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$DOT "Light up your future hacker home"

$DOT Recently, the Polkadot community has been divided over Kusamarian, mainly concerning the closure of its content channels and funding background. The issue has sparked discussions on X, the Polkadot forum, and community platforms, with some members expressing dissatisfaction, claiming it's a 'disrespect' or 'betrayal' toward the community.
Kusamarian was a long-standing community-funded media project within the Polkadot ecosystem, receiving millions of dollars in funding through OpenGov to produce YouTube videos, weekly reports, podcasts, and more.
Recently (early 2026), the channels were abruptly shut down: YouTube videos were deleted, X posts were cleared, and Discord was closed, coinciding with the cessation of marketing bounties.

$DOT ranks second in the number of active developers globally, which is remarkable and an excellent indicator of stability and growth potential. As more applications and services are built and used on the web, the demand for the native token $DOT will increase.

This is a good sign of the project's health: even during market downturns, the ongoing activity of developers indicates community loyalty and the project's resilience. #POLKADOT suggests that the project will have good long-term sustainability, unaffected by short-term price fluctuations.

$DOT Polkadot is essentially an "engineer's utopia"; what Gavin Wood wanted from the beginning was an "internet of blockchains", not to create a faster and cheaper Ethereum, but to enable a bunch of completely differently designed chains to truly and natively communicate with each other securely. This idea is captivating yet arrogant because it assumes:
1. The future will certainly require many heterogeneous chains to coexist;
2. Everyone will be willing to pay a high upfront cost for this "interoperability".
So what happened? The market voted with its feet.
People found that 99.9% of applications actually do not need that many heterogeneous chains; a single fast and cheap chain (Solana) or a comprehensive smart contract chain (Ethereum + L2) is enough.
The team at Parity is one of the most obsessive and execution-driven technical teams I have ever seen; they would rather let the project price drop to 1 dollar than stop working, as evidenced by the continuous iteration of Substrate and their commitment to the Rust ecosystem.
Polkadot is like IPv6 in 1998: technologically advanced, poor user experience, ridiculed, and its price collapsing came as no surprise to anyone.
Therefore, personally, I have been slowly accumulating around 2 dollars, not because I believe it will quickly rebound, but because I am betting on a possibility:
If there really comes a day of "inter-chain internet", this ticket may become very valuable; and if not, I will only lose the little money I have now, as I never expected it to multiply 10 times next year.

$DOT fell from a high of $55 in 2021 to the current $2.0, a drop of over 98%. The essence is not a market issue, but a complete loss of narrative and time window.
It was once the most dazzling multichain star from 2017 to 2020, but when the parachains truly landed at the end of 2021, it found that users had already been swept away by Solana's 'fast + cheap + meme'. Polkadot bit off the hardest technical bones (heterogeneous sharding, shared security), only to find that the market didn't care about 'true decentralization', just wanting a hundredfold return and fun. As a result, the sharpest sword was made, but the rules of the game turned into sticks fighting.
The ecosystem is even more disastrous: star parachains are barely alive, Acala's collapse has destroyed DeFi's reputation, and daily active users combined are less than a single pump.fun of Solana; 330,000 new DOTs are issued daily, continually crashing the market, with inflation resembling chronic blood loss; marketing is nearly zero, relying entirely on Gavin Wood's technical idealism for support, and the community's phrase 'preparing for the next bull market' has become a joke, said from 2021 to 2025.
In the short term (before 2026), it is highly likely to struggle in the $1.5-2 range, with any oversold rebound at most touching $3-4 before being suppressed again; in the medium term, if the JAM upgrade goes smoothly and the market returns to the narrative of 'institutional-grade interoperability', it might reach $5-6 in 2027-2028; in the long term, if it continues to self-indulge without being grounded, it will end up like Cosmos, 'alive but without a sense of presence'.
Polkadot is a top project that has been doomed by its own perfectionism; technologically top-notch, but it has missed two rounds of major narratives in succession. Can it turn things around in the third round? We shall wait and see.

$DOT The success or failure depends entirely on whether JAM can land, and whether there is a team that can really use it to create something "disruptive" after landing.
Personally, I believe that heterogeneous multi-chain will definitely be the final form. The design concept of Polkadot is correct, but it has placed a task that is rated 10 stars in difficulty at the first step. If it can survive the 2026-2027 critical window of "either breakout or exit", there is still a chance for a comeback in the future; if it cannot survive, it will likely end up like EOS and Cardano, becoming a "once very promising" pioneer.

$DOT we're sorry

$DOT Recently, many people have been asking when JAM will go live?
JAM is a "architectural revolution", not a simple upgrade.
The original Polkadot Relay Chain + Parachain model is already quite complex.
The goal of JAM is to rewrite the entire underlying architecture of Polkadot from a "multi-chain system" to a "multi-core operating system" — this is almost equivalent to overturning the old architecture and rebuilding from scratch.
Such work cannot be completed in a few months; anyone who has written system architecture knows that a fundamental redesign is often more difficult than developing a new project.

The execution layer of JAM is entirely based on WebAssembly (WASM). This has advantages (universal, secure, portable), but also brings huge challenges:
1. Performance optimization is difficult:
WASM requires JIT (Just-In-Time compilation) to run efficiently; how to make on-chain execution fast and secure is a core challenge.
2. Complex security sandbox design:
Each Execution Environment must run in isolation and cannot affect each other, involving system-level sandbox technology.
3. State storage and verification compatibility:
JAM needs to support different EEs (such as EVM, ink!, Move); how to allow them to share state verification is an extremely complex issue.

The reason JAM's development progress is slow is not due to inefficiency, but because its underlying architecture is extremely complex and immutable.
In JAM, once the core code goes live, it is written into the blockchain consensus, and no node or person can change it again — this means that every line of code must withstand the test of time, verification, and attacks.
Every logic segment, every algorithm, and every interface must undergo formal verification and repeated scrutiny.
It is this extreme pursuit of security and perfection that makes JAM's development seem lengthy, but it also destined it to become the new core of Polkadot — a distributed operating system that is sustainable for ten years without compromise.

🚨Breaking News: #Polkadot and its token $DOT have been included by Grayscale as one of the reliable projects worth considering in their investment portfolio

Strong trust in the ecosystem📈

$DOT The three dilemmas of blockchain have just been broken.

For many years, blockchain has faced the same dilemma: be secure and decentralized, or fast and scalable. ❄️

Polkadot 2.0 changes the rules with one of its most powerful innovations, "elastic scaling."

This new technological upgrade allows aggregations connected to the Polkadot relay chain to utilize multiple cores simultaneously, thereby increasing processing power and significantly reducing latency.

Unlike traditional models (where each chain is limited to a single core), elastic scaling allows for dynamic use of more cores based on current demand.

The result is: the network can process multiple blocks in parallel within a single relay chain block, thereby exponentially increasing the number of transactions per second.

" 📊 During the Kusama testing period (December 2024), the system achieved 143,343 TPS using only 23% of the available capacity."

How does it work?

Each core in Polkadot represents a processing unit within the shared network.

Through elastic scaling, aggregations can access more cores when demand requires and release them when the load is lower.

This model introduces a new logic of efficiency in Web3:

Pay only for the resources actually used.

Elastic scaling can achieve the following:

▶️ Higher performance: horizontal scaling to handle more transactions simultaneously.

▶️ Lower latency: a three-core blocking time of 2 seconds, a twelve-core blocking time of up to 500 milliseconds.

▶️ Efficient costs: dynamically using resources, optimizing each block.

▶️ Flexible scaling: projects can start small and expand as demand grows.

Ideal use cases

Traffic from gaming and DeFi can surge without warning.

Social networks or auctions with a large number of real-time transactions.

Unpredictably growing Web3 startups.

IoT and financial applications requiring low latency and high computing power.

👉🏻 Polkadot 2.0

Elastic scaling does not work in isolation.
It is part of a trio of innovations along with Async Backing and Agile Coretime.

Imagine a blockchain that grows when applications launch and reduces consumption when activity slows down.

This is the vision behind Polkadot 2.0:
A resilient, modular, and efficient network that can scale through Web3. ❄️🆙

$DOT Today, as a member of the Polkadot community, I solemnly swear:

I will safeguard the DOT price at the threshold of 3 dollars, not panicking due to short-term fluctuations, nor retreating due to market panic.

I promise:
1. Rational holding: Regardless of how the market fluctuates, I will calmly analyze, make rational decisions, and not blindly sell.
2. Participate in the ecosystem: I will actively pay attention to Polkadot's on-chain governance, DApp development, and community activities, contributing to the health of the ecosystem.
3. Spread confidence: I will share the value and potential of Polkadot with more people, taking action to safeguard community confidence.

I deeply understand that 3 dollars is not just a price mark, but a symbol of community unity, trust, and perseverance.

Starting today, I commit alongside global DOT holders:

"3 dollars, we safeguard! Polkadot, we move forward together!"

This is my vow, and it is the commitment of every Polkadot investor— for the future of the ecosystem, for the strength of the community, we move forward together.$DOT

$DOT JAM redefined the architecture of #Polkado , transforming it from a parallel chain network into a fully programmable computing layer. Builders no longer need to compete for fixed slots; they can deploy permissionless services and only pay for the actual computing used.

Its features are as follows:

1. Real-time financial systems
High-speed trading, instant payments, and on-chain insurance become a reality. JAM's semi-coherent core integrates oracle data, pricing engines, and smart contracts for near-instant execution. Decentralized insurance protocols can validate and settle claims in real-time, while CBDCs and stablecoins can handle nationwide transaction loads through the elastic scalability of the JAM grid.

2. Massive multiplayer online games
MMOs, metaverses, and NFT markets can finally synchronize gameplay and assets between users with no latency. Multi-core parallelization supports real-time updates, and PVM's continuation feature allows long-running simulations to pause and resume smoothly. Semi-coherence ensures shared state consistency for complex in-game economies and interactions.

3. Internet of Things and smart infrastructure
Smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and industrial systems can synchronize handling millions of sensor inputs. JAM's data availability layer provides cost-effective short-term storage for sensor streams, while semi-coherence coordinates real-time operations from traffic lights to fleets in a trustless, interoperable framework.

4. Decentralized artificial intelligence platform
JAM natively supports AI workloads. Federated learning models can be trained across nodes without exposing data, while zero-knowledge proofs ensure privacy and verifiable computation. With PVM's scalable computing power and efficient metering capabilities, developers can run continuous model updates, data markets, and complex simulations entirely on-chain.

By eliminating slot auctions and enabling permissionless deployments, JAM transforms Polkadot into a dynamic general-purpose computing structure, preparing the next generation of builders in finance, gaming, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence.

$DOT Heavyweight! Polkadot officially lands in Europe's top academic and institutional circles!
Cooperating with the Blockchain Center of Politecnico di Milano, this institution works with giants such as the European Central Bank, the European Union, Visa, Ledger, and others.
In the wave of compliance and innovation in Europe, Polkadot is becoming a key infrastructure.

$DOT The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejects Polkadot (DOT) ETF for five main reasons:

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1. Abnormal price and market manipulation risks

The SEC pointed out that between October 10 and 11, 2025, Polkadot's price experienced an abnormal spike down to $0.6 on major exchanges (such as Binance) with extremely low depth, suspected to be due to liquidity exhaustion or market manipulation. This situation indicates that the DOT market cannot reflect the true supply and demand under extreme conditions, posing significant risks to the price discovery function of the ETF.

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2. Lack of regulated spot market and monitoring mechanisms

Unlike Bitcoin, Polkadot has not yet established a sufficiently large regulated spot market. The SEC believes that ETF issuers (such as Grayscale) have failed to provide effective market monitoring sharing protocols, unable to ensure timely detection and prevention of manipulation, fraud, or wash trading.

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3. Insufficient liquidity and low institutional participation

The SEC pointed out that although Polkadot has an active community and ecological development, its spot trading volume and institutional depth are far lower than those of Ethereum and Bitcoin. This poses risks of price tracking errors, liquidity discounts, and failure of arbitrage mechanisms in the secondary market for the ETF.

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4. Complex network governance and centralization controversies

Polkadot adopts an on-chain governance mechanism, which the SEC believes, despite being innovative, indicates that decision-making power is concentrated in a few validators and foundations from a regulatory perspective, potentially affecting project direction and token supply, thus not meeting the ETF's requirement for "predictability of underlying assets."

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5. Lack of long-term price stability and regulatory clarity

The SEC pointed out that the legal status of Polkadot remains in a gray area. Although the team claims that DOT has "transformed into a non-security," the SEC has not formally recognized this classification. Coupled with price volatility being consistently higher than mainstream assets (BTC, ETH), it results in its lack of maturity and regulatory clarity to become a foundational asset for an ETF.

$DOT While other public chains are still debating "TPS" and "Gas fees," Polkadot has quietly brought the real world onto the chain.
Music copyrights (Beatport IO), intellectual property (Mufi), gold and commodities (TVVIN), real estate (Xcavate), energy sustainability (Energy Web), supply chain (Aventus) — all of this is no longer a dream on a white paper but a functioning parallel chain reality.

Polkadot is not just a chain; it is the internet layer that connects all chains to the real world.
Its architecture allows any asset, any industry, and any data to flow freely in an unpermissioned environment.

In the future world, it will no longer be about "which chain is the strongest,"
but about who can become "the bridge for all chains."
And that bridge is Polkadot.

While ETH is still being ETF-ed, Polkadot has already become a reality.
Today's DOT may be underestimated;
but the future it connects will be the backbone of the entire Web3.

🚀 Polkadot: A Future Bridge Connecting Education, Innovation, and Opportunity

Hosted by Baroness Uddin from the UK House of Lords and Dr. Lisa Cameron, the "Web3 Education, Innovation, and Opportunity" event marks the successful conclusion of a six-month exciting journey. This event is not only a feast of ideas but also another important milestone for Polkadot in promoting Web3 education and the innovation ecosystem.

From the initial concept to collaborating with Chrissy Hill, Pauline Cohen Vorms, and many talented members of the @AcademyPolkadot team, to the planning, optimization, and successful hosting of the event, every step has been supported by Dr. Lisa Cameron, Baroness Uddin, and Lucy Coulden. The historic venue of the House of Lords added extraordinary significance to the roundtable discussions and the celebratory dinner, showcasing the real impact and social value of Web3 education.

The successful hosting of this event could not have been achieved without the strong support of the Polkadot Event Bounty Team. This team funded the event to recognize the key educators, policymakers, and industry leaders that make up the Polkadot ecosystem, working together to promote blockchain knowledge dissemination and innovative collaboration.

We sincerely thank all speakers and contributors, with special recognition to:
Baroness Uddin, Dr. Gavin Wood, Lord Kewell Ranger, Lord Taylor of Warwick, Dr. Lisa Cameron, @RichardXcavate, Dr. Christian de Watteville FLS FRSA CMLJ, Pauline Cohen Vorms, Eva Wong, Tomaz Levak, Connor Campbell, Marta Carslake, Maciej Żyszkiewicz, Sacha Lansky, Sricharan Sanakkayala, and Ingo Ruebe.

🌐 The future is here.
Polkadot will continue to work with policymakers, academia, and innovators to deepen the understanding and application of Web3 and blockchain, helping the UK and the world unleash unlimited potential in this vibrant and continuously evolving industry. $DOT

$DOT 🔥New York Stock Exchange's Polkadot: When Web3 Lands on Wall Street, It's No Longer Just 'Cryptocurrency'.

This is official news. The lawsuit at the New York Stock Exchange discusses Polkadot and the Web3 infrastructure supported by Magenta Labs.

💡Key Information: Huge funds and traditional finance can no longer ignore blockchain innovation. This project aimed at expanding the entire internet has now become the focus of top financial professionals worldwide.

Forget the hype cycle. Integration starts now📈

$DOT Is this just a coincidence or a sign? 🔯

The Polkadot logo has 6 ellipses...
The Star of David has 6 points.

Maybe the universe expresses itself through symbols. 🌌 $DOT

$DOT From Microsoft to Apple, from Amazon to Google, every tech giant has undergone a long process of accumulation and breakthrough.
Microsoft took 20 years, Apple took 31 years, Amazon took 15 years—success has never been achieved overnight.

Now, just 4 years after its mainnet launch, Polkadot is welcoming Polkadot 2.0—a major upgrade of Coretime and Async Backing,
which is laying the foundation for the Web3 Cloud era.

This is not just an evolution of a blockchain network,
but a crucial step towards a decentralized supercomputer (JAM).

🚀 Polkadot: Reshaping the infrastructure of the internet.
When Web3 cloud services arrive, it will not just be 'another tech project',
but the next Google, the next AWS—
it will belong to everyone this time.

$DOT #Polkadot is evolving into something bigger than most people imagine.

Starting this November, Polkadot officially becomes a smart contract platform while still launching its own blockchains under the most decentralized, secure, and scalable framework in the cryptocurrency space.

Polkadot was initially just a network of networks, and is now gradually evolving into a unified ecosystem where developers can directly deploy dApps, rollups, and entire chains on Polkadot. The significance of this transformation is beyond doubt.

Phoenix reborn from the ashes of code🔥