Gavin Wood: The positioning of the JAM protocol is as a flexible public digital infrastructure.

Odaily Planet Daily News - On March 5, at the JAM Tour 2025 Shenzhen stop hosted by Pala Labs, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood stated that the blockchain industry has become polarized. Long-term thinkers focus on: scalable decentralization, light nodes, trustless bridges, utility tokens, sustainable economic models, changing the status quo, and rich metadata...; while short-sighted thinkers consider: small validator clusters, expensive nodes, N/M multi-signatures, speculative tokens, VC sell-offs, catering to the powerful, and blind signing...

The goal of Polkadot is to create high-quality blockchain space. Here, high quality includes metrics such as high TPS (which reached 143,343 at the end of last year), high bandwidth, high decentralization (Nakamoto coefficient 149), and energy efficiency. Meanwhile, JAM differs from both Polkadot and Ethereum—Polkadot still follows a software-first design approach, while JAM adopts a protocol-first design approach.

The positioning of JAM is as a resilient public digital infrastructure. Currently, there are over 36 independent teams developing JAM instances in 15 different languages.