florentina57 | 🌎 ValidAndina 🏔️

Dear nominators, thank you for your continued support 🤩 Please be advised that both active "🌎 ValidAndina 🏔️" @kusamanetwork nodes will now be located in Bogota, Colombia instead of 1 in Lima and 1 in Bogota. 1/4

Rest assured that the requirements for minimum self-stake on @polkadot of 10K DOT remain bonded for both nodes: 🌎 ValidAndina 🏔️ BOG 🇨🇴 DOT 🌎 ValidAndina 🏔️ LIM 🇵🇪 DOT Thank you for your understanding and please don't hesitate if you have any questions 4/4

The background: Given the timeline for the upcoming DAP changes is pushed further until ~end of April and it is uncertain whether the 2 "🌎 ValidAndina 🏔️" @Polkadot nodes will be back in the active set, this is the best compromise I can commit to at the moment. 3/4

Dear nominators, thank you for your continued support 🤩 Please be advised that both active "🌎 ValidAndina 🏔️" @kusamanetwork nodes will now be located in Bogota, Colombia instead of 1 in Lima and 1 in Bogota. 1/4

Polkadot is often misinterpreted as just another blockchain bridged to other chains, but that framing misses the architecture completely. Polkadot provides shared infrastructure: security | consensus | data availability | cross-chain messaging But sadly, many people still picture Polkadot like this: Chain ├ parachain ├ parachain ├ parachain That mental model is wrong, or at least unfinished, and it makes Polkadot look like many independent chains loosely connected, which conceals the real innovation of shared security & shared infrastructure. Without this understanding, people ask the wrong questions, like… “Why does the Polkadot Relay Chain show so few transactions?” “Which parachain competes with Ethereum?” “Which parachain is the main chain?” A better question would be. What functionality does the Polkadot Network provide? It provides: Launching application-specific blockchains Deploying smart contracts Cross-chain functionality and asset transfers Running decentralized governance systems Some of these capabilities run directly on Polkadot Hub, while others are implemented by chains built on the network. But straight out of the box, Polkadot contains all the components that make this possible.

Web2 = you are the product. Web3 = you use the product. 👏 Thibault Perréard, co-founder of @PolkaPort_East

Final call: The @Polkadot Solidity Hackathon 2026 submissions close tomorrow. If you’ve been building on Polkadot Hub using Solidity, now’s the time to ship. An essential moment for: • onboarding EVM developers • testing app-first workflows • turning ideas into live applications Next signal: what gets built and what happens after. Huge thanks to @openguildwtf and @Web3foundation.

I’m currently involved in the implementation of the redesigned @Polkadot Coretime market. The goal is to make Coretime users more involved in the sale process. This should help us price Coretime better, which is important with the upcoming changes around staking, PoP, and pUSD. Looking forward to seeing all this go live!

🚧 Please be advised that the Polkadot community is currently voting on upgrading the Polkadot system to v2.1.1. This is a major runtime upgrade that provides support for Phase 1 of the Dynamic Allocation Pool (DAP), an issuance buffer configured as a multi-asset account (or sets of accounts) that collects all newly minted DOT and protocol revenue, enabling specific outflows in both DOT and other assets. 🔴Important note for Ecosystem participants: This release introduces numerous changes around staking and issuance which will stop treasury burns and redirect slashes in the first instance. This release also provides the prerequisites for making nominators non-slashable, allowing them to unbond funds in two eras, and enforcing a minimum self-stake and a minimum commission for validators. All these new parameters will be activated through subsequent OpenGov referenda. Additional note for Ecosystem builders: A Polkadot Technical Fellowship calendar has been set up to log basic information about upcoming runtime releases. You can subscribe to the Google calendar to access advance notices in real time. The projected enactment date for this runtime upgrade is around 26th March 2026.

The first reduced issuance event happened today. You can see here, compared to the previous era, a much smaller amount of DOT was minted.

New fork of Polkadot-JS App at chainconsole.com by @kukabi_ - makes quite a few improvements, looks great! forum.polkadot.network/t/chainconsole…

🚢 Just shipped chainconsole.com, a well-maintained Polkadot JS Apps fork with bug fixes and improvements. Details in the forum: forum.polkadot.network/t/chainconsole…. Source @ github.com/helikon-labs/c…. Some of the fixes/improvements: - RPC endpoint fixes and improvements - Several account display fixes - Unbonding time fix for Asset Hubs - Era remaining time Fix for Asset Hubs - Removal of unused chain resources - Severeal failing test fixes - Feature removals

Over the past few weeks, several updates have been shipped to RevX, our IDE designed for beginners, new joiners, and students, with a focus on making it easier to get started with smart contract development on Polkadot. Straight off the bat. RevX now starts with an AI prompt rather than dropping users directly into the editor, shifting the experience from editing code first to describing what you want to build.

@thewhiterabbitM @kusamanetwork We have semi disabled the one on mainnet and we are not encouraging anyone to use that until the smart contracts has passed an audit and fixes mitigate, we encourage everyone to try the Paseo testnet version for now as the mainnet contracts are deprecated due to new features

It’s going to be a few big months for Polkadot! There’ll be a ton of interconnected changes rolling out for validators, stakers, the treasury, and more! Keep reading to find out what's happening 👇

The dotID registrar will start regularly scanning the network for identities containing outdated information and may issue OutOfDate judgements when necessary. Please make sure your identity details remain accurate and up to date.

Builders expect solid tooling and clear documentation to match. The @Polkadot docs now bring SDKs, tooling, and integrations into one coherent, navigable experience. Fewer missing pieces. Fewer dead ends. 👉 docs.polkadot.com

⏳ Last Chance to Apply Applications for the Protocol Builders Program close tomorrow. This is the final call to submit your application and be considered for the April cohort in Lisbon. Don’t miss your chance! 🔗 Apply now: tinyurl.com/y3knt6uv

🧵 Pourquoi le $TDOT de Polkadot est une révolution que même l’ETF Ethereum n’a pas eu. Thread 👇

@PolkadotDevs Real heroes ship Open-Source and refuse rent-seeking 🧡