Polkadot’s April 2026 Recap: New Economic Model, Staking Reforms, and Ecosystem Growth

TLDR: Polkadot’s new economic model cut annual DOT issuance by 53.6% and capped total supply at 2.1 billion. Validators now need a minimum of 10,000 DOT self-stake or face removal from the active set. Acurast surpassed 750 million on-chain transactions on Polkadot, powered by 250,000+ global devices. The Polkadot Docs MCP launched as an interactive [...]

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