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"Trusted third parties are security holes." @NickSzabo4 the mantra of the #blockchain enthusiast
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Harari nails it: coordination is the real superpower. Thatās why the Polkadot ecosystem matters, itās built on: - shared rules, - open protocols - sovereign actors. Upgrade the stories and the standards, and you upgrade how millions can coordinate without permission
Human progress isnāt driven by lone geniuses. It happens when strangers coordinate at scale. Thatās the oldest sovereign design: people acting independently inside shared frameworks. We cooperate not because we know each other, but because we share stories, standards and rules.
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Polkadotās very own @paritytech is one of the top 20 Web3 companies to work for in 2025. Weāre in good hands š„ā¤ļø
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This thread breaks down the core customization system behind Polkadot Avatars. We researched modern character systems across the gaming industry, identified the most efficient approaches, and added our own architectural improvements. The result is a unique, modular,
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WE START IN 30 MINUTES!!!! ā¢ $50 in GDOT ā¢ Exclusive WUD Universe NFTs Join the official Polkadot Telegram to play
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I ran DOOM on the @Polkadot JAM blockchainā¦ on my laptop š¤Æ And you can run it too. Full tutorial š https://t.co/uqVEwaBwKg
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We didnāt lose the internet, we just gave the keys away. Web3 is the moment we take them back. ā¢ You own your identity ā¢ You own your assets ā¢ You choose the rules Bitcoin started it. Ethereum expanded it. Polkadotās JAM is pushing it further.
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The day everyone will wake up to web3 might be a grim one: itāll be the full dystopian black mirror nightmare without ownership and privacy. To some this is already reality. Even more important to adopt and build the web3 alternatives today.
Centralized tech threatens our sovereignty. Big platforms arenāt just tools. They hold power over our digital lives. They can erase communities, data, and connections overnight. In 2021, Google, Apple, and AWS banned Parler. 24 hours. Gone. All social connections. All data.
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PR was never about hype or press-release spam. Itās about earning trust through real relationships and building a narrative over time. Don't do mid PR. Join us Dec 11 ā https://t.co/1YICXzytXK
Live public relations webinar coming up. If youāve ever pitched a journalist and watched your email disappear into the abyss, this oneās for you š«µ Register here: https://t.co/jmyTQS5av1
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It's time to learn all about the Elves protocol in under three minutes, with one of our researchers at the Web3 Foundation, Chen-Da, on YouTube. šŗ https://t.co/uEy7qjSv7I
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Big one, Africa! šš„ On December 12 at 2 PM WAT, we are welcoming @BillLaboon, the VP of Ecosystem at @Web3foundation, to discuss The Polkadot Hub. We will explore what changes are occurring, what has already migrated, and what this means for builders across the ecosystem. We
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Why Build on @Polkadot? Reason #17: RegionX, the Secondary Market for Computational Resources Most ecosystems watch unused compute die on the vine. Builders lock themselves into rigid capacity while demand spikes elsewhere. RegionX attacks this imbalance by turning Polkadotās
Why Build on Polkadot? Reason #16: DeAI Infrastructure Modular Primitives for Verifiable, Scalable Intelligence Most AI builders already know the pain. You hit the same ceilings everywhere. Low throughput blocks agent coordination. Storage costs make data provenance a luxury.
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Join us Dec 11 for a free session on how to do PR for your Web3 project in 2025. ā https://t.co/HFJiNBXPTs
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Your dapp frontend gets served through Cloudflare. Cloudflare terminates TLS, which means they hold encryption keys and can decrypt traffic. They enforce geo-blocking. They comply with government requests. You're not decentralized. You're centralized (with extra steps).
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Gm! I got some news: New City. New beard. New job! But the same ecosystem and mission: Iām starting today as governance coordinator š«” Thanks to everyone who supported me and Iām grateful to have you all as part of this wild journey so far.
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What a miserable existence it must be to spend every weekday, weekend, and holiday obsessing over tearing down people and companies Imagine what could be achieved if that same energy and time was put into building something of value?
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Me: Parity, but make it Christmassy... Designer: "I got you."
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š” Inside Gavin Woodās Mind: Building Web3 This interview captures @gavofyorkās vision, drive and journey. From early building to innovation, Gavinās path is clear: ā Create things, design rules, and prefer peers over authority. From Ethereum to Polkadot and JAM, the pattern
"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
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