. @gavofyork returns as CEO of Parity to lead the next phase of our journey. @bjornwgnr steps down after three transformative years. With a strong foundation and clear direction, we’re accelerating. The next era of Polkadot starts now. parity.io/blog/back-at-the-h…

.@Polkadot and @kusamanetwork Gifts are the newest, easiest way to send DOT or KSM to anyone, even if they don’t already have an account or wallet. Don’t miss your chance to learn how to create a gift from @shawntabrizi at #Sub0 Online. Happening now: parity.link/Sub0-2021

.@gavofyork returns as CEO of Parity. The founder of @Polkadot and one of Ethereum's original architects is back to steer Polkadot into its next phase: a focused, product-led, and uncompromisingly principled one. The Second Coming begins. Learn more in the latest interview with @TheKusamarian. 🔗piped.video/live/SPHfq-A2V7Y…

Don't miss Parity and @Polkadot founder @gavofyork interview with @protocol about the journey from Ethereum to Polkadot, his vision for the third iteration of the web, as well as why crypto and blockchain technology will prevail: hubs.ly/H0YJ6hm0

⭕@Polkadot in 2025⭕ Parity CEO @bjornwgnr is optimistic from a technological perspective "with upgrades coming, new partnerships & an ever growing community" Engineering VP @pierreaubert says Polkadot is now "really decentralized & powerful enough to support large companies"

September 23-24 join #UnfinishedLive by @thisisunfinishd to hear from @gavofyork, founder of @Polkadot, @web3foundation, and Parity, discuss a decentralized future and how new technologies can fulfill the promise of a decentralized web. To register and for details:

"We're all in the family now" - @IOHK_Charles on @Polkadot - @Cardano crossovers, with a mention of how "excited" he is to see where JAM goes.

It's just 1 hour before @gavofyork's talk at the #UnfinishedLive @byUnfinished. Tune in to live.unfinished.com at 7:10pm CET to hear Parity Tech and @Polkadot founder discuss how decentralized web technologies are creating a fairer internet with trustless systems:

Substrate 2.0 is here! The next major milestone in Substrate stability features tons of new pallets since v1.0, along with key features like off-chain workers. Substrate is now more powerful than ever for building custom production-ready blockchains. parity.io/substrate-2-0-is-h…

Dedication is never missing an opportunity to code @Polkadot @gavofyork

Parity Technologies is developing a generic assets parachain called Statemint as one of the first common-good chains on @Polkadot & @kusamanetwork. Providing functionality for deploying assets — from NFTs to stablecoins and Central Bank Digital Currencies. bit.ly/38FTuJ9

For nearly a decade, Parity has focused on building the foundations of @Polkadot. Now those foundations are solid, and we’re using them to build the products we’ve always envisioned. The next decade is product-led. Stay tuned for an announcement as @gavofyork joins @TheKusamarian to talk about the next decade of Parity & Polkadot.

Today at 5:30pm ET/11:30pm CET, tune in to the #Mainnet2021 to hear Parity's @PAMauric discuss the future of @Polkadot with @AcalaNetwork's @danreecer_, @MoonbeamNetwork's @derekyoo, and @daltonan from Signum Growth Capital. To save your spot: hubs.ly/H0XPx-G0

#Sub0 Online, the @substrate_io developer conference, is coming back October 13-14. Register now to hear from @Polkadot founder @gavofyork, the #substrate core developers, as well as the teams building innovative #Web3 projects. Save your spot: hubs.ly/H0WHbgL0

AHM UPDATE: Account migration complete. 1.6 billion DOT migrated from 1.5 million accounts. ➡️Items processed: 1,512,216 ➡️Failed: 0 migration.paritytech.io/

🇦🇪 Dubai 🗓️ April 18-19 @Polkadot and Parity founder @gavofyork @token2049

October 18th at 3pm CET, don't miss your chance to hear Parity's @uosvald and Sacha Lansky in the @Polkadot pre-hackathon community event. Tune in to learn about the #PolkadotHackathon Global series, as well as to get introduced to Polkadot and @substrate_io ecosystem:

July 8th tune in to the Parity & Friends meetup to hear @web3foundation's @Qinwen_Wang and @Ternoa_'s @EliottTeiss discuss tools and opportunities available for #NFT creators on @Polkadot and @kusamanetwork. Save your spot now to hear the vision for the future of #NFTs.

Elastic Scaling is now live on @Polkadot 🚀 Introducing vertical scalability for rollups, enabling parachain teams to handle growing demand more efficiently and deliver a user experience very close to Web2 for end-users. Let’s unpack what this means for builders 🧵👇

Right now at '@Polkadot & @kusamanetwork Parachains' community event: Parity's @BenWhiteJamin and Santiago Balaguer with an overview of the ecosystem and parachain auction process. Tune in: hubs.ly/H0YcJn40

Agile Coretime has been successfully deployed on Westend. The final test has been cleared before engineers bring this exciting technology to @kusamanetwork - and ultimately @Polkadot itself. Agile Coretime makes it easier to build applications on Polkadot.

Ethereum-compatible SMART CONTRACTS on @Polkadot Stage1️⃣ (soon): Smart contracts on @kusamanetwork Stage2️⃣ (this summer): Smart contracts on Kusama get access to native assets, staking, governance + XCM Stage3️⃣ (Q3): Smart contracts launch on Polkadot 😍Are you excited yet?

"The main benefit of JAM is to avoid fixed persistent state partitioning" - @gavofyork

We have worked hard to help develop the Ethereum ecosystem; no intention of harming it. Let's find the right solutions through collaboration

The @Polkadot Virtual Machine (PVM) brings RISC-V performance to decentralized computing. ⚙️ 45% of native x64 speed 💡 Deterministic, efficient, metered 🌍 Built for any language compiling to RISC-V Built for JAM. Built for scale. 🎥 From Dr. Gavin Wood’s / @gavofyork Hangzhou Lecture on the future of decentralized compute: piped.video/watch?v=HL4_G5GP… Thanks to @pala_labs

Want to build the future of #blockchain and #Web3? Parity is seeking out the world's best developers, marketing & comms specialists. To learn more and to apply: parity.link/xi2YU

1/ Reflecting on our journey with @Polkadot, Parity's role has been an exploration in contrasts. We are passionate advocates for decentralization, yet as we've expanded our mandate, we've had to navigate the risk of becoming a bottleneck for Polkadot’s growth.

⭐️Resilience ⭐️Performance ⭐️Generality ⭐️Accessibility ⭐️Coherence In an exclusive interview for @ForbesDAssets @Polkadot founder @gavofyork explains the 5 criteria that determine the fundamental quality of a blockchain. forbes.com/sites/digital-ass…

"I thought I was the ideas guy and Gav does all the coding!" When @gavofyork sat down with @VitalikButerin earlier today, a rapt audience was treated to two of Web3's greatest minds on stage together. The full video from @EthPrague @Polkadot @ethereum

🚨 There’s big stuff coming on the horizon for @polkadot... ...including some eye-catching 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 and 𝐀𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 developments. Check out the thread! (1/6)

.@Polkadot just levelled up. We’re proud to announce that all three pillars of the network’s evolution are now live: ✅ Asynchronous Backing; parachain blocks every ~6 s, 8–10× throughput boost. ✅ Agile Coretime; flexible, on-demand blockspace access; auctions are history. ✅ Elastic Scaling; parachains now tap multiple cores in real-time for huge performance gains. Builders - the infrastructure is ready. Let’s build the next Web3 🏗️ Explore Elastic Scaling 👇paritytech.github.io/polkado…

Parity is teaming up with @ZcashFoundation and will build a new Zcash client medium.com/paritytech/parity…

Today, Parity's @shawntabrizi opened up the eyes of the @Polkadotsub0 audience to "JAM" (in "How JAM changes the future of Web3") JAM is an ultra user-friendly update to the @Polkadot Relay Chain This video was shared by @thewhiterabbitM (thank you!)

Don't miss an in-depth conversation on all things #Polkadot with Parity Tech and @Polkadot founder @gavofyork at #Mainnet2021. piped.video/watch?v=bg1-vHYu…

ink!, Parity’s @rustlang-based language for WASM smart contracts used in the @Polkadot and @substrate_io ecosystem, has just launched its biggest update to date. Learn about the most significant changes that came to ink! with version 3.0 from the blog: hubs.ly/Q016d45P0

Today at 10:20am ET/4:20pm CET, don't miss your chance to hear Parity Tech and @Polkadot founder @gavofyork discuss all things Polkadot in the mainstage chat at @MessariCrypto's #Mainnet2021. To get your ticket and to learn more: hubs.ly/H0XG96N0

Ever wondered what @gavofyork REALLY thinks of Ethereum?

Introducing Substrate EVM, a #Substrate module for running unmodified #Ethereum smart contracts on any Substrate-based blockchain. parity.io/substrate-evm/

"@Polkadot is a very mature product that SCALES and matches the needs of large companies. We can partner with them and do stuff together." - @pierreaubert (Parity VP of engineering)

The numbers speak for themselves 👇 • 1,526,324 accounts migrated • 1.63B DOT moved • 53,407 stakers • 283 MB of data • All in 8h 39m The Asset Hub Migration is done. No forks. No downtime. Pure on-chain execution. @Polkadot just re-engineered itself mid-flight. Huge congratulations to the team - this was a colossal success built on months of hard work 👏

Async Backing ✅ Agile Coretime ✅ Elastic Scaling 🟠 Remember ELASTIC SCALING, the final piece of the Polkadot 2.0 jigsaw? You can try out an early version that's being tested right now on @kusamanetwork The @Polkadot version will be made ready in Q1 of 2025.

Parity is focused on making it easier and more secure for node operators to run their @Polkadot and @kusamanetwork nodes. If you run a Polkadot or Kusama node, we would appreciate your feedback to help us better understand why and how you run your nodes. forms.gle/honvYSLPcoM81LReA

Highlights from @gavofyork's annual @Polkadot report 2024 DELIVERED... 💥Optimising, stabilizing, and finessing the product 💥Developing a much broader, more relevant Web3 service platform 💥Polkadot’s extreme levels of performance means teams can now import and serve large non-crypto user-bases... ⤵ 🚨🕹️Case Study -> @mythicalgames launched its @EnterTheMythos chain providing in-game assets as tradable on-chain NFTs to major mainstream games. 📊NUMBERS & NEW INITATIVES 🔢Transaction volume across parachains up around 300% over the course of the year 👌 A growing number of independent, successful teams delivering valuable products and services. Events group @joinwebzero cited as a “notable example” 🏋 OpenGov underlines Polkadot as “only major network to make all protocol decisions in a transparent, accessible and resilient manner” ➡️The Polkadot Community Foundation is an adapter for OpenGov to execute tasks for the centralized world, and is available to others in the ecosystem 💥The Spammening event showcased “extreme levels of performance” 💪USER UPGRADES 🌉Trustless Bridging means all chains hosted on Polkadot enjoy elevated connectivity with @Kusama @ethereum and others by inheriting the programmability of XCM 👥Overall user experience within Polkadot improved “quite dramatically”, eg WALLETS (@subwalletapp @wearetalisman @NovaWalletApp) ⭕️Imminent launch of the Polkadot app as a highly agile, decentralized payment system ☊ The Omninode initiative introduces a single node binary capable of syncing and collating pretty much any network built on Polkadot SDK. 🤔 After Asynchronous Backing and Agile Coretime... What's still to come in Polkadot 2.0? 🎚️Multi-core scaling will be pioneered by the new Polkadot Hub - high-frequency, high-performance chains which utilize multiple cores in order to multiply up their volume and slash their latency. ⓷ By utilizing three cores, the Polkadot Hub will go three times the speed of the Polkadot Relay Chain, confirming a full block every two seconds instead of the usual six. This provides an "unprecedented upgrade path for teams who care about future-proofing their solution." ➕Polkadot Hub is a highly coherent, generally synchronous place for people, teams and their logic to collaborate and compose. Centred in Hub is an advanced, Polkadot-native permissionless, cheap and fast smart-contract system. Functionality across the official Polkadot chains will be made conveniently available in the Hub including the staking system, governance & collectives, identity & personhood, all tokens & NFTs as well as all bridges. OTHER BIG THINGS ON THE HORIZON... 🍓 Citizenship, DAO expansion, JAM 🚨Deep, trustless, effortless Ethereum integration

Community voting for this year's @Polkadot Decoded has opened! Support Parity speakers by voting for @bkchr, @kianenigma, Hernando Castano and @AbramowitzJesse's presentations under the Tech Talk category today. #polkadotdecoded hubs.ly/H0K2QFK0

#Sub0 Online is back Oct 13-14. Take a look at the Substrate’s journey thus far in the upcoming keynote from @Polkadot founder @gavofyork, and see what the future holds for the blockchain framework behind Polkadot and @kusamanetwork. To save your spot: hubs.ly/H0WX6rK0

Happy Friday, builders 🎉 @Polkadot's data pipes continue to expand. 110 MB/s DA throughput today, and plenty of headroom as cores scale. Teams get cheaper, faster bandwidth for rollups and apps.

Happy Monday, builders! 🌅 @Polkadot has already handled 100k+ TPS bursts (peaking ~143k) while @Visa's average is ~7.4k TPS.🤔 Parallel execution, combined with shared security, provides headroom for real-world applications. ⚙️

"Polkadot effectively has native rollup functionality included at the protocol level." Plus... ✅Rigorous processes ✅Rapid finality ✅Data availability built-in Joyce Siqueira (@maaaaadhoney) explains all in this new blog article. ⬇️ parity.io/blog/polkadot-roll…

🔗 Learn more about the native rollup model we've built for @Polkadot and how it’s redefining scalability and interoperability. parity.io/blog/polkadot-roll…

#Substrate is an extensible, modular, open-source framework for building blockchains. But what does that mean? 🤔 Parity developer @ShawnTabirizi explains it all in “Hello, Substrate!” — an introduction to the blockchain framework. parity.io/hello-substrate/

Sharing some facts about SCALABILITY on @Polkadot here... (and how other ecosystems compare) 🔐Polkadot extends its full security over rollups by verifying all computations on all cores without making any assumptions. ⚡️This means Polkadot rollups scale with zero compromises on security. ↕️ Vertical scalability enabled by the upcoming Elastic Scaling upgrade will raise the messaging throughput that can be achieved between two rollups. 📊Polkadot is by far the most decentralized protocol in Web3 - and this position is in no way threatened by further moves to increase scalability. In comparison, when it comes to other protocols... ⚠️Solana maximizes its TPS metrics by making compromises on both decentralization and resilience. ⚠️TON is built on a consensus protocol that is NOT secure by design. ⚠️Avalanche makes compromises on both security and decentralization. ⚠️Ethereum's approach is a bet on scalability at the rollup level, which doesn't solve the root problem - instead it passes it one level higher up the stack.

We're happy to announce that Parity Technologies has been awarded a $5M grant by the #Ethereum foundation. medium.com/paritytech/parity…

What does the transition from a standalone chain to #parachain look like? Right now at #Sub0: @centrifuge’s Frederik Schulz dives into the migration of relevant storage, such as balances, vesting locks, proxies, and the process to verify the new state: parity.link/Sub0-2021

📈 Unique accounts on @Polkadot are up 36.8% in 11 months - rising from 12.9 M → 17.7 M. Growth that reflects real users, active builders, and expanding network participation. The momentum is unmistakable. The ecosystem is scaling.

Happy Friday, builders! 🎉 Quick reminder that Parity is seriously levelling up @Polkadot infra in 2025🚀 From 2x faster transactions to pay-as-you-go blockspace, Polkadot 2.0 brings speed, flexibility & scale. The future is modular, efficient, and here sooner than you think. 🛠️

Missed this year's #Sub0 Online? All the conference sessions are up on our YouTube channel now! Tune in now to hear what’s next for @Polkadot and @substrate_io from Parity and Polkadot founder @gavofyork. piped.video/Bp41Y_AHym4

Polkadot 2.0 is about the now... JAM is about an even brighter future. "Polkadot 2.0 makes the deployment of L2s more flexible on cores. JAM is all about deploying any application on Polkadot cores, even those that don't resemble a blockchain/L2."

“The best way to improve @Polkadot is to build on it ourselves, fast, repeatedly, and in public.” In today’s Space Monkeys interview with @TheKusamarian, @gavofyork outlined Parity’s next decade: ✅ Product-led ⚙️ Open and verifiable 🌍 Built for everyday use Read key takeaways → 🧵Parity’s Next Decade: Building the Products We Need Parity founder and CEO Gavin Wood reflected on where Polkadot and Parity are headed next. The message was clear: the next decade is about products, building useful tools on top of Polkadot, openly and quickly. From Platform Builders to Product Makers For nearly 10 years, Parity has built the core technology that powers Polkadot—from its consensus engine to its modular SDKs and governance frameworks. Now, that foundation is mature enough for us to build on it ourselves. The focus is shifting from only developing infrastructure to creating practical applications that make Polkadot tangible in everyday life. These include tools for identity, commerce, and collaboration - built natively on Polkadot’s secure and interoperable framework. Fast, Open, and Verifiable Over the coming months, Parity’s small, agile teams will work in short build cycles, shipping early prototypes and refining the underlying stack through real usage. Every product we release will remain open-source and verifiable, so anyone can inspect, reuse, or build upon it. It’s the same principle that has guided Parity from day one - transparency, not trust. A New Economic Layer Parity is also researching how Polkadot’s native assets can power a stable and inclusive economic layer for builders and users. The goal is simple: make Polkadot’s economy resilient, useful, and accessible, while keeping all design work open to community input. Strengthening Culture and Collaboration As Parity grows globally, we’re investing in shared culture and open communication, creating space for honest discussion, diverse perspectives, and collective creativity. Our ambition remains what it has always been: to build technology that people can rely on, verify, and shape for themselves. The next decade for Parity isn’t about abstraction - it’s about application. We’re building the products we need on the platform we built.

Was the Bybit hack avoidable? Blind signing is fraught with danger. But in @Polkadot offline signers can decode transactions into human-readable form with runtime metadata. Neat, eh? Maybe a way to avoid a $1.4 billion heist. Parity's @bkchr explains: blog.kchr.de/one-metadata-to…

Substrate 1.0 Beta is out now, opening the door to a radical acceleration in blockchain and decentralised application development. medium.com/paritytech/substr…

Are people even looking at the right metrics? (Presentation: @shawntabrizi)

If you find the Gray Paper a bit too dense and granular, can we recommend a shorter version with all the important bits? The Polkadot Wiki is a really important resource for explaining how the tech stack fits together: here's the new page on JAM🍓 ➡️wiki.polkadot.network/docs/l…

"We don’t do scrum, agile, standups, or meetings. We use @github, and @RiotChat for communication because privacy matters (no Slack), and we adhere to "programmer anarchy," where people take the tasks they want to work on.”—@MaciejHirsz discusses @paritytech culture at @rustfest

🚨🚨@hyperbridge just went live. Its onchain authentication mechanism - with light clients & ZK proofs - eliminates the risks involved in using third-party bridging solutions. Hyperbridge's addition to the @polkadot ecosystem is an important moment!

👀 Our founder and chief architect @gavofyork will be speaking at sub0, the @polkadot developers conference, Bangkok, March 12-13.

Happy Monday, Builders 🙌 🚨 At @Web3summit, Gavin Wood/@gavofyork laid out a bold vision for the future of @Polkadot and Web3. From JAM to tokenomics to proof of personhood → here are the 6 big takeaways you should know 🧵👇

"The new @Polkadot app will be simple enough for the crypto uninitiated or your parents to use - this mobile app will access staking rewards with a single click. We can’t wait to get this app into your hands in Q3 and get your feedback" - @bjornwgnr at @PolkadotDecoded

🪙With enterprise adoption likely to move up a gear, particularly in the United States, stablecoins are one of the hot topics of 2025 for #Web3 Our engineering team have been working tirelessly with other ecosystem agents to help deliver an all-time high of stablecoin issuance on @Polkadot With new updates on the horizon and network fees lower than ever, transacting stablecoins on Polkadot has never seemed so attractive 👀 Read more here! ⬇️ coinmarketcap.com/community/…

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The Polkadot Overview is live ⚡ A dynamic dashboard powered by Dotlake with up-to-date network metrics, Coretime data, and ecosystem stats. It even doubles as a ready-to-use presentation deck for when you're explaining the power of @Polkadot on the fly! 🔗 data.parity.io/ 🎥 Watch it in action ⬇️

October 13-14 don’t miss #Sub0 Online, the @substrate_io developer conference, to hear @Polkadot founder @rphmeier share the latest insights into #parachains, and give an overview of what’s coming for Polkadot and @kusamanetwork ecosystem. Save your spot now:

Another global AWS @awscloud outage today causing havoc with people's work and personal flow. A reminder that most of the internet still depends on a few centralized clouds. Web3 infrastructure changes that, distributed, verifiable, and always online. 🌐

Missed Parity's @NukeManDan in the 'Introduction to @Polkadot, @substrate_io, and Parachains'? Watch the recording to get a deeper understanding of Polkadot's 'Layer 0' vision, as well as to see how Substrate fits into the bigger picture: piped.video/w7WZ9RgCA2U

Last week's spammening was a truly decentralized experience 🇰🇿Kazakhstan 🇮🇸Iceland 🇸🇳Senegal And pretty much everywhere in between Thanks to @TheKusamarian @amforcag @distractivexyz and all who took part. Together, we pushed the TPS of @kusamanetwork way past the 100,000 mark

The @Polkadot app has been submitted to both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. That means we are looking at a public release in the US before the end of June!

Happening now - Parity's Director of Public Relations @Ursulaok discussing the next phase of the internet on stage at @PBWSummit with @derekyoo of @MoonbeamNetwork, @hoonsubin of @AstarNetwork, @EliottTeiss of @NodleNetwork & @niceblockchain of @ParallelFi

Ethereum-compatible smart contracts are a huge focus for Parity right now. But it's not the only important upgrade we're delivering for @Polkadot Elastic Scaling, its value and a timeline in 4 images... Graphics: @maaaaadhoney / @sandreim_

🍓in🇩🇪 JAM comes to Berlin this summer with @gavofyork booked for @protocol_berg (June 12-13). Expect to find some Parity devs in town that week too.

In the last year, the blockchain we created with the @WFP has served more than 100,000 refugees each month. Here's an update on what the blockchain built with Parity #Ethereum has achieved so far and the developments planned to further its impact. parity.io/un-world-food-prog…

🤓Time for some math 📊128,148 TPS From 23/100 of cores 100/23 = 4.348 128,148 x 4.348 = 557,188 That's a big number for what's theoretically possible on @kusamanetwork with only minimal delay on finality. Now, imagine @Polkadot with what @gavofyork says are "beefier nodes"

1/3 ✅ All the data ✅ All the chains ✅ Daily & monthly metrics ✅ Monthly ecosystem report The Parity data team @dotlake_xyz has radically transformed its Polkadot data dashboard with interactive charts, like this one showing impressive XCM activity over the past two months.

Alert: Please update your Parity Ethereum clients to 1.11.3-beta or 1.10.6-stable asap. paritytech.io/security-alert…

Happening now at #Sub0 Online, Intermediate Stage: @Kiltprotocol’s @WilliamFreude discusses the Limited Delegated Proof of Stake consensus mechanism and its implementation for #parachains in the @Polkadot ecosystem. Tune in: parity.link/Sub0-2021

Congrats to @energywebx on being selected to build a prototype decentralized identity registry for Germany’s energy market 💡

Right now at #Sub0: @tomusdrw ​​is presenting the current state of ​​@substrate_io bridges to @Polkadot. Tune in to learn about the components currently available for building trustless bridges between Substrate-based chains and other consensus systems: parity.link/Sub0-2021

Get started with your first cross-chain messages at #Sub0 Online: tune in to @shawntabrizi's talk at the Intermediate Stage to go through the basics of sending and receiving cross-chain messages across #parachains and the Relay Chain. Happening now: parity.link/Sub0-2021

Didn’t make it to #Sub0 Online live? Check out the playlist on Parity's YouTube channel to hear from @Polkadot founder @gavofyork, and learn from the talks and workshops from the @substrate_io core developers and projects in the ecosystem. hubs.ly/H0-hBJH0

The testing continues ahead of a full public launch... And so far the feedback is promising! The @Polkadot Pay app. Paying with DOT will be as smooth as sipping a cup of coffee👏

Why is USDC Flowing to Polkadot? The influx of USDC liquidity onto Asset Hub right now reflects preparation, not speculation. Liquidity Preparation for Smart Contracts Developers and protocols will soon be able to deploy EVM-compatible smart contracts directly on @Polkadot. To power dApps, DeFi tools, marketplaces, staking products, and on-chain payments, you need liquid, stable assets. That’s where USDC comes in. Circle and ecosystem participants are pre-positioning USDC on Asset Hub so that, once smart contracts go live, developers can: - Instantly integrate stable payments into their dApps. - Pair USDC with DOT, BTC, and other tokens for liquidity pools. - Enable stable settlement for on-chain marketplaces. Essentially: infrastructure first, liquidity second, apps third. Circle’s Multi-Chain Expansion Strategy Circle has been strategically deploying native USDC across major L1 and L2 ecosystems, including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, and now Polkadot. They’re aligning with Polkadot’s architecture because: Asset Hub offers a native, trust-minimized environment (not a bridged version). Smart contracts will unlock new payment and DeFi use cases. Polkadot’s shared security ensures the asset is secure at the base layer, making it attractive for institutions. In short, Circle is setting up shop early so that USDC is available on Day 1 for builders and users. Treasury and Ecosystem Readiness Several ecosystem teams, parachains, and Treasury initiatives will likely rely on stablecoins for: - Grant payouts and bounties. - Treasury accounting in stable value instead of DOT. - On-chain service payments and dApp UX improvements. So, pre-loading liquidity ensures a smooth transition once the smart contract layer is live, with no lag between infrastructure and usability. Bridging & Exchange Gateways Banxa and other fiat on/off-ramp providers are integrating with Asset Hub, allowing users to soon buy or withdraw USDC directly on Polkadot, thereby bypassing Ethereum gas fees and intermediaries. Having liquidity already in place ensures these ramps work from day one. In short, the surge of USDC into Polkadot’s Asset Hub is a strategic move ahead of the launch of smart contracts. It’s about ensuring: ✔️Builders have stable liquidity to power dApps. ✔️Users can transact in a familiar, low-volatility currency. ✔️The ecosystem is ready for real-world use cases the moment Polkadot Hub smart contracts launch.

🚨 New in the Parity blog 🚨 "A Roadmap to a More Accessible @Polkadot" @joepetrowski explains how a major future addition - Ethereum compatibility - will make it faster and easier for newcomers to get started in the ecosystem. ➡️parity.io/blog/polkadot-smar…

Everyone’s talking about the Polkadot Asset Hub migration, and for good reason. It’s one of the most complex live upgrades ever attempted on a blockchain. Parity engineers have prepped hard for this moment, and after a successful rollout on @kusamanetwork, tomorrow, Polkadot will move approximately: 1.6 billion in DOT (~$5B) 50,000+ stakers 1.5 million accounts 2+ million storage entries From Relay Chain >> Asset Hub. All on-chain, live, and without downtime. Why? To enable the Relay Chain to focus purely on security and interoperability, while the Asset Hub becomes the hub for assets, balances, staking, governance, and stablecoins. For end users, nothing changes; balances, wallets, and features will update automatically. But under the hood, it’s an engineering feat with zero margin for error. Database migrations in Web2 fail 70–80% of the time; Polkadot is doing it live, in production, across millions of accounts.

2024. Done. 🥂 🫡 Join us again in the New Year.

We are planning to move Parity Ethereum to a DAO ownership & maintainer model. #OpenEthereum will provide the basis for cross-org collaboration to ensure the codebase gets the attention it needs to realize its full potential. parity.io/parity-ethereum-op…

Whatever you want to call it... We levelled up 💪 “I had reservations about the name Polkadot 2.0, but what matters now is that we align around a shared vision for this next phase,” says @gavofyork.

Soon: Parity @rustlang JAM-SDK @gavofyork @Polkadotsub0 📸 @danicuki

In an hour now tune in to live Q&A on @Polkadot Staking with Parity's @kianenigma. Join us on the Polkadot Discord server (Live stage channel) starting 4pm CET 👉 hubs.ly/Q014Wr5G0

March 25th at 6pm CET join the March Parity & Friends online meetup to hear about the off-chain database from Parity’s @tomusdrw and the advanced use of the off-chain worker from @EquilibriumDeFi’s Veniamin Khrapov. Save your spot: crowdcast.io/e/parity--frien…

🚨 Polkadot Runtime v2.0.0 is now in vote. This is a major upgrade that: • Enables and schedules the Asset Hub Migration (block #28490502 ≈ Nov 4 @ 08:00 UTC) • Finalises Polkadot optimisations - Asynchronous Backing, Agile Coretime, Elastic Scaling • Introduces all prerequisites for Smart Contracts on Polkadot ⚙️ For Validators & Collators: Testing showed potential slowdowns on relay nodes without a --db-cache parameter. ✅ Please add: --db-cache 8000 to your node configuration until further notice to prevent performance issues during the migration. 👷 For Builders: This upgrade completes the new Polkadot architecture, the foundation for high-throughput smart contracts and improved network scalability.

"Polkadot rollups scale with zero compromises on security" The second post in a three-part series on SCALABILITY on @Polkadot by @sandreim_ This one looks at the tradeoffs that protocols make when running speed and efficiency upgrades. parity.io/blog/scalability-t…

1/2 We're getting ready to push out the first of two releases to @kusamanetwork that precede the full launch of Ethereum-compatible smart contracts on @Polkadot 🥳Excited? 🤔On the fence? 🧐Need more info? We got you covered. (See post 2 in this thread)