At @web3summit 2026, people bought coffee, explored apps and deployed smart contracts. Several temporary networks supported those activities, but most attendees did not need to know which chain handled each task. In its article, @paritytech connects that experience to the thinking behind Polkadot Products. The approach addresses practical questions: • Why should every developer rebuild the same tools? Shared services for identity, signing and payments can reduce the work needed before a team can focus on its application. • Can apps feel more consistent across devices? Trinity explores a shared environment for mobile, desktop and the web, with applications using a common interface for those services. • Does recognising a person require knowing who they are? Humanity focuses on establishing that someone is a unique person without revealing their identity. • How easily can someone test an idea? At the Summit, Playground let participants modify working prototypes and deploy them to a temporary network. The article describes work in progress, not a finished platform. It also acknowledges that getting started still needs to become easier for new users. For technology built around people, ease of use is only part of the goal. The harder question is whether we can make software simpler without asking people to give up privacy, ownership or choice. Less complexity should mean products that give people greater agency rather than platforms greater control. Read the full article here: https://www.parity.io/blog/from-blockchain-infrastructure-to-product-infrastructure