This is not an April Fools joke
Here are the biggest brands using the @Polkadot eco today
NFL
FIFA
Sports Illustrated
Pudgy Penguins
Walmart
Home Depot
P*rnHub
Inter Miami
GS1 Standards
BlackRock
Indonesia
And so much more
Exciting year ahead, mass adoption is almost here๐ซก
Said another way
Polkadotโs multichain DeFi eco has grown 230% in the last 6 months
Cosmos has regressed by almost 50% in the same amount of time
Polkadot is growing exponentially as Cosmos shrinks
Coincidence, or a trend?
Comparing cross-chain transaction volume:
Cosmos
IBC transaction volume:
- Dec 2024 3.5B $
- July 2025 1.8B $
Polkadot
XCM transaction volume:
- Dec 2024 90M $
- July 2025 297M $
Polkadot will keep going up here with DeFi initiatives on @hydration_net, @Bifrost & @StellaSwap.
Plus growing interoperability with @_snowbridge & @hyperbridge.
This is how DOT flowed through the Polkadot Treasury in Q2, as per the @alice_und_bob report (which I encourage all DAO members to read, you can find it in the Polkadot Forum).
Key takeaways:
โ Bounties & Collectives handled 25 % (~ $7 M) of Q2 spend (up from 19 %). This will hopefully continue to rise in Q3.
โ $2.7 M in Claims on future payments due by December 2025.
โ Tommi: "Thanks to the recently changed inflation model, the Treasuryโs long-term perspective has become very stable."
I am looking at $WUD, the nr1 memecoin on Polkadot.
With Bloomberg analysts giving a 90% odds of approval for dot ETFs, I think there is a good early opportunity here.
Currently at $2M mcap, ath of $7m - there's a lot of room for growth.
100% diluted, no inflation at all, strong community + cult following , its own game and ai agent.
For who's interested, it's available on Hydration dex.
@gavunwud , $wud , $dot
Lmao you go from taking down bad actors to becoming a commentator on transparent and community driven spending
DOT holders voted yes for this, everyone could vote based on their opinion of the spend. And itโs deeper than a traditional โsports teamโ sponsorship
Kind of a sad take and poorly researched take from someone I respected