Aliit Fellowship Cohort 2 applications are now open 🛠️ The Aliit is Midnight’s selective technical fellowship, recognizing builders who embody what a privacy-first ecosystem demands: depth, rigor, and generosity in sharing knowledge. If you’re ready to share Midnight’s tech, champion the mission, mentor and connect with builders, and help grow the ecosystem, apply now: midnight.network/blog/aliit-…

really recommend applying. the content taught is nicely structured and very useful. regardless of what chain you're building on, PBA equips you with fundamental blockchain knowledge a lot of rust. (PBA 5 alum)

The “post-PBA blues” is very real. If you’ve ever joined a PBA Campus, you know the feeling... Our own @zsofimajor captured this brilliantly in her new article, sharing what it’s actually like to go through your first PBA Campus from the inside (Lucerne🇨🇭 vibes included). Highly recommend checking out her story to see what really makes our in-person program so special, and maybe feel a bit of that blues yourself!🎷 Check out Zsófi’s story👇 medium.com/@polkadotblockcha… 🌴 Ready for your own “Bali Blues”? Applications are open now at polkadot.academy/pba-campus-…

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 PBA Campus is coming to beautiful Bali🏝️ 📅 Save the Date - August 25th to September 13th, 2025 Applications are now open! Apply here 👉 polkadot.academy/pba-campus/ Are you in? More details soon🌋

You expected a campus... but not this kind of campus 😎🎬 Here’s the official PBA Lucerne aftermovie! You’ll hear straight from our brilliant students, our instructors (legends) and our CEO @PaulineVorms, all reflecting on what made this ride at PBA Campus Lucerne @hslu unforgettable. Quick recap? 2.5 weeks of intense learning, building, debating, fixing, friendshipping, presenting, and connecting. - 80 students from all over the globe. - Two specialized tracks. - One governance module with actual policymakers. - Debates that made us rethink everything. - Enough coffee and bananas to power Spain and Portugal - New friendships, the real ones type. - Big ideas. Real connections. And somehow... still enough energy left to dance at the end or get lost in the swiss alps🕺💃 To our students, we saw you walk in with wide eyes, and walk out with your heads high. You locked in. You got uncomfortable. You grew. You built things on @Polkadot that actually mean something. And now, you’re officially part of the PBA fam 💜 Lucerne is done but post-PBA blues is still hitting. Still, one thing’s clear, wave 8 is calling 😶‍🌫️⌛️🌴 (You in?) Enjoy the weekend!

Attention Solidity Devs: Polkadot Hub is coming soon, enabling you to deploy Smart Contracts on RISC-V based PolkaVM. Try it out on the Westend testnet, and join the @encodeclub Scalability Hackathon for: → VC visibility & $33K in prizes → Access to the Fast-Grants Bounty

🚨 The new @FantasticFour movie is dropping soon... But we already have OUR version at @AcademyPolkadot 😎 Big team update, meet our new fantastic crew👇 Khudeja - PBA-X Technical Program Specialist @KKhudeja You might already know her, she’s a proud PBA alum who's now shaping the future cohorts with her technical brainpower. We love this full-circle moment (and we missed you in Lucerne) Katie - Operations Team Assistant If you think that the campus life runs smoothly by accident... please think again. Katie is bringing some Irish magic to our ops teams, and we are here for it! Konstantinos - Senior Software Engineer Newest member of our IT dream team, he is building tools and on-chain infrastructure to power the PBA (rumor has it he just secretly graduated the dApps track in Lucerne 👀) Thomas - Marketing Lead @thomassauve_ Since Lucerne, Thomas has been leading our content, communications & brand to increase PBA's visibility and make @Polkadot education impossible to ignore. Expect new content, ideas... and memes. All the team wish you a warm welcome again, we are so happy to have you with us! Now, let's build?! 😁 #Web3Education #Polkadot #TeamUpdate