In the third quarter, Polkadot blockchain developers contributed more than 500 commits per day on GitHub on average, according to a press release. By September, the figure reached 15,433, surpassing the values of any other network, including Ethereum.<\/p>\n
In August, developers made 14,930 commits, and in September they set a new historical high. This was not deterred by the negative conditions in the crypto market.<\/p>\n
Record-high activity was recorded in XCM<\/a> messaging system \u2014 in August the figure reached 26,258, according to Polkadot Subscan<\/a>.<\/p>\n The team linked this to the opening of new channels between parachains to boost functional interoperability and create new use cases.<\/p>\n In total, since the inception of XCM, more than 140,000 messages have passed across 135 channels.<\/p>\n In Kusama’s testnet the number of active parachains reached 40, while in Polkadot it stood at 26.<\/p>\n During the third quarter, the Web3 Foundation’s grant program supported 37 projects. Their total number since its launch has approached 500.<\/p>\n The Polkadot treasury allocated more than 9.6 million DOT for spending proposals. In Kusama, the figure stood at 346,700 KSM.<\/p>\n “In the third quarter, fundamental metrics, such as the number of validators, the percentage of coins staked from the total supply, and the minimum data required to launch an active validator [\u2026], confirmed a functioning and healthy ecosystem”<\/em>, \u2014 according to a Messari report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Earlier in September, Polkadot developers presented a roadmap<\/a>, which contains the first set of major optimizations to the consensus protocol since its launch in December 2021. One of the updates envisions increasing network throughput to 100,000\u20131,000,000 TPS<\/span> without compromising security.<\/p>\n In the same month, the issuer of USDT announced<\/a> support for the Polkadot blockchain.<\/p>\n\n