# Polkadot Digest 21 Oct 2025

**URL:** https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-21-oct-2025/15601
**Category:** Digest
**Created:** [October 21, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-21-oct-2025/15601 "2025-10-21T10:31:39Z")
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### Author: ![radha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecb155/32.png) [@radha](https://forum.polkadot.network/u/radha)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2025, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-digest-21-oct-2025/15601/1 "2025-10-21T10:31:39Z")

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## Polkadot News

Earlier this month, Web3 Foundation updated guidelines for its grants program with emphasis on user-centric innovation, to strengthen the Polkadot economy [https://medium.com/web3foundation/new-w3f-grant-guidelines-b2c921a84850](https://medium.com/web3foundation/new-w3f-grant-guidelines-b2c921a84850)

Today, the Polkadot Builder Party Hackathon features a session on “Web2 to Web3—Rapid Digital Asset (SmartNFT) Deployment With Unique SDK.” Tune in here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiDRg8ug6Vc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiDRg8ug6Vc)

The treasury proposal: ink! Alliance — Enabling Rust Smart Contracts and Developer Growth on Polkadot Hub is now up for voting [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1773](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1773)

After receiving feedback from the community, Entropretty requests to cancel the current referendum and will post an updated proposal on the Web3 Citizenship incentive plan soon [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1770](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1770)

The referendum to cancel the referendum 1770 to clear the Polkadot Root track is now up for voting [https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1774](https://polkadot.subsquare.io/referenda/1774)

## Kusama News

The proposal from Fusion3 requesting funding for the Solidity-XCM (Sol-XCM) project, a typed interface generator for Solidity, is currently failing [https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/606](https://kusama.subsquare.io/referenda/606)