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Polkadot XCM v3: Breaking New Ground for Web3 Interoperability
An exploration of Polkadot’s cross-consensus communication format and the latest features of XCM v3.
Polkadot's yearly roundup for 2022. The Polkadot community wraps up the year with the largest ecosystem of purpose-built layer-1 blockchains. Read on for all the 2022 highlights.
Parachain First Parachain Successfully Migrates from Kusama to Polkadot
KILT Protocol's migration from Kusama to Polkadot is an important technical milestone and the first parachain migration. Polkadot's 'canary network' model allows Web3 projects to test their technology in a real-world environment before upgrading to stable production networks.
Polkadot Proposal for Common Good Parachains
Introducing a proposed roadmap for future developments on common good parachains, subject to approval by Polkadot's decentralized governance community.
Polkadot Introducing the Polkadot Staking Dashboard: The Easiest Way to Nominate and Stake Your DOT
Staking your DOT just got a whole lot easier with Polkadot’s new staking dashboard, a user-friendly interface for staking natively on Polkadot.
Kusama Introducing Encointer: Making Web3 Truly Inclusive
Encointer is Kusama’s second common-good parachain slot . In this post, we take an in-depth look at Encointer and the problems it addresses — how it can bring financial inclusivity to Web3 and mitigate Sybil attacks with a novel ‘proof-of-personhood’ system for unique identity.
Kusama Kusama Batch 2 Auctions Report
This is the second report on Kusama’s parachain auctions. It follows a similar format as the first, however detailed explanations about the candle mechanism applied in the auctions are left out because they were discussed in the first report.
Kusama Kusama’s First Batch of Parachains: An Interview with the Teams
This blog contains information provided by the projects Karura, Moonriver, Shiden, Khala, and Bifrost, in order of when they won their parachain slot. Discover what network each does, their achievements so far, and the phases ahead on their respective roadmaps.
Polkadot Participating in Crowdloans on Kusama and Polkadot
By Bill Laboon, Director of Education and Community at Web3 Foundation Parachains are the diverse layer-1 blockchains that run in parallel on the Polkadot and Kusama networks. Parachains connect to Polkadot or Kusama by leasing a parachain slot on the Relay Chain. Apart from the slots for system parachains, which are reserved for functionality that benefits the ecosystem as a whole, projects wishing to obtain a parachain slot need to participate in one or more parachain slot auctions. The desig
Kusama Kusama Parachain Auctions: Second Batch
The first batch of 5 parachain slot auctions on Kusama were completed successfully over the course of June and July. Here are our recommendations for rolling out the next batch of Parachain Auctions after the interim period of monitoring for liveness and stability.
Kusama Making History: An Overview of the First Five Parachain Slot Auctions on Kusama
This post provides important background information on the candle auctions and crowdloan mechanisms for these slots and recaps what happened during the first five auctions.
Kusama Network Stability Report: Kusama With Parachains
We’ve monitored the Kusama network for stability after the first 5 parachain auctions. We’ve sampled metrics from opt-in validators to gather the information in Prometheus and Grafana for this report.
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Kusama Statemine Upgrade Launches New Phase of Parachain Functionality
The Kusama community has just voted to upgrade the Statemine parachain to allow anyone to create assets and NFTs on a permissonless basis.
Research Research Update: The Case for Candle Auctions
A look at why candle auctions are the most suitable form for blockchain auctions, as seen in recent research done at the Web3 Foundation.
Polkadot Polkadot and Kusama Staking Changes
With the increase in the number of accounts nominating on Polkadot and Kusama, we have seen some limitations of the current staking parameters. In order to prevent issues from occurring when these limits are reached, some restrictions are being added to the staking system on both networks.
Kusama The First Parachains Launch on Kusama
The first Kusama parachain slot auction has ended and the first parachains have successfully connected to the Kusama Relay Chain, delivering the last piece of core functionality outlined in the Polkadot whitepaper: purpose-built, interoperable parachains.
Kusama Kusama Parachain Auctions
The first real-world functional parachain Statemine, began processing permissionless transactions after an on-chain upgrade last week. After some smooth running over the weekend, the time is coming to move to the next stage: slot auctions.
Parachains System Parachains: An Introduction to Governance-Allocated Parachain Slots
The Polkadot network has a number of teams developing parachains, each optimized for its own domain. These parachains specialize in smart contracts, identity, DeFi, robotics, bridges, and more.
Despite being a tough year for pretty much everyone (with the possible exception of Amazon and takeaways), the Polkadot network and community is coming out of 2020 with the wind very much behind its sails. So now that we’ve reached the end of 2020, for better or worse, let’s have a roundup of what we achieved and what we’re planning to do over the course of 2021… I tend to start these roundups with a few statistics, and this year seems no exception. Development has continued apace, with the Rus
Polkadot Kusama And Polkadot Now Reward Curators Helping To Scale Councils Functions: Join The Force Moving the Community Forward!
The new Bounty Extension on Polkadot and Kusama allows curators to autonomously allocate Treasury funds to projects that bring value to the ecosystem.
Polkadot Hello World! by Polkadot: Take the Challenge
DOT and KSM are now integrated on Gitcoin. To celebrate, we created Hello World! by Polkadot to bring you on a journey of Polkadot development discovery.
Kusama Swisscom Blockchain to develop Kubernetes Operator for Kusama and Polkadot
Swisscom Blockchain AG has received a Wave 5 grant from Web3 Foundation to develop a Kubernetes Operator for sentry nodes and validators for both Kusama and Polkadot.
Kusama GRANDPA Equivocation and sysinfo Process Collection Results In Slashing on Kusama Network: a Post-Mortem.
Multiple bugs in code resulted in nodes dropping out from Kusama network and losing the database that stores which blocks they validated. Consequently, the same nodes double-signed those blocks on restart. The slashes caused by this issue have been reverted via Kusama Council motions.
Polkadot Introducing Rococo: Polkadot’s Parachain Testnet
We reached a significant step towards implementing parachain functionality on Polkadot – we launched a new testnet specifically designed for parachains and their related technologies, dubbed Rococo. The Rococo testnet integrates Polkadot with Cumulus and HRMP.
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Hackathon Join Hackusama - Hack on Polkadot's Wild Cousin!
The very first hackathon within the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystem is now live and running until August 14th. Join now!
Kusama Kusama Treasury Funds Seven Teams in Seven Weeks
The Kusama Treasury plays a fundamental role when incentivizing organic development and growth of our community. At the time of writing this post, more than 190,000 KSM (Kusama tokens) sit on the Treasury. Now they are being put to good use.
Kusama Polkadot, Kusama and Gitcoin: Building the Future
Polkadot and Kusama are onboarding to the Gitcoin platform, strengthening the foundations of the Web 3.0 ecosystem and expanding the opportunities for developers to earn from open source projects.
Polkadot Westend: Introducing a New Testnet for Polkadot and Kusama
Westend provides a testing environment for our infrastructure partners to test their Polkadot and Kusama deployment and processes.
Polkadot Results of DOT Redenomination Referendum
A referendum was just held on Kusama regarding whether or not to redenominate DOTs on Polkadot in a 1:100 ratio. Web3 Foundation used this referendum to gauge sentiment from the community before the launch of Polkadot.
Kusama Kusama & Polkadot: Comparing the Cousins
As the launch of Polkadot draws near, many are asking how the network will compare to Kusama and how both will be used in different ways going forward.
Kusama Join Kusama’s Thousand Validators Programme
Anyone technical and determined is encouraged to apply here. By applying and following the setup instructions, you will be eligible to receive nominations from Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies
Kusama Alert - Kusama Network Phishing Email and Fake Medium Post
We have learned that a phishing email with the subject line: “1% DOT allocation for KSMs stakeholders” is being circulated from a fraudulent version of the Polkadot.JS domain. Do not respond to this email; it was not sent from the Web3 Foundation nor from our Kusama or Polkadot accounts.
Kusama Kusama Upgrade Bulletin (1032-1037)
Details Runtime version: 1037 Supported natively by Polkadot v0.7.17 Polkadot Git commit hash: f570356 Substrate Git commit hash: 860b79b Council motion: #85
Kusama Kusama’s First Adventure
A little chaos ensued on the Kusama network, Polkadot’s canary-net. Here’s a quick summary of the cause and solution.
Polkadot Polkadot 2019: Year in review
I started the last year-end round-up with some statistics, and it seems fitting to continue the trend and report some numbers from this year. In total, the Polkadot project, including Substrate, Grandpa, Cumulus and a few bits of support code, has over three hundred thousand lines of code!
Upgrade Bulletin Kusama Upgrade Bulletin (1031)
Kusama is about to get a new logic core; here’s the details.
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Upgrade Bulletin Kusama Upgrade Bulletin (1030)
Kusama is about to get a new logic core; here’s the details.
Kusama Polkadot v0.7.0 and Kusama CC-3
After a little chaos, Kusama is ready for the next chapter: CC-3 and at long last the governance handover.
Kusama just got an upgrade I’m pleased to announce that at exactly 9am today (Zug time), Kusama CC-2 went through a full upgrade to runtime version 1005 as found in Polkadot release v0.6.3.
Three weeks ago, we released Kusama Chain Candidate 1 (CC1). After several key fixes to the Polkadot, including the Babe consensus layer, we’re pleased to release the next chapter in Kusama: CC2.
Kusama Kusama Rollout and Governance
Kusama is Polkadot’s canary network. It is an early, unaudited, and wholly experimental network, designed to help understand how the various cutting-edge technologies introduced in areas including governance, staking and sharding work under real economic conditions
