Polkadot (DOT)

On this Chinese New Year’s Eve, families across the country are gathered for reunion dinners, while the sound of firecrackers fills the night. We are counting down to midnight, ready to welcome the Year of the Horse together. To our friends across the global @Polkadot community, we send our warmest wishes. Many see 2026 as a pivotal moment — the year Polkadot moves from an era of infrastructure to an era of products: from refining technical capability to delivering real applications, real demand, and sustainable value. This year, we hope to see not just faster chains or stronger architecture, but more: • Products used by real people • Use cases connected to the real world • A Web3 experience that’s easier to build, and natural to adopt Like a galloping horse, we move forward — not standing still, but opening new frontiers ahead. May we continue building side by side in Polkadot’s Second Age, writing ideals into code, and turning vision into products people can truly reach. Wishing you success, momentum

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.

How does a decentralized system verify human uniqueness without collecting biometric or identity data? Proof of Personhood (PoP) on Polkadot is achieved through a combination of cryptographic attestations and game-theoretical constraints rather than centralized data silos. 🧵👇 https://t.co/nmNf7Iq3Ij

💥 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.

I was one of the loudest voices to cap the $DOT Max Supply in the Polkadot community. I hope to become one of the loudest voices for the $APT community to follow suit. Aptos being a top 10 loser everyday is not fun. Polkadot has over 2.5x outperformed Aptos since its hardcap.

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.

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