Hanzie

[Bifrost - Staking Yield Layer @Bifrost]

We've updated our loan discussion to bring the @Polkadot Growth Strategy to life.
👉 We're doubling our initial loan request to 1M DOT.

Feel free to give feedbacks in the discussion:
https://t.co/C1QagFdLe2

[Nova Wallet @NovaWalletApp]

Have MYTH on other Polkadot chains? Want it staked in seconds?

Yeah, Nova does that. 😎

✅ Bridge & stake MYTH effortlessly
✅ Maximize your rewards, zero hassle

See how smooth it is ⬇️

🔗 https://t.co/4aoEtaAVA0

[Enter the Mythos @EnterTheMythos]

Huge changes are happening on Mythos! 📢

Starting today, all gas fees will be burned, effectively reducing the supply over time.

The Mythos DAO has officially migrated to @Polkadot, which means it will now use the Democracy Pallet for governance. Users can discuss and engage on Polkassembly to talk about all things Mythos.

And lastly, non-inflationary staking is almost here! Staking rewards will become available in approximately 3 days, with wallet support rolling out ASAP to ensure a smooth experience!

To get all the details on what's coming to Mythos, make sure to read the full proposal here ⬇️
https://t.co/y5TQOuQAAG

[Pudgy Party @PlayPudgyParty]

enhance, enhance, enhance.

[Bifrost - Staking Yield Layer @Bifrost]

100 Million staked ASTR! サンキュー🙇‍♂️

Take advantage of your $vASTR on @soneium. The Surge campaign is over but get prepared for the ACS campaign.

[Bifrost - Staking Yield Layer @Bifrost]

vDOT supply cap got Leemo'ed 🐍

It will be increased in the @hydration_net money market for more leverage capacity.

Thanks, everyone—you pushed it hard. Vote on Hydration's OpenGov to support the referendum 🗳️.

[Bifrost - Staking Yield Layer @Bifrost]

Fee Switch is predicted to be a major DeFi trend in 2025, but Bifrost was ahead of the curve! As early as September 2024, we proposed reallocating protocol profits to stakers of our native token $BNC. 🔄

With #FeeSwitch, protocols can enhance token value and ensure ecosystem health. Check out our protocol revenue distribution below 👇

Read more: https://t.co/Fc1IBF8jYD

[goku @0xgoku_]

Here is your yearly dose of Polkadot in 786 words.

“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”

The big picture.

Polkadot today is a multi-core shared world computer.
It’s not about optics.
Not about shortcuts.
Its value proposition is simply offering the best-connected, highest-quality blockspace.
Fine dining, not fast food.

2024’s big change?

Coretime replaced slot auctions.
Now, builders get blockspace on demand. Month-long purchases.
The barrier to entry -> Minimized.
There is a decentralized blockspace market, available to all.

Trustless bridges are finally here.

“The great connector is trustless, not trust.”

• Snowbridge: Ethereum <> Polkadot. Secure. Proven.
Mythos migrated from Ethereum using it.
• @hyperbridge: An interop co-processor. Ambitious. Trust-free programmable bridge for every ecosystem, every chain. Powered by Polkadot’s $3.5B economic security.
No multisigs. No committees. Just cryptographic proofs.
• KSM <> DOT trustless bridge: It’s live. A better UI/UX for swaps? 2025’s goal.

Async Backing has arrived.

“More throughput. Less block time.”

• Block times halved to 6 secs.
• 10x throughput. Faster confirmations, better UX.

Security

Polkadot’s validator count hit 500.
Its Nakamoto coefficient? 132—the highest in the industry.
Compare that to the next-best: under 40.

Polkadot ≠ vanity TPS metrics, but…Kusama hit 143k TPS (23% of current capacity)

• Happened on a live decentralized chain with real stakes in.
• 103M+ txns in a single event.
• Finality averaged 16.8 secs.
• Fees stayed low. Polkadot rollups operations weren’t disturbed.

Elastic scaling is already live on Kusama and used in this TPS event.

What was it?
One core is not enough for your chain in any time? Eat more cores, have more energy, more throughput.

Activity Boom

Txn activity significantly increased: 13.1M → 40M by November.
• @EnterTheMythos : A top gaming chain bringing top IPs in 2025—official FIFA and Pudgy Penguins.
• @NeuroWebAI : Building collective memory for AI agents.
• @PhalaNetwork : Becoming the AI co-processor for whole crypto space

Economics and OpenGov

“Crypto governance isn’t about control—it’s about coordination.”

• Inflation fixed at 120M DOT/year, gradually decreasing (8% today).
• Coretime sale burns.
• Treasury’s stablecoin reserve: $22M → $90M.
• 950+ referenda in 2024.
• 520+ initiated.
• 215M DOT locked through conviction voting.
• Treasury now holds multi-assets (USDC, USDT). Total = $217M.

Devs devs devs.

1,167 new devs joined Polkadot in 2024.
It’s the #3 ecosystem for full-time devs, after Ethereum and Solana.
• In Europe, it ranks #3.
• In China (home to 18% of the world’s population), it’s #3 again.

The Polkadot Fellowship doubled to 99 members. Think of it as a decentralized karate dojo where devs build and collab to continue advancing Polkadot's core tech without dependencies on any firm, org, or individual.

Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA): spun out into its own org, nurturing core devs globally (online academy launched this year)

PBA and Fellowship are the ultimate resistance to Polkadot’s development stagnation.

UX Upgrades

Ledger now supports all Polkadot chains. No breaks from updates for runtime.
Top wallets now offer:
• One-click swaps.
• Tinder-like governance voting.
• DOT in Telegram.

The new Polkadot app's beta launched in US. Will be in 33 countries across 1M+ shops.
• Staking, transfers, cashback (up to 20%).
• Buy pizza with DOT? Absolutely needed. Maybe DOT is also money afterall.

Data Accesability

Polkadot metrics are now on
• Dune.
• Token Terminal.
• Artemis.

Parity’s @dotlake_xyz team became the truth enforcers for Polkadot ecosystem data.

DeFi is kickstarted.

• @hydration_net : The go-to hub for Polkadot DeFi. An omni-pool, money market, and hollar stablecoin in one.
• @StellaSwap : Moonbeam’s DEX saw $2B+ volume, having huge cross-ecosystem inflows.
• @Bifrost : Liquidity across the ecosystem. VDOT adoption is everywhere.

2025 Teasers

• PVM: RISC-V based VM. Executes 45% faster than EVM interpreters.
• Elastic Scaling: Already live on Kusama, imminent to Polkadot.
• Unified Address Format for rollups.
• DOT as a universal fee token.
• Faster unstaking (2 days).
• Zk-SNARKs to further optimize block production.
• NOMT by @rphmeier. Not particularly specific to Polkadot but can enhance Polkadot as well. What is it? tldr: Blockchain throughput will go brrrrr.

Polkadot Hub

Started with the Plaza, the core idea of it is to have a central bazaar place for users, builders, apps all together to play, degen, tinker, experiment on their product by giving them accessibility to all features with zero friction, synchronous composability, smart contracts, and performance—all in one place.

Essentially for Polkadot apps to deliver faster(fail fast, iterate fast), more integrated, and more user-friendly focused apps. If any finds its PMF, can easily scale out by deploying their chains.

And then there’s this JAM thing.

The Web3 supercomputer that has been promised since 2015.
• 35 teams currently building different versions. 15 programming languages.
• 100+ computation cores.
• 1GB/s data I/O.
• Targeting 1.5M+ TPS

To give some contex: Mid-range centralized data center servers often operate at around 1-10 GB/s of I/O for storage and tasks.
This is not an incremental upgrade but a serious step-up; as it proposes Polkadot’s infra will match performance metrics seen in centralized systems while staying decentralized.

The year 2024 has ended.
Polkadot 1.0 is complete.
The foundations are built.
Now, 2025 is about adoption.

[Bifrost - Staking Yield Layer @Bifrost]

To ensure the migration of $vBNC and the subsequent launch of bbBNC, we've proposed an alternative solution: a snapshot-based vBNC migration process. Migrate vBNC from Bifrost-Kusama to Bifrost-Polkadot within a week.

Please be note that we will stop the vBNC minting, redemption, collator rewards and farming incentives on Kusama tomorrow.

Know more about the migration details: https://t.co/fYaoWonXke

[Bifrost - Staking Yield Layer @Bifrost]

We are back 🐂🌈.
That's the tweet.

[Polkadot Insider 🐂⭕️ @PolkadotInsider]

🎥 Join our interview with @le_mec from @PolimecProtocol to explore the future of decentralized fundraising!

Discover how #Polimec works and what it means for blockchain innovation.

Don’t miss it 👉 https://t.co/oMVImgX7V7

#Web3 #Polkadot

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@Bifrost @StellaSwap @hydration_net @ZenlinkPro and also on Beamswap

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@paritytech @Polkadot @joepetrowski Wen DOT&lt;&gt;KSM bridge for the parachains?

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@Bifrost $BNC $bbBNC #Bifrost #LiquidWave

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

Join me for the @Bifrost Liquid Wave!

Use my link to get:
+ 300 WAVE
+ 30 extra WAVE for invitation reward
+ 10% extra LST minting reward

Don't miss the chance to share the revenue from $BNC 2.0 and access the big prize pool.

👉 https://t.co/AkJOQfLeNo

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@hydration_net @Bifrost @AstarNetwork

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@Bifrost

[Polkadot @Polkadot]

Web2 convenience meets Web3 innovation.

Polimec and @BanxaOfficial now allow users to participate in projects using credit cards, improving accessibility to the Polkadot ecosystem.

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@MoonbeamNetwork

[Hanzie @HanzieBE]

@Titi1P @joinwebzero @Bifrost