Missed the new Space Monkeys episode with @paritytech VP of Engineering @pierreaubert? 😎 Here are the real takeaways — the ones that explain where is going next: 1⃣Parity is now “dogfooding” — building its own apps first Because waiting for external teams wasn’t enough. Now Parity wants to prove what decentralized systems can actually do — with real products people will use. “We are building the first prototypes to learn about what we want to do and how we want to do it.” 2⃣ Web3 products should fix what Web2 keeps breaking: privacy & safety Hotel keycards, event tickets, access control, identity… Pierre’s view is blunt: “My passport has been copied hundreds of times by hotels. That shouldn’t happen. Zero-knowledge systems can fix this.” This is what the new generation of Polkadot apps will target. 3⃣ Polkadot Hub: a strategic correction Parity admits it: Starting with only parachains was a mistake. Polkadot Hub is the fix — letting teams deploy like any other chain, without needing a parachain on day one. Prototype → validate → scale That’s the new model. 4⃣ Gavin’s two big pillars: Personhood & a real stablecoin Two products Pierre says will define Polkadot’s future: - Proof of Personhood — shared identity layer for all apps - A fully-tested, actually-stable stablecoin — core payment rail for the entire ecosystem “Crypto is too volatile for everyday use. Stablecoins are essential.” 5⃣ Polkadot is building the “middle layer” Web3 has been missing Think AWS in 2000 → AWS today. Polkadot already has CPU & storage (Layer 0). What’s missing is: - notifications - authentication - personhood - wallet connections - shared UX components - decentralized messaging - decentralized storage Parity is now building this entire layer. “The more components we share, the faster we ship apps.” 6⃣ 💥💥💥Polkadot Hub ships before Christmas → Q1 2026 = App Explosion Pierre expects: - Hub delivered by Christmas - Q1 = dozens of new apps - Each quarter in 2026: more apps, faster iterations - Centralized dev pain → replaced by unified components This is Polkadot entering an exponential phase. 7⃣First product category? B2B tools Because companies understand them, and compliance is clear. Think: - decentralized payroll - decentralized access control - decentralized Google Docs - decentralized company systems A full Web3 productivity suite — the “Web3 office stack.” 8⃣ Parity is hiring 50 more engineers And what qualities do they want? - curiosity - autonomy - collaborative mindset - belief in Web3 (or at least curiosity about it) “If I wouldn’t use a product, it’s not good enough.” 9⃣ Polkadot’s real challenge isn’t technology — it’s adoption Pierre says it clearly: “Tech is easy. The hard part is building apps people actually want.” Polkadot doesn’t need more throughput — it needs products that 1B people can use. And @paritytech is finally positioning itself to build them.😎