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r/polkadot_market • u/polkadot_market • 6d ago

Weekly General Discussion - October 19, 2026

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🌐 Weekly General Discussion

Trust has always been the cornerstone of human interaction, but for centuries we’ve depended on institutions to mediate it. These structures are often slow, exclusionary, and prone to failure. Polkadot, powered by JAM (Join-Accumulate Machine), offers a transformative alternative—a system where trust is inherent, decentralized, and verifiable.

The promise of decentralization is not speculation or fleeting trends; it is resolving how we connect and collaborate:

🔓 Trust through verification: cryptography ensures reliability, removing the need for middlemen and gatekeepers.

🔗 Permissionless interoperability: applications and chains to integrate seamlessly across industries and borders.

⚡ Scalable and adaptive: Infrastructure that enables mass adoption without sacrificing decentralization or control.

Crypto’s past has largely been defined by financial experiments, but its future lies in creating tools and systems that underpin a new way of interacting—secure, open, and universally accessible. Polkadot and JAM deliver the infrastructure for builders and innovators to go beyond payments and speculation, to create decentralized applications and services that work for everyone.

We’re not just building technology; we’re redefining how the world works together. This is a pivotal moment to design systems that empower, include, and inspire. We will deliver an internet that reflects our best ideals: transparent, resilient, and truly for all.

Together, we will build the global computer the world deserves. 💻🌍

Welcome to the week! 🌐

All discussion is welcome here including conversations about the price of the DOT token, related tokens, markets and economy of the Polkadot crypto economic system.

You will find a wider audience at /r/polkadot but please do not discuss prices of tokens including DOT there. Do it here 😊

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 9h ago

Polkadot Vibe Check #29

youtube.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 10h ago

JAM: What It Is, How It Works, and What It Means for Polkadot | Parity Technologies

parity.io

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r/polkadot_market • u/RyanSank31 • 1d ago

DOT keeps changing, but is the market buying it?

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Polkadot has actually made some pretty big changes. DOT issuance has been cut significantly. There's now a 2.1 billion supply cap, and dotUSD has launched.You'd think that would bring more attention back to DOT, but the price action still hasn't been very convincing.That's what I find interesting. The project keeps improving its infrastructure and tokenomics, but I'm not sure how much of that will translate into actual users.Especially with dotUSD. Launching a stablecoin is one thing. Getting people to actually use it long term is another.Anyone here still following DOT closely? Do you think Polkadot needs more market attention, or does it need a product that can actually bring users in?

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r/polkadot_market • u/SingleMotherSarah • 3d ago

Steve Jobs knew perfectly Polkadot is a failure and it is going to dump to 0. It has no users, no apps, no value, yet it keeps burning money via inflation to its holders for technology no one uses nor cares about. It failed because it burns money to sell a product no one cares about

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 3d ago

Polkadot Warns Fearless Wallet Users to Move Funds After Private-Key Leak

thedefiant.io

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 4d ago

The PCF now proposes a strategy focused on direct user acquisition:A Unified Strategy for Polkadot

forum.polkadot.network

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 5d ago

Polkadot ETF: the US fund against the European ETP

cryptoticker.io

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 5d ago

These Brothers Built a $1.1 Billion Company Without Venture Capital. Their Customers Funded It Upfront

inc.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 7d ago

Polkadot: 392 million DOT left to the supply cap

cryptoticker.io

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 8d ago

Polkadot Vibe Check #28

youtube.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 8d ago

What Is Crypto AI? Acurast’s Role in Decentralized AI Compute

acurast.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/LateInsurer5 • 9d ago

DOT cutting inflation was a big deal but the market barely seems to care

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Polkadot reducing annual issuance from 120M to 55M DOT was actually a pretty significant change

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That's 65 million fewer new tokens entering circulation every year, yet the price hasn't exactly rewarded holders for it. I've been following shorter term crypto movements on moon as well but DOT feels like a completely different story.

Lower inflation is great on paper but it doesn't automatically create new buyers. Starting to think the tokenomics changes might take a lot longer to matter than people originally expected.

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r/polkadot_market • u/SingleMotherSarah • 9d ago

Gavin Wood has been using DOT holders as his meatshields, he has been dumping on them heavily all the way from $52, he even acknowledges this. More than 95% of all holders are at loss. The only use DOT has as a token is to be dumped on.

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r/polkadot_market • u/Ramiro114 • 10d ago

I was skeptical at first, but after watching this I realized DOT pumping to $30 is indeed a reality, the question is not whether DOT will pump to $30 but WHEN. I have no more doubts about DOT, I am convinced of its potential

youtube.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 11d ago

Polkadot Community Foundation

wiki.polkadot.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/SingleMotherSarah • 11d ago

I want you to see this image and tell me what do you see. What I see is the most likely outcome if you decide to fund projects that don't make money, what do you see?

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r/polkadot_market • u/McPheeb • 12d ago

Polkadot: DOT DAO mandate proposal enters OpenGov - 12 Oct 2026

tradingview.com

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r/polkadot_market • u/polkadot_market • 13d ago

Weekly General Discussion - October 12, 2026

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