Gavin teases Polkadot College

Dec 06, 2025

Gavin Wood revealed plans to establish a Polkadot College for Web3 and blockchain training in an El Pais interview in Uruguay.
Houdini Swap launched private payment links on Polkadot, allowing users to receive payments without exposing wallet addresses.
Web3 Foundation published its OpenGov proposal voting guidelines.
Polkadot Capital Group partnered with Zodia Custody to promote institutional-grade DOT custody and staking solutions.
500ms blocks are around the corner thanks to the new Block Bundling pull request from Basti.

Mandala opened applications for its ambassador program.
Nova Shots distributed a $10K USDC prize pool to players who correctly predicted Furia as Blast Rivals Season 2 winner in Hong Kong.
Talisman’s Seekers collection of 500 NFTs sold out in under a minute on November 27th, with holders eligible for SEEK airdrops and early beta access.
Hyperbridge launched Phase 2 of DeFi Singularity Campaign with increased Uniswap DOT-ETH pool rewards on Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base, and migrated BSC incentives to PancakeSwap’s DOT-WBNB pool.
XCSCAN added Hyperbridge transaction support across all supported networks.
Bifrost enabled automatic Coretime renewals.
Mythical Games and Spectarium launched MYTHS with player-owned ARPG economy.
Acurast crossed 200K compute deployments.
Bifrost published its November report.
Moonbeam crossed 80 million transactions.
WUD launched the BIG Santa Flappening Airdrop in FlappyWUD with a 1 billion WUD prize pool and boosted WUD Universe Mystery Box drop rates running through the weekend.

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

🆕 new

Ref 1799: Retroactively funding the development of Mimir - a multisig tool for the Polkadot ecosystem ($138.39K)
Ref 1800: Funding the development of ReactiveDOT ($24.75K)
Ref 1803: Appointing ECHO.RE as an identity registrar on the Polkadot People chain
Ref 1804: Appointing OpenSquare as an identity registrar on the People chain
Ref 1805: Retroactively funding the development of Kitdot ($9.9K)

🕓 confirming

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1791: Closing the Polkadot Marketing Bounty
Ref 1795: Closing the Polkadot Pioneers Prize Bounty and returning the remaining funds to the Treasury

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1793: Funding a 6-month initiative to cultivate a vibrant Polkadot presence in Hungary and Central-Eastern Europe ($88K)
Ref 1794: Funding Treasury Guardian, a tool to promote milestone-based scheduled-payouts for improved Treasury efficiency and oversight ($49.4K)
Ref 1796: Funding the completion, stabilization, and auditing of ink! v6 for PolkaVM ($362.5K)
Ref 1798: Retroactively funding Ideal Network randomness infrastructure development completion ($38.76K)

✅ approved

Ref 1783: Funding the Polkadot People Initiative ($3M)
Ref 1790: Ratifying the payment for already-approved Ref 1768, which failed to execute due to a technical error during the Asset Hub migration
Ref 1797: Upgrading the Asset Hub and Bridge Hub runtimes to 2.0.3

❌ rejected

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