Gavin Wood Discusses Blockchain Industry Polarization at JAM Tour 2025

According to Odaily, during the JAM Tour 2025 event in Shenzhen hosted by Pala Labs on March 5, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood highlighted the growing polarization within the blockchain industry. He noted that long-term thinkers are focused on scalable decentralization, lightweight nodes, trustless bridges, utility tokens, sustainable economic models, and rich metadata. In contrast, short-sighted individuals are concerned with small validator clusters, expensive nodes, speculative tokens, VC sell-offs, and catering to authorities. Wood emphasized Polkadot's aim to create high-quality blockchain space, characterized by high transactions per second (TPS), high bandwidth, significant decentralization (with a Nakamoto coefficient of 149), and energy efficiency. Last year, Polkadot achieved a TPS of 143,343. He also differentiated between JAM and platforms like Polkadot and Ethereum, stating that while Polkadot follows a software-first design approach, JAM adopts a protocol-first design philosophy. JAM is positioned as resilient public digital infrastructure, with over 36 independent teams developing JAM instances in more than 15 languages.