2025 will be a watershed year for the Polkadot ecosystem. The entire project is undergoing a strategic shift — no longer solely emphasizing the sophistication of the underlying protocol, but focusing on product usability and developer experience. The driving force behind this is reflected in the reallocation of resources among Parity, the Web3 Foundation, and OpenGov.

The underlying infrastructure has finally matured. The key modules of Polkadot 2.0 are gradually coming into place, with the Hub becoming the main entry point for developers, and various core functions continuously converging into the Hub. In other words, the capabilities previously scattered across different parachains are now becoming highly centralized, significantly reducing the integration costs for developers.

What’s even more noteworthy is the Revive component. Many people understand it as a single tool, which is not entirely accurate. In practical application terms, Revive is the smart contract execution stack on the Hub, employing a dual virtual machine design: one is PolkaVM (a high-performance execution environment based on RISC-V architecture), and the other is REVM (a fully Ethereum-compatible execution environment). The brilliance of this design lies in its ability to leverage Polkadot’s inherent performance advantages while seamlessly integrating developers and applications from the Ethereum ecosystem. Large-scale deployment of applications is no longer just theoretical but a tangible technological possibility.

Meanwhile, the PaperMoon team’s 2025 mission is clear — to make Polkadot more user-friendly. Their main focus is on developer relations and documentation system development: ensuring that documentation keeps pace with feature iterations and continuously refining UI/UX experiences. These seemingly fundamental tasks determine the onboarding difficulty for new developers and the overall expansion speed of the ecosystem.