Kitdot: Build Web2-like Apps on Polkadot

[Lucy]

@nomadbitcoin

Most people see blockchain as just finance infrastructure. I think we should go beyond that. Following Mythos Chain’s success, we should build for the 99% of users who don’t care about blockchain.

Kitdot is the SDK that makes this possible. It lets developers create real-world applications with familiar Web2-like interfaces that onboard users effortlessly, using DOT (and Polkadot’s upcoming native stablecoin) as the decentralized payment backbone.

Our goal? Make building on PolkaVM as seamless as Web2 development, enabling agentic workflows where builders can leverage their AI agents to focus on crafting practical, user-friendly products, not wrestling with blockchain complexity.

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What’s Live

• Hackathon launch: We introduced the tool during LatinHack to over +1250 builders.
• kitdot.dev: a CLI that scaffolds PolkaVM projects with everything pre-configured.
• Hackers Survival Guide extension: We’re expanding the polkadot-developers-guide with an Agents.md file for LLM agents focused on PolkaVM Solidity development, including a full troubleshooting section from our debugging experience.
• Apillon MCP setup: Host websites and Dapps via Crust, run Cloud Functions with Acurast, create IPFS storage buckets and more.
• Curated list of Polkadot Development Tools to allow newcomers to find the tools they need.
• Feedback campaign: We’re giving away 3 Ledgers, provided through our recent partnership, to hackathon builders who share feedback after using kitdot.

Web2-to-Web3 User Experience

The pop-up to sign is generated by the web3auth modal. No wallet extension? No problem, it just works.

• Template for passwordless login via Google, Twitter, GitHub, and many more..
• Accounts generated using MetaMask’s Multi-Party Computation (no wallet extension required).
• Try the embedded-wallets template and mint and burn tokens, claim from faucet, all without installing MetaMask or Talisman.
• Ready-to-build smart contract setup.

Templates / Developer Experience

• Official Parity create-polkadot-dapp.
• PassetHub Oracle to allow defi devs to build and have access to price feeds while developing.
• Plans to add:
  • Thirdweb’s 130+ audited contracts.
• Templates are dynamically loaded from GitHub using degit that means anyone can contribute.

Embedded Tools

• polkadot-hardhat: deploy Solidity contracts to PolkaVM.
• Pop-CLI & Chopsticks: (in progress) local test chains.
• Apillon SDK (in progress): host websites via Crust, run Cloud Functions with Acurast, create IPFS storage buckets.

Agentic Development

• AGENTS.md auto-generated with:
  • Best practices for PolkaVM.
  • Network settings.
  • Troubleshooting steps.
  • Polkadot Development Tools

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What’s Next: Research & Exploration

1. Fee payment in alternate assets

• The ChargeAssetTxPayment extension allows users to pay transaction fees with non-native assets through liquidity pools.
• Focus: Develop a template to allow developers to build Dapps where users can pay fees with any asset.

2. Thirdweb contracts on PolkaVM

• Thirdweb’s 130+ audited contracts aren’t yet ported to PolkaVM; our team is researching how to adapt them. See forum summary about this topic.
• Focus: proxy/clone factory setup, metadata & IPFS flows, and CLI integration while staying aligned with audits.

3. Agentic CLI for PolkaVM Development

• Improve to become an AI-driven CLI to supercharge PolkaVM development. Inspired by tools like BMAD, we could integrate with AI coding platforms such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor for real-time, context-aware setup.
• We’ve built some scrapers that could be improved to gather insights from pallet-revive resources like YouTube’s Polkadot Deep Dives, hackathon workshop videos, GitHub issues, and Discord/Telegram threads to provide rich context for AI agents.

4. Weekly live coding sessions.

• Livecoding sessiong to showcase how to build day-to-day useful products, see the discussion: Real P2P apps beyond finance: what should we build on PolkaVM?.

5. Framework template expansion: Port proven Web3 starter kits to PolkaVM across multiple stacks

• Starting points: Reown’s AppKit examples and Scaffold-ETH have battle-tested patterns
• Rebuild what’s done for Vue, Angular, Svelte, and other frameworks developers actually use

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Call for Feedback - Help Us Prioritize

We need your input on what to build next. Rank these directions and tell us what matters most to your work:

1. Fee payment in alternate assets: Let users pay transaction fees with any token
2. Thirdweb contracts on PolkaVM: Port 130+ audited contracts (proxy patterns, metadata, IPFS)
3. Agentic CLI: AI-powered development tools (think Claude Code for PolkaVM)
4. Weekly live coding: Build real P2P apps together (join the forum discussion)
5. Framework template expansion: Port Reown AppKit and Scaffold-ETH patterns to Vue, Angular, Svelte
6. Something else: What are we missing?

Quick Questions

• Which direction solves the biggest problem?
• What specific tools or templates are needed?
• What real-world app should we build in live sessions?
• Which framework should get templates first?
• What should we build that’s not on this list?

Brilliant work and initiative from the team. Excited to see where you take this next and how it accelerates real-world building on PolkaVM.