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Paving the way for the next great shift of the internet

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Mission

Our passionate community envisions a web where your digital identity and data are yours alone–where power is restored to its users. Together, we’re building a fully decentralized web where users are in control. It’s the digital revolution you’ve been waiting for.

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“Imagine a decentralized utopia where apps, services, and institutions can connect and thrive without the meddling of untrustworthy giants. That is the future we are building.”

Fabian Gompf, CEO of Web3 Foundation

Founded by leading blockchain builders & visionaries

Founder

Gavin Wood

Meet Dr. Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot. As co-founder and CTO of Ethereum, he helped develop the pioneering blockchain and he created Solidity, the smart-contract language. After contributing significantly to Ethereum's early development, Gavin set his sights on developing a more scalable and interoperable blockchain network. Enter Polkadot. Wood's groundbreaking work has earned him recognition as one of the most influential figures in the blockchain space, and Polkadot is leading the charge towards a more interconnected and scalable decentralized web. Gavin and Parity’s team of engineers and product remain hard at work pushing Polkadot forward.

@Gavofyork

Founder

Robert Habermeier

Robert Habermeier is a founding engineer of the Polkadot Network. During his 7-year tenure at Parity, Robert was responsible for the vast majority of Proof-of-Stake and consensus code for Polkadot and its underlying framework Substrate, including the code for parachain consensus. His technical leadership actively informed and shaped the Polkadot protocol design we know today. Prior to his work on Polkadot, Robert was a core developer on the Parity-Ethereum client, the first production-ready third-party Ethereum node.

@rphmeier

One vision, one DAO

Polkadot isn’t run by a faceless corporation; it’s powered and supported by the largest DAO in Web3. Our community calls the shots, with no central point of control. Instead, a dedicated group of appointed members and teams help make sure everything runs smoothly. Meet some of the key players leading the change in this new digital frontier.

Web3 Foundation

Grants, funding & education

Parity

Protocol engineering

Distractive

Marketing

PoKe

Business development

PolkaPort East

Investor relations

Velocity Labs

Tools & infrastructure

Keeping high standards (& stats) in Web3

92

Score on Nakamoto coefficient

1.3 million

Members in the Polkadot DAO

54+

Countries represented

$5 Billion

In security backing

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Connecting the dots on Polkadot's journey

2014

Gavin Wood coined the term “Web3”, co-founded Ethereum, and authored Ethereum's technical Yellow Paper

2016

Polkadot whitepaper released

2017

Web3 Foundation (W3F), a non-profit entity that supports Polkadot, established

2020

Polkadot’s mainnet launched

2021

First Polkadot parachains went live

2022

OpenGov, the first ever on-chain decentralized governance, announced, and two key features launched: Polkadot’s XCM (cross-chain messaging) format and nomination polls, allowing 1 DOT minimum staking

2023

OpenGov launched on Polkadot and Polkadot 1.0 officially released

2024

Jam Gray Paper released

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