Karim Jedda
@KarimJDDA
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Director of Product Engineering @ Parity Technologies | Data engineering with Rust: https://t.co/3mBsS2pQcn
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Joined February 2012
My article on Rust is trending on HackerNews, and this time I didn't post it! Would anyone be interested in a video series on this? https://t.co/4GwqOUppPG
karimjedda.com
Trying out the Rust programming ecosystem as a 10+ years Python developer. How to do common programming tasks and how the tooling looks like.
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The fairest airdrop in the history of Web3 A Treasury proposal for 3m+ USD was hust posted to fund the bootstrapping of the “Web3 Citizenship” product. This is the famous Proof-of-Personhood tech that @gavofyork talked about in the last year. What is the airdrop for? 👇🧵
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The Polkadot Overview is live ⚡ A dynamic dashboard powered by Dotlake with up-to-date network metrics, Coretime data, and ecosystem stats. It even doubles as a ready-to-use presentation deck for when you're explaining the power of @Polkadot on the fly! 🔗
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Now live: The @Polkadot Smart Contracts DevContainer: A ready-to-code environment for building with Hardhat or Foundry on Polkadot. ✅ PolkaVM tooling ✅ Local dev node + ETH-RPC ✅ Key mgmt + CLI helpers ✅ Opinionated defaults Get started fast →
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Template devcontainer for easy to start smartcontract developement - paritytech/smart-contracts-devcontainer
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🧵 How to Build Products That Truly Define Web3? Lessons from @KarimJDDA, Director of Product Engineering at @paritytech. 1️⃣ People use products, not protocols. Tech doesn’t change the world until it’s usable. Transformers existed years before ChatGPT — what changed was the
Starting in 5 minutes: Join @KarimJDDA from @paritytech talk about Polkadot Products on youtube ⏰ 3:00 PM CET 🎥 https://t.co/A4ticdPgR0
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Polkadot Digest 13 October 2025 Polkadot News Polkadot Builder Party hackathon now has 1500+ registrations. Submission deadline is Nov 18th
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Radically open, radically useful
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Karim Jedda (@KarimJDDA ), Director of Product Engineering at @paritytech, unveiled his team’s vision and execution framework for building user-centric products on @Polkadot
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Introducing the Polkadot Overview & Polkadot Hub page, now live on https://t.co/UOczpIy0sb👀 🔗 https://t.co/PiTmWvsM0Q - A detailed, yet digestible, interactive slide deck showcasing @Polkadot 🔗 https://t.co/1GCOn2gNHs - Data on Contracts, Swaps, NFTs and Assets now available
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we do have a choice if you type the right words into your keyboard right now you can either: - build something unstoppable - get arrested for something you said on social media choose wisely
information wants to be free not behind mandatory digital ID verification checks not behind government firewalls we need to make information and communication unstoppable
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Stoked to facilitate this for my @paritytech big boss @KarimJDDA! Karim shares his thoughts on what makes a great Web3 product and how to be successful building dapps on @Polkadot. Builders, check it out here for some inspiration:
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Very clear messages from @KarimJDDA: - "users should experience magic, not BC jargon!" - "people use products, not protocols" - "build the right products, not copycats!" - ✅technology serves humans/guarantees rights, ❌policies that promise them Goal: solve real problems 🔥
Starting in 5 minutes: Join @KarimJDDA from @paritytech talk about Polkadot Products on youtube ⏰ 3:00 PM CET 🎥 https://t.co/A4ticdPgR0
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Starting in 5 minutes: Join @KarimJDDA from @paritytech talk about Polkadot Products on youtube ⏰ 3:00 PM CET 🎥 https://t.co/A4ticdPgR0
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2️⃣ Introduction to Polkadot Products 📅 Friday, Oct 10 – 14.00 UTC 🎙️ Karim Jedda / @KarimJDDA People use products, not protocols. Karim unpacks Parity’s product-led strategy, under Gavin Wood/@gavofyork, focusing on Web3 experiences designed for humans, not just developers.
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Also happening tomorrow, 4:30 PM CET, October 10 - join @SantiBalaguer from @paritytech for a talk about Deploying Rollups with the Polkadot Deployment Portal - livestream on YouTube. Sign up here → https://t.co/Rox8ootGqw
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Join @KarimJDDA from @paritytech tomorrow, October 10, for the Polkadot Builder Party Talk: Introduction to Polkadot Products - livestream on YouTube. 🕒 3:00 PM CET Get insights, ask your questions, and learn about Polkadot products. Sign up here → https://t.co/sBi2LofDlt
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Starting in 5 minutes: Join Ian, Jan-Jan, and Pavla from @paritytech live on YouTube for the Polkadot Builder Party: Reliability Dashboard. ⏰ 3:30 PM CET Join here 👉
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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
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🧵 Dedot & Typink — Unified Smart Contract Support for ink!, Solidity, and beyond. 🚀 We’re thrilled to announce major updates to Dedot and Typink — bringing unified smart contract support for @ink_lang, Solidity, and more through Ink!ubator 2.0. Build across PolkaVM
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Our Biggest Hackathon Yet: The Polkadot Builder Party
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bad AI, time for the naughty box
Introducing Gaslight Garage: a box where I put my phones and feed them AI-generated audio nonsense to make them think I want to buy stuff. Practical AI for the people. 👌 I'll report back if my ads change in the next weeks.
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Want to launch a Polkadot dapp in minutes? Tomorrow @sachalansky and @0xPresc show how with create-dot-dapp. They’ll spin up a full-stack message board in Solidity + drop tips to level up your vibe coding game. @joinwebzero
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