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The Great Coretime Heist of 2025
A detailed run through of the Coretime drama that led to Mythical and Xcavate needing to be bailed out of losing network access. Functions as both an educational and story-based piece. Link: https://x.com/gbaciX/status/1923053522951774516
The Parallel Finance Saga
I offer a detailed recap of the situation between the hacker who took control of Parallel Finance and the team Link: https://x.com/gbaciX/status/1922336382648787322
Polkadot 2.0 becoming a Web3 Cloud
longthread on the future direction of Polkadot 2.0, focusing on PVM, smart contracts, Polkadot Hub & JAM https://x.com/emilkietzman/status/1899048987237224711?s=46
JAM Toaster incoming
Gave a fast, fresh update on the current status of the JAM Toaster. https://x.com/emilkietzman/status/1897555026098155704?s=46
Polkadot could go parabolic in 2025
I cover 9 major catalysts driving Polkadot's potential rise, organized into 3 categories https://x.com/gbaciX/status/1896582959823560963
Teasing Polkadot's Proof of Personhood concept
The thread highlights Gavin 's "Proof of Personhood" idea, emphasizing the needed protecting against AI risks. https://x.com/_Pieky_/status/1894485194335240692
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CoretimeThe Baron’s Makin’ Deals on the Gray Market
With the potential cost for purchase and subsequent renewal starting at 920 DOT in the next Coretime Sales round, the Baron has cut their first deal for a Polkadot core. ParaID 3415 has purchased a core for 2000 DOT, securing a renewal price of 95 DOT, rising by 3% each period.
A Disk-stressing Storm
Between May 2nd and 7th, Polkadot parachain block times experienced a period of degradation. Andrei Sandu (Parity) has published a post-mortem. The cause of the issue related to disputes originating from a single validator suffering from disk failures. In each new session the faulty validator was added to the list of disabled validators after losing a dispute. Due to a bug, the list of disabled validators clears when a validator restarts. Thus, any restarted validator would join disputes raised by the faulty validator, triggering a dispute storm. The issues have been patched in the stable2503-4 release.
New Inflation Model Inflates the Coffers
Tommi Enenkel has published the 2025 Q1 Polkadot Treasury Report, recording the first ever quarterly net profit. The top spending category was outreach (7.5m USD), followed by software development (1.5m DOT), and operations relating to network infrastructure (2.1m USD). With the treasury inflows, under the new inflation model, current spending is sustainable for at least 10 years.
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