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Consensus 2025 🇨🇦 Polkadot Ecosystem Heroes Shout Out Top Contributors! - The Friday DOT News Pump!

Join us at Consensus 2025 in Toronto for an inside look at the Polkadot ecosystem.

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🚀 Decentralized Lugano 2025: Blockchain, AI & Finance Unite at VIP Event!

Join us for an exclusive recap of the 2025 Decentralized Lugano event in Switzerland, a 3-day VIP gathering of top blockchain, AI, sports, and finance leaders!

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Polkadot 2.0 Arrives EARLY 😱 All features in v1.5! - PEAQ, Hydration, Memecoins & Gaming News!

Discover the game-changing Polkadot 2.0 upgrade, now rolled into Polkadot 1.5, with elastic scaling revolutionizing rollup performance! Learn how async backing slashes block times to 6 seconds, agile core time secures dedicated block space, and elastic scaling unlocks ultra-low latency and massive bandwidth for rollups like Peaq, Moonbeam, and Mythos.

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Will it be a Hot DOT Summer? ☀️ Hydration, GIGADOT, FIFA Rivals, Truth Network, Polimec & More News!

Join this week’s Polkadot News Pump - Hydration DeFi rollup stack introduces LINK and SKY trading, with TVL up 30% from last week to over $130M.

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Indonesia's Web3 Acceleration IN ACTION ⚡️ Polkadot’s Mandala Chain - GIGADOT, DOT Gaming & More!

Explore how Mandala Chain is driving Indonesia’s Web3 transformation with Polkadot! As the fourth largest country by population adopts blockchain, Mandala’s flagship projects—West Java’s federated blockchain, Djoin for regional banks, Kraflab IP certification, and ID Chain for 100 million .id users—are set to revolutionize governance, finance, and digital identity. The Niskala testnet is live, with the Madya mainnet launching in Q2 2025.

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Polkadot: a 35,000 Foot View! ✈️ gigaDOT Launch, Hyperbridge, Memecoins & Gaming Explosion!

Dive into this week’s crypto whirlwind! Polkadot’s gigaDOT launch is days away, with Hydration DeFi rollup upgrades, native ETH on Polkadot, & Hyperbridge shaking up the blockchain scene.

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Space Monkeys Podcast

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Truth Network: Sport Illustrated, News Media & Inter Miami on Polkadot - Space Monkeys 192

Galactic is reshaping sports and media with blockchain prediction markets powered by Polkadot!

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AI, Energy, & Sovereignty ⚡️ The Future of Civilization w/ Energy Web & Ed Hesse - Space Monkeys 191

Discover the groundbreaking vision of the Energy Web Foundation with co-founder Ed Hesse in this shocking podcast!

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ICO Chaos to Polimec ☕️ JUICY leaps in Web3 Fundraising with Luca Von Wyttenbach - Space Monkeys 190

Join Luca Von Wyttenbach, co-founder of Polimec, in a gripping podcast filmed at the PBA in Lucerne about the giant leaps in Web3 fundraising.

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PEER3: Peer-to-Peer Meets Blockchain 🎰 Low-Latency Poker w/ Web3 Guarantees - Space Monkeys 189

Blasting Off with Luka Stanisic, founder of PEER3, a Web3 project that snagged a $600K USDT + 30,000 DOT grant from the Polkadot Treasury.

Attempts at Governance (AAG)

The twice-weekly live public forum where treasury & software proposals are put in the hot seat!

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AAG #232 - Memo ✍️

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AAG #231 - Good Birb 🪦

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AAG #230 - Big Texas 🤠

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AAG #229 - Elastic 🫨

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AAG #228 - GIGA 🏋️‍♀️

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AAG #227 - No Show 👻

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Web3 Thinkers

Behind the code of Web3. Dive into underlying technologies and concepts of the decentralized web in interesting conversations with the people building it.

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Gavin Wood: The Gray Paper Interview - JAM & the Future of Polkadot - Behind the Code: Web3 Thinkers

Key Pictures presents: The Gray Paper Interview with Dr. Gavin Wood. Captured as part of the Behind the Code II interviews - Proudly presented by The Kusamarian.

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Digital Feudalism & the Advent of a Free Internet w/ Frank McCourt - Behind the Code: Web3 Thinkers

Frank discusses Feudal History, humanity's move to freedom, the modern enslavement from the design of the internet, Blockchain solutions, Project Liberty, and Our Biggest Fight!

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Ingø Rübe: ID Dangers on the Internet & the Decentralized Solution - Behind the Code: Web3 Thinkers

Ingø discusses the nature of real world identification, the dangers of how ID developed on the internet & the data problem, a decentralized solution in web3.0, keeping AI accountable, and the Polkadot DAO social experiment.

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Joshua Cheong: Building where the Action is - The Global Web3 - Behind the Code: Web3 Thinkers

Joshua discusses the geographic decentralization of Web3 Contributors, the unique solutions it provides, the PolkadotDAO, & the Network State.

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Dakota Barnett: Subverting Systems of Power - Web3 Tools for Change - Behind the Code: Web3 Thinkers

Dakota discusses entrenched systems of power in free society, the empowerment of everyone & cascading change with Web3 Tools.

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Gavin Wood: A Difficult Balance & the DOT JAM Mission - Polkadot - Behind the Code: Web3 Thinkers

Gavin discusses crypto regulation, neutralizing the venom of centralized AI, the technical solution in Agile Coretime, JAM, and how they fit into the greater mission of Web3