Bill LaBOO!n | Web3 Foundation
@BillLaboon
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Vice President of Ecosystem at W3F.
Zug, Switzerland
Joined April 2012
My book is out (Kindle / paperback)! It's a near-future sci-fi techno-thriller set in a world where cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Monero) have totally eliminated traditional money. https://t.co/DCSdZ4XFLi
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This is fake news. Funds are not stuck. Teleporting in and out of the Relay Chain still works fine - there is just nothing to do on the Relay with your tokens. I just tested it again:
Someone sent 280 DOT from Bifrost to the Polkadot chain and the coins are now stuck 🥲 ‼️Please, if you’re doing cross-chain transfers, always pick Asset Hub as the destination
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AHM UPDATE: Account migration complete. 1.6 billion DOT migrated from 1.5 million accounts. ➡️Items processed: 1,512,216 ➡️Failed: 0 https://t.co/KK1R7JMvcw
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Polkadot Hub Migration Live Ticker Good morning to Hub migration day. This thread will provide live coverage. IMPORTANT: DOT transfers will be blocked during the migration! Please don’t try to transfer DOT between chains today. Live Coverage 👇🧵
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At the UNDP in Copenhagen, for a working group on "Blockchain for Sustainable Development"
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🚨Snowbridge maintenance mode during Polkadot AssetHub migration: During tomorrow’s Polkadot AssetHub migration, DOT teleports between BridgeHub and AssetHub will be disabled. Since Snowbridge relies on these for fees, we’ll place Snowbridge in maintenance mode during the
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Polkadot Digest 04 November 2025 Polkadot News Monitor Polkadot Asset Hub Migration live here today https://t.co/xMUj2pKH0N
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"The EU's two-tier encryption vision is digital feudalism" -Bill Laboon https://t.co/1tdrU7SeRi
cointelegraph.com
The European Commission proposes weakening encryption for the public while maintaining strong cryptography for state actors. Backdoors destroy the mathematical trust that underpins digital society.
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ELVES, our protocol built on a groundbreaking idea, significantly reduces computational demand. It also strikes a perfect balance between security, decentralization, and scalability. In the following video, hosted by Chen-Da, one of our top research scientists at Web3
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Polkadot Relay Node and Asset Hub node operators: please add the CLI flag "--db-cache 8000" to your nodes as preparation for the Asset Hub migration. Context from @kianenigma
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Notes from the October 2025 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call -
forum.polkadot.network
Summary Kusama Asset Hub migration completed successfully; Polkadot migration scheduled for November 4th Staking system bug discovered on Kusama affecting validator reward calculations; fix in...
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Torsten Stüber joins the Staking Summit Buenos Aires as a speaker! @torstenmove, Engineering Manager at @paritytech, leads the team building @Polkadot’s next-gen high-performance smart contract platform enabling new classes of decentralized apps. Catch him on stage, Nov 15-16
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I always love reading about what @encointer is doing. Experiments to prove what's possible, solving real problems for real people.
encointer.org
A New Instrument for Effective Development Aid In emerging economies, the lack of disposable income is a real obstacle to economic growth. Adding evenly distributed currency in a local setting can...
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“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
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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
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FYI - Total supply numbers for Kusama (KSM) look weird on Coingecko and Coinmarketcap due to the Asset Hub migration. They should be fixed soon.
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Our new and improved proposal is ready for your vote:
polkadot.subsquare.io
**We have updated our proposal to include the applicable fee...
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Temporary name change for Halloween season
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Polkadot Blockchain Academy will be back in Buenos Aires, returning after PBA in 2023! "Argentina remains a leading nation for blockchain adoption, and we are proud to help train its builders.” @PaulineVorms Read the coverage: https://t.co/AGypsE4fgD
@joinwebzero @Polkadotsub0
bankmagazine.com.ar
WebZero anunció nuevas alianzas con universidades de toda América Latina junto a un programa de becas estudiantiles para facilitar la participación de estudiantes. Especialmente en el sub0 Hackath…
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