Polkadot trends on CT
$600k rewards for creators, 0.5ms block times arrive, JAM implementation breakthrough, and others
🐂 boolish - top news
Kaito released the Polkadot Yapper Leaderboard. $100,000 available to the top 50 yappers every month for 6 months, sponsored by the Treasury and negotiated by the Marketing Bounty. 48 hours later, global tweets about Polkadot shot up 200%.
🤯0.5ms block times are a thing, courtesy Bastian (Polkadot Technical Fellow).
American financier, Anthony Scaramucci, announced on CNBC that his company holds DOT.
Two independent JAM implementation teams have reached identical results by following the Graypaper 0.6.2 formal specs. jamixr’s JAM node is now importing blocks from JAM Duna.
The Polkadot 2025 roadmap has been updated with the progress made so far, as well the addition of Individuality.
Multix released multi-token transactions for multi-sig users.
⭕️ ecosystem
Web3 Foundation awarded a Decentralized Futures grant to BEEFtainer, a team that is working on some enhancements for the BEEFY protocol used by bridges such as Snowbridge and Hyperbridge.
Turtle bridge now supports USDC, USDT, and DOT transfers between Polimec and Asset Hub, as well as one-way transfers of DOT from the Relay Chain to Polimec.
KILT has enlisted Victus Capital to help kickstart the next phase of its growth led by the newly formed KILT Foundation.
Nova Spektr’s v1.14.0 update adds Polkadot-JS Integration (beta), and support for Polkadot Technical Fellowship voting.
Hydration announced that 197M HDX will be distributed to stakers over 25 weeks, funded by protocol owned liquidity.
Hydration’s future roadmap was released.
tBTC is now live in the Omnipool via Snowbridge.
Subscan now has a new EVM tab for Bifrost.
Ajuna is in the final stage of transitioning its Kusama parachain Bajun to Polkadot with a 1:1 swap of BAJUN to AJUN tokens on February 27th.
TOD-AI (a tool for creating your own TOD image) is live on the Polkadot Discord.
Litentry has completed its rebranding and is now known as Heima. The new name reflects a shift in focus away from identity aggregation to chain abstraction.
💰 opportunities
Season 1 of peaq’s Get Real campaign has commenced. Claim your upgradable Peaqonaut NFT and start your real-world interactions with Peaqosystem DePINs now for a chance to share in a $100M incentive pool of tokens, devices, and merch. peaq shared everything you need to know about the campaign.
This December, the Polkadot Blockchain Academy is launching an in-person technical course on JAM. Selected technologists and academics from Polkadot, Ethereum, and Web2 will learn directly from the builders of JAM.
Mandala is now accepting applications to expand its ambassador program.
Web3 Foundation is hiring for several positions, including Support Specialist, Growth Operations Manager, Research Scientist Intern, and Investor Relations Manager.
The Open Source Developer Grants Bounty (funded by Ref 1080) has begun. For details, see here.
Interested in helping the Polkadot community grow by hosting meetups? Polkadot Roots is accepting applications.
🏛️ governance
For more information on Polkadot governance statistics, check out the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.
confirming
Ref 1390, funding Talisman mobile wallet, is passing with 74.9% in favor.
Ref 1399, retroactively funding WebZero for representing Polkadot at Consensus, is passing with 99.9% in favor.
deciding
Ref 1388, sponsoring Team Vitality for 2 years as official blockchain partner, is failing unanimously.
Ref 1388, sponsoring G2 Esports for 2 years as official blockchain partner with a seamless fan onboarding strategy into Polkadot, is barely passing with 65% in favor.
Ref 1407, setting 4 curators for the Legal Bounty, is passing with 86.1% in favor.
Ref 1410, funding RegionX for phase 1 deployment of the Coretime marketplace, is failing with 39% against.
Ref 1411, funding Spanish Bounty V3, is failing with 80.6% against.
Ref 1412, funding the integration of Polkadot into Brave Wallet, is failing with 99.9% against.
Ref 1413, retroactively funding the JAM graypaper reader, is passing unanimously.
Ref 1417, closing the technical support bounty, is passing with 99.4%.
Ref 1416, allowing the Marketing Bounty to execute formal contracts through the Polkadot Community Foundation.
Ref 1424, proposing to force_upgrade the Parallel parachain in order to ameliorate a hack, is passing almost unanimously with 14.6% support. This means 14.6% of all available DOT is voting in favor (or deliberately abstaining).
Ref 1425, funding the development of the Peer3 SDK (realtime peer-to-peer smart contracts dev kit), is failing with 52.8% against.
Ref 1426, retroactively funding Decentered for executing Polkadot Decoded 2024, is failing almost unanimously.
Ref 1427, proposing to update Polkadot to runtime 1.4.0, is now up for vote. Of note in this runtime upgrade is the ability for members of nomination pools to participate in OpenGov voting and the ability to transfer Polkadot-native assets to Ethereum. More details here.
Ref 1433, funding the development of WAGOI (a dePin to bring vehicle data to AssetHub), is failing unanimously.
Ref 1434, funding the further development and maintenance of Polkassembly in 2025, is failing with 73.2% in favor.
Ref 1436, increasing schedulerParams.lookahead value to 3, is passing unanimously.
Ref 1439, funding Hyperbridge and Bifrost for a 795k DOT liquidity campaign, is passing almost unanimously.
Ref 1440, funding LimeChain for phase 2 development and maintenance of Giant Squid (aka Subsquid), is now live.
Ref 491, proposing to deregister parathread 3390, is passing almost unanimously. 🦅
Ref 494, proposing to update Kusama runtime to version 1.4.0, is now up for vote. Of note are the removal of additional funding for Kappa Sigma Mu, allowing governance to set burn parameters, and allowing governance voting by members of nomination pools. More details here. 🦅
approved
Ref 1377, funding the creation of OG Rust Bounties (designed to incentivize Rust engineers to carry out developer tasks that have been requested under OpenGov, or by some reputable authority such as the Fellowship).
Ref 1381, ratifying the payout approved by Ref. 1346.
Ref 1383, funding Ideal Labs to develop the randomness layer for Polkadot.
Ref 1391, retroactively funding Novasama for 9 months of work on various features.
Ref 1392, funding Polkadot Music Events Initiative to produce 4 {Bash} events with a KPI of bringing 1M+ minimum user wallets in 2025.
Ref 1395, topping up the Polkadot System Parachains Collator Bounty.
Ref 488, proposing to modify the schedulerParams.lookAhead parameter from 2 to 3. 🦅
Ref 490, providing 33,333 KSM as liquidity to the Hydration omnipool on Polkadot. 🦅
rejected
Ref 1389, sponsoring the Conor Daly 2025 Polkadot Motorsports 2.0 Program with $3.5m.
📺 what to watch and listen to
What the FUD? Polkadot community AMA with Evan, Bill, Birdo, Filippo, and Alice und Bob.
Latest episode of The Kusamarian, Polkadot LOVE or LUST?, capturing noteworthy updates from the past week.
Hydration hosted an AMA with its community and founder.
📖 what to read
Polkadot did what Ethereum couldn’t by Lauro Gripa, ex-Ethereum developer.
The meaning of TPS in a sharded system by Kian Paimani, Parity core dev.
JAM isn’t “a better VM”—it hosts and manages multiple VMs by Goku, Gavin, Tommy.
The JAM experience. What’s it really like? by Oliver Brett, External Comms Lead at Parity.
The Humanoid Robot Market in 2025 by Sergei Lonshakov, founder of Robonomics.
Unlocking the Future of Energy with Energy Web Circles by Energy Web.
State of Phala Q4 2024 by Messari.
📅 events
EasyA will be hosting a 2-day Hackathon at Consensus Hong Kong on February 19th, sponsored by Polkadot. Participants will receive mentorship from leading ecosystem teams and have the chance to pitch their projects to industry leaders and VCs while competing for cash prizes.
Edgetributor SUBDAO hosted the second edition of Polkadot India Workshops at IIT Mumbai on February 8th and 9th. The two-day program included blockchain fundamentals, development on Polkadot, and an introduction to JAM.
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