Gavin Wood returns to Parity as CEO, multiple updates on the Polkadot ecosystem announced.

[Coin World] top news Gavin Wood announced that he will return to Parity as CEO in late August. The migration date for Asset Hub has been adjusted to October 7 for Kusama and November 4 for Polkadot, following the determination of EVM compatibility priorities. A certain exchange has integrated Asset Hub. After the public vote 1633, the Polkadot Community Foundation returned $1.5 million in investments along with profits from Centrifuge to the treasury. DOTBulls launched a brand new identity.

ecosystem Astar transitions to Agile Coretime. Crust released its July monthly report. Energy Web published From Off-Chain Execution to On-Chain Trust: Inside Energy Web's Consensus Overhaul. Hydration's Boost Wars Round 2 chose Solana over GIGAETH and DOT, launching a three-week SOL farm with a maximum APR of 222% after a public vote of 150. Mandala introduced Tokenomics v2. Mimir added a multi-transfer feature to send multiple tokens to multiple addresses in a single operation. Moonbeam has successfully upgraded to Runtime 3800. Mythical launched its ambassador program, providing MYTH and NFT rewards to content creators monthly and quarterly. Nova Wallet added Bounties to its dApp directory, featuring mobile pure proxy, multi-signature, and sub-bounty management capabilities. Phala released Privacy Computing for AI+SaaS Applications: A Whitepaper for Enterprise Implementation. StellaSwap allocated $50,000 of protocol revenue to veSTELLA voters. SubWallet added the ability to swap cross-chain vDOT to BNB and ETH through Hyperbridge and KyberSwap integration. Xcavate published How can regulated RWAs like real estate be decentralized? Manta loaned 7.5 million MANTA to Wintermute for liquidity. Integritee published USA's Project Crypto: Key Takeaways & What It Means for the Rest of the World. Turtle launched a widget that enables developers to embed exchange, bridging, and XCM functionalities into dApps.

technical Polkadot-JS Apps has been upgraded to v0.163.1. Polkadot-JS Extension has been upgraded to v0.61.6. Polkadot-JS API has been upgraded to v16.4.4.

For more information about governance statistics related to Polkadot, please check the Polkadot Dune governance dashboard.

new Ref 1700: Upgrade the remaining system chains (excluding AssetHub) to 1.6.1 and fix the XCM version subscription. Ref 1701: Adjust OpenGov Ref 1702: Funding Trace Nova Wallet ($980.37K) Ref 1703: Funding for the development of the Staking Dashboard from September 2025 to March 2026 ($103K) Ref 1705: Funding Pudgy Party's listing strategy on Polkadot ($2 million) Ref 1706: Funding the development and branding of the Polkadot Cloud website (approximately $42K) Ref 1708: Tracing the funding work of JUST Ventures GmbH in governance, technical support, and ecosystem coordination ($149.91K) Ref 1710: Adjust the DOT inflation to a rigid pressure and tiered supply model.

passing Ref 1693: Fund Polkadot Africa operations for 6 months ($160.8K) Ref 1695: Fund Snowbridge for one year of continuous development and maintenance (approximately $2.44M + 116.5K DOT) Ref 1696: Refund to Snowbridge ($312.5K) due to Treasury expenditure failure.

failing Ref 1680: Retrospective funding for SubWallet's development from August 2024 to March 2025 (approximately $1.7M) Ref 1686: Trace the funding costs for PolkaBiz from May to July 2025 ($62K) Ref 1688: Funding Gossamer for its contribution to the Polkadot-SDK from Q3 to Q4 2025 (approximately $815K) Ref 1689: Fund Quadrivium to improve Polkadot SDK ($288K) Ref 1691: Tracing the funding for the development of PlutoFramework, which is an integrated framework for building mobile decentralized applications (approximately $142.8K) Ref 1692: Funding the development of WAGOI, which is a wallet-based connected vehicle data access platform compliant with EU standards ($330K) Ref 1697: Fund Encode Club to pay for the recently completed scalability hackathon and to support the final phase - the accelerator (approximately 128K) Ref 1698: Additional review bounty (approximately 46K DOT) Ref 1699: Funding Gossamer for their contribution to the Polkadot-SDK from Q3 to Q4 2025 (approximately $815K) v2

approved Ref 1676: Funding academic research for Polkadot's OpenGov ($50K) Ref 1684: Sponsorship of sub0 25 (the flagship event of Polkadot) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina (approximately $739K) Ref 1681: Indicates the Polkadot Community Foundation signing a strategic cooperation agreement with the Hong Kong Office for Key Enterprises Introduction (approximately $37K)

rejected Ref 1672: Funding Polkadot Africa to promote builders and community development ($352.8K) Ref 1679: Funding the development of Clarys.AI ($256.1K)

opportunities Web3 Foundation is hiring for multiple positions, including Technical Educators, Senior Investor Relations Managers, and Senior Software Engineers. Fill out the OpenJobs form and add it to the directory so that potential employers can find you. Parity is hiring. From Runtime Engineers to Cloud Security to Technical Program Managers, the Parity job board is continuously updated. OneBlock+ has opened teaching assistant applications for its Solidity Native on Polkadot course, offering up to $300 and ecosystem access.

what to watch and listen to Attempts At Governance #258 (A community-driven program reviewing governance on Polkadot) Interview with Flipchan (Uncompromising On-Chain Privacy, Flipchan's Vision for Kusama and ZK Tech - Space Monkeys 204) Friday DOT News Pump (Is the DOT supply cap 2.1B or 3.14B? Vote for DOT holders!)

what to read The blockchains that will matter Meet peaq, the Polkadot rollup built for the Machine Economy There is a new updated roadmap for Polkadot Introduction to Foundry Polkadot Polkadot is dead, but not in the way you think How to deploy a Solidity smart contract to Polkadot in under 5 minutes A marketer reviews Polkadot

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