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![kryptzine Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1563990333163245570.png) KRYPTZINE GØÓÑ (Ø,G) [@kryptzine](/creator/twitter/kryptzine) on x 1594 followers
Created: 2025-07-22 17:06:12 UTC

Absolutely brilliant breakdown by @danicuki

Let’s unpack this for devs & curious minds;

what JAM is really doing and why it might just be Zuse-level innovation for the decentralized age.

Zuse built the Z3 in 1941.
No silicon. No screens. Just gears, film, and imagination.

That machine was programmable, modular, and Turing complete before the world knew what any of that meant.

He didn’t just build a machine. He built logic embodied.

Fast forward to today⏭️

Gavin Wood @gavofyork (co-founder of Ethereum, creator of Polkadot) is asking a new Zuse-style question:

“What if a computer didn’t live in one box... but in many nodes, across the world. verifiable, modular, sovereign?”

Now that’s what JAM is.
Not a chain. Not a runtime. A protocol for globally verifiable compute.

JAM = Join Accumulate Machine
Instead of gears👉 RISC-V virtual machines
Instead of tape👉Cryptographic proofs
Instead of a room sized computer👉 a planetary one.

So what’s new for devs?

• You build programs that run on a shared computer
• That computer is decentralized, trustless, and forkless
• Every module (staking, governance, storage) is composable and pluggable
• Logic is king. Deployment is seamless. Sovereignty is optional.

In essence, JAM turns @Polkadot into an OS for the decentralized world.

Zuse’s Z3 had:

✅ Arithmetic logic
✅ Memory
✅ Instructions
✅ IO

JAM has:

✅ WASM + RISC-V VMs
✅ Shared state machine
✅ Deterministic execution
✅ Interoperable programs

History rhymes.
If you’re a dev building infra, apps, or protocols.

This isn’t just another upgrade. It’s a canvas.
Where Ethereum gave us dapps, Polkadot JAM gives us decentralized systems.

Just like Zuse dreamed with metal gears, JAM lets us dream with cryptographic certainty.
This is the next chapter.

Berlin was home to the first programmable machine.

Now it’s home to the first protocol turning the network into a machine.

Zuse → JAM
Gears → Nodes
Film tape → Runtime logic
Room sized box → World spanning computer

A full circle of compute.

Let’s build.


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