Here’s a quick snapshot of progress across the Parity engineering teams as we build the foundations for the Second Age of Polkadot: • Polkadot Hub The team continues refining the developer experience. Key improvements include stability fixes around precompiles, more consistent RPC behaviour, and better tracing of contract execution. Small but significant changes that smooth the path for Solidity and PVM developers. • PVM (Polkadot Virtual Machine) Work continues on the PVM prototype. The focus remains on execution correctness, gas accounting, and deterministic behaviour across nodes. The team is tightening the feedback loop between the PVM runtime and the toolchain to support early internal experiments without friction. • JAM Engineers progressed on several spec clarifications and early implementation blocks, focusing on message passing, node lifecycle, and simplifying the programming model. No hype here, just steady steps toward a verifiable, modular compute layer. • Reliability & Performance Core infra teams shipped updates improving block production stability on test networks and expanded internal monitoring to track availability across all teams. The reliability dashboard continues to inform tighter iteration cycles and faster root cause identification. • Tooling Ongoing DevContainer, CI, and SDK improvements reduce overhead for developers inside and outside Parity. This adds stronger linting, easier local chain bootstrapping, and incremental usability upgrades to the stack. The work isn’t glamorous, but it compounds. Every week, we’re tightening the fundamentals that make the Second Age of @Polkadot possible.