Gavin teases Polkadot College

Private payments live on Polkadot, W3F's OpenGov voting guidelines, 500ms blocks closer, and more

🐂 top news

• 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.

---

⭕️ ecosystem

• 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.

---

🏛️ governance

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

• Ref 1786: Topping up the Paseo Bounty (113.22K DOT)

👍🏾 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

• Ref 1779: Funding for ReactiveDOT & related developments (~$25K)

---

📺 what to watch and listen to

• The Friday DOT News Pump by The Kus

• Attempts At Governance #288 - Guidelines

• RWA and AI convergence by Magenta Labs and Polkadot X

• DKGcon 2025 | Scaling Trust in the Age of AI. Metcalfe Convergence Phase (Day 1) by OriginTriail

---

📖 what to read

• Why Polkadot-API? by josep

• ELVES: the fairy dust that makes Polkadot scalable by Web3 Foundation

• Polkadot enters the line of sight of bank-grade custody by PolkaWorld

---

Thank you for taking the dot leap!