Gavin Wood: The positioning of JAMprotocol is elastic public digital infrastructure

Odaily Planet Daily News March 5th, at the JAM Tour 2025·Shenzhen station hosted by Pala Labs, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood stated that the blockchain industry has become polarized. Long-term thinkers focus on: scalable Decentralization, lightweight Nodes, Trustless bridges, utility Tokens, sustainable economic models, changing the status quo, rich Metadata…; while short-sighted individuals consider: small clusters of validators, expensive Nodes, N/M multi-signature, speculative Tokens, VC dumping, catering to the authorities, blind signatures… Polkadot’s goal is to create a high-quality block space. The high quality here includes indicators such as high TPS (143343 at the end of last year), high bandwidth, high decentralization (Satoshi Nakamoto coefficient 149), and energy efficiency. JAM is different from Polkadot and Ethereum - Polkadot is still software first, and JAM is protocol first. JAM is positioned as a Resilient public digital infrastructure. Currently, there are over 36 independent teams developing JAM instances in 15 different languages.