2025-07-15 Technical Fellowship OpenDev Call

About the Closed Meeting

  • Integration process for Polkadot SDK updates to Runtime
  • Fundamental discussion around PVQ

Polkadot Cloud

  • Elastic Scaling (Rob K)
    • in principle ready to launch
    • still working on a feature to prevent latency issues. system is resilient to at leat 1/3 of validators misbehaving
    • no additional runtime upgrades needed. OpenGov runtime feature to be enabled
  • NOMT (Rob K)
    • some changes to NOMT to become compatible with Substrate in principle → good progress
    • integrating into Substrate → started
  • Basti Blocks (Basti)
    • going through new considerations. E.g. you have 3 cores and want to create 6 blocks, how do you split up blocks between cores?

Hub

  • Smart Contracts (Kian)
    • revive live in Kusama
    • have found some potential issues, e.g. contract sizes might be to big
      • for Polkadot currently exploring supporting PVM and EVM as secondary backend
      • upload PVM bytecode or EVM bytecode
      • details fleshed out, updates will come to the Polkadot forum
  • Migration (Oliver)
    • targeting 28th July for Paseo
    • prepared runtimes for Polkadot, then have script to migrate the Polkadot runtimes to Paseo; to ensure the migration to run on Polkadot is properly tested first
    • have special allowance to test on Paseo before Kusama
    • communicated timeline for Polkadot (and Kusama?) might get pushed back because some partners aren’t ready, at least a month
    • Kian: On Paseo, there is the Polkadot Asset Hub. There is also Passet Hub, which was added to test early with smart contracts.

Next Spammening

  • What would be expectations for the next spammening
  • Rob K:
    • Kusama: More cores. At least double. But low priority
    • Polkadot: would include more risk. have to be more careful. make it lag behind Kusama

BLS BEEFY

  • needs proof of posession to make the BLS keys secure. Audits and two RFCs have to pass.
  • Hyperbridge needs the BLS BEEFY keys to be fully decentralized
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