We are approaching the Polkadot 2.0 launch. A big milestone in Polkadot’s evolution! It consists of three innovations: Agile Coretime, Async Backing, and Elastic Scaling. Together, they finally allow Polkadot to provide an elastic market for its primary product, our big differentiator from all other ecosystems: coretime.
But Polkadot 2.0 is more than that. It marks the point in time where the overall ecosystem has matured. We now have things that work, are usable and mature: Wallets, parachains, SDKs, tools…
I propose that we celebrate this important milestone and run a campaign themed as a global, decentralized launch party. A month-long campaign that shows the strength of our community and pushes us to grow in our mindset to make Polkadot the best place to build Web3.
Ingridients for the party:
a global online hackathon. One full month that invites devs to build with PAPI, Apillon, Substrate, ink! etc… The theme could be to build radically in public, radically usable! Simple apps with simple use cases that work and have something interesting to them. Teams are invited to build in public and share their progress, creating the opportunity for the community to participate, get excited, discuss their favorites, join teams, etc…
SDK teams can join and provide guidance on how to use their SDKs
parachain teams can join and show how to use their on-chain primitives, APIs…
tooling teams can highlight how to use indexers, explorers, dashboards, etc…
physical meetups and events to gather Polkadot fans regionally and provide a boost to regional DAOs, the Ambassador program, and get the community updated on the latest in Polkadot, or physically collaborate on their hackathon project.
an online campaign where
official communication channels run a content series on the current best and most interesting products and projects in the ecosystem
teams like Parity, W3F can share their north star on the future direction of Polkadot, current projects and vision
parachain teams and protocols add their voice to the conversation with the latest they have planned
our social media communities are provided with material to disseminate outwards
Finishing Polkadot 2.0 is great opportunity to draw fresh attention to how the ecosystem is maturing and to invite
developers to try out and build against the different primitives available in the Polkadot Cloud
users to try out Polkado products again or for the first time
media to report about Polkadot’s next big steps
Our ecosystem has matured greatly in the 4 years since parachains launched and we should give everyone an opportunity to look at Polkadot with fresh eyes.
Organizing a Polkadot 2.0 Launch Party gives us an opportunity to create closure on the phase that lies behind us and gets us ready for the mindset shift that lies in front of us. The era of Polkadot Cloud, Polkadot Hub, and a new focus on finally delivering the apps that the idea of Web3 is promising us.
That’s the idea. It is permissionless. Every team can choose how much they participate. Every community member can organize a local event. Some parts have to be coordinated. I’d love to see this being co-created by all of us.
I’ve been asked what I see as the start date of the campaign. Ideally we start with the activation of Elastic Scaling, but it’s dependent on if key stakeholders for coordinating the three pillars are able to pull it off by then. I’m in comms with them to sort this out now.
As I shared on X
It’s a good strategy to both celebrate Polkadot, market Polkadot, Educate people about Polkadot, bring about connections and enable to people to build on Polkadot
Distractive is ready to support this!
A community-wide push would need everyone’s attention, too. All teams should get ready to host a meetup, put up a banner on their website and a social post, and get their friends, family, and pets excited about it!
I’m down to talk polkadot 2.0 launch/growth strategies + can give updates on the Polkadot Cloud website development project announced earlier in the year. let’s make it happen
As a very new team looking into Polkadot this would be a fantastic way to get some useful groundswell and something exciting to talk about and work on. Crypto has become stale with excessive focus on token prices, TVL levels, etc.
Thank you very much for spearheading this initiative.
After discussions internally at W3F and with Parity folks, we are keen on engaging in the Polkadot 2.0 launch party - Global online hackathon with the following objectives:
Parachain Re-engagement Campaign: A dedicated track for existing parachain developers to try out the Polkadot 2.0 features pertaining to Agile Coretime, Async Backing and Elastic Scaling. For instance, we will have developer sessions and support around latest coretime features like enabling core auto-renewals, ordering on-demand coretime, things to consider before enabling async backing, elastic scaling demos etc. Parachains are the true customers of Polkadot 2.0 product, so it is apt to engage them in full capacity!
Polkadot Deployment Portal: Engage developers from other ecosystems to try out PDP and try out different use-cases with it
Parachain SDKs and APIs: What is Polkadot 2.0 without the parachains and their use-cases? It is important to have a bounty track that lets tinkerers tinker with parachain SDK and APIs. I will be pitching for a funding matching scheme with W3F for the benefit of participating parachains that like to post challenges/tasks for hackathon participants.
Overall, this is a great opportunity to make this an online and on-chain festival for celebrating all the work that has been put into making Polkadot 2.0 a reality! Looking forward to it.
