Tomorrow, on Space Monkeys: @alice_und_bob → Polkadot Ecosystem Developer, co-founder of OpenGov Watch, and... founder of @ChaosDAO (?!)

The Friday DOT News Pump → What is Polkadot's Second Age? Dive in! ↯ 0:00 DOT Token 0:15 Polkadot App 0:25 MLS Cup 0:38 Proof Bridges 1:08 Stablecoins 1:37 DeFi 1:54 Energy Web 2:11 Polkadot Gaming 3:28 Builders Party Winners 4:50 Trends! Trends! Trends! 6:28 OpenGov Roundup

And congrats to the winners of the @origin_trail's DKG Global Hackathon! ↓ Check out the top builds ↓ https://t.co/aZFFye0Dtq

Plugin 11 Polkadot Meetup in Punta del Este 🇺🇾 Close out the year with Plugin 11, featuring talks, panels, live music, and Web3 networking with the local community. Dec 17 | 8 PM GMT-3 Registration required:

.@OneBlock_ Cohort #19 registration is OPEN! Learn how to build with Solidity on Polkadot from @PaperMoonIO DevRel Engineers and test your skills in a mini hackathon with a $2.5K prize pool. Starting Dec 26 https://t.co/jm9cR5mx0r

More Polkadot events and highlights incoming! 🔹 Plugin 11 Meetup in Uruguay 🔹 @OneBlock_ Cohort #19 | Solidity Developers Track 🔹 @origin_trail DKG Global Hackathon Winners Mark your calendars 🗓️

Big news: Governance voting is live in SubWallet 🎉 Now you can vote for referendums directly in the wallet - no need to switch tabs or platforms Simply open the latest SubWallet extension, cast your vote, and make your voice heard in just a few clicks We're making governance

new @NovaWalletApp update just dropped

some say that Times Square is the center of the universe

check out some of the winnings projects: https://t.co/E5JkO4swFV

👀 Impressive: Polkadot Builder Party → 62% of participants said this was their first Blockchain/Web3 hackathon. Full report ⤵️ https://t.co/18kFh0QRkW

Want to actually try JAM? In this short walkthrough by @danicuki, a JAM service is deployed locally following the same steps @gavofyork demoed and used to run @DOOM: • The real game code • Compiled to PVM • Running inside a tiny 6-node JAM chain • With output streamed via

Build together. Move forward together.

If a government can scan your private messages “for safety,” it can scan them for anything. Privacy is not optional, it’s a right. That’s why Polkadot’s approach to verifiable, privacy-preserving proof-of-personhood actually matters.

"The world is probably going to be a better place without authority and trust." @gavofyork on why he's spent over a decade building Web3. 0:00 - Childhood: Lego, self-taught programming 10:00 - Video games 14:02 - Board games 19:34 - Game design as blockchain architecture 25:11

AAG #289 - Ideal 🎲

Mubert’s new DApp launches in 7 days, supported by @Polkadot > Generative music. > Identity layers. > On-chain rewards. > All supported as part of the next evolution of Web3 creative tooling. Early users get the biggest advantage. The waitlist is live, and the window is small.

Polkadot will halve its annual issuance on March 14, 2026. From 120M DOT to 55M DOT. Issuance will further decrease by ~26% every 2 years, reaching a fixed cap of 2.1B DOT by 2160 This has been approved via OpenGov referendum by @GldnCalf in Sept 2025 https://t.co/3pbhratTU7

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