2025-06-12 –, 6 - Side Stage
PolkaVM is a new general purpose user-level RISC-V based virtual machine, with modern features and functionality.
PolkaVM is Solidity compatible, provides features such as low overhead gas metering, continuations / save-states, near native execution speeds, and more.
It is already shown to be able to run DOOM!
Learn more about PolkaVM and how it can make a positive impact for any modern smart contract blockchain system.
PolkaVM is being used as the contract VM for the Polkadot Hub, and the core VM for JAM.
I am a software engineer and lead developer for Polkadot.
I started in the Ethereum ecosystem 7 years ago, and have been building on Polkadot for the last 6 years.
Before that, I was working at Microsoft on their Azure Cloud platform.