Polkadot Re-poster

You have landed in the perfect community if you share the Web3 vision.

Opting for decentralization represents a highly practical approach to design. Unlike Web2, which relies on opaque control and trusted intermediaries, Polkadot functions through the collective effort of hundreds of validators. Each of these participants stakes capital to serve as a bond for their honest conduct. The network ensures security through an incentive-based model, offering rewards for accuracy and high uptime.

Trust is established through transparency, whereas freedom is safeguarded by privacy.

Polkadot has successfully advanced to a new level of capability. The runtime upgrade implemented today launches a network that is simpler, faster, and more practical for real-world applications. Regarding the improvements to your experience, you will notice that applications operate with greater fluidity and speed, while transaction confirmations occur much more rapidly. Furthermore, this update ensures that builders can dedicate their efforts to developing products rather than managing the complexities of protocol engineering.

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The breakdown of centralized institutions during the 2008 financial crisis highlighted a fundamental flaw: systems reliant on trust crumble when those institutions fail.

Context was essential.

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Don't trust. Verify.

The compute layer has officially become decentralized.

The @Acurast mainnet launched today, utilizing 169K smartphones to power a global, serverless network.

This ensures no single points of failure—delivering only verifiable, distributed compute for Web3.

Resilience is the one word that matters.

In Web2, truth is moderated, whereas in Web3, truth is computed.

Prior to the release of the Macintosh, the philosophy was paramount. Leaders like Steve Jobs were molded by the counterculture of the 60s, which embodied a rejection of the corporate uniformity and mass media dominance inherited from the 1950s.

While technology evolves, the ethos remains unchanged.

Web3 didn’t start with Bitcoin, nor is it simply “Web2 with tokens.” It belongs to a much longer lineage that stretches from the personal computer to the early internet.

These are tools designed to shift power from institutions to individuals.

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Last November, @Polkadotsub0 brought together the individuals actually building the next generation of decentralized systems.

If protocol design, digital sovereignty, and execution matter to you, be sure to watch these.

Full archive:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOyWqupZ-WGveyUMAQNQVT0Ri0CY2YHoR&si=3ghDuk0_AizJAZQO

L'année 2026 est centrée sur le développement de produits. Ce focus a nécessité l'achèvement préalable de l'infrastructure sous-jacente.

En 2025, le déploiement réussi de Polkadot 2.0 a eu lieu, introduisant :
→ Agile Coretime
→ Asynchronous Backing
→ Elastic Scaling

Au cours de la semaine à venir, nous explorerons les fonctionnalités et les avantages que chacune de ces innovations offre.

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Une nouvelle année apporte une nouvelle emphase.

→ Des innovations qui comptent vraiment, fondées sur la base la plus solide du Web3.

Présentation de la Deuxième Ère de Polkadot.
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A Year of Development Ahead.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all who participated in the efforts to build, inquire, manage, and enhance our initiatives.

In 2026, our focus will be on transforming our foundational work into tangible products.

Wishing a Happy New Year to the global Polkadot community.
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The Kusama runtime upgrade that took place yesterday marked two significant advancements:

→ Block times have been reduced from approximately 6 seconds to less than 2 seconds, thanks to Elastic Scaling.
→ Introduction of Revive: a comprehensive smart contract platform that operates on both PVM and EVM.

Developers can deploy Solidity contracts without modifications and utilize their well-known Ethereum tools.

Staking rewards on Polkadot operate within a cycle of approximately 24 hours, referred to as an "Era," which is typically divided among around 22,000 nominators.

In Era #2035, an event occurred involving an off-chain election tool that restricted the nominator pool to merely 3,000 participants. This limitation resulted in increased individual payouts for those who were part of this smaller group. Fortunately, the issue has been addressed, and the nominator set has now reverted to its usual number of approximately 22,000 nominators.