🎉 We’re live!
Revive smart contracts have officially launched on @Polkadot.
EVM compatibility, PVM performance, shared infrastructure with native access to Polkadot features, now in production.
Full launch update here: https://t.co/gblHaLuI9e
We were honored to welcome @torstenmove, Director of Platform Engineering at @paritytech, to the Protocol Builders Program last Friday.
His lecture gave our students the opportunity to learn directly from those building the future.💡🎓
🎉 We’re live!
Revive smart contracts have officially launched on @Polkadot.
EVM compatibility, PVM performance, shared infrastructure with native access to Polkadot features, now in production.
Full launch update here: https://t.co/gblHaLuI9e
Nine years ago I wrote a cryptographic library in WebAssembly completely by hand, including Ed25519, SHA512, XSalsa20, Poly1305: https://t.co/ZA2Wxy28sh
I just realized today that it has been cited in academic research: https://t.co/XS4quvmjrv
Nice!
Quick update: the Polkadot upgrade will take place one week later, on the 27th of January. We decided to bundle this upgrade with a block time reduction to 2 seconds.
After months of intense work, our @Polkadot smart contract platform "Revive" is entering its final release phase.
We’re excited to share a detailed status update and concrete release dates here: https://t.co/4q2RRD0LnO
After months of intense work, our @Polkadot smart contract platform "Revive" is entering its final release phase.
We’re excited to share a detailed status update and concrete release dates here: https://t.co/4q2RRD0LnO
This marks the beginning of a new era for @Polkadot.
Read more about its philosophy about human-centric technology and products that belong to people instead of corporations.
Polkadot’s new website is live.
It's a simpler, more human introduction to a complex system.
The last decade built the protocol; that work continues. In the decade ahead, the focus shifts to the products and experiences built on top of it.
This is v0. It will evolve as products emerge.
→ https://t.co/rkgNf1f8KZ
@alice_und_bob Thanks for testing it. We are actively improving the docs and onboarding flow before launch, and feedback like this helps us remove the remaining rough spots.
The recording of my @Polkadotsub0 talk is live. It’s a straight explanation of @Polkadot Hub and our novel execution layer "Revive": what we built, why it matters, and how it reshapes the developer experience. If you’re building on Polkadot, watch this.
https://t.co/Xju9ciYq5S
This month at the @StakingSummit in Buenos Aires I presented how @Polkadot Hub will remove many boundaries of yield strategies today and will unlock new DeFi use cases.
Polkadot is removing the ceilings that have limited yield protocols for a decade.
In this @StakingSummit presentation, Torsten from @paritytech shows how Polkadot Hub unifies staking, assets, and high-compute smart contracts, enabling strategies EVM-only chains simply can’t support.
👩💻 Update on Smart Contracts on Polkadot Hub - August 2025
Polkadot’s smart contract platform is nearing launch.
Both PVM & EVM backends go live:
1⃣ Kusama → Oct
2⃣Polkadot → Dec
Here’s what’s ready & what’s next 🧵
👏 @torstenmove
Just gave a talk at @Web3summit in the legendary Funkhaus on smart contract VMs, the hidden engines of web3. Recording here: https://t.co/9BFhX4dbX0
Grateful for the all the amzing conversations and wonderful people at this conference.
@chfast We’re building Ethereum-compatible smart contracts on @Polkadot, with LLVM and RISC-V, everything you just listed. Your experience looks very relevant. Would be fantastic to connect and chat. Please DM!
Thrilled to be speaking at Web3 Summit this year! I’ll be diving into the hidden engines of Web3, smart contract virtual machines, and how new designs like PolkaVM are pushing their limits.
We’re pleased to welcome @torstenmove, smart contracts lead at Parity Technologies.
With a PhD in Computer Science, Torsten’s background spans theoretical foundations, machine learning, and language models. He co-founded multiple startups before entering the blockchain space in 2017. As CTO at SatoshiPay and later co-founder of Pendulum, he helped build blockchain-based payment systems and cross-chain DeFi infrastructure. At Parity, he now leads smart contract development.
🎫https://t.co/RGgN2tBiBG