🐂 top news
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.
⭕️ ecosystem
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 18th.
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.
⚙️ technical
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.
🏛️ governance
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
💰 opportunities
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.
📺 what to watch and listen to
Gigadot Sets Sail: Exploring a New Era of Cross-Chain Liquidity with Bifrost and Hydration by Oneblock+
WebZero's BIG plans for Berlin Blockchain Week by Polkadot Twitter.
Mapping the Future: Polkadot’s Strategic Role in Web3 by The Tie.
Building in Polkadot with Kylix Finance and Hyperbridge.
A Glass with Gav: Episode 5 featuring Gavin Wood and Mark Cachia from Scytale.
Meet JAM Implementers: Daniel Cukier from jamixir by Pala Labs.
Friday DOT news pump (Quake On-Chain on Polkadot JAM! 💣 Polkadot Summer Kicks off with BIG Liquidity News) weekly ecosystem recap by The Kus.
Secrets of Viral Crypto Events 🕶️ The Hidden Magic of WebZero - Space Monkeys Podcast 193 by The Kus.
📖 what to read
I watched Gavin Wood’s full ~1hr talk at ETH Prague so you won’t have to by gbaci.
AI Isn’t Safe from Cybercriminals: Main Threats & How to Mitigate Them by Integritee.
The gamer’s guide to blockchain: Ownership, influence, and what comes next, How DePIN is bringing real infrastructure and real users to Web3, and Polkadot at Consensus 2025: Demos, DAO talk, and new audiences by Polkadot blog.
Polkadot Ecosystem Top 10 must-read content for the Weekend by Magenta Labs.
Why is Polkadot JAM 10x-70x more powerful than Cardano Hydra? by Daniel Cukier.
📅 events
Polkadot is a Community Channel sponsor for the ETH Belgrade Hackathon starting on June 3rd. A prize pool of $7.5K is being offered for Polkadot smart-contract development bounties.
Thank you for taking the DOT leap!
