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Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan’s largest conglomerate with over 330,000 employees worldwide, is sponsoring its first ever global Web3 hackathon. It has chosen Polkadot parachain Astar Network to make Web3 use cases for Toyota’s employees.

POLKADOT continued to drive forward a series of important developments during the final quarter of 2022, with the growing number of teams building use-case specific Polkadot blockchains (known as parachains) increasingly leading the wave of innovation.

Polkadot co-founder and Parity Technologies Chief Architect Dr Gavin Wood joined hundreds of the most talented engineers and developers in Web3 at sub0, the conference for Polkadot developers.

THE POLKADOT community is demonstrating its tireless commitment to stamp down on scams and frauds in the Web3 world by incentivizing its members to help them clean up the space.

Web3 Foundation announced today a landmark achievement towards the realization of Web 3.0: the Polkadot blockchain’s native digital asset (DOT) has morphed and is no longer a security.

Polkadot’s Nomination Pools allow users to earn staking rewards with as little as 1 DOT, and the new Staking Dashboard, now out of beta, provides an easy way to do it.

Gavin Wood steps down as Parity CEO and Björn Wagner, co-founder of Parity, to assume this position. Gavin Wood will step into his new role as Chief Architect.

POLKADOT, the multichain ecosystem home to Web3’s boundary-pushing builders, has continued to raise the bar in terms of interoperability and development activity in Q3.

The Web3 Foundation, in partnership with edX, the global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWOU), has launched Web3X, a series of foundational courses in blockchain technology and the Polkadot platform.

Tether Operations Limited (“Tether”), the company operating the blockchain-enabled platform tether.to that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, announced the launch of Tether tokens (“USD₮”) on Polkadot.

Web3 Foundation is proud to announce the arrival of Unbounded, believed to be the first open-source, freely available and on-chain funded typographic font in the world.

Parity Technologies, a decentralized infrastructure provider for Web3 which enables blockchains to operate together at scale, has joined forces with enterprise-grade blockchain Aventus Network to bring blockchain offerings to the enterprise sector.