Polkadot adoption accelerating 🚀

May 24, 2025

LATAM regional exchange Ripio now supports DOT and stablecoins issued on Asset Hub.
AI music platform Mubert with over 1.5M creators is coming to Polkadot.
Asphere (the enterprise arm of Ankr) announced a collaboration with the Web3 Foundation to launch a no-code rollup deployment solution that will be released in the coming weeks.
The Web3 Foundation is seeking input on the future of Decentralized Voices program.
There is a new RFC to burn 80% of transaction fees from Relay Chain and system parachains.
Alice und Bob launched OpenJobs (a board that matches jobs and people in the Polkadot ecosystem) and posted an updated Polkadot roadmap.
The Technical Fellowship pushed new changes to fix the design problems with the coretime market.
Encointer announced that its Nyota community in Tanzania has developed its own ways of leveraging digital currencies.
Phunky used the Polkadot app to buy coffee at Starbucks.

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Moonbeam published a 2025 product roadmap.
Acala published a new ecosystem report.
Astar announced a strategic investment from Animoca Brands.
Bifrost announced new tokenomics.
Hyperbridge has been integrated on the Enjin testnet.
Acurast released details on its tokenomics for staked compute.
Acala integrated Snowbridge and Hyperlane to enhance interoperability across multiple ecosystems.
You can pre-register on Google Play and Apple App Store to get FIFA Rivals as soon as it goes live.
The Moonbeam Gaming Hub is live, bringing all gaming activity in one place.
StellaSwap launched incentivized BTC and ETH pools as part of their 1M DOT campaign on May 22nd.
Kylix Finance entered a partnership with CreataChain to facilitate the integration of Kylix’s liquidity model and on-chain liquidation mechanisms.
6-second blocktimes and Unified Addresses are now enabled on Hydration.
Hydration rolled out new features including 6-secs blocktimes with Async Backing and unified address formatting.
Moonbeam extended its Governance Guild initiative and is accepting applications for the second term. 5M GLMR and 50K MOVR will be assigned to five delegates to be used in on-chain governance.
Robonomics posted a new roadmap.

The Turtle widget is live, enabling developers to access all of Turtle's frictionless cross-chain functionality directly on their dApps.
Rob Habermeier announced new optimizations to NOMT that drastically saves disk space and improves performance.

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

🕓 confirming

Ref 1540: Funding the continuous operations of the Spanish BD Team (now IBERLABS) for one year
Ref 1541: Funding Eiger for phase 3 development of the Polkadot-native storage solution
Ref 1544: Retroactively funding Polkabiz’s BD/Mentorship efforts

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1543: Funding the development of a Substrate Asset Game Engine
Ref 1553: Providing additional funding to maintain and expand Polkadot’s representation within the Texas Blockchain Council
Ref 1562: Funding the development and 12-month maintenance of DotMemo V2
Ref 1572: Retroactively funding the development of Mimir, a multisig solution for Polkadot
Ref 1573: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for the next 6 months of development, marketing, tooling, and legal costs of the Polkadot App
Ref 1580: Funding the development and open source rollout of Epico — an Ethereum wallet compatibility layer for the Polkadot SDK
Ref 1581: Upgrading the Polkadot runtime to v1.5.1

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1539: Funding the JAM China academy educational roadshow
Ref 1542: Funding the Polkadot GIGAHydration campaign
Ref 1564: Funding milestone 1 of the development of Bounty Hub
Ref 1567: Funding media and marketing campaign for the APAC region led by PANews
Ref 1570: Approving NFT Mozaic’s MVP Grants Program
Ref 1545: Funding the operations of AIWeb3 Chinese Unit
Ref 1549: Funding the development of KAGOME, the C++ implementation of the Polkadot host
Ref 1555: Funding Volmex’s integration with the Polkadot DEX ecosystem
Ref 1558: Funding Weever’s campaign to onboard Web2 developers in LATAM and beyond to Polkadot Hub
Ref 1546: Upgrading the Polkadot relay chain to runtime 1.5.0
Ref 1557: Funding the integration of a certification system that ensures the authenticity and immutability of proposal documents
Ref 1559: Funding the a kick-start campaign for RISC-V smart home devices, secured by Polkadot
Ref 1560: Funding milestone 2 of the EasyA x Polkadot in-person hackathons
Ref 1563: Funding the development of N3MUS, a Web3-native tournament platform
Ref 1574: Funding the development of W3PI Token Index
Ref 1575: Funding milestone 1 of Inter Miami CF fan engagement campaign

✅ approved

❌ rejected

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Progress with JAM implementation with Acala’s Bryan Chen by Polkaworld.
The Ambassador Fellowship Meets (featuring Parity’s Joe Petrowski, Jan-Jan van der Vyver, Torsten Stuber, and Pierre Aubert).
Jobs in Polkadot by Alice und Bob.
Friday DOT news pump weekly ecosystem recap by The Kus.
Check out the Women In Polkadot.
Attempts At Governance #234 by The Kus.
OpenDev Core Polkadot Call - May 2025 by The Kus.
Live Game Souk #04 by Angie Dalton x DotPlay.

Gavin Wood is taking JAM to Protocol Berg in Berlin (June 12-13).
Erin from Parity will lead a workshop on building test infrastructure from the ground up at Protocol Berg in Berlin.
Polkadot is sponsoring the Third Annual Blockchain Technology Conference at the University of Miami, 30-31 May.
The Kusama ZK Summit is coming to Web3 Summit on July 17. Apply to attend or speak here - spots are limited.

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