Polkadot Weekly Report｜Gavin says he will bring real Web3 products to the public! Web3 citizenship application may launch DOT airdrop!

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Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia, met with Polkadot founder and Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood. The two parties discussed:

• Strengthening Armenia's role in the global Web3 ecosystem;
• Promoting blockchain education and professional talent development;
• Establishing new cooperation models for incubating startups and expanding investment opportunities.

Minister Hayrapetyan stated that this cooperation is an important step for Armenia to integrate into the global blockchain community and create more opportunities for future technology innovators.

During the meeting, Gavin Wood also announced plans to establish a "Web3 University" in Armenia to promote the country's technological, educational, and economic development. This news marks a significant milestone in international cooperation for both Polkadot and the entire Web3 ecosystem.

This week, Gavin Wood hosted a closed-door Parity meeting, and Polkadot may be entering a brand new era!

Polkadot community members reported that Gavin Wood delivered a completely different speech at the Parity annual meeting. He made it clear that he would personally take the lead in the company's direction and product development, aiming to bring real Web3 products to the public.

Community members also said: "He's not just back, he's taking action. Polkadot is entering a new phase, and many things will be redefined."

However, all meeting details are currently confidential, but this transformation may become a key turning point in Polkadot's development history!

Let's look forward to what big moves Gavin will bring!

Polkadot ecosystem activity hit a record high this week! On October 13 (UTC+8), the total number of transfers on the network exceeded 1.2 million, setting a new historical record!

From the chart, we can see that multiple rollup chains are highly active, including Mythos, Hydration, Moonbeam, peaq, Polkadot Asset Hub, Astar, Hyperbridge, and more. The ecosystem network is busier and more vibrant than ever!

Polkadot leads the "Most Decentralized Blockchain" ranking!

Data analytics platform Chainspect released its latest rankings, tracking the true decentralization and censorship resistance of major blockchain networks, revealing which ecosystems truly possess long-term resilience.

Among the top 25 based on the Nakamoto coefficient, Polkadot ranks at the top, once again confirming its leading position in network security and decentralized governance.

The higher the score, the stronger the decentralization!

The Web3 Foundation stated that although they announced they would participate in treasury proposal voting, they will only intervene when necessary!

For a long time, W3F has not participated in treasury proposal voting, hoping to let the community make decisions freely. But "decentralization does not mean no coordination." Therefore, W3F will selectively participate in voting on key treasury proposals, not to dominate the outcome, but to help governance proceed more orderly.

To maintain balance, the foundation has also increased the voting power of DV (Decentralized Voice) by 50%, from 2 million to 3 million, to ensure the community remains the leading voice.

Learn more in the latest PolkaWorld article

Papermoon shared their views this week—REVM is about to go live, and the powerful infrastructure of Polkadot 2.0 will reshape the smart contract ecosystem! With the support of Polkadot 2.0, REVM is not just an "Ethereum compatibility layer," it gains real superpowers:

• Agile Coretime: Computing power as flexible as cloud services
• Asynchronous Backing: 6-second block time, tenfold performance
• Elastic Scaling: Multi-core parallelism, dynamic expansion

This makes REVM an ideal environment for running complex DeFi protocols, GameFi, or high-frequency applications. Polkadot 2.0 provides a high-performance, low-cost, infinitely scalable home for smart contracts.

• Late October (UTC+8): REVM and PVM go live on Kusama Hub simultaneously
• Mid-December (UTC+8): REVM and PVM go live on Polkadot Hub simultaneously

Learn more in the latest PolkaWorld article

The Polkadot Builder Party has officially launched! This is a 6-week hackathon + ecosystem co-creation event initiated by Polkadot, aimed at global Web2 & Web3 developers, to help more teams use technologies such as Polkadot SDK, Agile Coretime, and Polkadot Cloud to build "Radically Open, Radically Useful" Web3 applications.

• October 6 (UTC+8) — Event officially begins (online registration + project submission)
• October to mid-November (UTC+8) — Multiple global Builder Party offline gatherings (including Hong Kong, Singapore, Lisbon, and more)
• Mid-November (UTC+8) — Project submission deadline & review phase
• Late November to early December (UTC+8) — Announcement of winning teams and ecosystem showcase

Learn more details and how to register:

For developers participating in the Polkadot Builder Party, if you want to build products that truly define Web3, the Product Engineering Director from Parity offers eight suggestions:

1️⃣ Users use products, not protocols.

Technology only changes the world when it becomes usable. Web3 needs its own "ChatGPT moment"—build "experiences," not "whitepapers."

2️⃣ Decentralization is not the goal, but the means.

Use Polkadot SDK to achieve what Web2 cannot: censorship resistance, unstoppable, not reliant on company promises.

3️⃣ Design for people, not crypto geeks.

Make it so even your grandma can use it. Hide blockchain jargon, deliver value first, and make the "magic" obvious.

4️⃣ Build on truth, not trust.

Privacy relies on mathematical proofs, not promises; ownership relies on keys, not terms.

5️⃣ See Polkadot as a decentralized API network.

Each parachain is an independent capability module: identity, storage, privacy, computation. Combine like AWS, but without centralized gatekeepers.

6️⃣ Solve real pain points, not hypothetical problems.

Ask yourself: Does centralization really cause harm? Can only Web3 fix it? Do users care?

7️⃣ Verification beats marketing.

Open source code, public logic, let skeptics verify for themselves.

8️⃣ Remember the goal.

We're not building another Facebook, but something it can never become.

For dapp developers, you can also check out the latest PolkaWorld video to learn how to quickly launch your dapp using Polkadot UI!

Polkadot officially released an article sharing the governance highlights for Q3 2025:

• Hard Pressure reform passed: The community established a permanent DOT cap of 2.1 billion with 81% support, and inflation will be reduced by 53% starting March 2026.
• Sub0 Buenos Aires: Held November 14–16 (UTC+8), with a budget of 738,000 USDC, focusing on products, development, and hackathons, attracting over 3,000 participants.
• Treasury spending exceeded $4 million: 1M DOT invested in DeFi infrastructure, 500,000 DOT supporting global event bounties, with continued funding for systems and wallets.
• Multiple proposals rejected: Including Clarys.AI ($130,000 governance AI tool), Pudgy Party, PlutoFramework, etc., sparking discussions on the evaluation mechanism for non-technical proposals.
• October outlook (UTC+8): Focus on PUSD stablecoin, Ink Alliance bounty, and PCF board elections.

In short, during Q3, Polkadot DAO

• Funded about $4.8 million, focusing on infrastructure, ecosystem activities, and wallet tools;
• Rejected about $2.8 million in proposals, mostly early-stage or non-technical projects.

The flow of funds shows the community prefers to support infrastructure and core products, while taking a more cautious approach to "innovative concept proposals."

Web3 Citizenship submitted a treasury proposal for 1.1 million DOT, planning to launch the "Web3 Citizenship" user onboarding program!

The Web3 Citizenship team submitted a proposal to the Polkadot treasury, requesting 1,100,260 DOT (about $3.52 million) for the upcoming user onboarding and incentive phase of the "Web3 Citizenship" (W3C) project.

The project aims to create a decentralized, privacy-protecting individual identity system, verifying user uniqueness through "Decentralized Individuality Mechanisms (DIMs)" to fundamentally solve issues like bot accounts and Sybil attacks.

According to the proposal, treasury funds will be gradually exchanged for HOLLAR stablecoins via the Hydration network over four days and deposited into the sovereign account of the Polkadot People Chain to incentivize real users who complete verification. Funds will not be used for development or marketing, only for user registration and retention incentives.

The team stated that this will be "the fairest airdrop in Web3 history"—only for real human users who complete identity verification, "no bots, no VCs, only real people."

Gavin Wood commented: "Digital identity is one of the biggest challenges facing Web3, and Web3 Citizenship offers a brand new solution that doesn't sacrifice privacy."

The editor understands that this is the airdrop plan Gavin mentioned for proof of personhood, and everyone can participate in the vote here.

Ecosystem Projects

This week, PolkaWorld's livestream invited Bifrost co-founder Lurpis for an in-depth discussion on the evolution of liquid staking, market dynamics, and future trends. As one of the earliest DeFi pioneers in the Polkadot ecosystem, Bifrost is driving a series of key upgrades. In this livestream, Lurpis shared:

1️⃣ Bifrost growth and ecosystem data

Reviewed key milestones in liquid staking and shared the latest achievements in cross-chain integration and ecosystem expansion.

2️⃣ Hackathon "Dot Your Future"

Bifrost co-hosted a hackathon, open to developers, encouraging innovative projects around Staking and DeFi.

3️⃣ vDOT delegated voting feature launched

The new feature allows vDOT holders to delegate governance rights to any address or DAO, bringing greater flexibility to governance participation and on-chain voting.

4️⃣ Market insights: USDe depegging and DOT price response

The team shared their analysis of recent market volatility and discussed its impact on DeFi stability and long-term confidence in Polkadot.

5️⃣ Future outlook: When staking lock-up is removed

If Polkadot cancels staking lock-up periods in the future, how will the role and mechanism of vDOT evolve? The Bifrost team also shared forward-looking thoughts on this.

Check out the full livestream content here.

The HOLLAR lending cap has been raised to 4,000,000 💸! At the same time, Hydration has increased the cap of the HOLLAR Stability Module and raised the trigger price for participating in arbitrage operations. For details, please see Hydration's referendum proposal #203.

Paxos Gold (PAXG) went live this week on Hydration's Omnipool, with current yields as high as 50% (UTC+8). Join now!

Decentralized computing platform Acurast continues to grow, recently surpassing 450 million on-chain transactions!

Acurast is committed to building a distributed, trusted computing network, allowing users to participate in the network, perform tasks, and earn rewards via mobile phones. It is becoming one of the key projects in the Polkadot ecosystem driving the implementation of "real-world computing."

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Hyperbridge announced that Sovereign Intents is about to go live, meaning seamless swapping functionality is about to launch! Stay tuned!