Jonas Gehrlein (Parity) has posted an update on the progress of variable unbonding time for staked DOT (RFC-0097).
The implementation has been taken over by Blockdeep Labs, and is expected to be ready for audits by the end of May.
Congratulations to Micropay, winners of the Best of Polkadot category at Token2049’s 2025 Singapore Hackathon. Their project fuses the x402 HTTP payment protocol with Hyperbridge to power cross-chain automated micropayments between AI agents.
With the assistance of the Polkadot UX Bounty, Crust is making progress on implementing Unified Address Format. Before long, we may finally have one address to rule them all.
