Polkadot 2.0 complete 🎉
Elastic scaling live, unique accounts surge, Gavin Wood meets politicians, and more
🐂 top news
Polkadot 2.0 is now complete with the launch of Elastic Scaling.
Polkadot unique accounts increased 36.8% over 11 months, rising from 12.9 million to 17.7 million.
Gavin Wood met with Armenian Minister of High-Tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan on October 9th to discuss Web3 education and plans for a Web3 university in Armenia.
Polkadot integrated with Gate Web3, the decentralized platform from Gate exchange.
Polkadot Builder Party registrations surpassed 1,500 participants.
sub0 will feature non-traditional conference amenities including a tattoo studio, tiki beach bar, esports arena, and nail salon.
DotLake launched Polkadot Overview, a dashboard providing ecosystem metrics and presentation-ready documentation.
Mimir, the enterprise-grade multisig wallet, reached $100M in total transaction volume.
Crypto.com enabled USDT and USDC deposits and withdrawals via Polkadot Asset Hub.
⭕️ ecosystem
Aventus is deprecating its staking program, requiring AVT stakers to unstake by December 31st 2025.
Bifrost reached 24 million DOT staked.
Crust received a $1M strategic investment from Asia Strategy for expansion and technical upgrades.
Hydration added HOLLAR liquidity pools as collateral to its Supply & Borrow product with doubled incentives and increased tBTC and GETH LTV to 80%.
Hyperbridge launched Sovereign Intents.
Integritee lost access to shielded funds and balances after a hardware failure, requiring affected users to submit details by November 30th for governance recovery.
Integritee launched a trustless bridge enabling TEER token transfers across Kusama, Polkadot parachains, and Polkadot Asset Hub.
Joinn Finance, an upcoming multichain RWA platform planning deployment on Polkadot Hub, received a strategic investment from Harbour Industrial Capital.
Mythical Games received investment from Eightco Holdings in its Series D financing for future Worldcoin digital identity integrations.
peaq signed an MoU with UAE’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority to formally recognize its Machine Economy Free Zone.
Silencio launched its Voice AI Campaign with boosted rewards for high-demand accents and dialects, including triple SLC rewards for Nigerian English speakers.
Talisman released v3.1 with Blockaid threat detection, LiFi cross-chain swap integration, and rewards for SEEK holders and stakers.
YOM announced October 28th as its token generation event date with IDO details and MACHINEX trading launch coming soon.
⚙️ technical
Polkadot SDK was upgraded to stable2509-1.
Polkadot-JS Extension was upgraded to v0.62.3.
Polkadot-JS Apps was upgraded to v0.167.1.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
🆕 new
Ref 1773: Funding ink! Alliance to finalize, audit, and stabilize ink! v6 on PolkaVM for Polkadot Hub with 6 months of developer support ($538K)
Ref 1776: Funding Treasury Guardian, a tool to promote milestone-based scheduled-payouts for improved Treasury efficiency and oversight ($68K)
👎🏾 failing
Ref 1762: Funding development of RegionX coretime marketplace on Polkadot (~66K)
Ref 1767: Funding the development of Treasury Guardian, a tool that incentivizes community members to oversee scheduled payouts and intervene when necessary to protect the Treasury (~$84K)
Ref 1768: Funding Chaotic for the maintenance and development of a public good Polkadot NFT marketplace ($180K)
Ref 1771: Funding a StellaSwap incentive program (1M DOT)
Ref 1772: Funding the development and maintenance of the Polkadot staking dashboard ($154K)
✅ approved
Ref 1758: Authorizing the curators of Bounty 31 to continue funding of Public RPC Providers for one year and two months (~111K DOT)
Ref 1763: Upgrading the Snowbridge Gateway contract on Ethereum
Ref 1765: Replaying failed Snowbridge transactions after Polkadot runtime upgrade 1.7.1
Ref 1766: Funding the maintenance of Polkawatch (~$39K)
❌ rejected
Ref 1749: Appointing 2 directors to the Polkadot Community Foundation
Ref 1750: Funding The Dots to keep producing Polkadot-related content on X and TikTok ($39K)
Ref 1751: Funding the expansion of @noble/curves to Polkadot ecosystem through the curations of micro-sr25519 package (~$37.4K)
Ref 1752: Funding a Polkadot for New Ventures acceleration program ($108K)
Ref 1757: Funding completion of the integration of BRC721, a protocol that enables bridgeless minting of NFTs directly on the Bitcoin network (40,000 DOT)
Ref 1759: Funding development of RegionX coretime marketplace on Polkadot (~196K)
Ref 1770: Funding the bootstrapping the Web3 Citizenship app (~1.1M DOT)
Ref 1760: Creating the ink! Alliance Bounty in preparation for Polkadot Hub (261,137 DOT)
Ref 1761: Seeking community input on implementing pUSD, a DOT-collateralized stablecoin for Polkadot Hub using the Honzon protocol
📺 what to watch and listen to
Polkadot Builder Party tutorial series:
OpenDev Core Polkadot Call - October 2025 / Read the recap.
Attempt at Governance (AAG) #273 - Red by The Kus x Polkadot.
Institutional Crypto Rails: Wakem Capital Management Strategies w/ John Vincent by The Kus.
The Weekly Friday DOT News Pump - Sovereign Intents LIVE on Polkadot ⚡️ Hyperbridge Cracks the Code by The Kus.
📖 what to read
Real World Assets on Polkadot: Your comprehensive guide to RWA by Polkadot blog.
Q3 2025 Polkadot DAO recap: Supply cap, treasury decisions & what’s next by Polkadot blog.
Building AI on Polkadot: Why centralized compute is the wrong foundation by Polkadot blog.
Polkadot Digest Part 14 by Polkadot.
Thank you for taking the dot leap!