Aren't we all tired of the gazillion logins, installs, and new accounts demanded by every single service we use?
Gavin Wood recently presented a paradigm shift in how everyday technology could look:
Owned by yourself, smooth and simple UX, app previews before you download, and no logins.
In the next step, Gavin Wood will lead the technical side of delivery directly at @paritytech, taking the proofs of concept the Parity team has laboured over and hardening them into robust, open-source software that people can actually use.
Learn more about the Polkadot and Human Web3 vision below. 📺
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Only during the Web3 Summit.
Playground . dot lets you pick a challenge, remix a working app, deploy your own version, and watch the room come alive as new apps appear in real time.
No blank screens.
No setup headache.
No, “please read these 47 docs first.”
Today and tomorrow at Funkhaus, Berlin.
Your code is your sword and your wit is your compass.
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Web3 Summit has started.
Polkadot is building toward a new paradigm for the internet. A new internet.
You don't ask permission for what's already yours.
Polkadot launched in 2020. The brand was born with it.
It was technical, abstract, and built for the people who already got it.
But in 2026, the conversation is bigger. Builders, artists, regulators, gamers. All of them are finding their place in the next generation of the internet.
And the way we tell that story is evolving too.
New visuals. New energy. Same idea at the core: technology should be built for humans, not just for AI models or corporations. It’s people’s privacy, ownership and choices.
That idea has always been the heart of Polkadot.
What's changing isn't the mission. It's how we share it.
The next chapter starts now.
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Web3 Summit is not a conference;
It's a working environment for the next internet.
Come to test what digital freedom actually looks like.
See you in Berlin in 3 days.
Info here:
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Can Web3 help protect free expression?
Join Unstoppable Voices: Art, Journalism and Web3 Against Censorship at @Web3summit to explore how decentralized technologies are creating new possibilities for independent journalism and creative freedom.
Featuring an immersive experience by artist Andy Serra and the unveiling of a decentralized solution for journalism.
📅 June 19 · 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Funkhaus, Berlin
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JAM Brains has now passed all 5 stages of the M1 conformance testing.
JAM continues progressing from research to real implementation.
Independent JAM implementations are now being x-rayed through automated conformance fuzzing systems designed to scrutinize state transition function against the canonical JAM Gray Paper specifications.
The objective is to surface discrepancies between implementations, identify edge cases, and verify that independent clients faithfully follow the protocol standards defined in the Gray Paper.
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What is an extra $6,563 a year worth to you?
A hot tub?
A house in the countryside?
Privacy on the web?
According to new findings from the @Web3foundation, that’s the estimated annual commercial value of the average American’s personal data. Up to $393,785 over a digital lifetime.
Except users don’t get the money: platforms, advertisers, and data brokers capture the value instead.
Want to know what your data is really worth?
Download the full white paper here 👇
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Everyone says decentralization matters. Few explain why.
Our research team's latest blog dives into the trade-offs, challenges, opportunities, and more, so you can learn what decentralization is beyond the buzzwords and what it does from the people working on it every day.
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Polkadot OpenGov is voting on a major change to the network’s staking architecture.
Referendum 1890 proposes that validators on Polkadot are required to lock a minimum of 10,000 DOT of their own funds as self-stake.
This reform is a mandatory prerequisite for the next major staking upgrade:
• Nominators becoming unslashable
• Fast unbonding (~24-48h instead of ~28 days)
The logic is simple:
Validators absorb the slashing risk directly through significant self-bond exposure.
Nominators can continue earning staking rewards without exposing their principal to slashing.
If enacted, Polkadot staking would remove its two largest barriers to participation:
Lower risk. Faster exits.
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