2026 is about products. But products only work once the infrastructure is finished. In 2025, @Polkadot reached that milestone with three core upgrades that together move Polkadot from theoretical capacity to practical execution. → Agile Coretime → Asynchronous Backing → Elastic Scaling Agile Coretime introduces a market for blockspace, while under the hood, workloads are scheduled across cores much like a modern operating system schedules tasks on a CPU. This is the change that makes real products possible.