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WebX Labs Daily (ID: gh_3bc595acebaf)

, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.

From the beginning, we focused on Gavin Wood's past, background, and strong technical strength, to being excited by the grand vision of Web 3.0, and then to paying attention to Polkadot and its design and development as Web3 infrastructure. In the end, we began to pay more attention to the development of the Polkadot ecosystem and the addition of various new members, rather than just the bottom layer, architecture, and technology.

The change of external attention reflects the self-evolution of the project itself in the market to a certain extent. What happened to Polkadot behind this rhythm?

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Inside: The initial completion of Polkadot's large-scale infrastructure

This is inevitable on the strategic line. First of all, this shift in attention is almost inevitable, because Polkadot’s initial problem is to solve the problem of heterogeneous multi-chain interconnection. For Gavin Wood, the realization of Polkadot itself is just a starting point. In addition, Polkadot's own large-scale "infrastructure project" is gradually being implemented, and the bottom layer is gradually sinking. The attention of the outside world will naturally return to the prospect of Polkadot's ecology. It's like Gavin Wood is setting up a stage to sing an opera, and those ecological members are actors on the stage. When the stage is set up, people will naturally pay more attention to the performances of the actors on stage.

The continuous evolution of the underlying technology. Unlike the public chain of Bitcoin and Ethereum to build a "self-occupied villa", the Polkadot proposed by Gavin is the most basic foundation role. It can be said that before there is no foundation, Polkadot itself has no application value, so Polkadot has been polishing the foundation.

Polkadot, which is deeply rooted in technology, has become mature and powerful step by step. The synchronized test network Kusama is the first to start. Until the mainnet is launched this year, Polkadot also has a rhythm from PoA, nominated proof of rights and interests, governance, removal of sudo code, and start of balance transfer. The core functions are launched in phases and are steadily advancing. Gavin Wood recently revealed that XCMP will be delivered in the second half of this year or early next year, which also indicates that Polkadot is about to start the era of "Internet of Ten Thousand Chains".

From a strategic point of view, W3F does not reject all grant applications. The funding objects of each period match the needs of the ecological development stage and the key areas of market focus, and the distribution is balanced. The stage focuses on developer tools - runtime modules and chains - Components of the Polkadot stack - DeFi theme. In addition, Polkadot’s science popularization series activities are also doing well. The technical marathon and Substrate development series training are carried out in an orderly manner, which has expanded the talent camp of the developer community to a certain extent.

The internal unified action on the ultimate goal of Polkadot ecology is an important reason why the outside world can see the potential and prospects of Polkadot ecology.

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External: multi-point breakout of ecological projects

The core external reason is that Polkadot's ecology has developed to a relatively prosperous state, and it has begun to emerge outside. According to the official website data of PolkaProject, there are currently 269 Polkadot projects in total, of which Substrate-based projects account for one-third of the total, developer tools and wallets account for the other third, and the rest are verifiers and forums. , browsers, etc., basically covering all kinds of tracks required for ecological development.

At present, Polkadot’s ecological climate is insufficient in terms of volume, but compared with last year’s self, this year’s growth rate is obvious in terms of quantity, and there are not a few high-quality projects. Especially in recent market activities, high-quality projects in the ecological construction camp have begun to shine fever. For example, the previous popular project ChainX.

As the first chain of Polkadot's ecology, ChainX, it can be regarded as a guest of Polkadot and even industry seminars. ChainX focuses on asset cross-chain hub tags, aiming to open up public chains such as Polkadot and Bitcoin to achieve asset interoperability. On the other hand, it selects high-quality assets to cross-chain, bridge assets, and promote the real point-to-point circulation between assets. In addition, ChainX intends to provide Polkadot with smart contracts and X-BTC as a key asset-side infrastructure for the development of Polkadot.

For Polkadot, the significance of ChainX bridging is not limited to the project itself. The miners, users, and community groups behind the bridging project will be introduced into the Polkadot ecosystem simultaneously, which will greatly expand the user group of the Polkadot community. After the strong alliance, The secondary exploration of ecological value can be carried out based on the technical advantages of both parties.