Dablock @DaBlockDAO

The Web3 Summit 2026 in Berlin just concluded, with around 900 attendees coming together to participate in creation of future tech; Technology in which privacy is the default for practical tools that people will be able to use in everyday life. Attendees used multiple proofs of concept open-sourced by @paritytech, published by the Polkadot Community Foundation (PCF) and stress-tested during W3S. Read the full W3S wrap-up by PCF on the Polkadot Forum👇🏻

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Research from the @Web3foundation highlights a growing disconnect: While society is increasingly concerned about data ownership, digital identity, AI accountability, and platform control, much of Web3 has spent years focusing on markets, incentives, and speculation. As AI raises the stakes, the conversation is finally returning to what matters most: How do we build digital systems that are open, transparent, and accountable to the people who use them? That's a conversation worth having. x.com/CoinDesk/statu…

CoinDesk @CoinDesk

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The average internet user generates roughly $124,000 in lifetime value through their data. In the U.S., it's more than $830,000. Web3 spent the last cycle solving for investors while society was asking about power. Read our new thought leadership post on how Web3 needs to pivot

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Build. Deploy. Experiment. At Web3 Summit 2026, Playground . dot helped developers go from idea to a working decentralized app in under 30 minutes. 187 builders created, tested, and deployed applications with minimal setup, from decentralized websites to smart contracts. Thank you to @paritytech and @_DevCult_ for making this happen.

Daniel | 🐂 ⭕️ @PolkadotAgent

6 days ago

@Jizzle_szn The Playground created by @paritytech here is how simple was deploying a decentralised website on my phone.

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Polkadot staking could be getting one of its biggest UX upgrades yet. Referenda #1909 and #1910 propose stronger validator incentives, 48-hour unbonding, and the removal of nominator slashing. Now up for community vote.

Polkadot @Polkadot

2 days ago

Two new referenda on Polkadot's OpenGov, #1909 and #1910, propose a series of staking parameter updates designed to optimize the network security model while reducing overall security costs. Together, these proposals aim to strengthen validator incentives, enable better user

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Two new referenda on Polkadot's OpenGov, #1909 and #1910, propose a series of staking parameter updates designed to optimize the network security model while reducing overall security costs. Together, these proposals aim to strengthen validator incentives, enable better user experience and reduce overall risk for the nominators with a 48-hour unbonding period. Ref #1909 builds on the previously approved 10,000 DOT minimum validator self-stake requirement. It introduces rewards for validator self-stake, sets validator commission to 0%, and enables permissionless chilling of under-bonded validators. Referendum #1910 specifies changes for nominators. It removes nominator slashing and reduces the unbonding period from approximately 28 days to two days for nominators. These changes will be fully activated upon a successful governance vote and once the validator set has fully adapted to the new staking requirements. The proposals seek to rebalance staking responsibilities between validators and nominators by increasing incentives for validator self-stake while simplifying participation for nominators.

Polkadot App Polkadot Trinity Playground . dot Many concepts and demos we're seeing at @Web3summit 2026 are rooted in the @Polkadot ecosystem. PRIVACY • AGENCY • USABILITY Looking forward to today's talks on JAM by Dr. Gavin Wood Take a look at what we've seen so far 👀⤵️

The @OpenShorex kitchen has cooked a community favourite once again. Read this report to get a detailed breakdown of the Web3 Summit. This and more such reports are avaialble on news.openshore.io Check it out if you haven't already!

OpenShore.io @OpenShorex

3 days ago

Missed Web3 Summit 2026? From Polkadot Trinity and JAM to private payments, proof-of-personhood, and DOTDAO, we've compiled the key announcements, demos, discussions, and takeaways from Berlin in an initial report. Read it here: news.openshore.io/web3-summit-20…

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Missed Web3 Summit 2026? From Polkadot Trinity and JAM to private payments, proof-of-personhood, and DOTDAO, we've compiled the key announcements, demos, discussions, and takeaways from Berlin in an initial report. Read it here: news.openshore.io/web3-summit-20…

This year's @Web3summit brought the future of the internet into the hands of everyone who participated. From the fight for the future of AI, privacy that actually works, censorship-resistant journalism, cypherpunk culture, proof of personhood, and the future of truth online to hands-on demos with the test app and Playground .dot — this was Web3 as a living, building movement. A BIG thank-you to every participant, speaker, artist and developer who joined us. 🙏 For those of you who couldn't join the Summit IRL, stay tuned for detailed recap videos. Until then, here are some impressions 📽️:

It’s the fourth time I’ve been at a @Web3summit. Here are my five cents about 7 years of @polkadot: From the promise of easy-to-deploy parachains in 2018 to infra-readiness in 2024, and with the realization that an unsustainable ecosystem can't continue in 2025, the course correction has hit a major milestone this year, with Parity becoming a "prototype/product company" and bringing web3 solutions to humanity. This product, "Project Trinity," will be a super-app that's uncompromisingly web3. Among many more features, there's no sign-in needed, selectable privacy, payment, personal websites, and you can deploy your own apps and sites in the internal marketplace (check playground.dot.li). I still believe that millions of people don't know that they want Web3. But while a small set of expert engineers are developing the user-facing applications on the Polkadot stack, I do hope that they won't forget that if they don't succeed in bringing solutions to those their audience, we won’t have the innovation for dismantling the internet feudalism, but only a fancy invention that doesn’t achieve its full potential.

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Humanity. Developed and prototyped by Parity Tech. Tested during the Web3 Summit and discussed by @KarimJDDA and @gavofyork in their talks. It is a system with on-chain logic to anonymously prove that you are a human instead of a bot. Not to identify you by date of birth and legal name. Prove that you are human in a privacy preserving and decentralised way.

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Parity Technologies @paritytech

6 days ago

How do you prove you are human without handing over your identity? @KarimJDDA, Director of Product and Engineering at Parity at @Web3summit on building the authentication layer the digital world needs. Parity's Humanity protocol. Cryptographic. Decentralized. Open.

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If digital infrastructure is where power now lives, then governance becomes the central question.

euronews @euronews

6 days ago

At the Web3 Summit in Berlin, developers, economists and activists debate whether decentralised technology can deliver on its promise to put control of the internet back into the hands of users. l.euronews.com/liFb

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The former Greek finance minister, @yanisvaroufakis, has long argued that technology giants have accumulated unprecedented influence over digital systems, creating what he calls "technofeudalism." Read more about what was discussed at the Web3 Summit here:

euronews @euronews

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At the Web3 Summit in Berlin, developers, economists and activists debate whether decentralised technology can deliver on its promise to put control of the internet back into the hands of users. l.euronews.com/liFb

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At the Web3 Summit in Berlin, developers, economists and activists debate whether decentralised technology can deliver on its promise to put control of the internet back into the hands of users. l.euronews.com/liFb

I won't be attending any events this year. I would have loved to be at @Web3summit, so I recorded a short presentation instead. If you're there this week, make the most of it. The Polkadot ecosystem keeps moving. Stay tuned to Web3 Summit 2026.

So, Polkadot Trinity is going to be the "Web3 Platform". The thing that brings together what Web3 has been promising for years: - Privacy - Agency - Usability Can't wait to watch Gavin Wood's full talk^^ Web3 ≠ Crypto

LV @LVpath

a week ago

I won't be attending any events this year. I would have loved to be at @Web3summit, so I recorded a short presentation instead. If you're there this week, make the most of it. The Polkadot ecosystem keeps moving. Stay tuned to Web3 Summit 2026.

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@w3nerick @Web3summit @gavofyork 🔥🔥

JAM isn't just scaling blockchains. It's introducing a new computing model for the internet. Polkadot isn't just a blockchain, it's becoming a collective computer.

Polkadot @Polkadot

6 days ago

In his second talk at Web3 Summit, Dr. Gavin Wood discussed alongside @byteboro from @paritytech options to elevate Polkadot with JAM on its mission to provide products for people on a scale of Web2 but with Web3 primitives. JAM gives Polkadot collective compute. Traditional

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Gavin Wood at Web3 Summit 2026: Polkadot Trinity is being built right now.

Polkadot @Polkadot

a week ago

Polkadot outlook by @gavofyork live at the Web3 Summit in Berlin. Web3 is not a progression of Web2. These are two opposite approaches. Web2 solved social scale first, while Web3 solved economic functionality. Polkadot Trinity is being built right now. We do the hard work in

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@Polkadot @byteboro @paritytech Let’s JAM