Second DOT ETF in 3 weeks

Mar 01, 2025

Gavin Wood, in a live demo in Shanghai, ran DOOM on JAM (with no special modifications).
Grayscale filed a second DOT ETF with the SEC after the one filed by 21 Shares in the last few weeks.
Joe Petrowski (Parity engineer) stated that everything is on track for the Q3 release of Polkadot Hub.
OriginTrail is the top revenue earner of all AI blockchains.
Web3 Foundation launched the Polkadot x ERA Global Program, an accelerator program that aims to help projects break into the US market. Kylix, Apillon, Staex, and Zeitgeist have been selected to join the first cohort.
Paper Moon has condensed the Polkadot Developer Docs into a single page optimized for LLM training.
21 Shares published Polkadot 2.0: Redefining Interoperability and Innovation in Blockchain - The Evolution of the Layer 0 Powerhouse.

The official Polkadot Telegram group has been re-opened.
Phala announced a partnership with Exabits to offer robust AI security with TEE-enabled infrastructure.
Acurast and Nodle launched Open Node, enabling developers to transform old smartphones into AI compute nodes.
Hydration unveiled a new deposit flow that makes depositing tokens more seamless.
Evrloot Auction House is live, bringing order book features and price discovery to the in-game marketplace.
SubWallet announced new features:
- custom gas tokens are now supported for Asset Hub transactions
- payments on the privacy-focused XHYPE travel and gift-card marketplaces can now be made with Asset Hub DOT and USDT
Gavun Wud AI agent is now more capable of deeper insights thanks to an integration with the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph. It now has access to the Polkadot Wiki, sentiment analysis, and real-time asset prices.
Reminder: if you have any issues using Polkadot, you can talk to Juan and his team through Polkadot Support.
You can now bridge vTokens, BNC, and DOT from Bifrost to Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB via the Hyperbridge integration.

Polkadot version stable2412-2 has been released.
Polkadot relay chain has upgraded to runtime 1.4.0.
Polkadot co-founder Rob Habermeier has released the v1.0 preview of NOMT, an upcoming scaling solution for blockchain nodes that enhances throughput and interoperability, yet runs on inexpensive consumer-grade hardware.
Blockdeep Labs released Epico, a tool that helps Polkadot SDK chains (including non-EVM chains) interact directly with MetaMask without any intermediaries.
If you’re seeing a “NotMigrated” error when dealing with Polkadot or Kusama nomination pools, this is due to your account both direct- and pool-staking with the new runtime. Juan has the details on how to fix here.

The Social Media Editorial Board, a team of community members responsible for managing the Polkadot Twitter account, opened applications for its 3rd cohort.
Applications for Decentralized Voices Cohort 4 are now open.
The Polimec x Scytale Academy kicks off on April 7th and is now taking applications. Successful applicants will receive training and mentoring to help their project achieve investment readiness. Projects will be eligible for funding of up to $250K from Scytale and potential additional funding from a Polimec fundraise.
The N3mus x Moonbeam weekly gaming tournament has entered Week 6, featuring The Great Escape and PINK’s Pinkdrop, with a prize pool of $1750 USDC.
Airlyft launched the Gavin Wood Saved My Life campaign with a 500 DOT prize pool.
Kaito x Polkadot launched the Polkadot Yapper Leaderboard with $100K monthly rewards. Top 50 Yappers will receive distributions starting March 31st.
PBA-X began enrollment for its second online cohort.
The Evrloot Auction House is live, bringing order book features and price discovery to the in-game marketplace. To celebrate, every trader in week one will receive a rare Trader’s Necklace, with the top three traders sharing a prize pool of USDC $1000.

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

🙌🏾 unanimous support

Ref 1424: Force upgrade of Parallel parachain to address hack
Ref 1436: Increasing schedulerParams.lookahead to 3
Ref 1439: Funding Hyperbridge/Bifrost 795k DOT liquidity campaign
Ref 1440: Funding LimeChain for Giant Squid phase 2
Ref 1447: Funding Subsquid indexing infrastructure
Ref 1459: Upgrading the Polkadot runtime to 1.4.1
Ref 1452: Retaining Basti Köcher (bkchr) at rank 6 of the Technical Fellowship
Ref 1463: Polkassembly Social Contract 2025 (support - 30k DOT)
Ref 498: Proposing a new vision for Kusama and authorizing 10 million DOT from the Web3 Foundation to be used for Kusama 🦅

👍🏾 passing

👎🏾 failing

Ref 1411: Spanish Bounty V3 (83.7% against)
Ref 1412: Brave Wallet integration (99.9% against)
Ref 1425: Peer3 SDK development (61.6% against)
Ref 1426: Decentered retroactive funding (100% against)
Ref 1433: WAGOI development (83.2% against)
Ref 1462: Funding the 2025 development of Polkadot-API (33% against - 5k DOT support)

✅ approved

Fireside Chat with Web3 Foundation's CFO Thomas Fecker Boxler at Consensus Hong Kong.
Friday DOT News Pump (recap of the week’s top news, ETH Denver edition) by The Kus.
Building Polkadot's Global Community with Lucy Coulden (Head Ambassador) by The Kus.
All About Web3 Foundation and Polkadot with Bill Laboon at the Crypto101 Podcast.
The Future of Web3 by Shawn Tabrizi at ETH Denver.
PVM Workshop pt. 1 by Polkadot JAM Community. (deeply technical)
Polkadot hosted Richard and Pakman (Xcavate) on February 20th to discuss how their decentralized modular protocol is leading the way for the tokenization of real estate.

The Web3 Summit returns in 2025 from July 16th to 18th at the Funkhaus Berlin. Ticket sales and speaker applications are open now.

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