Niftesty upgraded polkadot-next-js-template with papi + reactive-dot, chain state reading/mutation, multi-chain support, and various UX improvements.

For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.

🆕 new

Ref 1691: Retroactively funding the development of PlutoFramework, an all-in-one framework for building mobile decentralised applications (~$142.8K)
Ref 1692: Funding the development of WAGOI, an EU-compliant, wallet-based data access platform for connected vehicles ($330K)
Ref 1693: Funding the operations of Polkadot Africa for 6 months ($160.8K)
Ref 1695: Funding the continued development and maintenance of Snowbridge for one year (~$2.44M + 116.5K DOT)
Ref 1696: Refunding Snowbridge for a failed Treasury spend ($312.5K)
Ref 1697: Funding Encode Club to cover the costs of the recently finished Scalability Hackathon and fund the final stage—an accelerator (~128K)
Ref 1698: Topping up the Moderation Bounty (~46K DOT)
Ref 1699: Funding Gossamer’s contribution to Polkadot-SDK for Q3-Q4 2025 (~$815K) v2

🕓 confirming

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1684: Sponsoring sub0 25 (Polkadot’s flagship event) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (~$739K)
Ref 1681: Instructing the Polkadot Community Foundation to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (~$37K)

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1672: Funding Polkadot Africa for builder and community growth ($352.8K)
Ref 1679: Funding the development of Clarys.AI ($256.1K)
Ref 1680: Retroactively funding SubWallet development from August 2024 to March 2025 (~$1.7M)
Ref 1682: Funding Snowbridge development for the next year (832.51K DOT)
Ref 1686: Retroactively funding PolkaBiz for May-July 2025 ($62K)
Ref 1688: Funding Gossamer’s contribution to Polkadot-SDK for Q3-Q4 2025 (~$815K)
Ref 1689: Funding Quadrivium for Polkadot SDK improvements ($288K)

✅ approved

Ref 1640: Topping up the Polkadot Assurance Legion bounty (500K DOT)
Ref 1660: Requesting the Web3 Foundation to create a Polkadot Agents program
Ref 1662: Refilling the UX Bounty for Q3 2025 (~67K DOT)
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 ($225K)

❌ rejected

Polkadot Roadmap Updates by Alice und Bob.
Friday DOT News Pump (How Polkadot is Good at Everything 🤔 DeFi, Social, DePin & Gaming) by The Kus.
Interview with Harbour Industrial Capital (Why Polkadot’s JAM Isn’t Priced In Yet 🤝 Moving Big DOT Bags with HIC! - Space Monkeys 203) by The Kus.

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