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Gavin Wood

Founder, Polkadot

Search every verified Gavin Wood interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a June 2026 keynote, Gavin Wood discussed a shift in Parity's focus from blockchain infrastructure toward building a user-friendly Web3 experience. He introduced "Trinity," a standard user agent environment designed to facilitate products that require no login, no installation, and preserve privacy and human-centered identity. Wood argued that the future of Web3 depends on products that are easier and more pleasant to use than current platforms while maintaining user sovereignty. During a separate fireside chat, Wood proposed a change in terminology for Polkadot governance, suggesting the term "DAO" is more precise. He outlined a vision for the JAM era in which the Polkadot DAO would initially own all JAM access tokens and cores, then slowly release 50% into public ownership. Wood emphasized that DOT's primary function is to convey the ability to alter the network's inherent logic, and he described a multi-token system as a legitimate representation of different economic resources.

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“Just for scaling uh we don't think it makes anywhere close to sense. You're looking at around 60 to 70 millionx in cost compared to uh executing it in a in a single native instance. In our case, the cost is around 30x because we execute it about 30 times.”

“There's a 10 million DOT and 100,000 KSM. So, uh, you know, it's it's in the tens of millions. And each team, uh, will get up to, I think, uh, 500,000 DOT and 5,000 KSM. The sort of size that I would hope, um, allow people to sort of take the risk that, you know, spend their own time actually building something.”

“The point of web 3 is in some sense to transcend beyond national boundaries and create a system of law, digital law fit for a global nation.”

“It turns out that not auditing code in order to launch the network doesn't actually matter that much as long as you're upfront with saying this code will not be audited before the launch.”

“It turns out that not auditing code in order to launch before you launch the network doesn't actually matter that much as long as you're upfront with saying this code will not be audited before the launch.”

“If we compare the actual cost between these two approaches, we find that this cryptoeconomic means of scaling is about 2 million times cheaper than an equivalent ZK proof-based approach. Not to mention latency and centralization that the ZK proof-based approach would add.”

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