# Polkadot Digest 05 January 2026 **URL:** https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-05-january-2026/16559 **Category:** Digest **Created:** [January 5, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-05-january-2026/16559 "2026-01-05T09:04:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![radha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@radha](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/radha) #### Post date: [January 5, 2026, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-05-january-2026/16559/1 "2026-01-05T09:04:41Z")
## Polkadot News Polkadot Roundup 2025 by Gavin Wood has been published [Polkadot Roundup 2025 | Parity Technologies](https://www.parity.io/blog/polkadot-roundup-2025) Read through the data-driven roundup of Polkadot in 2025 by Parity Technologies [https://data.parity.io/eoyr2025](https://data.parity.io/eoyr2025#title) 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](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](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](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/624)