Polkadot Digest 05 January 2026

Polkadot News

Polkadot Roundup 2025 by Gavin Wood has been published Polkadot Roundup 2025 | Parity Technologies

Read through the data-driven roundup of Polkadot in 2025 by Parity Technologies https://data.parity.io/eoyr2025

Web3 Foundation is making a strategic shift away from its traditional Open Grants Program and will provide streamlined funding for Polkadot’s product-centric vision https://medium.com/web3foundation/aligning-web3-foundation-grants-program-with-polkadots-product-centric-vision-9ae83baafdc3

“The Dynamic Allocation Pool (DAP) and the future of staking: Phase 1” referendum has been submitted to the Polkadot OpenGov Wish-For-Change track and is now up for voting https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1827

Kusama News

Kusama runtime is upgraded to v2.0.4, which features full release of Revive, enabling execution of PVM and EVM smart contracts https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/624

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