Polkaworld hosted Alberto (Papermoon) on January 21st to explore the impact of the imminent launch of smart contracts on the Polkadot Hub, covering expanded possibilities through XCM and PolkaVM, the 2026 roadmap, and JAM.
In Polkadot Referendum 1836, the PAPI team is seeking $802K to fund a year of continued development. Contractual agreements and milestone payments would be administered by the Polkadot Community Foundation.
Backed by new API client integrations and US expansion through a partnership with Alfredpay, Vortex, the on- and off-ramp built on Pendulum, crossed the milestone of $10M in monthly transaction volume in January.
Before it even had a chance to dry, Ink!, Polkadot鈥檚 Rust and WebAssembly smart contract toolkit, is sunsetting after struggling to gain backing from Parity and the Web3 Foundation.
