Gavin Wood
@gavofyork
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Founded Polkadot, Kusama, Ethereum, Parity, Web3 Foundation. Building Polkadot. All things Web 3.0
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Happy to release the initial Jam spec in the Gray Paper (10 years after my release of the Yellow Paper): A proposal for the future of
@Polkadot
.
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Kudos to
@facebook
for giving us a very real demonstration of why the move to a decentralised Web 3 is necessary and, indeed, inevitable.
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I’m sick of hearing crypto confused with a heavily-marketed centralised, mismanaged exchange. FTX’s failure is far from a harbinger of crypto. Quite the opposite: it’s a concrete demonstration of the need for more, better decentralised, trust-free technology.
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Events of today in crypto just go to show that genuine decentralisation and well-designed security make a far more valuable proposition than some big tps numbers coming from an exclusive and closed set of servers. If you can't run a full-node yourself then it's just another bank.
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The
@Polkadot
treasury currently has 18,936,300 DOT (DOT, not USD - do the math) in it ready to spend on *your* ideas for building, improving, educating and indeed, anything else that the Polkadot governance believes valuable.
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Whereas other chains take months or even years to deploy an upgrade,
@Polkadot
and
@KusamaNetwork
created, voted and deployed new logic on to the chain within 8 hours. All going through a secure, stakeholder-governed decentralized process.
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First parachain deployed on the Westend perma-testnet. Next stop is the canary net,
@kusamanetwork
and then
@Polkadot
.
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CZ on SBF:“No one can protect [from] a bad player, to be very frank, if a guy is very good at lying, and very good at just pretending to be what he’s not.” Not been paying attention? Protection comes thru decentralisation. That’s the point of web3 and trustless tech.
@cz_binance
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First successful inter-chain asset transfer on
@polkadot
using the new XCM format/standard/protocol. Left is one parachain, right two windows are the other (index 300).
@kusamanetwork
$DOT $KSM
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New ecosystem developer analysis by
@ElectricCapital
shows
@Polkadot
literally in a class of its own with clearly the stongest developer growth since launch of any Web3 protocol and by far the biggest dev community outside of Ethereum.
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My usual annual writeup - just in time...
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Moonriver one of several chains helping
@Polkadot
and
@kusamanetwork
demonstrate the power of an L0 multi-chain meta-protocol.
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After exactly 15 months in development,
@polkadot
XCM version 3 is merged. This enables bridges, cross-chain locking, exchanges, NFTs, conditionals, context-tracking and more.
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@SBF_FTX
A good example of why transparency, decentralisation and freedom from trust is a strict requirement in the modern world, not merely an optional extra.
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My annual Polkadot Roundup is out - enjoy!
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The mostly Ukraine-based
@Subsocial
team have been building donation functionality into their platform for
@Polkadot
/
@kusamanetwork
tokens. Just goes into a wallet controlled by Subsocial currently, but a less trust-bound solution on its way...💙💛
We have set up a way to donate crypto funds to support
#Ukraine
. Many
#Dotsama
tokens are supported including: $DOT $KSM $ACA $ASTR $KAR $SDN $PHA $BNC $KILT $QTZ $AIR $TEER $XOR $PCX
Learn more 👇
#StandWithUkraine
#UkraineUnderAttack
#UkraineRussiaWar
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XCM-over-bridges PR is nearly ready, meaning parachains under
@Polkadot
will be able to send XCM effortlessly not just to each other, but also to parachains on
@kusamanetwork
, trivialising the transfer of tokens/NFTs, the use of certificates and much more
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Once again
@polkadot
is recognised as the greenest protocol.
The crypto industry is leaning into the green energy movement.
Through drastic programming overhauls and funding carbon offset projects, protocols are actively breaking down the stigma that crypto is harming the planet.
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I’m happy to announce that Parity co-founder Björn Wagner will step up to the role of company CEO while I retain the title of Chief Architect.
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Whether Web3 platforms or nations, systems which cannot unite their economic drivers and bring them into a mutually supportive common security umbrella will ultimately fall to those which can. Common Security is not an option.
@Polkadot
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@LuckyTony6B
I did not “leave Polkadot”. Quite the opposite: I moved from CEO of Parity to Chief Architect specifically in order to *focus* on Polkadot. Running a company != making cool tech.
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And proposition 110 passed! In two hours, the deployment will be completed and if all goes well we'll start seeing the first blocks on a live
@kusamanetwork
parachain. Here's an article with more details:
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Proposition
#110
is now up for voting on
@kusamanetwork
- if passed, this will add the very first parachain into Kusama(!)
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Smoldot
@Polkadot
's light-client just hit 1.0.0 and it now outperforms RPC! And with the Connect browser extension, there's not even a few seconds sync time on page load. Here it's used by several pages and for several networks including Westmint. Yup - works for parachains, too!
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Finally, an exchange which looks, acts and feels like a CEX, coded on
@substrate_io
, hosted on
@polkadot
.
@polkadex
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Some great work by team RMRK integrating
@kusamanetwork
's Statemine Uniques pallet. Looking forward to the next-generation of Singular.
@Polkadot
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For those who are interested here's a primer on XCM, Polkadot's inter-chain messaging format. It's the first in a series of articles explaining what it does, how it works, how to use it and what it could become.
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With
@Polkadot
&
@kusamanetwork
will have support for NFTs in XCMv3, including the ability to teleport them and even have chains which can be permissionlessly used host NFTs native to chain in the XCM universe as reserve-backed assets.
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Interested in helping shape the next generation of
@Polkadot
technology? I'm now interviewing candidates to work with me doing research & prototyping at
@ParityTech
. NTH: PhD-systems-DBs-GPU-crypto-p2p-OSS-10x-Rust-Rlang-economics.
gavin
@parity
.io
subject: I'm a Curious Coder
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Power to the builders ✊💪 Perhaps in the near future the new primitives for
@Polkadot
governance can be used here too..
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Congratulations to
@Polkadot
and
@kusamanetwork
's very own Qinwen for her inclusion in the China Forbes 30 under 30 for Fashion and Arts: - Well deserved 👏
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There's nothing "decentralised" about dividing your security base.
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If
@Lagarde
really does have Europe's best interests at heart, maybe she should focus a bit less on trying to bring trust-free tech under draconian regulation and a bit more on getting Eurozone's inflation down from historical highs.
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Quite possibly the first tightly-coupled cross-chain token application between
@kusamanetwork
parachains.
@Polkadot
The first cross-parachain token listing on Karura Swap has begun! The
@bifrost_finance
BNC/kUSD pair's liquidity Bootstrap period will last 48-hours, allowing liquidity provision ahead of the 200k BNC liquidity mining program.
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The first draft of the
@Polkadot
Fellowship Manifesto is now published at . 📣 Core developers and protocol technical experts: please make yourselves known!
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An honest investigation into the world should never be characterised as “extremist speech”, no matter what sacred cow it might put in danger.
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Merging the last of a series of PRs to bring the
@Polkadot
Fellowship to life: member induction, ranking and monthly salary payments. XCM is used to allow salaries to be paid in any token on any chain, for now USDT on Assets Hub. And it's all super-customisable and redeployable.
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Part 2 of my
@Polkadot
XCM article series is now out. This covers XCM versioning and upgradability. Get it here:
@kusamanetwork
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Just the tip of
@Polkadot
’s trust-free XCMP iceberg.
In roughly 24 hours, around 190k
@RmrkApp
tokens have moved to
@MoonriverNW
as xcRMRK - We've seen also xcRMRK pools in EVM DEXs such as
@Solarbeamio
and
@ZenlinkPro
- Think about it, Substrate assets listed on EVM powered DEXs, seamlessly 🤯
@MoonbeamNetwork
#Kusama
#Polkadot
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@polkadot
's Governance v2 is merged into
@kusamanetwork
: The Polkadot Fellowship will be going live in the near future...
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The first
@polkadot
OpenGov Fellowship whitelisted root call on
@kusamanetwork
just got enacted! This involved the coordination of two separate referenda with two separate governance bodies each using their own optimistic turnout/approval curves.
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One of the most understated yet important technological advancements of blockchain. Zero-friction, in-browser, embeddable light-client.
@Polkadot
What’s the latest on browser-embedded light clients?
Tune in to
#PolkadotDecoded
to hear from
@ParityTech
's
@tomaka17
on how light clients are helping to bring Polkadot to the masses.
Save your spot for the conference:
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PSA:
@Polkadot
network validators: Please downgrade your nodes to 0.8.30 and ensure you are running with `--execution=native`. (Kusama validators should remain on 0.9.0 or above.)
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New primitives for building
@Polkadot
&
@kusamanetwork
's next-generation governance system are merged!
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Autonomation /ɔːˈtɒnəmeɪʃ(ə)n/ (noun): the use of constructed (crypto-)economic incentives to create a digital service or facility able to robustly sustain itself without the explicit intervention or permission of an identifiable human or human-led organisation.
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Great little read on
@polkadot
's XCM(P) and its implications for the broader blockchain movement by
@hoonsubin
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@Polkadot
's XCMv3 now up for review and security audit. Watch out for the explainer article in the coming days...
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Part III of my series on
@polkadot
's XCM is out (this time on execution and error management).
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A little roundup of some of the things that have been going on in
@polkadot
and
@kusamanetwork
over the last 12 months...
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Nomination pools coming soon...
Joining a pool in a glance using Polkadot Js Plus.
#poolStaking
is enabled on
#Kusama
. It is also available on
#westend
for testing.
#Dotsama
#Polkadot
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I’d like to meet this “Dr. Woods” some day. Seems he’s done a lot of work in the same projects as me…
This is one of the most detailed blogs around why
@Polkadot
is way ahead in comparison to
@ethereum
and any other Blockchains in existence.
Also answers many aspects why projects like
@Kiltprotocol
chose to
#BUIDL
on
@Polkadot
.
Kudos
@VittoStack
👏👏
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A nice writeup of
@polkadot
's/
@kusamanetwork
's XCMv2 by
@quarkslab
now published at Look out for another one on the upcoming XCMv3...
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The tech she wants to see decimated with her heavy-handed "government knows best" approach could very well be that which ultimately rescues Europe from the ignorant, inept and self-serving leadership that is presiding over this historical decay of the Eurozone.
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@FractalFlows
@Polkadot
The DOT in the treasury comes as a natural part of the network protocol. Fees, slashes and suboptimal staking configurations are all contributing factors. If it goes unused, it slowly gets burned. It currently burns 239,988 DOT every month.
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Well done to all involved!
We've won Best Paper Award 2023
I am so happy to see research with focus on
@Polkadot
as main application being recognized by traditional academic literature in the field of management sciences. A big thanks to all community members that participated in the study
More to come🚀
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Latest demo of
@NovaWalletApp
v4.0 shows it working well with
@polkadot
Gov2.0, soon to go live on
@kusamanetwork
. See last few minutes of
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"Blockspace" is a useful abstraction: it provides a clear conceptual handle on the product that chains are really providing.
@polkadot
blockspace combines quality, flexibility and, with our new Exotic Scheduling facility, economic efficiency beyond any other. Read Rob's analysis:
Blockspace-centric architectures will outcompete blockchain-centric architectures. So what is blockspace, why should you care about it, and what are blockspace-centric architectures? 🧵 (1/n)
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Happy to place the
#ethereum
Yellow Paper under the Creative Commons Free Culture Licence CC-BY-SA.
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Creating and operating flexible, accessible and secure voting systems is hard...
...without the right tools.
@polkadot
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I'd definitely think this would be a contribution to Polkadot worthy of the financial support...
@polk_gov
/
@OpensquareN
:)
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Happy birthday!
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“If you find yourself seeking a sanctuary from the greed and the fray, it exists, and it's been here the whole time.”
My deep dive on the tech powering Polkadot's parachains is up now.
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The keyboard is mightier than the pen ;-)
Programmers can literally just sit down at a computer and create value for people out of thin air
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Centralisation will be the bane of western civilisations.
New - Ukraine gov is investigating an alleged leak of 2 million users of a government website. Sale on RaidForums. Data could be fake, as in previous RaidForums leaks.
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The price of fixed, unbendable rules is the withdrawal of common sense.
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New release of SubWallet, one of several wallets which are compatible with the fully air-gapped Polkadot Vault ()
📢Say hello to the BRAND NEW SubWallet📢
A comprehensive non-custodial
@Polkadot
,
@substrate_io
&
@ethereum
wallet right at your fingertips, on both Browser Extension & Mobile App, for your everything-crypto-management🎆⚡️
You don't want to miss these major upgrades👇🧵
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My new favourite track La Clé Des Champs, by my new favourite DJ NTO:
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Another serious reason to move away from centralised service providers.
#lesstrustmoretruth
A Forbes analysis of two pregnancy and ovulation trackers owned by a $3.6 billion media conglomerate show they reserve the right to share data with law enforcement at their discretion.
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Gutted to learn that the iPhone's embedded keyboard for searching for an emoji in the regular keyboard doesn't itself let you enter en emoji 😭😭
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Looking forward to part 2:)
🛸 S P A C E M O N K E Y S 🦧
Blasting off with
@gavofyork
, Creator of
@Polkadot
,
@kusamanetwork
, &
@ParityTech
.
Early Years,
#Crowdloans
, & expecting
#Chaos
.
*New Episode*
feat.
@jusup11
Premiering in 15min!👇
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Thanks for being a great audience
@seederyio
! Sorry I couldn’t stay longer, but it has been a long, foodless day and curry called :)
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@VitalikButerin
Thanks to
@VitalikButerin
for the same - I could never have built
#ethereum
without you :-)
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Latest benchmarks indicate
@polkadotnetwork
, even without parachains or multithreading, will still push a sustained rate in excess of 1,000 tx/s. With parachains and multithreading then maybe 1,000,000 tx/s, 100% secure, upgradable and decentralised.
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I must admit I thought an AI chatbot might have done a better job... it's not like that imponderable quality of human creativity was needed here.
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Awesome hospitality from the folks in BA. Cheers 🍻
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@Polkadot
network's first significant upgrade after becoming decentralised is about to happen...
The upgrade brings support for paying out staking rewards to any account as well as time-delay proxies and a few other tweks and improvements. $DOT
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Great work here...
A gift to
@Polkadot
@kusamanetwork
@Phala
community! We are thrilled to announce: Phala &
@AcalaNetwork
has delivered the first-of-its-kind cross-chain demo on
#Rococo
! Check and witness this historical moment 👇
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