Polkadot GIGAHydration is live 🌊

Jun 28, 2025

Hydration launched GIGAHydration, the biggest liquidity incentives campaign in Polkadot history, with APRs high as 69%.
Mythos and Bifrost ranked in the top 10 blockchains by fees generated over the past 365 days.
Polkadot launched an updated Staking Dashboard with faster performance, multi-language support, and an integrated rewards calculator.
Stablecoin infrastructure platform Zerohash integrated Polkadot Asset Hub, providing developer onboarding support for DOT, USDC, and USDT.
Polana Network aims to combine Solana's developer experience with Polkadot JAM's parallelized processing. The JamZig team completed a proof of concept executing Solana contracts inside the PVM.
Web3 Foundation opened applications for bounty curators on Kusama in ZK and advanced cryptography, proof-of-personhood, and art.
The SEC requested comments on the 21Shares Polkadot Trust ETF, delaying its decision by 35 days.
Polkadot launched the Open Source Developer Bounty offering $450,000 in milestone-based grants of $30K each for builders.
Nova Wallet's Twitter account was compromised by hackers who launched a scam token on Solana that reached a $16.8K market cap before the account was restored.

Xcscan launched as a new crosschain explorer for Polkadot and Kusama.
Web3 Foundation published an updated paper on Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE) presented at ACNS 2025, featuring DDoS protection, leader anonymity, and improved communication efficiency.
Polkadot VC fund Harbour Industrial Capital made a six-figure investment in RWA platform Xcavate. It also established a new funding advisory board with Polkadot ecosystem members including Angie Dalton (DOT Play), Pakman (Kylix/Mandala), Tommi Enenkel (OpenGov.Watch), Xiaojie Pang (Polkaworld), Pauline Cohen Vorms (PBA), and Michael Bennallack (Mandala).
Bifrost's vDOT surpassed 13 million liquid staked tokens.
Mythos exceeded 1 million sales transactions for the ninth consecutive month.

Polkadot Technical Fellow Bastian published a guide for the remote proxy pallet following its deployment with Kusama version 1.4.2.
Polkadot's coretime auto-renewal is now available through the PDP UI, requiring only an RPC URL to set up with automated XCM call generation.

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

🆕 new

Ref 1625: Funding the continuous development of ReactiveDOT ($89K)
Ref 1626: Rebranding DOT to JAM in 2026
Ref 1627: Funding the Polkadot Art Space ($34K)
Ref 1629: Upgrading Coretime system chain to 1.6.0 and increasing cores to 100
Ref 1631: Funding the development of Pixelproof ($575K)
Ref 1634: Sponsoring Politecnico di Milano’s Blockchain & Web3 Observatory (~$59K)
Ref 1635: Hire an ecosystem talent lead ($130K + 3K DOT)
Ref 1637: Funding Milestone 2 of the development of Cyborg Network (~$137K)

🕓 confirming

Ref 1584: Refilling the Marketing Bounty (200K DOT)
Ref 1586: Funding Merkle Science to provide compliance and security capabilities to Asset Hub (100K DOT)
Ref 1589: Funding milestone 4 of dAppForge development (108K USDC)
Ref 1591: Funding the Polkadot Community Foundation for 1 year (632K USDC)

👍🏾 passing

Ref 1595: Funding the further development of RegionX Hub ($49K)
Ref 1608: Seeking approval for the direction of the Polkadot Payment Card
Ref 1612: Funding the maintenance and further development of Subsquare ($444K)
Ref 1619: Funding the development of Pop CLI ($577.5K)

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1590: Funding Gossamer for the Q3-Q4 development of Go, an alternative client implementation of Polkadot (815K USDC)
Ref 1592: Funding a Pudgy Penguins <> Mubert Protocol Events Tour (81K USDC)
Ref 1614: Funding the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship for 9 months (1.98M USDC)
Ref 1611: Funding the development of JAMTON (~99K USDT)
Ref 1623: Seeking feedback to explore an alternate direction for Polkadot's Ethereum-compatibility layer
Ref 1624: Funding the development of Lunokit ($49.2K)

✅ approved

❌ rejected

Ref 1585: Funding the development of Avatar Accounts which will enable Ethereum users use their ETH addresses on Polkadot without any friction (211K USDC)
Ref 1587: Funding 1 year of Snowbridge development and maintenance (> 5M USDC)

Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Technical Educator, Senior Investor Relations Manager, and Senior Software Engineer.
Fill out the OpenJobs form to be added to the directory so potential employers can find you.

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