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⚠️ Recruitment fraud warning
We've seen reports of scammers posing as recruiters for @Kusama, @Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation, asking applicants to pay for tests or assessments. In other cases, people are asked to download GitHub repos containing malicious code.
These are hoaxes.
Web3 Foundation does not charge people to apply for jobs. Polkadot and Kusama are decentralised networks, not employers.
Stay vigilant. Never pay to apply for a job, and be cautious before clicking on unsolicited links.
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We've been banging on about decentralisation for years.
Today, a @Google Cloud outage disrupted banking services across the UK, including @Revolut and @LloydsBank.
Turns out putting so much critical infrastructure in so few companies' hands has its drawbacks.
Who knew?
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How many organisations could collect or process information about your everyday life?
New research from the Web3 Foundation examined six modelled households in the UK and the US.
The findings: between 44 and 88 organisations are associated with their daily routines.
Let's break it down 🧵
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Your old phone can keep your keys safer than your new one.
In 2018, Parity Signer turned a spare smartphone into an offline signing device for @Polkadot. Keys never touch the internet. Transactions travel in and out by QR code, and the phone signs them without ever going online.
The project lives on as Polkadot Vault, now developed and maintained by @NovasamaTech.
wiki.polkadot.com/general/po…
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It started over lunch.
Governor Raúl Jalil of Catamarca met @gavofyork and came away convinced blockchain could bring real social value to his province. Provincial Law 5923 gave that conviction an institutional footing.
@AcademyPolkadot then built the bridge to public institutions with Juan Pablo Dusso, Coordinator of Catamarca’s Unit for Strategic Affairs and State Reform.
The result of these efforts: Catamarca On-Chain.
More than 250 policymakers and public officials spent 5 days with PBA working on verifiable digital credentials and traceable social programmes, and ultimately exploring how blockchain could strengthen public institutions.
New on our blog: the story behind Catamarca On-Chain! 🏛️
After PBA brought together Argentina’s Norte Grande governors, a conversation with PBA founder Dr. @gavofyork sparked Catamarca’s interest in training its government. The result: more than 250 decision-makers trained by PBA faculty.
🔗 Read the full article:
polkadot.academy/catamarca-o…
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Levity brings decentralised hosting and storage code to the @Polkadot ecosystem.
Authorise. Store. Retrieve via IPFS. Data is retained by default for ~14 days, renewable before expiry. Content is addressed by hash, not by server location.
Experimental, open-source, and published for developers to explore.
🔗 github.com/paritytech/polkad…
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The Web3 Foundation website has been refreshed 🧑🎨
It features a cleaner design, improved navigation, and a renewed focus on the ideas driving our work.
Take it for a test drive and let us know what you think → web3.foundation
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Web3 arrived with technology that could change how we interact, build, connect, communicate, and own our data. Then it got complicated before most people could grasp what it was actually for.
Jollity starts from people. Once a week, you play a quick game on camera with a handful of strangers. They confirm you're a real person and nobody learns who you are.
One piece of a larger direction. Trinity. Playground. Product SDK. Each solves a different problem.
Together they describe the same thing: a decentralised web that works for people rather than asking people to work for it.
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Deploying a fully decentralized app with frontend hosting, domain registration, and identity verified on-chain usually meant falling back on Web2 infrastructure for the hard parts.
At @Web3summit 2026, devs tested an experimental proof of concept with the Playground CLI to run the entire flow on-chain. 🧵
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Proposed strategy for @Polkadot
Much easier to read than ref 1954, straightforward language and less legal-like text and vagueness imho.
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Did you know you can turn an old smartphone into an offline crypto signing device? 📱🔓
The @paritytech Signer introduced this approach to the @Polkadot ecosystem back in 2018, keeping private keys offline and signing transactions via QR codes.
Today, the project lives on as Polkadot Vault, developed and maintained by @NovasamaTech.
Find out more 👇
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I made a price monitor for dotUSD, let's see how well the peg holds!
dotusd.info
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Update for the Devs 💻
New Devnet builds are now available. 🙂↔️
What's new:
• Smarter search for contacts and accounts.
• Beautiful new coin visuals and clearer privacy indicators.
• And more.
Before you update: save your recovery phrase, you’ll need it to restore your account.
Developers, get started here and explore the latest Devnet builds to see what's new:
docs.polkadotcommunity.found…
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Reminder that Polkadot consists of lots of different chains, and the chain that many people look at - the Relay Chain - by design does not have many transactions on it, as it coordinates the other chains.
The Polkadot ecosystem has around ~ 60 million transactions and ~ 180k active accounts per month.
data.parity.io/parachain-sta…
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Ethereum and Solana showed how much can be built when developers can deploy code directly to a general-purpose blockchain.
JAM brings @Polkadot into the same territory with an architecture built around parallel computation. Its cores can work on different jobs at the same time, running smart contracts, agents and other software across a shared environment.
This is Polkadot’s evolution into a collective computer that @gavofyork describes.
youtube.com/watch?v=O3kRAVBT…
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The final 100k in stablecoins from Referendum 1501 have been moved to the Polkadot Treasury today, for a total of 4.06 million (evenly split USDT/USDC).
If Ref 1953 passes, that will bring over an additional 3.36 million in stables to the Treasury.
assethub-polkadot.subscan.io…
Another 870'000 stablecoins (435k USDT, 435k USDC) have been moved to the Polkadot Treasury.
Over the last few weeks, this clean-up procedure has moved slightly over 2 million USDC and 2 million USDT to the Polkadot Treasury.
assethub-polkadot.subscan.io…
it works well 🔥
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.
