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Polkadot Evangelist Kusama & Chaos and gob observer in Polkadot https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZfbFalOkkE

Joined November 2021
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
dotUSD is live on Polkadot. Today a handful of companies issue and control most of the world's stablecoins worth more than $250B. Like banks, they decide who can hold them and who can’t. dotUSD is based on a different premise. It has no issuing company and no single point of control. The DOT DAO governs it through OpenGov. Polkadot now has a stablecoin that belongs to its network.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
The loading bar hit 100%. The new Gavun Wud website is live. Games, music, NFTs, burns and buying $WUD, all in one place. Native to @Polkadot. Take a look inside ↓ $WUD $DOT
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
gm. Shipping major updates this week. +42% in 7 days. Touching grass before the biggest month yet. $WUD $DOT
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Today we marked the formal launch of Catamarca On-Chain 🇦🇷, an institutional training programme in blockchain and digital governance. The opening meeting took place at Casa de Gobierno, alongside Governor @RaulJalil_ok, @marinamarchesot , Juan Pablo Dusso, Gustavo Aguirre and the whole team who made this encounter, and this week of joint work, possible. Thank you for the trust, and for welcoming us. #CatamarcaOnChain will bring together officials, legislators and technical teams from the province this week, delivered alongside our faculty of international experts. We're so proud of the team joining us to make this possible. Follow along this week to learn more 👀
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Brave v1.94 on desktop added two major Brave Wallet upgrades: native @Polkadot support and private cross-chain transfers with @NEARProtocol's Confidential Intents. 🎉 Here's what that means for users...
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Crypto Twitter says Polkadot is dead ☠️. So I pulled 12 months of on-chain data — May 2025 to April 2026. Here's what actually happened 👇 April 2026: 1.6M+ monthly active wallets across 5 chains Jun 2025: 150M+ transactions in a single month Jan 2026: 1.5 BILLION+ cumulative on-chain events While crypto Twitter argues about price, Polkadot quietly became the settlement layer for non-human workloads. DePIN devices. Compute jobs. Game backends. Oracles. Agents. None of them sleep. None of them sell on weekends. The "dead coin" narrative is fighting the data. The data is winning. ▶️ Live time-lapse: data.parity.io #Polkadot #DOT #Crypto
The internet was built on you. Not for you.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Why the next wave of crypto applications will need DOT The crypto market has spent the last few years optimizing one thing: how to scale a single chain. From Ethereum to rollups, the dominant idea has been simple: take one base layer, and build layers on top of it. It worked — to a point. But as applications evolve, a new limitation is becoming clear: not all applications are meant to live inside the same execution environment. And this is where Polkadot enters the picture. One chain vs many chains At a high level, the difference is simple: Ethereum L2s extend one chain Polkadot builds many specialized chains This isn’t just a technical distinction. It’s a design philosophy. Ethereum optimizes for: shared liquidity shared users shared standards Polkadot optimizes for: custom execution application-specific logic parallel scalability Why this difference starts to matter now In early crypto, most applications looked similar: DEX lending NFTs These don’t require deep customization. They benefit from being close to liquidity. That’s why Ethereum dominates here. But the next generation of applications is different. The next wave: applications that don’t fit inside a single VM 1. AI-native systems AI applications on-chain are not just smart contracts. They require: heavy computation custom execution environments asynchronous workflows Trying to fit that into a standard EVM is like: running a data center inside a spreadsheet. With Polkadot: each AI system can run its own chain optimize for compute, not compatibility scale independently 2. DePIN and real-world coordination DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks) introduces: hardware coordination off-chain data high-frequency interactions These systems need: low latency custom fee models flexible consensus rules This is difficult in shared environments. But natural in a multi-chain architecture. 3. Complex economic systems (games, multi-asset finance) Future crypto applications won’t be simple contracts. They will be: full economic systems with multiple tokens cross-chain interactions dynamic rules This is where Polkadot’s design shines: each system can define its own economy at the protocol level. The trade-off: why this hasn’t happened yet If this is so powerful, why hasn’t it taken over? Because Polkadot optimizes for the future, not the present. Ethereum wins today because: users are already there liquidity is already there developers already know the tools Polkadot requires: more upfront design more engineering effort more long-term thinking And markets tend to prefer: what works now, not what scales later. What changes the game For Polkadot to matter, one thing must happen: an application that cannot exist properly on Ethereum must succeed on Polkadot. Not “better”. Not “cheaper”. But: only possible there. When that happens: the narrative changes developers follow capital follows And the architecture advantage becomes visible. Conclusion The question is not whether Polkadot replaces Ethereum. It won’t. The real question is: what kinds of applications require a different architecture? And as crypto evolves beyond simple financial primitives, that answer becomes clearer. Ethereum scales one world. @Polkadot enables many worlds. And sooner or later, some of those worlds will need to exist.
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Polymarket will migrate to a new blockchain. What they describe is in Polkadot 😏
This is my 3rd week as VP of Engineering DeFi at @Polymarket , and I'm going to be straight: the traction @Polymarket has seen has massively outpaced our infrastructure, and we haven't done nearly enough to scale to keep up. I hear you, and fixing this is our entire focus. We're a major company now, and we need to engineer like one. Here's exactly what we're doing: - Onchain data latency. We're working on making this near-instant so the experience is incredible. - Chain migration. We need more block space, cheaper gas and much smaller block times so settlement is instant. - Transactions are getting cancelled. We understand this is one of the most frustrating issues right now, and we have a complete fix coming very soon. - Massive focus on the website to make it faster, more responsive, and with better UX. - We added observability everywhere. Proper alerting so we catch issues ourselves, market makers should not be the ones telling us something is down. That's been unacceptable, and we know it. - E2e tests throughout, starting with the CLOB, so issues get caught in CI before anything ships. - CLOBv2 is not a rewrite. It won't improve performance or stability on its own; it's an upgrade that unlocks us to move fast right after. We'll do better with communication next time. - We are rebuilding the CLOB from the ground up. Most important thing we're doing. Without it, we can't be the best DeFi exchange in the world. We know it, we're on it, it's mission critical. - Unified TypeScript SDK for all APIs, which is shipping soon. - Unified API. One WS connection for everything, with a schema that's actually readable. - New Polymarket contract in the works that unlocks things that are simply impossible on the current protocol. - New hires: Head of QA Automation, Head of Dev Tooling, Head of Internal Tooling, Head of Data Engineering. - Smaller, dedicated teams. Fewer focus points per person, clearer ownership. People do what they're good at and are accountable for it. - Working closely with customer support to give them real debugging tools so any user issue gets properly diagnosed, not lost. - Proper communication with marketing and market makers so everyone knows what's coming and when, and MM can submit feature requests with a clear path to get them into engineering and shipped. - Working with 4 security teams daily to ensure we're super secure and that funds are always safe. - Perps incoming. Brand new contracts and a backend built from scratch in Rust. We're proud of this one. - A lot of other fixes are running in parallel right now. Starting next Friday, I will be posting weekly engineering updates. I joined because I genuinely believe in what @Polymarket is trying to do. @shayne_coplan built this so the world has somewhere to go to find out what's actually going to happen, not what the media thinks, not what a pundit says, but what thousands of people are willing to put money on. But right now, our engineering isn't living up to that. We've let people down, and I'm not going to dress that up. I came here to fix it, and that's exactly what we're going to do. The next few months are going to speak for themselves. Stay with us.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Comment: Learn about $TDOT: 21shares.com/en-us/products-… View $TDOT Prospectus: cdn.21shares.com/uploads/pro… An investment in the Trust is not a direct investment in Polkadot. Investors will also forgo certain rights conferred by owning Polkadot directly. The Fund is not a fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“1940 Act”), and is not subject to regulation under the 1940, unlike most exchange traded products or ETFs. An investment in TDOT involves significant risks, may be subject to extreme volatility and investors could lose their entire investment. Thus, TDOT is not suitable for all investors.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
It’s @Polkadot time. We’re excited to launch the 21shares Polkadot ETF, offering investors a liquid way to integrate Polkadot into their portfolios through their banks or brokers. Why we believe Polkadot is interesting in 30 seconds: ▫️Interoperability: One of the only platforms built for blockchain communication, enabling sophisticated interactions across chains. ▫️Developer First: 150+ projects building on Substrate framework (Polkadot SDK) which allows developers to build blockchains tailored to specific needs. ▫️High-performance Scalability: in 2024, the network reached a theoretical maximum of 630,000 transactions per second and currently positions itself as a scalable, future-ready platform. $TDOT is the ticker, Polkadot is the network connector. Now available on select brokerages.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
"We ned a solid Web3 Proof-of-Persnhood. An we ned it now." - Dr. Gavun WUD, the fownder of Polkadot ⚫️
Imagine signing up for a new community or joining a global vote without a company demanding your passport, phone number, or a facial scan. Instead of handing over your private life just to prove you aren't a bot, you simply show up as a human. You enter a digital space you actually control, participating in decisions that affect you, with the peace of mind that everyone else there is a real person. It’s the end of being treated like inventory. Goodbye onboarding hurdles, no surrendering your data, just the quiet confidence of belonging to a digital society that respects your dignity. This is what it feels like to regain your digital freedom.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
As Founder & CEO of @Sonevibe, I've deployed the first Uniswap V2-style factory on Polkadot Hub Revive mainnet (verified, $0.9 DOT gas).
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"150.000€ para proteger a los indígenas brasileños LGTBI, 300.000€ para el liderazgo de las mujeres en en Centroamérica y 3M para el empoderamiento de las mujeres en Egipto". Más despilfarro de Moncloa. Pero tus impuestos son para Educación y Sanidad.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Antes, en Polkadot, la ausencia de smart contracts no era una limitación evidente; simplemente, si querías construir, el camino natural era lanzar una blockchain completa. Con la llegada de los smart contracts, no solo se incorpora una nueva capacidad, sino que cambia el tipo de preguntas que pueden hacerse los desarrolladores: ya no ➡️ necesito mi propia cadena? sino ➡️ puedo validar mi producto primero como una dApp? El valor no está únicamente en el smart contract en sí, sino en que reduce el umbral de entrada, acelera la experimentación y hace el desarrollo más accesible y orientado al producto.
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🎉 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: forum.polkadot.network/t/rel…
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
When something doesn’t exist, we rarely notice its absence. We simply build within the limits we have. For a long time in @Polkadot, developers who wanted to create a solution had to think in terms of entire blockchains. That was the natural path. With the arrival of smart contracts, that framework changes. It is now possible to build dApps that execute product logic directly, without the need to deploy a chain from scratch. This not only makes development more practical but also reduces initial complexity, accelerates idea validation, and opens the door to new product types that were previously not viable under that model.
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Con la consolidación de la informática, el énfasis pasó al software y a la autonomía de las redes. El movimiento del Software Libre y la Ética Hacker defendieron el control del usuario sobre la tecnología, mientras que los cypherpunks subrayaron la privacidad como condición fundamental de una sociedad digital abierta. El objetivo común fue asegurar que la tecnología sirva a las personas y no a la autoridad.🔐
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Proof of Personhood
En este Space nos metimos de lleno con Proof of Personhood junto a @blockya_, @validandina y @Juanma0x con @Bra16Dot como host. Proof of Personhood no es una idea abstracta ni una promesa lejana, sino como una pieza de infraestructura que busca responder a un problema real de internet hoy: cómo diferenciamos personas de máquinas, sin caer en centralización ni manipulación. La conversación recorrió desde el por qué es necesario este tipo de solución, hasta el cómo podría implementarse en Polkadot, qué rol juegan Kusama, los bounties, los incentivos y, sobre todo, qué oportunidades abre esto para construir productos más justos, humanos y resistentes a ataques como el Sybil. Hubo un consenso claro: Polkadot ya es una red extremadamente avanzada en términos técnicos y de escalabilidad para máquinas, pero el siguiente salto no es técnico, sino humano. Proof of Personhood aparece como una capa que permitiría: ▫️ Asegurar que detrás de una cuenta hay una persona real. ▫️Reducir la influencia de bots, IA y actores maliciosos. ▫️Crear dinámicas más justas de participación, incentivos y gobernanza. ▫️Facilitar el onboarding de nuevos usuarios sin exigirles conocimientos previos de blockchain. A partir de ahí, la conversación fue profundizando en distintos ángulos: ataques Sybil, privacidad, descentralización, incentivos vía airdrops, casos de uso reales y el estado actual del desarrollo dentro del ecosistema. @Juanma0x puso el marco conceptual desde el inicio: Proof of Personhood no debe entenderse como algo aislado, sino como un proceso que garantiza individualidad. Su punto central fue que Polkadot ya resolvió cómo escalar y asegurar la red a nivel de máquinas, pero ahora el desafío es asegurarse de que esa infraestructura sea usada por personas y no por sistemas automatizados. También planteó una idea clave: el verdadero valor de Proof of Personhood no es el airdrop en sí, sino los casos de uso reales que pueden construirse a partir de esta individualidad verificada, tanto dentro como fuera de Polkadot. El incentivo puede ser un disparador inicial, pero la utilidad tiene que sostenerse en el tiempo. @validandina bajó el tema a tierra explicando claramente qué es un ataque Sybil y por qué es tan relevante hoy: una sola entidad controlando múltiples identidades para manipular información, gobernanza o incentivos. Su aporte fue clave en dos frentes: ▫️Diferenciar humanos de máquinas. ▫️Diferenciar humanos entre sí, sin recurrir a datos sensibles como documentos oficiales, biometría o información personal. Explicó cómo Proof of Personhood apunta a resolver esto mediante mecanismos criptográficos y sociales descentralizados, y compartió ejemplos concretos como DIM-1 y DIM-2, además de experiencias reales que ya se están probando en Kusama, como Encointer, donde la verificación ocurre incluso de forma presencial y comunitaria. @blockya_ aportó una mirada muy necesaria desde la alineación estratégica. Su pregunta fue directa: cómo se alinea Proof of Personhood y particularmente un airdrop con la narrativa actual de Polkadot de “construir productos”? Planteó una tensión real entre atraer usuarios vía incentivos y, al mismo tiempo, enfocar esfuerzos en traer proyectos y builders. También compartió contexto fresco desde reuniones recientes de comunidad, donde se percibe un interés genuino por entender hacia dónde va Polkadot con Proof of Personhood y cómo encaja en el roadmap general. Más que respuestas cerradas, dejó abiertas preguntas importantes sobre incentivos, prioridades y objetivos de largo plazo. En conjunto, el Space dejó claro que Proof of Personhood no es un “feature más”, sino una infraestructura habilitadora que puede redefinir cómo participamos, construimos y nos organizamos en Polkadot. Quedan muchas preguntas abiertas: cómo se alinean mejor los incentivos? qué productos deberían usar Proof of Personhood? hasta dónde debería llegar su adopción? y cómo se equilibra privacidad, descentralización y usabilidad? La conversación está lejos de cerrarse y probablemente ese sea el punto. Qué opinas tú? Ves Proof of Personhood como un catalizador real para nuevos productos y usuarios en Polkadot, o crees que todavía hay piezas que no terminan de encajar?🧐
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Coming from Ethereum? @Polkadot's docs now include a clear, practical path for Ethereum developers focused on familiarity, not reinvention. Same tools. Familiar workflows. Different guarantees underneath. 👉 docs.polkadot.com
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Bra_16-Dot Agora Labs 🐂⭕️ retweeted
Ves las carreteras y piensas: “se lo gastarán en trenes”. Ves los trenes y piensas: “se lo gastarán en educación”. Ves la educación: “se lo gastarán entonces en sanidad”. Ves la sanidad: “pues se lo gastarán en catástrofes”. Ves a los dl volcán, las riadas, los incendios… Entonces.. en que se gastan nuestro dinero?
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