Hydration TVL shoots past $450M 🚀

Sep 13, 2025

Polkadot reached a monthly high of 794K+ daily transactions on September 9th.
sub0 Symbiosis speaker applications opened for Polkadot's flagship conference in Buenos Aires, November 14-16.
Parity launched the JAM Conformance Performance dashboard tracking metrics across fifteen JAM implementations.
BlockDeep Labs introduced Efímero, disposable parachains on Polkadot for airdrops, mass onboarding, and gamified campaigns without deposits or storage requirements.
Nova Shots received a shoutout during BLAST Premier Open London Grand Final, which recorded 3M total views across Twitch and YouTube.
Hyperbridge announced $BRIDGE launch for September 15.
Pala Labs launched OpenShore, a real-time analytics dashboard for Polkadot OpenGov balances and spending.
Kusama topped Chainspect's decentralization leaderboard with a Nakamoto coefficient of 282.
The SEC delayed its Grayscale Polkadot Trust NASDAQ listing decision to November 8th.

Acala allocated 3M ACA to a new Ecosystem and Growth Fund after winding down its Meme and dApp contest.
Acurast ended its 2-year mobile compute Bootstrapping Campaign, transitioning to a fairer benchmarking system for compute providers.
Crust published a new monthly report.
Mythical announced that FIFA Rivals reached 1 million downloads in its sixth week while Pudgy Party reached 250K downloads in its first week.
Hyperbridge's multi-chain DOT liquidity pools reached $3M TVL within two weeks of DeFi Singularity campaign launch.
- Hyperbridge published Hyperbridge: The Turning Point and Sovereign Intents.
Hydration Boost Wars Round 3 selected AAVE for a 3-week farm with 15K GDOT incentives.
GIGADOT reached $100 million in DOT liquidity.
OriginTrail and Oxford PharmaGenesis are building a decentralized medical knowledge paranet on OriginTrail DKG for researchers, healthcare professionals, and patients.
peaq announced Season 2 of its Get Real campaign with a 210M PEAQ reward pool for DePIN interactions.
- Newcoin is building a multi-agent AI training DePIN on peaq, deploying its 100K+ agent network with crowdsourced human feedback.
Karim (Parity) published a technical write-up of CyberGov v0 following the first autonomous AI vote cast on Polkadot governance.

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

🆕 new

Ref 1745: Retroactively funding development and maintenance of SubWallet from August 2024 - March 2025
Ref 1748: Sponsoring active devs and community members to attend sub0 Symbiosis Conference in Buenos Aires (~$58K)

🕓 confirming

Ref 1710: Adjusting DOT inflation to the Hard Pressure & Stepped Supply model

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1727: Funding Subscan for Q4 2024 - Q2 2025 ($184.67K)
Ref 1729: Acquiring USDC & USDT for the Polkadot Treasury (2.64M DOT)
Ref 1732: Updating the curators of the Bridge Bounty
Ref 1734: Topping up the Events Bounty (500K DOT)
Ref 1735: Updating ERC-20 asset metadata on AssetHub and registering Frequency token on Ethereum
Ref 1740: Reducing the number of pending messages allowed in an HRMP channel

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1712: Funding 4 months development of DotCodeSchool ($22K)
Ref 1715: Funding the hardening of Polkadot to increase its hacking resilience ($495.8K)
Ref 1717: Funding the development of Clarys.AI ($130K)
Ref 1718: Adjusting DOT inflation to the Medium Pressure & Stepped Supply model
Ref 1721: Enabling RFC103 (elastic scaling) on the relay chain runtime
Ref 1722: Funding milestone 3 of Subsquare’s development of a Collectives/Fellowship-focused portal ($160.8K)
Ref 1724: Retroactively funding the development of a JAM Knowledge Base Search Engine ($25K)
Ref 1741: Funding the continuous development and maintenance of Polkawatch (9,998 DOT)
Ref 1743: Funding the DeFi Infra & Tooling Bounty (1M DOT)

✅ approved

Ref 1701: Making adjustments to OpenGov
Ref 1708: Retroactively funding JUST Ventures GmbH for work across governance, technical support, and ecosystem coordination ($149.91K)

❌ rejected

Ref 1703: Funding the development of the Staking Dashboard for Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 ($103K)
Ref 1705: Funding the go-to-market strategy of Pudgy Party on Polkadot ($2M)
Ref 1706: Retroactively funding the development and branding of the Polkadot Cloud website (~$42K)

Attempts At Governance #266 - Top-ups (a community-driven show that reviews governance on Polkadot).
The Weekly Friday DOT News Pump (BRIDGE Token Launch SUNDAY! 🤑 Polkadot DeFi Gets "Intents”) by The Kus.
Regulatory Rewind #020 by Parity and Polkadot.
Interview with Bill Laboon by The Dots.
PBA Campus Special - JAM panel with Parity–Gavin Wood, Kian Palmani, Shawn Tabrizi, and more–by Polkadot Blockchain Academy.
Polkadot, Hyperbridge, and the future of interoperability with Seun Lanlege (Hyperbridge), Ben (Hydration), Tyrone (Bifrost), and ET by Polkadot.
Web3 Promised a Music Revolution: Still Loading? with mufi, Beatport, Scytale, and Billfold by Polkadot.
Learn about Mandala Chain by Polkadot.
DV meets Community - Trustless Core, Le Nexus, Permanence DAO by Vibe Hub.

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