【Polkadot passes new strategy with 97% support, finally looking beyond just building chains】
Polkadot has spent ten years developing its technology, yet ordinary users have never really come on board. This time, the project is acknowledging that reality. On November 11, the community backed a new strategy with 97% of the vote, shifting its focus from infrastructure and the developer ecosystem to consumer products. It plans to launch a Polkadot App centered on private messaging and digital payments, and even its funding allocation will shift from traditional marketing to payments tied to actual user growth.
The core of this plan is to link product usage with $DOT demand. dotUSD’s first phase is already live, mainly using USDT for minting and redemption. Only later does the plan call for introducing overcollateralization with DOT, with growth in the stablecoin’s supply driving DOT lockups. The thinking makes sense, and at least it is closer to real-world needs than simply talking about cross-chain capabilities and scaling.
DOT is currently around $0.79, down more than 11% over the past week and still about 98.6% below its all-time high. The market clearly hasn’t bought into this new story yet. The 97% approval vote gives Polkadot a chance to refocus, but passing the vote is only the starting point. What will really determine whether DOT can turn things around is whether the app can retain users and whether payments can generate steady demand. Polkadot is finally starting to think about users; now it needs to let the product do the talking.
#波卡社区以97%票数通过新战略
Polkadot has spent ten years developing its technology, yet ordinary users have never really come on board. This time, the project is acknowledging that reality. On November 11, the community backed a new strategy with 97% of the vote, shifting its focus from infrastructure and the developer ecosystem to consumer products. It plans to launch a Polkadot App centered on private messaging and digital payments, and even its funding allocation will shift from traditional marketing to payments tied to actual user growth.
The core of this plan is to link product usage with $DOT demand. dotUSD’s first phase is already live, mainly using USDT for minting and redemption. Only later does the plan call for introducing overcollateralization with DOT, with growth in the stablecoin’s supply driving DOT lockups. The thinking makes sense, and at least it is closer to real-world needs than simply talking about cross-chain capabilities and scaling.
DOT is currently around $0.79, down more than 11% over the past week and still about 98.6% below its all-time high. The market clearly hasn’t bought into this new story yet. The 97% approval vote gives Polkadot a chance to refocus, but passing the vote is only the starting point. What will really determine whether DOT can turn things around is whether the app can retain users and whether payments can generate steady demand. Polkadot is finally starting to think about users; now it needs to let the product do the talking.
#波卡社区以97%票数通过新战略