Polkadot Weekly Report | The latest Polkadot core price is nearly 30,000 USD! The review period for the DOT ETF has been extended to July 26!

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Major JAM progress! Gavin Wood has released version v0.7.0 of the JAM gray paper! The submission channel for JAM Client Milestone 1 (M1) is now open, allowing teams to submit executable files via CLI, undergo fuzz testing, and apply for technical interviews. This marks a key step in JAM’s transition from concept to implementation! Teams that successfully pass M1 will officially become members of the Polkadot Fellowship, gaining salary, influence, and the opportunity to review others’ submissions. Additionally, Gavin stated that the JAM testnet will go live in the coming weeks. Follow @polkaworld_pro for further updates.

PolkaWorld has released the third part of the Gavin interview series! In this conversation, Gavin shares why he chose to leave Parity, establish the Fellowship, and proactively become an ordinary participant in the Polkadot ecosystem. He discusses demystification, governance, token politics, and the future of “digital gold.” He is not quitting, but rather practicing the philosophy he has always advocated—using the systems he built through action to prove the feasibility of these ideas.

This decision is a liberation of creativity for himself and an important leap for Polkadot towards true decentralization.

Check out PolkaWorld’s latest article: “I’m Not Good at Management”—Gavin Wood’s Choice Is Also Polkadot’s Opportunity!

The recap video of the JAM Asia Tour has been released! Check it out! JAM’s goal is not to create a single chain, but to build a trustless supercomputer! Gavin spent 24 days traveling across 9 cities, sharing JAM at various universities. If you’re wondering what JAM can do, here’s what it offers:

• The original Doom can run directly (not a modified version)
• One core can run 30 instances of Doom, and JAM has 341 cores
• Performance is up to 1 million times that of Ethereum
• Build a Web3 operating system that supports any software

In this recap video, Gavin also said, “JAM feels like 2014, when we stood at the beginning of something disruptive. It opened up new possibilities, and we are becoming part of it.” Let’s watch the JAM Asia Tour recap video together! I saw many friends from the Chinese community in the video~

Gavin Wood responds to the bold idea of “PoP replacing DOT staking” 🤯👀

Someone proposed a radical idea: if enough real human individuals gather in the PoP (Proof-of-Personhood) system, then “personhood” itself could become the “stake” in Polkadot’s consensus. If someone acts dishonestly, they could lose this identity, thereby ensuring network security—eventually, DOT might even be completely phased out from the staking mechanism.

Gavin responded: There are still many issues to resolve with this idea, but it could indeed be an exploration of how to secure blockchains without requiring massive capital staking. 👀

The approval of the Polkadot ETF has been postponed again, with the SEC extending the review period to July 26! The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it will delay the final decision on the 21Shares Polkadot Trust ETF listing application, setting a new deadline of July 26, 2025. This is the first extension since the proposal was submitted in March.

The SEC stated that this move is to “gather more comments,” citing Section 19(b)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act, which allows the review period to be extended up to 240 days.

Meanwhile, spot ETF applications for XRP submitted by Grayscale and Bitwise are facing similar delays. Bloomberg ETF analysts noted that such delays are “routine operations” and expect the approval rate for multiple crypto ETFs to exceed 90%, with the market remaining optimistic.

Will Polkadot usher in a key turning point for institutional capital inflows? Let’s wait and see on July 26!

Polkadot’s official Twitter has released a TPS comparison chart between Polkadot and VISA!

Through its asynchronous composable multi-chain architecture, Polkadot achieves a native on-chain throughput of up to 143K TPS without relying on L2 or off-chain solutions, using only part of the block space. For comparison:

• Polkadot: 143K TPS
• VISA: 7.4K TPS
• Ethereum: 62 TPS
• Bitcoin: 13 TPS

The Polkadot relay chain provides unified security and parallel scheduling capabilities, truly building a modular Web3 execution layer.

Kusama is recruiting bounty curators! Are you interested in helping Kusama become the core hub for on-chain experiments? Apply to become a curator for the following bounty projects:

🔐 Zero-knowledge / Advanced Cryptography

🧑‍🚀 Proof-of-Personhood

🎨 Art and Social Experiments

Let’s drive the development of cutting-edge on-chain exploration together!

Want to develop on Polkadot but don’t know where to start? The Polkadot developer community OpenGuild has launched two education centers to unlock your developer growth path in one stop!

1. Developer Toolbox

• Hackathon winning secrets
• Creative idea inspiration library
• Demo Day presentation skills

2. Polkadot Learning Center

• Systematic development courses
• Hands-on Bootcamp
• Challenge tasks with rewards
• Learn and build, build and earn

Polkadot ecosystem fund Harbour Industrial Capital (HIC) has officially announced its inaugural advisory board members this week! They come from various cutting-edge fields in the Polkadot ecosystem, covering protocol development, community operations, governance strategies, educational empowerment, and cross-cultural expansion, and will jointly provide strategic insights and ecosystem guidance for the HIC Fund.

1. Angela Dalton (@daltonan)

Founder of Signum Growth Dot Play, former executive at UBS, Guggenheim, and Evercore, dedicated to bringing the gaming and entertainment industries into Web3. She has served as a strategic advisor for ARK Invest, co-founded WIGZ (Women in Games community), and is a board member of FaZe Clan.

2. Pakman (@Pakm2n)

Polkadot Rank 2 Ambassador, co-founder of Kylix, partner at Mandala Chain, and a seasoned ecosystem promoter. He has long been deeply involved in community operations and market strategies, empowering early-stage projects through Pakman Media and supporting the sustainable growth of the Polkadot ecosystem.

3. Tommi Enenkel (@alice_und_bob)

Founder of OpenGov.Watch, a strategic advisor known for governance transparency and data analysis, skilled at bridging ecosystem roles and resources. His master’s thesis focused on agile governance practices in open-source communities, and he has served as CIO/CMO for several companies.

4. Pang Xiaojie (@polkaworld_org)

Founder of PolkaWorld, one of the earliest evangelists of Polkadot in China, active in the Gov1 Council and the current Decentralized Voices program, dedicated to expanding Polkadot’s awareness, participation, and governance discourse in the Chinese community.

5. Pauline Cohen Vorms (@PaulineVorms)

Head of the Polkadot Blockchain Academy project, leading global developer education and PBA technical training course design, with a Master’s in Finance from HEC Paris, committed to building an international Web3 talent development system.

Michael Bennallack (@Mick_Republik)

Co-founder of Mandala Chain, founder of Republik Labs, promoting blockchain education in Indonesia, producing thousands of articles and videos, and building bridges between government, public/private sectors, and the community.

They will provide strategic guidance, resource integration, and a global perspective for the HIC Fund, helping more Polkadot innovation projects grow and land!

Latest data shows! The new price for a Polkadot Core will reach 9,225 DOT (about $30,000) 👀

As for renewal? It’s still 95 DOT (about $300) for now—but it may not last long.

If all 250 Cores are sold at this price in the future, each lease period could generate $7.5 million in revenue, almost enough to cover Polkadot’s annual treasury expenditure of $100 million.

Perhaps, Polkadot’s block space economy will soon become self-sustaining.

The Polkadot open-source developer bounty program is now open for applications! The total prize pool is $450,000, with up to $30,000 available per project, using a milestone-based grant mechanism designed for teams building open-source public goods for the Polkadot ecosystem, including:

• Tools / Toolkits
• Infrastructure
• Applications, etc.

Funded projects include:

✅ DotRing Suite: Polkadot SDK implemented in Python

✅ OpenGov Bot: Integrates governance processes into Telegram

✅ OpenTribe: Integrated bounty and funding platform

✅ Polkadart: Multi-platform application development library

Developers interested in open-source construction are welcome to apply!

Cointelegraph has officially become a Polkadot validator, participating in the network’s decentralization!

As part of its new CTDG (Cointelegraph Decentralized Guardians) initiative, @Cointelegraph has launched and is running a Polkadot validator node, helping to secure the network.

This initiative currently covers multiple public chains, including: Solana, Polkadot, Chiliz, Coreum, Canton, and Mantra.

The media is not just a reporter, but is also personally building the infrastructure of Web3!

Ecosystem Projects

Not just a concept, but real-world adoption! Polkadot has officially integrated into Indonesian government systems! The Mandala team, through multilingual education, government cooperation, and technical integration, has successfully introduced Polkadot-based blockchain architecture into multiple public governance scenarios in Indonesia. The Skyload chain has already been deployed in West Java Province for tracking data such as children’s health.

Their strategy: local chains are built, Mandala acts as the relay, and Polkadot ensures interoperability. They are currently expanding to multiple countries, with PBA graduates participating and deep collaborations with Moonbeam, Acurast, Polimec, and others. For more, see PolkaWorld’s article “Not Just a Concept, but Real-World Adoption! How Mandala Step by Step Brought Polkadot into the Indonesian Government!”

In the latest PolkaWorld interview, we spoke with Alex, founder of Mubert—a builder who is both a musician and a programmer—about how an inspiration during a run led him to create a protocol-based product supporting real-time music generation, and why he chose to deploy it on Polkadot. “Polkadot’s DJ is finally online? Listen to Mubert’s founder talk about his ‘must-do’ journey!”

Polkadot GIGA Hydration 2 million DOT incentive campaign is now live!

• Current Hydration TVL is nearly $100 million
• Stablepools have the highest share, showing users prefer low-risk asset pairs!
• 24h trading volume exceeds $10 million, indicating high platform activity!
• Yields for stablecoin and DOT pools are now over 40%!

Come and join now!

If you don’t know how to participate, check out PolkaWorld’s latest livestream!

Over 15,000,000 DOT have been minted through $vDOT! As more users migrate from native staking to liquid staking, vDOT is becoming the preferred staking solution for the Polkadot community.

Unique Network partners with TapNation to integrate on-chain reward systems into the popular mobile game “Color Water Sort”!

Polkadot ecosystem infrastructure project Unique Network has partnered with TapNation, a mobile game publisher with over 1.5 billion downloads worldwide, to launch the on-chain reward feature “Reward Mode” in its hit game “Color Water Sort.” Players can earn crypto rewards without any blockchain knowledge.

This integration has brought over 650,000 new users into the Polkadot ecosystem, and data shows that users using the reward mode have seen ad revenue increase by 89%, with retention and activity up by 16%, significantly enhancing business and user value.

The two parties will soon launch an “invisible NFT” achievement system, promoting mainstream adoption of the Web3 gaming experience.