1 million monthly active accounts 🎉

🐂 top news

• Polkadot reached over 1 million monthly active accounts, excluding rollups.

• Parity is considering making a soft pivot to the Polkadot Hub EVM compatibility strategy.

• Web3 Foundation revised the JAM Implementers Prize with three tracks covering full validating nodes, lightweight nodes, and non-PVM nodes, offering rewards from 250K to 500K $DOT and 2.5K to 5K KSM.

• DIA launched native oracles for Polkadot DeFi platforms.

• Nova Wallet added multisig management features.

• Bifrost, Neuroweb, and Frequency were listed on Token Terminal.

• Encointer published A Glimpse into the Nyota Community.

• Web3 Foundation released part 3 of its blog series on Sassafras, the new consensus protocol that is planned to be integrated into Polkadot, replacing the current BABE+Aura consensus mechanism.

• Polkadot Africa launched a new website.

• $75,000 in prizes just added to the Web3 Summit hack.

⭕️ ecosystem

• peaq surpassed 5 million registered addresses.

• Mythical Marketplace netflow reached an all-time high of 4 million MYTH.

• Bifrost's vDOT surpassed 19 million tokens.

• StellaSwap launched a conversion tool for migrating from xSTELLA to veSTELLA.

• Hydration reached an all-time high of HDX staked with over 3,000 holders.

• Several projects released monthly reports: Crust, Integritee, RingDAO (formerly Darwinia).

• Nova Spektrreleased v1.17 with multisig and proxy visualization, AI-generated RFC summaries, and Technical Fellowship voting history.

• Acalalaunched validator elections, enabling LDOT holders to vote and earn $ACA rewards.

• Bifrostintegrated Hyperbridge for trustless cross-chain transfers between Polkadot and Ethereum, supporting vTokens and other assets.

• Astar's dApp Staking entered maintenance mode to recover staked $ASTR following a Neemo Finance exploit.

• PAPI hackathon winners shared insights with the Webzero community.

🏛️ governance

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

🆕 new

• Ref 1650: Funding the development of the Polkadot BD Hub ($255K)

• Ref 1651: Topping up the Polkadot System Parachains Collator Bounty (~$42K)

• Ref 1660: Requesting the Web3 Foundation to create a Polkadot Agents program

• Ref 1662: Refilling the UX Bounty for Q3 2025 (~67K $DOT)

• Ref 1666: Funding an Inter Miami CF rewards program ($250K)

• Ref 1667: Funding the development of a Merkle Mountain Belt, a novel data structure that improves upon and replaces the Merkle Mountain Range such as used in BEEFY ($340K + 42K $DOT)

• Ref 1670: Funding the development of Pixelproof, a decentralized photo storage app

👍🏾 passing

• Ref 1641: Funding 12 months maintenance for ParaSpell XCM tools (~$148K)

• Ref 1651: Topping up the Polkadot System Parachains Collator bounty (~43K $DOT)

👎🏾 failing

• Ref 1619: Funding the development of Pop CLI ($577.5K)

• Ref 1623: Seeking feedback to explore an alternate direction for Polkadot's Ethereum-compatibility layer

• Ref 1624: Funding the development of Lunokit ($49.2K)

• Ref 1625: Funding the continuous development of ReactiveDOT ($89K)

• Ref 1626: Rebranding $DOT to JAM in 2026

• Ref 1627: Funding the Polkadot Art Space ($34K)

• Ref 1631: Funding the development of Pixelproof ($575K)

• Ref 1634: Sponsoring Politecnico di Milano’s Blockchain & Web3 Observatory (~$59K)

• Ref 1635: Hire an ecosystem talent lead ($130K + 3K $DOT)

• Ref 1637: Funding Milestone 2 of the development of Cyborg Network (~$137K)

• Ref 1638: Funding OneBlock+ and PaperMoon’s 2025 developer education & community expansion plan (~$376K)

• Ref 1639: Funding the development of Papi Simulator, a developer and playground (21,960 $DOT)

• Ref 1640: Topping up the Polkadot Assurance Legion bounty (500K $DOT)

• Ref 1642: Funding Colorful Notion for 9 months of Dune integration work (~$610K)

• Ref 1644: Funding LimeChain for phase 2 of devGround (~$172K)

✅ approved

• Ref 1608: Seeking approval for the direction of the Polkadot Payment Card

• Ref 1645: Upgrading the runtime to v1.6.1

• Ref 1652: Funding crowdsourced research on the topic of capped $DOT supply and step-change inflation

• Ref 1588: Reinstating bounty curators and doing some bounty housekeeping

• Ref 1612: Funding the maintenance and further development of Subsquare ($444K)

❌ rejected

• Ref 1593: Funding the development and release of WAGOI (660K USDC)

• Ref 1614: Funding the Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship for 9 months (1.98M USDC)

• Ref 1611: Funding the development of JAMTON (~99K USDT)

📺 what to watch and listen to

• Why Stablecoins Are Eating Payments by Polkadot.

• Polkadot Meets Solana by Polana.

• Highlights from the Polkadot Blockspace Brooklyn by WebZero.

• Tokenization, Ownership, Regulation, and Infrastructure with Polkadot and Centrifuge, by TradeTalks.

• Gavin Wood's The JAM Tour Recap by Pala Labs.

• KILT Reborn: New CEO, Rish Kumar, Reveals Consumer-Centric Roadmap for 2025 - Space Monkeys 199 by The Kusamarian.

• Friday DOT News Pump (The Polkadot TVL Pump $DOT Roadmap, FIFA Rivals, Data Analysis & More) by The Kusamarian.

📖 what to read

• The fastest way to build on Polkadot by DavidBrain.

• Polkadot Coretime Redesign: Can It Empower DOT Even More This Time? by Polkadot Ecology Research Institute.

• Analysis of Stablecoin growth on Polkadot by Wag Media.

• Polkadot Is Deadass Alive by TheDotsTalks.

• 10 top charts in Polkadot by Emil Kietzman.

• Polkadot — Ethereum Compatibility: The Basics by Lily Mendez.

Thank you for taking the $DOT leap!