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@ruggedpikachu The classic, how to say: "I have not the faintest idea on how Polkadot works, without actually saying it..." Come on, it is really not hard to diss Polkadot with arguments that make sense. No transactions on the relay chain ... wow, that's a shock. 🤦

The last transaction on the Polkadot chain happened 4 hrs ago by a guy named Daniel. He moved 5 DOT Including the one transaction yesterday and two the day before that brings us to a total of 5 transactions in the last couple days. 2.880.000.000 Billion Dollar FDV $

@LayerZero_Core **Nothing here that a Polkadot architect wouldn't have considered.** The presentation is polished and the component-level engineering sounds ambitious, but the "multi-core world computer" framing is Polkadot's thesis with a fresh coat of paint and ZK underneath.

@LayerZero_Core I let this summarize for someone having worked on Polkadot parachain consensus for the last 5 years by Claude, its honest assessment section: The architecture is **Polkadot's heterogeneous sharding model + ZK proofs instead of optimistic/dispute-based validation**.

@LayerZero_Core The main bet they're making that differs from Polkadot: ZK proving will become so fast/cheap that it's strictly better than Polkadot's "execute a subset + disputes" model. That's a reasonable bet for 2027+, but it's an engineering scaling bet, not an architectural innovation.

@LayerZero_Core The individual component engineering claims (QMDB, FAFO, Jolt Pro, SVID) are interesting if they deliver, but the overall system design is not novel — it's the parachain model where you trade Polkadot's lightweight validity mechanism for heavyweight ZK proving.

@seunlanlege Working on it. Not SASSAFRAS (which would not go far enough), but being resistant to relay chain forks (among other things) for perfect block confidence: github.com/paritytech/pol…

If you removed re-org risk with sassafras, then you could build a parachain with very fast block times (100ms) that could be used to host orderbook/perps style trading with very low latency. Since blocks would eventually be finalized, their frequency doesn't actually matter.

We’re pushing the limits of on-chain performance. Join us for a live demo of a classic Web3 game running fully on-chain, powered by 12 @Polkadot cores and 500 ms block times. No off-chain shortcuts. Just real throughput and real user experience. 🎥 Watch the demo ↓ 👏 @sandreim_ , @remyGFLeBerre

Today's the day! We're migrating all balances as well as governance and staking functionality (+more) from the Polkadot Relay Chain to Asset Hub. This is the beginning of the end of over a year of work

Today, the first-ever purchase on a secondary Coretime marketplace was made on @kusamanetwork 🚀 Our marketplace—with full UI support—is now officially live on Kusama. This is a big milestone for us. We’re the first—and the only—team to deliver a secondary Coretime marketplace!

I finally finished my smol block article about 500ms blocks: blog.kchr.de/from-12s-to-50…

Nova Wallet 10.3 just dropped 🔥 What’s inside: — Multisig push notifications (Polkadot, Kusama, PAH, KAH, Hydration & more) — Swap GIGADOT, GIGAETH & aDOT — Unique NFTs — Upgraded staking, governance, proxies features — Added cross-chain transaction safety checks — Improved Mercuryo on-ramp 🎥 Full breakdown in the video — watch now!

Things I wish L2 teams understood ✌️ – zk over fraud proofs = unneccessary, just rent a Polkadot core – 7d exit window = unneccessary, just rent a Polkadot core – blobs or altDA bridge = unneccessary, just rent a Polkadot core All these problems are already solved. Just switch to Polkadot. Your devs will thank you. Focus on building the code that really matters, not reinventing the wheel.

Big news — the RegionX Kusama parachain is live! We have purchased a core in the current sale cycle, which will be usable from the start of the next cycle Until then, we’ll be using on-demand to test things out and have the first trustless resale of Coretime on @kusamanetwork 👀

@bkchr @dotlake_xyz @rphmeier @pierreaubert @99 Makes it even more questionable to include them in the metric. Would the data be "wrong" if we only included ready and if so, why?

@tuxkimo @dotlake_xyz @rphmeier @pierreaubert @99 No one can guarantee you that a future transaction becomes ready. I can just send a transaction with some future nonce and it will stay in the pool forever. All that basically depends on the sender.

The SRE in me is please to report some great improvement in tx in block confidence: <55% to >99% @99.9%tile 1d. Go Polkadot.

@dotlake_xyz @rphmeier @pierreaubert @99 Questions: 1. Why future + ready ... shouldn't future become ready eventually? Thus aren't we double counting? 2. Why is it that bad, compared to block confidence?

@rphmeier @pierreaubert @99 (sorry for threading, just realized today we need to renew the blue checkmark :D)

@dotlake_xyz @rphmeier @pierreaubert @99 block confidence seems to be finalized/produced blocks. For validated it is: finalized/(ready tx + future tx). So it is not confidence of tx getting into block, but confidence of tx getting finalized. Which has to be lower than just block confidence.

@dotlake_xyz @rphmeier @pierreaubert @99 Do we know why validated confidence is that bad? High-level I would expect this to be much better than block confidence. Studying the metrics a bit, it looks like "validated" is ratio of finalized vs ready/future.

@IamDavidBrain The 1 DOT requirement is only on the relay chain. Luckily it is being worked hard to move everything to asset hub, where the existential deposit is only 0.01 DOT.

I have 5 different polkadot wallets and on each of them I have to leave at least 1 $DOT so the account doesn't get reaped or deleted. I wish there's a way to do away with this. It makes sense now but if $DOT gets to $100 it becomes a problem. It means I will need to have $500 spread across my 5 wallets. While this was done to prevent wasteful, dust, accounts from using and wasting storage resources, If a user has USDT or NFTs they still need to hold $DOT else their account gets reaped and cease to exist onchain. Addressing this problem gave rise to Sufficient Assets. These are assets that enable an account to exist onchain without the need for the 1 $DOT existential deposit. What this means is that if an asset is designated as a sufficient asset, holding any amount of that asset keeps the account alive even with 0 $DOT. At the moment the sufficient assets on @Polkadot are: ☘️ DOT, USDC, and USDT on Polkadot Asset Hub ☘️ ETH and WETH, KSM, USDT and USDC on @_snowbridge. With the last two added today. Do you know of any more sufficient assets? What this means is that if you hold these assets on your Polkadot wallet, you don't need to be worried about your account getting reaped. The recent addition of USDT and USDC further opens up Polkadot to a whole new world of DeFi. Ethereum degens, Businesses, institutions and retail who prefer stablecoins can now explore different options on Polkadot without worrying about this. Real world use cases just became exciting. For instance if an RWA company that issues tokenized gold on Polkadot, their users do not need to hold $DOT if the tokenized gold is a sufficient asset. Will we see more and more assets becoming sufficient? A new question arises what if all the assets become sufficient will that not eliminate one of the utilities of $DOT?

@csaint02 @Polkadot Those low TPS numbers is just chainspect not doing their job properly ... real numbers much higher. Fix already in the works.

No way @Polkadot can keep this up, it’s completely dead There’s no users, it’s tps is like 0.1 and what serious investors want that token? Polkadot after reducing inflation, landing FIFA, NFL, Pudgy Penguins games, leading AI, supply chain, and social verticals w/ 143k TPS:

@yuboruan @AcalaNetwork @DefiLlama @Polkadot Great to see numbers fixed that quickly! Hydration still missing?

Great to see that @AcalaNetwork was added to "All chains TVL" ranking from @DefiLlama and as expected @Polkadot immediately reached the top 10! Together we are stronger #Dotsama and the top 5 is not far away!