Polkadot Cores sellout, new ATH 🚀

May 17, 2025

All available cores sold out at the starting price of the dutch auction, triggering a 10x increase in cores for the next month.
A Polkadot core sold for 2,000 DOT on the secondary market.
OpenZeppelin announced their support for smart contracts on Polkadot.
Alice_und_bob published the Q1 2025 Treasury Report on the Polkadot Forum.
WebZero proposed a merger of Sub0 and Decoded into a new flagship event.
The PBA campus, in conjunction with Mandala Chain, opened applications for a three-week course starting on August 24th.

goku posted a megathread of Polkadot’s IRL experience.
Energy Web partnered with Chooose to launch an aviation emissions registry, with Alaska Airlines joining the sustainable fuel initiative.
Polkassembly underwent a revamp.
Nova Wallet made cross-chain swaps smoother than ever.
Integritee published AI to the Rescue: Streamlining Payments with AI Agents.
OriginTrail announced a partnership with the ELSA (European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI) initiative to shape the future of decentralized, privacy-preserving artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.
Frequency published Frequency Architecture (Part 3): Economics on Frequency.
Acurast published It’s time to rethink compute, thoughts from its Co-Founder Alessandro De Carli.
If you failed to complete the KYC for Hyperbridge’s Initial Relayer Offering, you can now request a refund through their portal.

Experimental support for PolkaVM smart contracts became available on Pop CLI v0.8.0.
Pop CLI would like to hear your thoughts on the development process and how they can help.

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

🕓 confirming

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1539: Funding the JAM China academy educational roadshow
Ref 1541: Funding Eiger for phase 3 development of the Polkadot-native storage solution
Ref 1542: Funding the Polkadot GIGAHydration campaign
Ref 1544: Retroactively funding Polkabiz’s BD/Mentorship efforts
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 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 1572: Retroactively funding the development of Mimir, a multisig solution for Polkadot
Ref 521: Setting a DOT/KSM asset conversion rate

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1540: Funding the continuous operations of the Spanish BD Team (now IBERLABS) for one year
Ref 1543: Funding the development of a Substrate Asset Game Engine
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 a kick-starter 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 1573: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for the next 6 months of development, marketing, tooling, and legal costs of the Polkadot App
Ref 522: Proposing to increase the number of usable Kusama cores to 140

✅ approved

Ref 1526: Retroactively funding Subsquid for indexing infrastructure
Ref 519: Upgrading the Kusama relay chain to runtime 1.5.0
Ref 524: Disabling the V2 descriptors node feature on Kusama to solve the recent finality issues

❌ rejected

Ref 1533: Funding a meta-proposal combining 7 initiatives to strengthen the Polkadot Hivemind and enhance outward-facing projects

peaq is enabling some airspace incentives as it onboards Alpha AI, a drone-powered 3D city mapping DePIN.
Polkadot Africa is hosting a ChessOnChain tournament on May 21st - get ready to battle.
The Polkadot Fast Grants bounty program is offering up to $10K in funding to early-stage builders with a 3-day approval window.
Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Technical Educator, Senior Investor Relations Manager, and Senior Software Engineer.

WebZero will be hosting a Polkadot hackathon as an official side event at Consensus 2025, 13 - 16 May, including a round-the-clock private chef.
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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