Polkadot turned 5 🎂

May 31, 2025

Gavin Wood gave a talk on ‘Insights into JAM and CoreVM’ at ETHPrague and demoed Quake on JAM. Here is a written recap if you don’t have an hour to spare.
Polkadot turned 5 on May 26.
Polkadot is now listed on GasFeesNow, enabling users to compare the transfer costs of USDT across nine major chains.
Tin Chung released a new Polkadot Education Hub that combines courses, bootcamps, workshops and more under one roof, all open-sourced.
All Polkadot-native assets on Moonbeam are now true ERC-20s (i.e., fully EVM-native) following a recent asset migration exercise.
JAM update: multiple teams are now passing the block import test vectors — aligned with the upcoming M1 conformance tool.
POLKAJUNE is around the corner.
Mimir has now deployed Safe contracts on PolkaVM, making the industry-standard multisig service available natively on Polkadot.

The Web3 Foundation is seeking input on the future of Decentralized Voices program.
Parity announced that onboarding the first beta testers to the Polkadot Deployment Portal, a new 1-Click Deployment Solution, was a success.
Peaq is listing $500K of tokens in a Vested Emission Offering on Lucid Labs to bootstrap liquidity in the machine economy.
Wormhole is winding down its support of Acala. All Wormhole-wrapped tokens on Karura and Acala, including those in liquidity pools, will need to be bridged back to their original chains by June 18^th.
Unique Network has minted 1 million NFTs.
Acurast raised $5.4M in a public sale on Coinlist.
The UX Bounty is looking for user testers for the SubWallet UX Audit. 5 DOT available.
Dot Play published its quarterly review.
Kusama and its parachains are now supported on Chainspect, offering metrics such as real-time TPS and total transactions.

Ink! v6, which supports RISC-V, PolkaVM, and pallet-revive, is now available on the Pop Network testnet.
Scout, a static analysis tool that helps developers find vulnerabilities in their code, now supports Substrate.

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

🆕 new

Ref 1583: Retroactively funding Gitorial VS Code Extension (1,660 DOT)
Ref 1584: Refilling the Marketing Bounty (200K DOT)
Ref 1585: Funding the development of Avatar Accounts which will enable Ethereum users to use their ETH addresses on Polkadot without any friction (211K USDC)
Ref 1586: Funding Merkle Science to provide compliance and security capabilities to Asset Hub (100K DOT)
Ref 1587: Funding 1 year of Snowbridge development and maintenance (> 5M USDC)

🕓 confirming

Ref 1542: Funding the Polkadot GIGAHydration campaign (the Hydration team reduced their ask to 2M DOT for a 6-month liquidity campaign with an agreement to return the remaining 3M DOT to the Treasury).

👍🏾 passing

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 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

👎🏾 failing

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 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 1557: Funding the integration of a certification system that ensures the authenticity and immutability of proposal documents
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
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

✅ approved

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 1543: Funding the development of a Substrate Asset Game Engine
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 1581: Upgrading the Polkadot runtime to v1.5.1

❌ rejected

Ref 1539: Funding the JAM China academy educational roadshow
Ref 1545: Funding the operations of AIWeb3 Chinese Unit
Ref 1549: Funding the development of KAGOME, the C++ implementation of the Polkadot host
Ref 1546: Upgrading the Polkadot relay chain to runtime 1.5.0

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.

Polkadot is a Community Channel sponsor for the ETH Belgrade Hackathon starting on June 3^rd. A prize pool of $7.5K is being offered for Polkadot smart-contract development bounties.

Thank you for taking the DOT leap!

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