Polkadot (DOT)

DotSama Hard pressure won. Polkadot will only ever have 2.1B $DOT. Let that sink in

Day 2 for @polkadot at @consensus2026 ✅ https://t.co/3ZTwYQ23Vz

2026 is about products. But products only work once the infrastructure is finished. In 2025, @Polkadot reached that milestone with three core upgrades that together move Polkadot from theoretical capacity to practical execution. → Agile Coretime → Asynchronous Backing → Elastic Scaling Agile Coretime introduces a market for blockspace, while under the hood, workloads are scheduled across cores much like a modern operating system schedules tasks on a CPU. This is the change that makes real products possible.

April 2024 was the last major month of participation in Polkadot's crowdloan auctions, with nearly 1 million $DOT raised in projects such as @hyperbridge, @MandalaChain, and @NeuroWebAI from more than 1,300 wallets. These DOT will be returned on February 13, 2026! https://t.co/Qjg9gdr2TK

I saw several Chinese-speaking KOLs share their takeaways from @consensus2026 in Hong Kong. A lot of them were basically saying, “Crypto is over, everyone’s moving into AI.” 😭😭😭 It is a difficult moment. From the perspective of a typical retail user, there’s no more DeFi summer, no more airdrops, no meme mania, and no fantasy of 100× overnight gains. For retail participants, this really does feel like a devastating phase. But Web3 was never meant to deliver those things in the first place. It wasn’t designed as a bundle of financial products, it was meant to be infrastructure for rethinking how society coordinates and collaborates. That’s something @Polkadot has consistently tried to stay true to. I’m also looking forward to the Polkadot products @paritytech is building, hoping they can gradually turn those abstract ideas into something tangible — something that lets ordinary users do normal, everyday, non-speculative things.

💥 PBA unveils its 2026 roadmap: more focused on @paritytech talent + a product-driven direction! Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) shared a major 2026 update yesterday. After PBA7 wrapped in Bali, the team completed an internal restructuring and redesigned Polkadot’s education programs for 2026. Since 2022, PBA has run 7 in-person Campus cohorts (Cambridge, Buenos Aires, Berkeley, Hong Kong, Singapore, Lucerne, Bali), building a 500+ alumni community. Its foundational online course PBA-X launched in 2025 and has been completed by 1,000+ learners. PBA also hosted Governance For New Leadership in Lucerne and Bali, bringing together nearly 100 policymakers. Aligned with Polkadot’s leaner, more focused “second age,” PBA is shifting priorities and highlighting three key initiatives for 2026: 1) Launching a new in-person program —— Protocol Builders Program Designed to better match Parity’s Core Dev hiring needs — hands‑on, highly interactive, but with a lighter production format. - Lisbon: Apr 12–25, 2026 -

I saw several Chinese-speaking KOLs share their takeaways from @consensus2026 in Hong Kong. A lot of them were basically saying, “Crypto is over, everyone’s moving into AI.” 😭😭😭 It is a difficult moment. From the perspective of a typical retail user, there’s no more DeFi summer, no more airdrops, no meme mania, and no fantasy of 100× overnight gains. For retail participants, this really does feel like a devastating phase. But Web3 was never meant to deliver those things in the first place. It wasn’t designed as a bundle of financial products, it was meant to be infrastructure for rethinking how society coordinates and collaborates. That’s something @Polkadot has consistently tried to stay true to. I’m also looking forward to the Polkadot products @paritytech is building, hoping they can gradually turn those abstract ideas into something tangible — something that lets ordinary users do normal, everyday, non-speculative things.

💥 PBA unveils its 2026 roadmap: more focused on @paritytech talent + a product-driven direction! Polkadot Blockchain Academy (PBA) shared a major 2026 update yesterday. After PBA7 wrapped in Bali, the team completed an internal restructuring and redesigned Polkadot’s education programs for 2026. Since 2022, PBA has run 7 in-person Campus cohorts (Cambridge, Buenos Aires, Berkeley, Hong Kong, Singapore, Lucerne, Bali), building a 500+ alumni community. Its foundational online course PBA-X launched in 2025 and has been completed by 1,000+ learners. PBA also hosted Governance For New Leadership in Lucerne and Bali, bringing together nearly 100 policymakers. Aligned with Polkadot’s leaner, more focused “second age,” PBA is shifting priorities and highlighting three key initiatives for 2026: 1) Launching a new in-person program —— Protocol Builders Program Designed to better match Parity’s Core Dev hiring needs — hands‑on, highly interactive, but with a lighter production format. - Lisbon: Apr 12–25, 2026 -