# Polkadot Digest 19 Apr 2024 **URL:** https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-19-apr-2024/7484 **Category:** Digest **Created:** [April 19, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-19-apr-2024/7484 "2024-04-19T07:24:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![bill\_w3f](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.polkadot.network/bill_w3f/32/910_2.png) [@bill\_w3f](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/bill_w3f) #### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-19-apr-2024/7484/1 "2024-04-19T07:24:38Z")
## Polkadot News Gavin Wood has announced JAM, a potential future path for Polkadot which replaces the current relay chain with a more modular, minimalistic design. You can learn more about JAM by reading the Gray Paper here: [https://graypaper.com/](https://graypaper.com/) Concurrently, Web3 Foundation has announced the JAM implementers prize, a 10 million DOT prize pool for implementing alternative client implementations of JAM. [https://medium.com/web3foundation/announcing-the-jam-implementers-prize-e79f8ebc506d](https://medium.com/web3foundation/announcing-the-jam-implementers-prize-e79f8ebc506d) Joe Petrowski was a guest on Mario Nawfal’s Twitter Space covering Polkadot on Wednesday: [https://twitter.com/RoundtableSpace/status/1780695413731045794](https://twitter.com/RoundtableSpace/status/1780695413731045794) Referendum 680, proposing to initialize Snowbridge, the Polkadot-Ethereum bridge, is now up for vote. [Polkassembly - Referendum #680](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/680) Interested in teams providing full-stack services for building on Polkadot? A list was recently made public by former Parity Delivery Services team. [Substrate Engineering Companies & Resources](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/substrate-engineering-companies-resources/7478) ## Kusama News Coretime has gone live on Kusama as of yesterday. Current parachains have been migrated to long-term bulk coretime. Sales will begin in approximately one week. For more details, see [Web3 and Polkadot - Polkadot Wiki](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-agile-coretime-index)