Referendum 1890 has executed.
The 10,000 DOT minimum self-stake for validators is now enforced on Polkadot.
That was the mandatory prerequisite. Next up: nominators become unslashable and unbonding drops from 28 days to under 48 hours.
The blocker is cleared.
$DOT #Polkadot #Staking #OpenGov
You called $DOT dead.
Meanwhile Gavin was quietly building a 1,000,000 TPS supercomputer across 341 parallel cores.
3 independent clients. Rust. Go. Zig. Running live.
The chain you buried just lapped Visa, Mastercard, and Solana combined.
Enjoy your bags. 🕸️ $DOT
"There may be some neuro-symbolic hybrid much better than we have right now that smoothly transitions between data in a corpus and abstract representations. The kinds of stuff you guys are doing are compatible with that."
— @GaryMarcus
⏱️10 highlights:
00:00 Intro: Gary Marcus & @BranaRakic at DKGCon
02:22 Why AI took a wrong turn
04:42 Deep learning vs. deep understanding
06:16 World models: a foundational idea
08:12 The building blocks of trustworthy AI
09:44 Neuro-symbolic AI & abstract relationships
13:04 Safety is an ecosystem - the airplane lesson
15:03 The real risk of AI agents today
18:36 Testing AI like we test new drugs
22:49 Where @OpenAI is headed
The signal is clear: the path forward runs through world models, abstraction, and an open, accountable ecosystem.
ELVES is the kind of protocol research that moves the industry forward.
See what’s next for scalable blockchain architecture at Web3 Summit, June 18–19.