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I made a tutorial showing how to use Joinmarket via the JAM app on your node
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Cronos is definitely one of those undervalued, it’s done a lot in 2025, probably too much, and to spread out through a scatter gun approach. Projects are still coming through, but little value being seen unfortunately. However, a few weeks ago they hired a new CEO to run their Lab division, this includes Onchain (DeFi) and the Exchange, but specifically excludes the main App, which is basically for beginners. The App acts like a money exchange you see in Airports, making profit by basically trade fees for buying and selling, but it is also the place where their card; banking & stocks are available. So, it is useful, but not around a blockchain and innovation type projects as per the OP’s original question! The new CEO is going to focus on high value projects and innovation for Cronos, including attracting external companies to build on Cronos. Established projects, I see HBAR leading the way, but DOT is still one of those long odds outsiders that could really overtake a huge amount of the field. So, it becomes a potential $Value growth opportunity, utilizing JAM and Web3 as a catalyst. But, much depends on your thoughts around Web3 and its application and adoption for the future. From an investment perspective it is a gamble, but perhaps worth a small, less than 10% $Value of the total gamble , risk appetite is high for this though, just IMO of course 🤷♀️
We are all at a loss with altcoins because most of us expected an altcoin season in 2025. After this cycle, I think I might become a Bitcoin maxi. I DCA’d for four years into four top-50 altcoins and achieved almost 40% gains in November 2024 and January 2025. I didn’t sell because I was expecting an altcoin season in Q4 2025, similar to what we saw in Q4 2017 and Q4 2021. I didn’t anticipate how much the Trump tariffs and broader macroeconomic conditions would impact retail investors, pushing many of them out of the market and making an altcoin season unrealistic. My honest advice is to sell part of your losing positions and buy BTC and ETH when prices drop. I would suggest not selling Polkadot right now; instead, wait until March 2026. DOT is expected to cap its supply, and it will launch the Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) project, which is designed to succeed the relay chain. Combined with its current ETF, this should generate some profits.
We are all at a loss with altcoins because most of us expected an altcoin season in 2025. After this cycle, I think I might become a Bitcoin maxi. I DCA’d for four years into four top-50 altcoins and achieved almost 40% gains in November 2024 and January 2025. I didn’t sell because I was expecting an altcoin season in Q4 2025, similar to what we saw in Q4 2017 and Q4 2021. I didn’t anticipate how much the Trump tariffs and broader macroeconomic conditions would impact retail investors, pushing many of them out of the market and making an altcoin season unrealistic. My honest advice is to sell part of your losing positions and buy BTC and ETH when prices drop. I would suggest not selling Polkadot right now; instead, wait until March 2026. DOT is expected to cap its supply, and it will launch the Join-Accumulate Machine (JAM) project, which is designed to succeed the relay chain. Combined with its current ETF, this should generate some profits.
As soon as I learned about JAM. I just put everything in. Go big or go home, and why not? Just wait for it to be actually implemented. It will be a good year yet before that happens, thdn another 5 years post-JAM when dapps come out. Long term.
Yeah. It looks like a dying meme coin, doesn't it? That's my point. This is a very active project. The governance body is active and engaged. Governance is run on chain. The development community is active and growing pretty rapidly. None of those things are happening with any meme coins. I'll be honest with you. I don't think most cryptocurrency investors understand what they're investing in. Not really. The art of reading charts is a very advanced way of trying to figure out what everyone else thinks of a thing. And hey, it sorta works. People make money. They contribute absolutely nothing to society, but it's still a profitable practice. Just like trading stocks or whatever. All that is different from understanding a project. A trader is following "mind share" which is just hype. The hype is crowd think as users wander together from platform to platform and from app to app. Where ever the crowd wanders is what appears to be the market winner. Users have no reason to go to a platform that has no apps they don't want to use. Also, users are not very inspired to change platforms if the apps on the new platform offer nothing new or better than the apps they're using now. But they love it when a new app lets them do something they haven't been able to do before. There's not a whole heckuvalotta new things people will be able to do with EVM inspired networks. Building the next new thing will require a platform that does more than the Ethereum or Solana ecosystems can do today. A next generation platform. And if that platform were to arrive right now, this very moment... users still won't care, because there are no apps for that platform. But devs care. They see a new set of tools and they start dreaming of what new kinds of apps can now be built. This is where we are with Polkadot right now. The development community is seeing steady, sustained, rising growth. Polkadot leap-frogged Ethereum. What Ethereum is trying to build with the layer 2s, Polkadot already has. They accomplished this with "Polkadot 1.0". But it wasn't very accessible. It was confusing and overwhelming. Needlessly complex. And then they kept going. Now we're in the final stages of a "Polkadot 2.0" and things are slick. Wanna spin up your own parachain? Just mix and match a set of pallets and you can define exactly how your parachain works. Want native NFT support? Use that pallet. Want your transaction fees to be in your own native currency instead of DOT? Or maybe both? There are pallets for that. And your parachain is automagically bridged with the rest of the network - through decentralized bridges. Contracts can talk to each other across chains. And TPS? The Kasama network recently performed a benchmark that let Solana in the rear view mirror. But that's not even "the thing." Other networks offer multichain ecosystems. I think Polkadot's is the best, but it's not entirely novel. JAM appears to be novel. Gavin has abstracted parts of Polkadot to build a platform upon which arbitrary code can run, including a blockchain. He ran Doom on JAM writing each new frame of the screen to the blockchain and then reading those frames from a client. Despite how impressive this truly is, the community was quick to point out that Cardano ran Doom on Hydra. That's not really the same thing, but the investor community doesn't understand that. So Charles posted a snarky bit about "we did Doom, next time to do Quake"... and that's what Gavin did. He ran Quake on JAM. Not a port of Quake. The original DOS binary. Running on a decentralized computer that can contain a multitude of blockchains within it. This hasn't existed until now. It's new. I have no idea what people are going to build on this. I'm still trying to understand how it works. But I can see clearly that it's a new paradigm and it's going to yield a new generation of apps. It won't be fast. But it's inevitable.
Hi! Good question about these classic altcoins from the previous cycle. In 2025, most are still in the top 30 by market cap and maintain active development, although they haven't recovered their 2021 all-time highs: ADA (Cardano): Charles Hoskinson continues to push upgrades (like zk and partner chains), but the hype has died down and it hasn't delivered on all the promises made back then. Solid in research, but slow in mass adoption. VET (VeChain): They just launched the Hayabusa upgrade (new staking and tokenomics), focused on a real supply chain with enterprise partnerships. It's not exploding in price, but it's advancing in practical utility. LINK (Chainlink): It remains the king of oracles, with CCIP growing and a lot of TVS in DeFi/RWA. Strong partnerships (Coinbase, etc.), probably the most "alive" on the list. LTC (Litecoin): Classic for fast/cheap payments, with ETF filings and some index inclusion. Stable, but without major recent innovations. DOT (Polkadot): Upgrades like Polkadot 2.0 and JAM are on the way for better interoperability, but low price and tough competition at layer-0. Ultimately, they have matured more as infrastructure than as "moonshots," and their future depends on real adoption rather than hype.
The future of these "old-guard" coins like ADA, VET, LINK, LTC, and DOT is determined by whether their continued development and real-world utility can outweigh the market's current hype cycle, which often favors newer narratives. Projects like LINK and DOT are showing strong fundamentals with major infrastructure upgrades (CCIP and Polkadot 2.0/JAM Protocol) and aggressive institutional focus (LINK's RWA data streams, DOT's supply cap), positioning them to remain highly relevant in the Web3 ecosystem despite price volatility.
\> Hype doesn't happen without substance. Incorrect. 95% of the hype around cryptocurrencies completely lacks substance. \> what does the Polkadot community care about that is a positive signal? Actual "Web3" rather than casinos and Micky Mouse finance apps. Their governance system is pretty fantastic. And then there's JAM... which you'll get tired of hearing about in a year or so.
Preach! I've been following Polkadot's progress and the JAM architecture is a game changer. Excited to see where this journey takes us. How's the learning curve for INK coming along?
Dots JAM upgrade could be a game changer for crypto as a whole
All BTC does is be money, and that's all it should do. Everything that ETH aspires to do, Polkadot is already doing. I guess the most fundamental thing is that it's multichain by default. Bridges are standardized and decentralized and secure. It's all just built into the protocol. Compare that with ETH where they are still trying to connect all the different L2s in some reasonable way, often creating centralized bridges between networks that get hacked. Within Polkadot, launching your own chain is pretty accessible. The libraries to build a new network within Polkadot is so well refined that other projects are using the code to build networks within their own ecosystems. I think Cardano did it recently. That's kind of telling. Transaction rates are fantastic. Community governance is really good and it's all run on-chain. And JAM is likely to move the paradigm forward and offer services that no other network can provide - meaning developers will be able to do some things they've never been able to do before.
Post is by: Zaskoda and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1pls7uv/i_think_everyone_is_overlooking_polkadot/ I bought Bitcoin in 2013. I learned about Ethereum in 2017 and started building dapps shortly after. Both technologies felt like game changers. Over time, I lost hope in Ethereum. First it was issues with high fees and a congested network. Then the L2s came and gave some hope. But the whole ecosystem is a mess. I invested in Polkadot a while ago. So long ago that I paid over $20 for each DOT. As a dev, I wanted to learn about building on Polkadot but found it totally overwhelming. So my attention drifted away. Earlier this year I saw Doom running on JAM and knew I needed to see what what going on. I took the PBAX course and started learning about Polkadot. Wow. They are so far ahead of Ethereum and their roadmap is bright and shiny. I'm still learning about JAM, which is sort of an abstraction of parts of Polkadot upon which any blockchain networks can run. And it's technically as powerful as a super computer. There are now more active developers in the Polkadot space than in the Ethereum space. The way I figure it, most people won't care about why Polkadot is important until developers start to produce applications. And it seems a giant herd of developers are moving in exactly that direction right now. I'm learning INK myself with plans to port an old project over. And I don't really expect anyone who's in the scene just to invest and make money to notice until late next year. And then - I think it's going to explode. I have moved about 80% of my ETH holdings to DOT, which is trading close to $2 now. We'll see if my intuition about Polkadot is as accurate as it was about Ethereum and Bitcoin. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Sidechain blah blah blah modularity is a dead thing. ETH is pivoting away. Cosmos went full PoA for “institution chains”. Celestia went full HFT CEX build. Polkadot is pivoting to JAM and a unified hub. Your narrative of modular scaling is too late…
Gently insert blank formated diskette into 90s sampling keyboard and JAM! Bitcoin’s greatest hits from 98’ on an 808 BOOM 💥
DOT wants to give birth to a baby boy named JAM.
I don’t need or want a 20x on my bags. Been here since $500 bitcoin, and $25 etherum. Dig through my post history and You will see me saying these same things about bitcoin and ethereum back in 2016 and 2017. I got a lot of hate and push back about both assets then too, a lot of people saying ethereum was shit because of fees and XRP was king. But ethereum was the only one with smart contracts then, and the world didn’t understand why that was a big deal. But I simply followed the technology, always chasing the project with first mover advantage. And that’s what JAM is for Polkadot. What smart contracts were for ethereum, and what decentralized ledger was for bitcoin. Bitcoin, etherum, now polkadot. Hopefully I’m right a third time. If not I’m big chillin.
Excellent choice, polkadot will shine on this new altseason, 3 Etfs incoming + 1 Mica filing, JAM upgrade, paraguay investment on this token, TOP 8 ecosystem defi TVL (Hydration).
If JAM and ETFs get it to break even, would those narratives and momentum make you think twice...or still out? I could see if it was rising tide raising all boats, but if it had its own springboards moving it?
It's definitely going to be interesting when PVM/JAM launch? It's pretty hilarious that everyone is so jaded on DOT, while Gavin Wood just wrapped up development of both in the last couple months?
Yeah fair. FET could win long term. JAM early. $WHITENET still cleaner setup imo...
HNT is about the best RWA I’ve seen, but I wouldn’t recommend it, as it’s one of the worst poorly run projects I’ve ever seen. FET is known more as a ln IOT company, but they’ll fit into RWA in my opinion and I feel will do well. JAM from Polkadot could be one for the future, but DOT/KSM themselves are in the toilet price wise unfortunately.
I've already dumped about 3/4 of my ETH holdings. I realize I'm jumping the gun a little bit, but the truth is, Ethereum is dead. I'll explain. Bitcoin is a first generation blockchain. Well, it's THE first generation blockchain. It set out to do one thing, be money. As such, it's the gold back standard for all of the cryptoverse. It has a place and it will not be replaced. Ethereum is a second generation blockchain. It is the first second gen blockchain. And it was cool AF. A global computer, how neat. Unlike Bitcoin, it has not cemented itself with a purpose. There are lots of second generation blockchains nipping at Ethereum like Cardano and Solana and such. They're incremental improvements on the same fundamental technology. And they're all cannibalizing each other's communities and liquidity. Ethereum is desperately trying to scale via L2s, but it's not going great. Meanwhile, third generation blockchains are emerging. Polkadot is my favorite example. They've already accomplished everything Ethereum's L2s are still trying to do. Building a new blockchain with substraight is become more and more trivial. Communication between blockchains is excellent. And the upcoming release of JAM will introduce a level of functionality that's truly new and refreshing. There's no technical way Ethereum can "catch up" anymore. It dominates right now. And that momentum will carry it into the future for a while. But the technology can not be evolved quickly enough to catch up with others, much less continue to lead. On a long enough timeline, Ethereum as we know it is dead. So I've been slowly selling off my Ethereum in little chunks. I know I'm going to miss some sweeeeet price action this cycle. But the writing is on the wall, so I'm making my exit.
Polkadot is brilliant technology with arguably the most potential in the space. True there is no killer app yet so there are no users and it is too complex for your average developer. But when AI is used to develop a mix of user friendly Web3 apps in JAM then $DOT will soar. It isn’t dead; just in a coma. It’s like the world’s most advanced aircraft carrier to which the aircraft have still to be delivered.
People can use Ginger Wallet, Wasabi Wallet, JoinMarket (or JAM app on their Umbrel, Raspiblitz, or Citadel node) to perform CoinJoin transactions. JAM is an app for your node that provides an easy simple user interface for JoinMarket. If someone wants to use Wasabi Wallet to perform CoinJoin transactions, then they'll have to manually choose a CoinJoin coordinator. I'll list a few CoinJoin coordinators for anybody reading this. https://coinjoin.kruw.io/ doesn't charge any fees. https://api.opencoordinator.org/ doesn't charge any fees. https://api.gingerwallet.io/ charges 0.3% when mixing more than 0.01 BTC and doesn't charge any fees when remixing. Samourai doesn't exist anymore. They promoted their mixing service for criminal use and subsequently got arrested. Bitcoin users can also utilize the Lightning Network to mix their coins.
You can use Ginger Wallet, Wasabi Wallet, JoinMarket (or JAM app on your Umbrel, Raspiblitz, or Citadel node) to perform CoinJoin transactions. JAM is an app for your node that provides an easy simple user interface for JoinMarket. If you use Wasabi Wallet to perform CoinJoin transactions, then you will have to manually choose a CoinJoin coordinator. I'll list a few CoinJoin coordinators for you. https://coinjoin.kruw.io/ doesn't charge any fees. https://api.opencoordinator.org/ doesn't charge any fees. https://api.gingerwallet.io/ charges 0.3% when mixing more than 0.01 BTC and doesn't charge any fees when remixing.
I never heard of JAM before. But normally after you signed a TXID and it doesn't go through quick enough because of low fees you can bump (increase) the TX fee to get it through the mempool.
For one…don’t use Jell-O. You’re looking for Peanut butter and JAM.
JAM releases at the end of the year, with the PVM (Polkadot Virtual Machine) SDK to bring developers back on-chain with every computer language possible for reintegration. This kind of stuff takes years to fruition. I swear most everyone is so impatient in crypto that they need everything HERE-NOW or else it's not worth anything? It's got more going for it currently than anything else. At least Polkadot has a product behind it and not 100% hype train. Progress takes time.
use joinmarket/The JAM app it's a coinjoin implementation. don't advertise how many coins you have.
That's why I like Polkadot. It's secure. It's a pay to play network. There are guidelines and there is a stringent acceptance process. JAM is going to eliminate a lot of the security flaws associated with removing acceptance barriers, while increasing the spectrum of the SDK, opening up the L2 to whoever wants to build **in it**, with "functionally independent" L2s. This kind of scope takes YEARS to implement, because new networks (or old networks), aren't going to magically appear functional? A crossover period would take... An entire cycle, perhaps? Development is not instant. But this is thinking long-term and it doesn't look like anything else is planning on long-term development? Most of what I see are, "now" fixes, and not "future-proofing" their networks. Think long-term, next cycle? How much of the current crap is staying?
Espetially when JAM rolls out, Polkadot will not only be a blockchain of transaction but a cryptographically secured, distributed computing network, which I think will be crutial for institutions in the long run.
Keep an eye on polkadot, I’ve seen that recently they were running doom on chain with JAM implementation that should be soon deployed in production (see details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Polkadot/s/Pp5TxBxryK )
I'm excited to see if anyone uses JAM (Polkadot Virtual Machine (PVM)), when it launches later this year? It's like everything everyone talks about doing, already completed. Just working on bugs. It's a solution to problems like these. It's plug and play.
Not gonna tell you what to do, but I can recommend looking into what's been going on in [Polkadot](https://youtu.be/G9CNCNiXuJI?si=9iaeKxF8vQjf2uEQ) and learn about things coming with the [JAM](https://youtu.be/hJcw5FMSjQs?si=7sKH4e77QVLkjXFY) protocol upgrade. That sense of building something actually useful is not lost People just are unhappy with the token price
JAM in Polkadot will be world changing. Mark my words.
I'd second that, but I will say that Polkadot JAM is GOING to be huge, not IS huge at the moment ...
Polkadot. JAM is huge. All I need to say is
coinjoin with JAM or joinmarket is probably a better idea. both those mentioned have issues.
With JAM this year, it will be the best tech out there, easy to build the stockpile on DOT as a CORE to manage the total account.
Polkadot is working its way up and it was originally included in the Strategic Reserve at 0.5%. Charles wants to use Polkadot's JAM on top of Cardano's Midnight to enhance function. It's going to sneak its way back before anyone really notices what's going on 😉
It is crazy. I just got another look at JAM and people are sleeping on this shit. Their loss!
Bitcoin and outside of that Polkadot is the only one excelling in actual decentralized tech with JAM.
Awesome move. Polkadot’s future is looking very bright and has the best tech imo. This, JAM, gaming & the enterprise partnerships should be great for long term growth.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I completely see where you are coming from. In my circles the issue you are describing was usually referred to as system coherency or synchronous composability of smart contracts and not DA but now I completely understand what you are referring to. All sharded networks sacrifice some coherency and synchronous compatibility for better throughput. I think you would agree as of today ETHs L2 have very poor composability (L2<->L2 or L2<->L1) and are generally their own little worlds. I am actually not that familiar with Algorands approach but if you compare ETHs L2 and Polkadot L2, Polkadot at least offers some composability with secure cross chain messages arriving within 1-2 blocks. So synchronous composability of Polkadot L2s seems to be greater than ETHs. Although I assume that you believe both are simply not enough and we need true instant access synchronous composability which is certainly a valid opinion. I think you slightly underestimate the potential of JAM solving this issue. I think you will agree that not all smart contracts need to composed with all others all the time. A completely monolithic blockchain always keeps everything in the same context. Some of the logic/smart contracts depend on each other so they need to be kept that way at a time but there might be “islands” of codependency. JAM simply allows for splitting the islands of codependency dynamically to give some synchronous composability while still sharding for performance gains. We will of course see how it plays out when they finish the implementation. And now to the final bit of L1 superiority. I assume you say that because u value synchronous composability. A single Polkadot rollup (which has perfect synchronous composability with itself) achieved 18k+ batched TPS. This is already more than many L1s can offer. I understand that ppl discount sharded systems because of composability issues but when the L2 from the sharded system outperforms dedicated L1… then there are literally no downsides. (Source: https://polkadot.com/reports/polkadot-spammening-report-2024.pdf)
Data availablity is about how much data smart contracts have access to. In a layer one the smart contracts have access to all of the data in the latest block. In sharded or layer-1/layer-2 blockchains the smart contracts are only able to access data in their shard or layer. Data can be passed between shards/layers to make it available on other shards/layers but this slows down processing and consumes more blockspace as data is duplicated in multiple shards. This makes it more expensive too as ultimately blockspace is going to cost money as the nodes all need to store it and fast disk space has to be paid for. For Polkadot they have a future update planned called JAM which they claim will mitigate the data availability problems but it won't the data availablity issues are an inevitable part of a sharded chain's design. It could improve the design and lower the costs of the data availability issues sharding creates but they are still there. I believe long term blockchains will be pricing the most important world markets when that happens blockchains that can maximise the amount of data in layer 1s will be the most efficient at providing markets. Sharded and layered solutions might pick up some crumbs of the markets not seen as interlinked with all other markets like the global markets for everything are. That is why I am interested in layer one solutions mostly.
Great team at Polkadot but they have gone for sharding rather than Layer 1 scaling which is causing data avilablity issues. JAM tomorrow won't fix this either
I'm a big fan of Polkadot, they have, imo, the most scalability of any network currently in crypto. This is before JAM. I regularly do cross chain sends/swaps and atomic swaps through RocketX to Polkadot, they take considerably less time than using a CEX to trade/transfer with more beneficial arbitrage. No brutal transaction or gas fees. You could send 10k DOT and pay $0.06 total for the transaction, and it arrives immediately, within seconds (on chain), from ALL sources. The confirmation speed is extremely fast.
Why the effort? Just pump the price, that’s what people want, no one cares what it does really, and there are so many better decentralized techs, like JAM lately, which finally makes any work on this largely premined forked altcoin obsolete really. More money out for hodling it, this is what crypto wants, don’t you know?
> it is the solution to almost all major problems plaguing this industry right now. My analogy is that this industry's tech has very limited use cases if you want to take applications seriously. Even then, every application needs a user distribution to make it relevant. So ppl saying "dead chain" is a very valid critique - not a myopic one. Then, you compound the fact that crypto's history shows user retention and acquisition are largely tied to token price action. The "dead chain" and "look at price" share a vicious cycle. You can't dismiss these critiques as " people being greedy," aka "most people are here for the gains." Every technology/ecosystem needs an ***economic model to keep itself alive***. If ppl rightly point out you lack an economic model to keep things going, then it is a serious issue, regardless of what tech you are building. Just look at the former Soviet Union. It was the second leading technological power, but it didn't have a sustainable economic model. Now, it is in the dust of history. > Let me explain JAM: Polkadots current architecture has many flaws, which the JAM upgrade solves in my opinion. Sure. But you have to acknowledge that JAM is a fix for a problem Gavin created with Polkadot's initial bad social/economic design. There are many instances where crypto upgrades are to fix crypto problems from their initial bad designs. Can't blame ppl if they aren't interested in solving self-referential problems they didn't encounter in the first place. That said, yeah, JAM gives Polkadot a chance to fix its horrible modular design. Maybe things will be different in the future.
To be honest Poilkadot's fundamental approach to blockchain has never much appealed to me. The idea to split the chain into an arbitrary number (like 341) of shards which are independent of one another, and have to be provisioned by some centralized foundation ultimately, seems overly complex. If the goals are sub-second finality and a rich ecosystem, each of those can be built upon a simpler and more robust model. As far as being able to run any language - firstly, that isn't true, because JAM runs RISCV machine code and compilation to RISCV is not widely supported apart from some core languages. Their RISCV machine is still a nice advancement though. But keep in mind JAM isn't unique in using RISCV - Nervos has had a RISCV VM for a while now, it's just that JAM redesigned the binary translator to be faster (since a VM ultimately has to run some native code). I'll be completely honest, I know a lot of work goes into JAM and it can be complex, but if I don't hear better specifics as opposed to buzzwords I'm not, by default, excited about it just because it sounds advanced or has a large budget.
JAM moved based being just a defi chain. Let me explain one example: JAM services allow almost anything to be hosted inside them. You could host, run, and train entire AI models like chatGPT. This is because JAM services allow any programming language to be used inside them, not just smart-contract languages. All other layer 1 chains are limited to 1 maybe 3 coding languages at maximum, JAM can handle all languages and any languages that get created in the future. JAM is actually economically viable for doing non-financially based transactions. This is because on JAM you rent core-time (computational power) in chunks, instead of having to pay Gas for every single transaction you make, like you do on every other chain. This means training, running, and maintaining an entire AI model inside a JAM-service will actually be extremely affordable. On any other blockchain training an AI model on them would cost SOO much money there would be no point to do it This is just one example
Im a 3rd year computation neuroscience PhD Student / candidate. Been studying the actual theoretical math behind the crypto space since 2016. Not just some crypto dev. That being said, I agree 95% of things are trash, but that’s the same as all new major sectors in the world. I do urge you to look into polkadots JAM upgrade. I have spent 100’s of hours reading Gavin Woods Gray paper outlining the math of the upgrade. And it is not some random upgrade, it is the solution to almost all major problems plaguing this industry right now. Let me explain JAM: Polkadots current architecture has many flaws, which the JAM upgrade solves in my opinion. Polkadots technology itself is a masterpiece. Allowing for the hosting of entire blockchains, and granting them full access to secure validators and a guaranteed cross chain message protocol. But all good technology isn’t perfect on the first try. This design was plagued by the latency (6-15 seconds) when wanting to send messages across different chains. And the inability for developers to launch simple dapps on the main Polkadot network, you could only launch full blockchains. But JAM fixed all this and more. It made cross chain messaging near instant 5-50ms. By splitting the main Polkadot network into 341 equal and parallel pars called cores. Each core has their own fully guaranteed state, and can submit to the main state if they wish, but do not have to. Meaning Polkadot basically is now 341 parallel execution machines Another major thing is that JAM now allows Polkadot to host and execute EVERY single smart-contract language that currently exists, or will ever be created. And they can all communicate with eachother. I would explain more if you would like.
Polkadot JAM upgrade is the clear winner in tech even Charles hoskinson was talking about connecting cardano to JAM. Will see what happens but DOT has already proven to be the fastest chain with no downtime.
Can you actually explain to me whats the use case of the JAM technology or eth? Outside of storing some data
I've been warning about falling for the Tech Narrative since 2017. Over the years, I specifically have been warning about Token Dump Meme Tech like DOT whenever shills and bagholders spammed posts about its Amazing Token Dump Technology. How does a software engineer who has been in the space since 2016 fall for a scam like this? > Amazing technology and active development does not mean success. NXT was launched in 2014, a top 5 project, was the most advanced platform, had a huge community of investors and developer and there is forum with hundreds of thousands of posts in multiple languages here: > https://nxtforum.org/ > - First coin that was 100% Proof of Stake > - 1 minutes block times > - Java programming lanaguage > - DEX (Chainlink's Sergey Nazarov worked on a DEX project there) > - Messaging > - Assets in the blockchain (Staple top 10 coins like NEM were launched there) > - Programmable APIs > - Smart Contracts > But by the time of 2017 bullrun, NXT fell into irrelevance and even hyped shitcoin platforms like Stratis, NEO, etc easily surpassed it. Today, most new people haven't heard of NXT or aren't even aware how hyped and loved the shitcoin platforms that followed NXT like Stratis, NEO, IOTA, ICON, AION, were. People are falling for the same technology hype or the same meme partnerships. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/10hyjyn/the_case_for_polkadot_amazing_tech_and_usecase/j5ctwqs/ > Polkadot Unveils JAM: Major Upgrade > "You've been ~~jammed~~ SCAMMED!" > 4 years ago in 2020, Polkadot entered the top 10 after a governance vote passed multiplying balances by 100X and change the denomination of DOT from ~$400 to ~$4 so that it looked cheaper for dummy investors that would be dumped on. Dummies bought because they believed para-chains will drive demand for token will go through the roof. Been shilling ever since. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1cba3z2/polkadot_unveils_jam_major_upgrade_10_million_dot/l11p9sg/
>This new JAM architecture is more revolutionary than the invention of smart contracts that sparked the next eight years of layer 1 chain. How?
Polkadots current architecture has many flaws, which the JAM upgrade solves in my opinion. Polkadots technology itself is a masterpiece. Allowing for the hosting of entire blockchains, and granting them full access to secure validators and a guaranteed cross chain message protocol. But all good technology isn’t perfect on the first try. This design was plagued by the latency (6-15 seconds) when wanting to send messages across different chains. And the inability for developers to launch simple dapps on the main Polkadot network, you could only launch full blockchains. But JAM fixed all this and more. It made cross chain messaging near instant 5-50ms. By splitting the main Polkadot network into 341 equal and parallel pars called cores. Each core has their own fully guaranteed state, and can submit to the main state if they wish, but do not have to. Meaning Polkadot basically is now 341 parallel execution machines Another major thing is that JAM now allows Polkadot to host and execute EVERY single smart-contract language that currently exists, or will ever be created. And they can all communicate with eachother. I would explain more if you would like.
JAM is certainly much more. Honestly it’s miles ahead of the entire space. One of has finally achieved the holy grail, the ability to run absolutely any and all coding languages. Example: Ethereums EVM contract language, Solanas Rust contract language, Cardanos Plutus contract language, SUI move contract language, and literally any other language that exists or will be invented JAM can run them. JAM can handle all of them, because of the invention of JAM-services. These are Highly programmable execution environments, they can even host and run entire blockchains, or host and run the entire ChatGPT AI model… my point is they are HIGHLY programmable. Second it has also achieved the first fully on-chain parallel execution, achieved by splitting the main chain into 341 parallel execution chunk called “cores”. each core gets their own randomly assigned validator each epoch. This means within one core you have near zero transaction latency ~5-50ms. And the network uses a demand based scheduler, which enables to automatically move JAM-services that want to communicate together onto the same shared core. There is a lot more but these are the main parts. JAM is being built by 35 teams across the world, with a shared prize pool of 100 million USD. The Polakdot team also built the world’s largest test network called the JAM toaster. It costs 10s of millions and 100K a day to operate. And it was built entirely to stress test the JAM upgrade in. 100% real life environment. So yes JAM is much more than a faster EVM. And the world will eventually realize this
That’s not true, a majority yes, but not all. Ethereum was certainly revolutionary when it invented the concept of smart-contracts, and a touring complete immutable coding language. Polkadots layer 0 design allowing for hosting of entire functional Blockchain and allowing them a secure guaranteed communication was revolutionary And now Polkadots JAM upgrade brings the first actual on-chain parallel execution, seen in the form of cores. As well as jam-services, self contained highly programmable execution environments that can host any coding language with roughly 5-50ms latency. This new JAM architecture is more revolutionary than the invention of smart contracts that sparked the next eight years of layer 1 chain.
Is JAM anything much more than a faster VM?
I love this comment. TCP/IP is revolutionary tech, and runs the entire internet. Yet 99.9% of people have never heard of it. Literally love to hear someone talking about it lol. I made an entire massive tweet about how polkadots JAM model is similar to TCP/IP like last week.
Unfortunately you are wrong here. Of course i would enjoy the price going up. But as a PhD candidate doing computational neuroscience, i do in fact care far more about the technical aspects. Polkadots JAM is unbelievably revolutionary. And will allow high through put security and government resistant applications to be implemented by anyone. This type of technology is far more important for the sake of the world than people understand. If I wanted money I would leave my PhD program where I make minimum wage in one of the most expensive cities in America, and go work at a start up or some software company.
Tell me about the JAM upgrade. When I first got involved I was all about reading whitepapers, and geeking hard about the potential of this space... But over time, with memecoins taking the spotlight and outpacing utility projects, I guess I just stopped. That, and having nobody to talk to about the tech irl, that's tough. But I agree, it's time to take back intelligent discourses.
\> I think Polakdots JAM upgrade is really important for the industry. No, you only care that the upgrade can potentially pump your bags. Just be honest. Investing in tech, means you will get dumped on by VCs. They don't care that their allocation unlocked when price already down 80%, they're still up 100x, just dump it to -95%.
Must be too married to my bag but staking and waiting for JAM later in cycle
Polkadot once JAM upgrade is live. You won't believe it when DOOM is running on a Blockchain
Also buying into DOT at these levels. It's bled a lot compared to others and still has one of the best tech/dev communities out there. Also 2.0 upgrades and JAM coming. Setup looks nice price wise
DOT has given up pretty much all of its election pump, is still one of the best tech/developer communities in crypto, and has massive upgrades coming with 2.0 and JAM. Love the project and have been waiting, reentered at these levels
150k, just dont start comoaring tech, dot blows eth out of the water, JAM isnt even out yet, its the mother of all updates, even viralik loves it, i dont wanna argue anyway, just read the jam grey paper, good luck
DOT is king of web 3 bruh and is doin something cery unique in the space with JAM, even btc og amir taaki is into it, eth devs recently copied dot tech for their roadmap and were called out on twitter lol, i mean gavin woods made eth happen. I dont give a shit about eth it can max 3x and has been around much longer, dot has much more room for return, look up mythical games they have millions of users and switched to dot and it has ne of the most devs, ur info is outdated dude
Call me crazy, but I think once polkadot comes out with JAM, they can flip Eth. Took my position away from Eth and now staking on polkadot using dotpool.io.
Yea you say this when marketing just crashed lol, It went to $12 btw. Also JAM isnt released yet
DOT was $7 when this was hyped up. It's $7 today. Never drink the kool-aid they sell you > Gavin Wood releases the JAM Gray Paper on the future of Polkadot > Polkadot is going to be huge next bull run! 🚀 👨🚀 🌙 💰 https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1c736be/gavin_wood_releases_the_jam_gray_paper_on_the/
Those are either copy paste or just too late to the game, im more interested in top 20 because they have more liquidity and attention. Anyway DOT is creating something extremely unique in the space with its huge JAM update, even BTC og Amir Taaki is into it, thats why to me its all fine doing ads
Personally I think DOT has the biggest potential of all in the long term, focusing on institutional adoption. Outside of all the fud, as a PhD student in computational neuroscience, the tech stack gavin wood is building on polkadot is not like anything in crypto at the moment... DOT is creating something extremely unique in the space with its huge JAM update. Already implemented improvements in DOT are agile core time and elastic waking, which are huge: Allowing developers and companies to purchase a months worth of computational power at once at a fixed cost. You can purchase more computational power as you need or sell the computational power your not using to other. Fixed costs is an absolutely critical factor for large companies, instead of having to pay Gas for every transaction they want to do (which can become extremely costly during times of high volume on chain), projects now know exactly how many computations they can do for what cost each month. Also, Asynchronous backing. Projects / parachains can now submit blocks independently which drastically reduces latency. And their final massive upgrade coming Is JAM (joint accumulation machine). Which will essentially solve the issue of scaling and synchronization. Currently the larger a chain gets the less synchronized it becomes. But JAM will solve by allowing projects / Parachains to accumulate their own blocks and state chains and submit those in batches to the relay chain. This removes this constant back and forth talk between the relay chain and the Parachain for every block.This also means every single Parachain can process blocks in parallel, instead of waiting to get added to the relay chain state. This will increase throughput of the network by an ungodly amount.The estimate is several million TPS on the main chain, not a test network, not on the Parachains, but the main network itself. There is more but I will leave it here. Gavin wood the developer of etherums yellow paper, the man behind the EVM, has called Etherum his test network and he wasn’t kidding.
Would love to hear peoples reasonings. Personally I think DOT has the biggest potential of all. Outside of all the fud, as a PhD student in computational neuroscience, the tech stack gavin wood is building on polkadot is not like anything in crypto at the moment… DOT is creating something extremely unique in the space with its huge JAM update. Already implemented improvements in DOT are agile core time and elastic waking, which are huge: Allowing developers and companies to purchase a months worth of computational power at once at a fixed cost. You can purchase more computational power as you need or sell the computational power your not using to other. Fixed costs is an absolutely critical factor for large companies, instead of having to pay Gas for every transaction they want to do (which can become extremely costly during times of high volume on chain), projects now know exactly how many computations they can do for what cost each month. Also, Asynchronous backing. Projects / parachains can now submit blocks independently which drastically reduces latency. And their final massive upgrade coming Is JAM (joint accumulation machine). Which will essentially solve the issue of scaling and synchronization. Currently the larger a chain gets the less synchronized it becomes. But JAM will solve by allowing projects / Parachains to accumulate their own blocks and state chains and submit those in batches to the relay chain. This removes this constant back and forth talk between the relay chain and the Parachain for every block. This also means every single Parachain can process blocks in parallel, instead of waiting to get added to the relay chain state. This will increase throughput of the network by an ungodly amount. The estimate is several million TPS on the main chain, not a test network, not on the Parachains, but the main network itself. There is more but I will leave it here. Gavin wood the developer of etherums yellow paper, the man behind the EVM, has called Etherum his test network and he wasn’t kidding.
Drop Solana and go over to Polkadot. Get into [dotpool.io](http://dotpool.io) and start earning 16% APY with zero effort plus the potential gains from Polkadot mooning soon with JAM.
DOT will be huge if JAM is a success and more chains integrate. The data is promising for others that already have, and our developer pool is massive right now. I look at DOT as owning an army of developers. Also Gavin wood backing it is pretty big.
Read up on Polkadot JAM and why its a game changer. The tech will carry us to the moon
No, you are good to go. JAM is the big upgrade around the corner as well.
CRO, as they start implementing their newly released Roadmap in Q1. CKB, as they continue their development of BTC derivatives and lightning KSM, as Polkadot unveil JAM
CRO, as they start implementing their newly released Roadmap in Q1. CKB, as they continue their development of BTC derivatives and lightning KSM, as Polkadot unveil JAM
DOT is solid tech for sure. But adoption is very poor! It might change post the JAM update, but with Bear starting post 2nd half of 2025. It is bound to go down no matter what. So why miss out on an opportunity to sell high is my notion.
Yep the JAM update is a massive tech advancement for the crypto space as a whole. Also DOT is not a competitor to other blockchains, as an interoperability chain it can actually help other well-established chains. Check this out, really incredible to watch: https://youtu.be/npnbqnlQtoQ?si=eUgWW533sQ8Lx82G
Very bad timing to sell DOT then, considering JAM upgrade is coming next year, after DOT 2.0, which is going to be massive. Would surely suggest to keep DOT for the entire upcoming year+ long bull-run.
$JAM. Super low market cap, but available on Binance.US, Gemini, KuCoin, and more. Any new listings ought to make it skyrocket
Damn Amir Taaki is showing interest in DOT, this guy is the BTC OG genius “Excited by Polkadot’s new JAM protocol and trustless bridges. With ZK, the blockchain trilemma is solved.”
Nice to see Amir Taaki the Bitcoin OG endorsing upcoming JAM update on DOT
How is DOT performing? Compared to last cycle its been lagging behind. Howering around the bear market lows. But if BTC awakens and JAM/2.0 get some marketing, yea all time high is possible. I would actually say, if DOT dont exceed all time high this cycle, with news of JAM and 2.0 and Bitcoin in new all time high. I would not hold this coin for a another cycle. Take profits on its way up and decide. You can always buy back lower
What does “doing something” in crypto even mean? ~90% of the market is based on not doing anything. You’re here talking about a project, clearly with zero insight, just beefing due to price action from 2021. Am I right. Polkadot today actually achieved what many now see as the “endgame.” It introduced shared security and solved sharding—both data and execution, and hosting +50 chains on its cores which host dapps on them—and meantime identified its biggest pitfall: fragmentation. This is the very issue Ethereum has only started experiencing. For Polkadot it is like watching the movie that you already know how it will end. On Polkadot’s side, fragmentation is being tackled head-on with the ongoing JAM development. + 30 teams are already building clients, competing for a prize pool nearing $80-90M. Cosmos? Recognized the issue and introduced ICS and other solutions, but it is not the same when you try to patch things later on and likely to remain trapped in persistent fragmentation. The Cosmos SDK will continue as a useful tool for sovereign chains, despite its limitations. On the other side, you’ve got the integrated approach—Sui, Aptos, Solana. Sure, they will have a demand from this space for long, but this path will hit a ceiling. Vertical scaling has hard limits—in life, biology, and modern tech. And back to the reality: outside of DeFi and stablecoins, the crypto space has mostly been about running casinos. This is not Polkadot, a crypto problem that we are all in the same boat. The future? For the infra side it is about who can deliver the most flexible, accessible, high-performing systems while still staying resilient—delivering Web3 maxims.
Polkadot, DOT. They haven't been sitting still during the bear market, Polkadot has promised many upgrades and delivered on every single one of them and more during this long period of bearishness, with Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood behind the technical wheel. To name a few big ones, the move from Parachains to Agile Coretime, Coretime Sales (using DOT, where the purchase amount is burned), Asynchronous Backing, inflation been lowered through on-chain governance and the upcoming relay-chain upgrade JAM on its way. DOT is a giant that people should atleast keep an eye on.
It’s not that strange. There’s no replacement for Bitcoin and literal nation states are starting to ape in. There are many alternatives to ETH, especially for degenerate meme coin creation. I’d also argue DOT with JAM will eventually supplant most of ETH’s use cases, possibly flipping it.
Against popular opinion I’m not going to say invest in dot but look at dot and make your own mind up Yes, it’s down 90% but they did have a 10x dilution in token supply after launch meaning everyone got 10x the tokens, thus the price dropped 10x to reflect that and it’s slowly bleed until recently. Putting that aside, if you look at the tech, it’s right up there. Have a look at its GitHub and the number of commits. Have a look at recent news. (JAM). It’s a super computer, have a look at government model and compare it to others. Have a look at staking rewards and how deflation has been recently approved.
It is a bad argument, agreed. And polkadot did do many mistakes, but they also did many correct takes, as the market is actually using their tech. Multiple new chains that are pointing to be, or are new top100, are using Substrate, built and supported by them. Even vaporware like Cardano is using their substrate stack, or new stuff like Avail, Near, Bittensor, Starknet, etc. Also, their take on how things should be scaled was correct, as it's exactly the road Ethereum is taking with rollups + restaking + sharding. But besides this, they have missed the mark on keeping teams building due to complexity of the stack. This is being tackled tho, and they are re-structuring to a new paradigm called JAM, which is kind of a mix of Solana and Ethereum l2/polkadot system if you will. It remains to be seen if it works. But to say one of there reference on tech building of the ecosystem, Parity, is something to just stay away, would be laughable by any valued developer on the ecosystem.
The game. If you can encode all the logic of Doom into an on-chain program (smart contract or runtime logic) and allow validators to execute the code during block validation, then yes, it could run. For now it is theoretic, but they want to do it so they can show DOTs capabilities. The main point however is to advertise the new update on DOT called JAM, that will allow permissionless code execution, DOT is gonna be pretty much a supercomputer. The obvious here is the cloud services potential.
Been a while since I saw a DOT shilling post on this sub lol lots of people hating on it, no surprise as the bear market was crushing price wise. DOT went down from top 4 to 18... all because of its inflation and treasury grifters, as well as the parachain failure (we better not talk about parachains). However it is soon gonna become deflationary, Plaza and JAM coming up, smart contracts and DApps on DOT, so we'll see, if everything goes well we might see a new ATH, I'm hoping for 100$ Oh, also DOT will be able to run DOOM, so that might be fun.